TLMC v.19 (2018.01.01)

This is the 19th version of Touhou Lossless Music Collection torrent, current total file size ~1.75 TiB. Download and seed. If you have an older version, you can update it with this script (run the script in the torrent directory after stopping the old torrent but before starting new torrent). The script renames files/directories which had their names updated at some point in time - if you don't run this script you'll end up with some duplicates.
As always cuesheets are located in a separate 7z archive - when extracted into the torrent directory it places cuesheets in proper places.

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Main torrent (7z with cues and *.tta files):
Touhou lossless music collection v.19 (1.65 TiB or 1 817 738 246 162 bytes).
Torrent file size is 9 604 641 bytes.
Magnet link.

Pictures torrent (cover/booklet scans):
Touhou album image collection v.19 (76.5 GiB or 82 153 065 676 bytes).
Torrent file size is 4 582 077 bytes.
Magnet link.

Supplementary materials (everything else - pdf booklets, bundled wallpapers, lyric texts, other extras):
TLMC supplementary materials v.19 (24.2 GiB or 25 978 962 058 bytes).
Torrent file size is 2 200 879 bytes.
Magnet link.

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Additional links:
Touhou wiki
Album wiki
Online player with direct downloads

Fun facts: This is the largest update to date, at about 375 GB it is almost twice as big as the whole TLMC v.01.
Not so fun facts: It also took the most time.

Special thanks to:
- friends at toholmc.com, who provided about 760 links to tta+cue albums, which is a majority of albums in this update (if you're reading this, please learn how to input all unicode characters instead of replacing them with question marks and underscores because going through ALL cue sheets fixing errors by hand is seriously tiring; also 3 albums were missing cue sheets and them being single-track is not an excuse to omit cues and 2 or 3 images were in the album archives they didn't belong to and 1 album contained a duplicate of another instead of what its name indicated and since crappy 400px covers do not replace proper scans why even bother putting them in ...).
- friends at bbs.moem.cc, who provided about 90 links to wav+cue albums (remaining 900 links are unfortunately either trash mp3, unavailable or already present in this torrent).
- several baidu users and baidu search engines which indexed their links
- all original album rippers
- all touhou doujin circles
- and you!

A bonus for everyone who patiently waited for this release: discographies of artists every man of culture should listen to and enjoy.

Hatsuki Yura complete lossless discography, excluding collaboration albums (ones where she sings like 1 track out of 10; all albums listed in the Circle section on the artist site at the moment of this post are present).
Data size is 15.9 GiB or 17 080 348 619 bytes.
Magnet link.
It comes with two relatively minor issues:
1. "HAMELN Limitedver" album has two glitches because the fileshare kept giving me the same broken file (made about 30 attempts in hopes of hitting another CDN shard, each time file hash was the same). Although I could technically try to recover it by checking for all single bitflips in each block (fortunately the archive package had zero compression), doing this with reversed specs of a closed-source format is rather annoying so I didn't bother.
2. "RAPT AQUARIUM" album was reconstructed from split tracks without the rip log, so there is some chance pre-gaps are missing.

Cuesheets are located in a separate 7z archive, just like with TLMC.

FEEDBACK REQUESTS
1. For circles with names in kana/kanji I looked at the circle websites. If they used an english version of the circle name then I used that as a spelling hint/alternate name in directory name: "[main name] alt.name". The rest I've left as-is.
What are your thoughts on adding alternate english names to all circles?
Pros: it would make navigating directory structure and referencing circle names easier for those who don't know/are bad with kana/kanji.
Cons: running rename script would be effectively mandatory, at least for that one transition, and straightforward name translation or transliteration might not mean exactly what artist intended. It would also break your existing playlists.
2. There is a large amount of recent rips which are sadly shared as separate flac tracks with no rip logs. For now they are not included in TLMC.
What are your thoughts on gluing them back into CD images and adding those to the torrent?

FAQ
Q: Why TTA and not FLAC?
A: Two reasons, one historical and one technical.
Historical one is that a huge chunk of early albums were in tta, so to be consistent about the codec I converted the rest (mostly ape) into tta and then the majority of albums were also shared as tta, so less work for me. The technical one is that I like tta better. Flac is open source and rather popular, it's the most popular lossless format on a lot of metrics, which is a big reason to adopt it. Tta is also opensource and less popular, but not completely unknown, and several of its design decisions (whether intentional or accidental) stand out to me as flat out better. These are: only one compression level and no embedded metadata support*. According to my preferences this outweighs flac's popularity.
* Mixing immutable data with metadata is a big no-no in my eyes and leads to disappointment and sad kittens. You wouldn't make a kitten sad, would you?

Q: Why album+cue and not split tracks?
A: Audio CD has one track that encodes its entire LPCM data stream. Track breaks are the metadata content.

Q: Why are cuesheets included as an archive instead of as is?
A: So that you would be able to edit them (for whatever reason, such as finding a mistake) and not break the whole torrent.

Q: When will the next version get released?
A: I am searching for a better way to share TLMC and lossless doujin music in general. While bittorrent somehow manages to get job done it is (and always been) a wrong tool for this purpose. Sadly it is good enough, so very few are pressured to develop better alternatives. With that in mind...
Best case scenario: A p2p similar to what I described in my May post gets developed and the need for this aggregator torrent is gone, as all future albums that get ripped and shared appear and are available on it, immediately and permanently.
Realistic scenario: TLMC v.20 in summer-winter 2019.
Worst case scenario: Everything is eaten by grey goo.

Q: Anything I can do to help?
A1, Easy mode: Seed.
A2, Normal mode: Compile a list of "file+cue" albums that can be downloaded on the internet but are missing in TLMC and send me links to them. "Can be downloaded" part is pretty important here.
A3, Hard mode: Buy missing albums, rip with EAC in secure mode and a proper drive read offset to single file tta+cue (or single file wav+cue if you're too lazy to run tta encoder, or single file flac+cue if you're already used to flac), then share on any reasonable host (mega preferred, mediafire is fine too; but even a bad host is better than no host at all, just make sure it doesn't require registration - these ones I drop on sight) and post a link. Even better if you can scan the booklet and covers (don't overkill like, ahem, certain someones; 600 dpi is surely enough).
Alternatively, find out how to contact nekomimi Alice and participate in toholmc group buys.

And finally, if you liked the music, please support its authors!