Adding pokemon cries to the api

[FallenDeity]

In relation to this super ancient issue #242 I think it would be a great idea to have pokemon cries in the api

I am willing to work on a pr for this just want to clear some doubts beforehand getting started, what would be preferred format for the sounds files (ogg, mp3, wav)?

@Naramsim any thoughts about this?

[Naramsim]

Give me some days to think about it.

Questions: do we have all the cries? Could we serve the original file type or is it better to convert them for quality/portability reasons?

[FallenDeity]

ogg and mp3 is readily available (veekun and showdown) for wavs they are also available on showdown but size is quite a bit bigger i am not professional with audio stuff perhaps someone experienced could differentiate between quality to check whether trade off between size and quality is viable

ogg and mp3s
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/audio/cries/

wavs
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/audio/cries/src

directly ripped wavs from games
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1gquXnADe9fdQ7GDM0wFGIV36_O_g3L?usp=sharing

bulbasaur cries

ripped wav	showdown wav	veekun ogg	showdown ogg	showdown mp3
link	link	link	link	link

Here is the zip with those sounds downloaded

001.zip

[Naramsim]

Are there multiple sounds for each game version? Should we do a similar thing as we did for the sprites?

[Naramsim]

We should also make sure those sounds are playable if we serve them. Ideally we will host them in a separate repo and the like will be something like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/cries/master/cries/pokemon/132.ogg. Maybe you can create a test repo with only one sprite and reference it in an HTML page to see if it plays.

[FallenDeity]

Are there multiple sounds for each game version? Should we do a similar thing as we did for the sprites?

Its not game wise completely old games upto gen 5 had a different sound available and from pokemon xy the old sounds have been replaced with new ones for most Pokemon. So there are 2 sounds available for Pokemon upto gen 5

Also html supports

• mp3
• wav
• ogg
  For in browser playing

[Naramsim]

Ok, let's use ogg! I'll make a new repo and we can start using that one. We can use the same tree we are using for the sprites. So something like:

/cries/pokemon/versions/generation-i/1.ogg
/cries/pokemon/other/...

We can add only one generation only initially and build the code API-wise.

[FallenDeity]

Ok, let's use ogg! I'll make a new repo and we can start using that one. We can use the same tree we are using for the sprites. So something like:

/cries/pokemon/versions/generation-i/1.ogg
/cries/pokemon/other/...

We can add only one generation only initially and build the code API-wise.

I am working on this pr rn ran into an issue mainly is that pokemon cries upto gen 5 is same for all games going forward from gen 6 the cries were revised so essentially there are only two sets of cries old set (gen 1 - gen 5) and revised set (gen 1 - gen 9) so if we are making it generation wise wont a lot of tracks be repeated?

[Naramsim]

Or... we could just add the revised :)

Can you point me to the 2 sets? OR info about that?

[FallenDeity]

https://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/cries/
Veekun for old ones
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/audio/cries/
showdown for newer ones
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1gquXnADe9fdQ7GDM0wFGIV36_O_g3L?usp=sharing (these are a few other i took and converted to compare quality)

[Naramsim]

I listened to them (bulbasaur) and they all differ. Let's use the most recent and complete set and add those only for now

[FallenDeity]

sure, I'll go with the showdown ones then

[FallenDeity]

Complete with pr #1030