Lloyd Dunamis

I've started uploading/backing up videos on Odysee now. Not everything will go there; only loops with significant visual or audio effort put into it will be backed up, as well as non-BGM content.

I find it very convenient that it's got like a true one-account, many-channel feel to it, at least on my side. It might not be obvious that channels are operated by one account on the viewer side though.
Anyway, here are the channels:

Lloyd Dunamis - odysee.com/@LloydDunamis
Personal projects, creatives and significant BGM loop videos will go here. It's like a combination of some creative content of this channel + ‪@LloydDunamisHangar‬ channel.

Lloyd Dunamis Archive - odysee.com/@LloydDunamisArchive
Simply a backup of ‪@LloydDunamisArchive‬, where I publish recordings of game events, stories & stuff for archival.

Damage Flop - odysee.com/@AmanieFeatherfluff
Backup channel for the soft ryona videos in ‪@amaniefeatherfluff‬.



YouTube has reportedly already disabled the Sync program [1], so that's a bummer. But perhaps that's a blessing in disguise for me: reading about it around further, I discovered that Odysee does not transcode videos upon upload [2][3][4]. That means, what you upload is what they let viewers view & download [5][6]!
So I can just upload my raw or closest-to-raw videos over there, ensuring that you get the audio & video quality I intend it to have! Hence, I am subjecting you to my quality of stuffs. +w+
Raws highly exceeding 8000Kbps will be converted to AV1.

Please excuse me cross-posting these on my channels for cross-reference.



Refs:
[1] help.odysee.tv/category-syncprogram/
[2] www.reddit.com/r/odysee/comments/tckr3l/odysee_doe…
[3] www.reddit.com/r/OdyseeForever/comments/1911bit/ho…
[4] help.odysee.tv/unexpected-errors/#:~:text=currentl…
[5] www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/v5al1f/low_bitrate_a…
[6] odysee.com/@AV1StreamlineGaming:0

1 month ago | [YT] | 15

Lloyd Dunamis

Apparently I haven't done a poll about how long people want extended musics for? No, I could've sworn I asked...err, please excuse me, my "OOMFies" (One Of My Followers) how long you want extensions before...but I couldn't find it.
I believe it was the time there weren't polls for it yet, but anyway...

A curious question of how much you listen to extended tracks of when you look it up!
Understandable that your playlist would have shorter tracks, so this poll excludes that and pertains mostly to focused listening, or basically how long you listen to an extended track before you tire of it.

...? Oh, aww just 4 options instead of the 5 that I rember. Feel free to write your preference that isn't here.

Note: This will not affect my 30-minute looping; it's really just for funsies.

1 month ago | [YT] | 10

Lloyd Dunamis

I've been in a trainwreck initially since Mumei's announcement... and then Magia Exedra's tracks along with the classic PMMM (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) tracks erm... "helped" me ride to cry it out.
Mumei is like...the dream come true of a birb character I thought of for an OC that would have that feathery native aesthetics, but done alot more awesomely put well together, and then some.

Some 24hrs later, after going through her words again, I...mmn...it's quite different for her. Unlike others who has a past vtuber/personality to go back to, her is of health issue. So like, what's next for her, is up to her. We can only wish that she'd feel less sad about it now, as well as us, and for it to get better or so...

But, enough of this. She's already gone being sad through this for two years, and for alot harder. So as per her wish, let's not get too serious of this anymore, it has gone past. Let's be positive, not only for her, not just for everyone, but for ourselves as well; it would mean alot to her, as it would to us... like she told us.

So here's a little showcase, emanating that very fluffiness I see & feel from her.
Art by smwtdn x.com/somewhatdino/status/1756560162171813999

Thank you, ‪@NanashiMumei‬ ! 🤎

1 month ago | [YT] | 19

Lloyd Dunamis

In lieu of any updates and in the period of GFL2's launch, I invite you to watch Marco here's initial reactions to the OP trailer, the prologue, and the release event themes.

Thank you for being around, and I hope you enjoy GFL2: Exilium, too.

5 months ago | [YT] | 14

Lloyd Dunamis

I apologize for this late update.
Health Update (Jan 20): Reportedly fully recovered, with no sign of lingering weakness or complication. Hearing has returned to normal pitch, too.
So thankful, I'm pretty much still alive! ><


For what little I can already serve, I decided to split--rather, expand channels, and now I have 4 of them. Before anyone asks, content here will not be affected, as it will still be for music loops. After channel partnering approval attempts, although I've no intention of monetizing the BGM loops and will only the ones I highly customizably made, I've learned further not to do it for the channel itself now. Further motivated to split due to how Youtube works & stuff; I wished for it to be separated to just playlists, but...I figured it's prooobably best this way?
I'm still busy as I am; I just wish to have things more organized, and for what I think would benefit people on what they wish to see in a channel, or something like that.

@LloydDunamisHangar youtube.com/@LloydDunamisHangar
- Creatives & Gameplay clips, hoping to be the main monetized channel or something, should I get to that point anyway. This is I believe the brand channel that got created after Google got YouTube. And then this @LloydDunamis channel you're looking at right now was the...personal channel from the brand channel? That's what it _felt_ like during the time.

@LloydDunamisArchive youtube.com/@LloydDunamisArchive
- In-game story recordings & other memorials. This is intended to archive maybe limited-time stories maybe no-one else would cover; especially stories/footages I've recorded before of games that are now off. This is a channel that got made along with the later @AmanieFeather brand channel. I intended to make only one, but anyway I renamed this one to this other name then. ...Err, this is not a rendition to a Blue Archive thing; it's just coincidental with what archive means & all! >3< Alot of other people have made recordings of BA's stories at this point anyway.

@amaniefeatherfluff youtube.com/@amaniefeatherfluff
- R15-y soft ryona channel. Ryona in-general is a rather obscure but also maybe widely hiddenly spread...kink...? that sits in the middle of safe and explicit but spans across most if not all genre. In essence and for instance, the moment you find a knocked-down character or hear someone's damage voice to be sexy/alluring/cute? That's it, that's ryona. This channel shares the softer spectrum of ryona where there's no blood nor gore (mostly), just technically harmless damage, hits and knockdowns.
'Might have to get a parallel 3rd-party for this one due to YT and other platforms' inconsistent judgment to risque videos across other ryona channels I've seen. I stand by & share this without shame this time; as obscure as it may be, such content are also the more oppressed ones considering its grey, middle-of-safe&explicit nature.


I wished to have this little update short, but it just keeps getting long, as I don't wish to leave details out unsaid as much as I can. ><
Please have this...err, coincidental nice funny number.
Thank you! I hope you keep enjoying looped game BGMs.

11 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 30

Lloyd Dunamis

Contracted suspected pneumonia, that was actually COVID upon RT-PCR testing.
Was hell; frequent chills, shortened breaths, and the major complaint of that impending dry-cough whenever I exhale or even talk. In addition, it was considered severe due to it affecting/lowering my blood's oxygen.
'Definitely alot worse compared to the last time that involved only the surface symptoms of fever and sore throat.

That was from Dec 30-Jan04 (Happy New Year!...)
I'm thankfully discharged now, and most of the bills are healthcare-covered.

What's kinda channel(?)-significant though is that... *my hearing was affected, that I'm now hearing everything a semi-tone lower than normal.*
I swear it's me and not my laptop, even though I've suspected my 8y.o lappy producing a lower pitch on the left ear before.
- Discord's ping sounds sounded derpy
- GFL2's intro BGM was lower-toned; particularly this track because it's got alot of pitch changes along the way, and it was stuck to me during asset downloads.
- everyone else's familiar voice recordings sound a little heavier now.
It's personally undetectable on IRL everyday new things especially vocal, but it's noticeable for me when it's a recorded thing, like...yeah, game audio and voices; whatever I can compare my memory to the present to.

Looking up, it's apparently a known, common post-COVID effect to have hearing affected.
My next checkup is ways away, Jan 20 after the recommended isolation period of 3 weeks. I'll have this checked up along with the for-COVID one.


In the meantime, I'm worried of how it'll affect the channel's content, should I still have this side-effect once I've started upping again... You know, most likely it won't be; the audio I'd be working on won't be affected at all. I think I wouldn't have to worry of my judgment of looping even; everything would be the same but the pitch.
The only one affected would be my enjoyment of the music in its original pitch.

Eitherway, I pray my case isn't long term...



Thank you for keeping up with me even for these hiatus times.
Please have this Melantha as an offering, by Biaeous...of which its OG Pixiv link is already down, so I'm linking 'booru for a thankful backup. danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5408719
Stay healthy, and I mean it!

1 year ago | [YT] | 65

Lloyd Dunamis

Hey, umm. Hello. ><
I'll try to make it brief.

I've been on and off in thinking about looping things again, but...I don't know, there's been so much at stake for me IRL atm that this "decision" hasn't been made solid or something; that I've always been in the middle. I feel, an announcement or some notification has been long overdue.

So I thought, in order to make myself and for everyone else waiting have some peace of mind, I'll make this decisive:

BGM looping (uploads) activity will be on hiatus until further notice.


Apologies, and Thank you for understanding.
Please take this waving floof owl by Uiro 「ういろ」, as an apology illustration. (twitter.com/uiro117/status/1714235180934959506 )

1 year ago | [YT] | 60

Lloyd Dunamis

Putting a letter L before a music file's file extension will enable LOOP mode and will let you loop songs however you want, however long you want!
'Prolly one of game music loopers' dreams of happening.



















...Pardon, low-effort April Fools', partially. I'll explain why I added .logg files with the offline files served.
Or you can read them over here: github.com/vgmstream/vgmstream/blob/master/doc/USA…, "Common and unknown extensions" part.

2 years ago | [YT] | 21

Lloyd Dunamis

Alright. I'm gradually picking up on my Blue Archive slack. However, don't expect any BA uploads from me just yet, mainly the following.

Before I work on tracks, I wish to verify if there's a well-made extension for it already. I do not wish to waste their well-done effort just because I didn't know they existed; and wish to give appreciation to everyone's effort. We're all here appreciating Blue Archive's OSTs by Mitsukiyo, Nor, and KARUT after all.

Due to my absence of extending BA tracks, you've probably looked around Youtube (or somewhere else) to satiate your thirst of listening to specific tracks in lengths.
So, do you happen to have such tracks I've not made/I'm not aware of yet?
If I may, please allow me to borrow your bit of time (lend me your powah~) and link them by posting a comment down below! I may have some trouble looking for some tracks due to them being in other languages, among other things of troubled discovery, but please those are fine, too!
You can also contribute directly by linking them up over here in this spreadsheet for easier referencing:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fuv5-xb_CGseNpklNw…

For instance, there's the likes of ‪@AndyPerfectLoops‬ who've had alot of extensions by now, too. Although they've done some loops I do not agree on, there are several more that I approve and am alright with~

(edit) Blue Archive Wikia's OST page has every track in-game listenable, for reference~
bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Archive/Soundtrac…

I've similarly asked for assistance for it before. Perhaps these days with BA much more widely spread, we'll get more people united to discovering extended versions we haven't discovered yet as well. (youtube.com/post/UgyINv8CSjDXBdTyNq54AaABCQ )

I'll be adding any approved loop-extended tracks over here. Whichever track gets included here, I will no longer work on.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
(edit2) In the playlist, there'll be only one for each track. Any extra approved BGMLoops will be added here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Even though I've not really...progressed in-game much, my excitement for BA has not left me.
Thank you very much for your support, and continue taking good care of your students, fellow Sensei!

Serina fanart, by みィむ/Miimu www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/88372484

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 73

Lloyd Dunamis

Halp, am now magnetted to Heaven Burns Red

tl;dr:「HBR songs/BGMs were highly copyright strikable; now claimable; also possibly mis-claimed by non-trollers but is still 3rd-party. I might up HBR BGM Loops anyway.」

I've become significantly attached to the game for:
-unexpected cheery as heck story atmosphere...at least in the beginning. (with how the intro/tutorial of the game lets us go through the characters gradually in quite an interesting, attaching way. ...W-we're bound to go down this roller coaster later, aren't we.)
-Songs: rediscovery & recognition of Maeda Jun X Yanagi Nagi 「やなぎ なぎ」, coming from the Owari no Hoshi no Love Song album; and to by extension Perfect Day by Supercell.
-Music, of course. As expected, it's got good loops already, and I am just...entranced.
among other things.

It's such a shaaame though, I am obliged *not* to publish any tracks from it. Visual Key has been seen striking other channels for it. That's understandable, as it is according to their streaming guidelines:
===========
■ About the music used in this content
but music extracting or posting data for the purpose of viewing or listening to audio is prohibited.
> Prohibited Matter
9. The act of using the Contents in the story, movie scene, sound, or video for the main purpose of listening to the music of the Contents.
-Google Translate (www.wfs.games/terms/contents_guideline_heavenburns… )
===========

However, more of my concern is...this 3rd-party, "joint effort amongst some 4 companies" or something called "Molebeat Co. Ltd." (molebeat.co.jp/ ). They assume claims or even strikes for mostly anime-related stuff, allegedly in behalf of their respective creators, and they involved HBR works!? Though kinda fair, HBR plays like an anime...or rather visual novel.
Unless I'm certain they won't claim such works allegedly in behalf of Visual Key/WFS, I am sadly much *less* motivated to publish anything HBR BGMloops-related, to avoid Molebeat claiming what Visual Key/WFS should be claiming for themselves.

I don't know; I'm not an expert with such things. I just try to avoid possible strike conflicts for this personal passion channel of mine. I don't like the restriction in-general as well, but moreso the people taking advantage of the system (in this case Molebeat). It is what it is. Please excuse me for playing it safe.


However...things might change in certain circumstances: perhaps it was a misclaim?
A certain channel I looked into, which escalated my worry about this, has a whole HBR songs playlist (www.youtube.com/playlist?list... ) claimed by Molebeat instead of Visual Key. Looking around further, apparently this channel is home to a collection of *anime* songs; a definite fiesta of claims for Molebeat. They could be having a party with all these claims from this channel/user alone...
Further, any video claimed by them are blocked from viewing in Japan; which then effectively blocks their whole HBR songs playlist from Japanese viewers (confirmed by JP-VPN-ing).

If in case Visual Key only claims it but not strike, I'd put them in. There are several, *several* other-user videos that're apparently claimed by VisualKey, and I'd rather have that than Molebeat.
Besides, I'm more interested & focused in *BGMs* in-general; the songs are a side thing, if they're loopable at all.

In comparison, Blue Archive isn't restrictive with such, as far as I can understand. (bluearchive.jp/fankit/guidelines )
It doesn't look like it's changed overtime either. (web.archive.org/web/20210901175021/https://bluearc… )


So yeah. I might end up working on HBR BGM loops anyway, given the scattered HBR music around here are more songs than BGMs, if any.
Otama-chan have been my favorite so far, so have Otama-chan; her freak-outs are adorable among other things! (CV: 古賀 葵 / Koga Aoi; aka "O-kawaii koto" Kaguya-sama, and apparently Paimon but less grating)
Art: Mei / 五月(めい) twitter.com/hipmay_x2/status/1609705443869478912
(text in art: Happy New Year)


HBR information for published OSTs, singles, etc.: vgmdb.net/release/11524

2 years ago | [YT] | 36