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diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml
index 30475d1..1e63e6d 100644
--- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml
+++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: November 26, 2016
 Date Added: August 17, 2023
 URLs:
 - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2
-- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx
 Cover Artists:
 - trip (Art)
 - Makin (text)
@@ -46,6 +45,9 @@ Additional Files:
   Files:
   - canh2booklet.pdf
 Commentary: |-
+    <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i>
+    (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx">Cool and New Homestuck 2 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>)
+
     <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Mastered the Album)
     This album is extremely great, but why its really brought to perfection is that a whole THREE songs reference We are Number One from LazyTown. 
     This album is about Homestuck, i swear
@@ -58,6 +60,12 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>Interrobang:</i> (Commentator)
     Let it be known that I made the majority of this booklet while watching hit film <i>The Room</i>
+
+    <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i>
+    (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav1VaR5_pw">Cool and New Homestuck 2: Announcement</a>)
+
+    <i>Ngame:</i>
+    (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeV23B5gY0">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>)
 ---
 Section: Disk 2 Act 1
 ---
@@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer)
     This song actually went through some multiple iterations(i never do that, lol), but basically this song is me fanboying over Homestuck Anthem, my favorite track in the HS discography, and trying to make a song that resembles it (it probably went well)
 
-    <i>Shadok</i> (Artist)
+    <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     cookiefonster gave me this idea of "the alpha kids in rolling coasters" for another track except the spot was already taken, so i did it for this
 ---
 Track: mmmmmmmmidwife
@@ -126,7 +134,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Commentator)
     You know what? This time around I'll volunteer and comment on stuff that doesn't have commentary like Bambosh did last time. I hope it'll be good
 
-    <i>Shadok</i> (Artist)
+    <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     I drew the characters in the same style as my animations about “the baby is you” because memes
 Lyrics: |-
     The baby-- is a baby
@@ -158,10 +166,10 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Koba:</i> (Composer)
     So i wanted to contribute to this album since i wasn't able to contribute to the first CANHS album, so at first i was being super ambitious song, then i forgot that i am bad at making decent sounding songs so i made a soundfont swap with a mess of pokemon stuff in it instead (i think it went well but to be perfectly fair it's literally just a soundfont swap with a 1 motif put in and one clip of a song roughly put in too) so i hope you enjoy it
 
-    <i>loading</i> (Commentator)
+    <i>loading:</i> (Commentator)
     Why do i even get commentary, I lost my song spot
 
-    <i>StarlightCalliope</i> (Artist)
+    <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Artist)
     Litten isn't the best starter of Gen 7. It's time to stop, Koba. It's final evolution isn't cool. Just... no.
 ---
 Section: Disk 2 Act 2
@@ -197,9 +205,11 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Cerulean:</i> (Composer)
     Made this song cus i love even in death, tried to get as far away from even in dance as i could while keeping somethings. Thats why i used the same synth for the lead, Massive.
 
-    <i>jakkyr</i> (Artist)
-    <span style="color: lightblue; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">Its "now this is a story" dunkass</span>
-    Here is a story all about how my life got flipped strait upside down, now let me take a moment sit right there and i'll tell you about the story where i have school for like 8 hours a day, following with me sleeping up to 14 hours at this point because my vitamin d is stabilizing slowly and the rest of the time i worked on this... or well i also used hours on playing warframe with a friend and then i also playd overwatch. and then i playd a lot of heroes of the storm for the oni genji skin and found out it was a good game so we kept playing. oh and then there was was the time we playd terraria a for like 2 days straight. but other then that i worked on this. its inspired from the even in death track art and reapers halloween highlight intro. tbh i'm not quite sure how i did most of this i just tried my way and it ended up looking nice. i'm still questioning how i got the skull how i got it but whatever i guess. *9 hours later* got a bunch of help from like my only irl artist friend because the styles didn't go together with what i made, but now i made it look like it fit together (the coffins + reaper rose with literally the rest of the art) ty lenny
+    <i>jakkyr:</i> (Artist)
+    Here is a story all about how my life got flipped strait upside down, now let me take a moment sit right there and i'll tell you about the story where i have school for like 8 hours a day, following with me sleeping up to 14 hours at this point because my vitamin d is stabilizing slowly and the rest of the time i worked on this... or well i also used hours on playing warframe with a friend and then i also playd overwatch. and then i playd a lot of heroes of the storm for the oni genji skin and found out it was a good game so we kept playing. oh and then there was was the time we playd terraria a for like 2 days straight. but other then that i worked on this. its inspired from the even in death track art and reapers halloween highlight intro. tbh i'm not quite sure how i did most of this i just tried my way and it ended up looking nice. i'm still questioning how i got the skull how i got it but whatever i guess. \*9 hours later* got a bunch of help from like my only irl artist friend because the styles didn't go together with what i made, but now i made it look like it fit together (the coffins + reaper rose with literally the rest of the art) ty lenny
+
+    <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet maker)
+    <span style="color: cyan; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">Its "now this is a story" dunkass</span>
 ---
 Track: Thyme On My Fries
 Artists:
@@ -231,15 +241,15 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:MeGaLoVania
 Commentary: |- 
     <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer)
-    Wheals was gracious enough to let me work on this song, and I'm glad he did. Thyme on my Fries was a lot of fun to make from start to end. Putting in the Crazy Frog song (you know the one,) Extraterresterial, Waters of Nazareth, and all those standard Homestuck leitmotifs you know and love into a re-instrumentated-from-scratch package that I hope does the original justice was a treat. That “”guitar solo”” at the end was all improvised and I think it turned out pretty well. I knew I couldn't hope to match Tensei's skill so I just threw caution to the wind and hoped for the best. In the end, I'm satisfied with my first CANH song and I hope you all are too.
+    Wheals was gracious enough to let me work on this song, and I'm glad he did. Thyme on my Fries was a lot of fun to make from start to end. Putting in [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|the Crazy Frog song]] (you know the one,) Extraterresterial, Waters of Nazareth, and all those standard Homestuck leitmotifs you know and love into a re-instrumentated-from-scratch package that I hope does the original justice was a treat. That “”guitar solo”” at the end was all improvised and I think it turned out pretty well. I knew I couldn't hope to match [[group:tensei|Tensei's]] skill so I just threw caution to the wind and hoped for the best. In the end, I'm satisfied with my first CANH song and I hope you all are too.
 
     <i>Wheals:</i> (Wheals)
     I named this!
 
-    <i>koykoy13</i> (Artist)
+    <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist)
     Its literally thyme on fries
 
-    <i>trip</i> (Artist)
+    <i>trip:</i> (Artist)
     I dont know if you guys realized this but decapitation seems to be a thing with dirk. i thought the idea of dirk juggling a bunch of heads was kind of cool. thats about it
 ---
 Track: 'Jungle #3 (CaNH Edit)'
@@ -259,9 +269,9 @@ Sampled Tracks:
 - track:jungle-3
 Commentary: |- 
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer)
-    Another Jungle is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with cool and new Anthem, this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool.
+    [[track:another-jungle|Another Jungle]] is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with [[track:cool-and-new-anthem|cool and new Anthem]], this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool.
 
-    <i>NyashAlex</i> (Artist)
+    <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Artist)
     This shot was taken on a beautiful friday sunset, because I felt like the sunset's lighting would blend well with the colors of the Condy's ship (but VSCOCam's preset sorta ate the colors, welp). Also, because I wanted to be done with this asap (that's why it wasn't taken on a saturday afternoon).
 ---
 Section: Disk 2 Act 3
@@ -449,7 +459,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>groeuf:</i> (Artist)
     So wait we're not using this version
-    <img src="media/misc/enter-with-caliborn-69.jpg" width="450" height="450"/>
+    <img src="media/misc/enter-with-caliborn-69.jpg" width="300">
 ---
 Section: Disk 2 Act 4
 ---
@@ -485,10 +495,10 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer)
     This was originally going to be a serious remix but making Windows XP sound bullshit turned out to be a lot more fun. But was it worth it? Only Makin knows..
 
-    <i>trip</i> (Artist)
+    <i>trip:</i> (Artist)
     So i looked up “roller coaster” on google images and i found this unbelievably shitty wikihow image. it was a blessing from above and i knew then and there i had to make it cool and new. 
-    <span style="color: lightblue; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">cool and old version of art</span>
-    <img src="media/misc/alphacoaster-xp-beta.jpg" width="450" height="450"/>
+    <span style="color: cyan; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">cool and old version of art</span>
+    <img src="media/misc/alphacoaster-xp-beta.jpg" width="300">
 ---
 Section: Disk 2 Act 5
 ---
@@ -721,9 +731,9 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:harlequin
 Commentary: |- 
     <i>Aris Martinian:</i> (Composer)
-    Ugh, Pipeorgankind. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds?
+    Ugh, [[track:pipeorgankind|Pipeorgankind]]. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds?
 
-    <i>william_</i> (Artist)
+    <i>william_:</i> (Artist)
     I actually had to PLAY rct2 - gasp! - in order to figure out what the ice cream shop looked like in that game. (i am dedicated to my craft!) i like to think that this is what the planet created by rose and hecka's SBURB session would look like, just a massive game of rollercoaster tycoon - though without typheus' lair being there, of course.
 ---
 Track: Hell"o" Kermit
@@ -751,13 +761,13 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew
 Commentary: |- 
     <i>Starlight Calliope:</i> (Composer)
-    Originally, [[artist:makin]] had signed up to do this song for CANH. At around early-mid October he offered up the spot, and I took it. I played around with several ideas, including remixing Hello Zepp in a polka style similar to Reveilleawesome from CANH 1, before finally settling on the idea of using Hello Zepp, and adding in relevant motifs to the Flash animation, in my normal song style. The whole Kermit the Frog thing is a reference to the Cheerfulbear Muppet Babies comics that, at least as far as I know, was the origin of the references to Saw seen in Homestuck. I feel like the song could have been better polished, but it's nice to finally have completed a song for this team and get to see it released
+    Originally, [[artist:makin]] had signed up to do this song for CANH. At around early-mid October he offered up the spot, and I took it. I played around with several ideas, including remixing Hello Zepp in a polka style similar to [[track:reveilleawesome-sad-polka-mix-with-gong-no-vocals|Reveilleawesome]] from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|CANH 1]], before finally settling on the idea of using Hello Zepp, and adding in relevant motifs to the Flash animation, in my normal song style. The whole Kermit the Frog thing is a reference to the Cheerfulbear Muppet Babies comics that, at least as far as I know, was the origin of the references to Saw seen in Homestuck. I feel like the song could have been better polished, but it's nice to finally have completed a song for this team and get to see it released
 
     <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist)
-    I originally claimed this track art even before CANHS1 was released, knowing what i would do for the track art right then and there, which was to make a “conspiracy theory-esque” track art about how Hussie is actually Toby “Makingporing” Fox aka the one we know as o. While it didn't turn out the way I expected, (I wanted to include a lot more reddit post theories, but there wasn't enough. Get cracking, theorists.) I'd say it turned out 'alright.' I wouldn't call it my best work, but it does the job. Not like anyone's going to look at the art anyway wonk
+    I originally claimed this track art even before [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|CANHS1]] was released, knowing what i would do for the track art right then and there, which was to make a “conspiracy theory-esque” track art about how Hussie is actually Toby “[[artist:makin|Makingporing]]” Fox aka the one we know as [[artist:o|o]]. While it didn't turn out the way I expected, (I wanted to include a lot more reddit post theories, but there wasn't enough. Get cracking, theorists.) I'd say it turned out 'alright.' I wouldn't call it my best work, but it does the job. Not like anyone's going to look at the art anyway wonk
 
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Commentator)
-    The track art doesn't have my ellipsis-based proof that Hussie isn't o :jaedangery:
+    The track art doesn't have my ellipsis-based proof that Hussie isn't [[artist:o|o]] :jaedangery:
 Lyrics: |-
     Hello, Kermit the frog here
     Hello, Kermit the frog here
@@ -1183,7 +1193,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Oppa Toby Style
 Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer)
-    I couldn't resist making the first half of my song for Jane: Enter into a full length thing, and decided this was the best place to put it, so this wouldn't be needlessly released before or after the CANH flash. I'm sorry for this being our Penumbra Phantas—oh wait who am I kidding it was worth inadvertently trolling you guys all the goddamn way.
+    I couldn't resist making the first half of my song for Jane: Enter into a full length thing, and decided this was the best place to put it, so this wouldn't be needlessly released before or after the CANH flash. I'm sorry for this being our [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantas]]—oh wait who am I kidding it was worth inadvertently trolling you guys all the goddamn way.
 
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     The first version looked too much like the original and people wanted me to make it more shitty so there