Video game music rips

In a general sense MusicBrainz tracks released music (or widely distributed bootlegs) rather than individual's homebrew rip compilations of music. This is why MB's edit and voting system is generally evidence-based - if you can't find a listing elsewhere that confirms that data you're adding one should probably think twice about adding it.

I would check whether there is a canonical listing of the soundtrack for the games in question on major VG music websites (vgmusic.com, mobygames, OC Remix etc) - if there is and it roughly matches what you have manually ripped; you could add the canonical listing and tag against that.

Perhaps an example would help also?

What's an OSV?
If you mean OST, then yes, add it if you can track down all the release information (Amazon is a good place to start, but I like to verify the results with independent sources when I can). I wouldn't add anything off OCRemix unless it was a documented original work.

Well, if the tracks have a well defined order within the game, you can always add the game itself as a release - regardless of whether there is an OSV or OST. This is essentially what is done with audio rips of DVD concerts and such. The question is whether that listing is relatively stable - e.g if multiple sources were to list it, are they likely to do so in the same way? Or is there lots of ambiguity?

Another tricky argument is about whether this is "official" or "bootleg"... the game release itself is obviously official; but the audio rip obviously bootleg. So it's complicated. :)

I don't think I'd personally have a problem adding Chrono Trigger.

Add them please (:
As long as you can more or less confirm track names/ composer etc.

Bootleg is probably appropriate, and note where you got the info/ files from (ripped yourself etc). There's a chance it may be removed later but at least people can make an educated vote on it.

^ it's a direct rip of the music tracks from old game files. These music tracks will never change or be updated, they are exactly as they were on the game disc/cartridge [I assume this is the type of audio rip the OP is talking about!]. The only thing is that track titles etc often have to be taken from the scene/ level they are played on, because there's nowhere to get that information from, which is kind of annoying.

But there's pretty much no way many SNES soundtracks are going to be released these days (:
Hopefully by marking these as bootlegs (and noting that they're game rips) any confusion that could arise from something like this can be avoided anyway.
I have added at least one of these in the past, in a case where there's no other way to get the audio/ music:
http://musicbrainz.org/release/d74e9cad … f062168c06
I don't really see big problems with it... in the end, it can always be removed later, or voted against imo. Meanwhile, it's useful for quite a few people.

I count the release as official, if the music is taken directly from the game such that it will always sound the same.

For example, MP3 files in a game folder would be official.

But I would mark it as 'bootleg' if it might sound different depending on how it's rendered -- e.g. MIDI files depend on the hardware they're played on, I imagine some video game emulators don't emulate with 100% accuracy, things like that.

Some PlayStation games had regular Audio CD tracks (the game was in the 1st data track), these are not bootlegs.
But otherwise game rips as bootlegs, I quite agree… Although OK maybe it depends on the cases. The only MB link I saw in this topic is clearly a bootleg anyway.