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When using MP3 files in a dmod, for Aural+, can they be uploaded with the Dmod, or do they still need to be uploaded as a separate download patch?

I remember someone saying somewhere they can be included now, rather than a separate download, but I may just be imagining things.

I am pretty sure it throws up a message telling you to upload MP3s separately if you try to upload a file to the site. It always has in the past anyway.

According to the rules, MP3 files must be in a separate patch, but let's change the rule.

As long as you created the MP3 files yourself, and they do not contain any copyright-infringing material, your D-Mod can include MP3 files.

I'll update the rules in a year or two.

How about if the MP3 files are free to download from the Internet? As in, websites that are completely legally sharing them and making them available for download? I know another D-Mod was allowed to do this a couple of years back, and I was thinking of doing the same with my own D-Mod. It's not like I'm thinking of including Elvis Presley's most famous songs or anything like that lol, mostly just MIDIs converted into MP3 and free-to-download MP3s.

Please keep MP3s as a separate patch. I'm sure the nine or so other people out there who still use Aural+ regularly will appreciate them being included by default, but for everyone else it will means tens of megabytes of useless MP3s that they'll never hear.

I'd rather have the MP3s in the same file, personally.

Or the .oggs, you know. I'd prefer Ogg Vorbis because FreeDink and Dink HD support it.

Yeah, I agree that Oggs are a better idea.