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diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml
index f4b78d0..bcd7845 100644
--- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml
+++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: December 26, 2016
 Date Added: August 17, 2023
 URLs:
 - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3
-- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8
 Cover Artists:
 - Makin
 Art Tags:
@@ -36,9 +35,12 @@ Additional Files:
   Files:
   - canh3act7booklet.pdf
 Commentary: |-
+    <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i>
+    (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8">Cool and New Homestuck 3 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>)
+
     <i>william_:</i> (Bonus Art Contributor)
     "No Drama" CANMT-tan:
-    <img src="media/misc/canmt-tan.png" width="350px" height="350px" />
+    <img src="media/misc/canmt-tan.png" width="350px">
 ---
 Track: Spoopy Piano o-o;
 Artists:
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ URLs:
 - https://youtu.be/KGuxvBcXstI
 Commentary: |-
     <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Composer)
-    After I started my Gaster's theme rip, (which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel, I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, OpsCat pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine.
+    After I started my Gaster's theme rip, (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFBwHv6ljk">which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel</a>, I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, [[artist:wights-end|OpsCat]] pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine.
     And by 'time to shine' I mean 'time to shove memes into a midi and then put it through the Gaster piano, and also add the rct theme at the end because I could.'
     Apparently I count as a composer now, so that's cool (and new), I guess.
 
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Jungle Boogie
 Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer)
-    I just adapted an old mashup Felix made because I thought it would be fitting for Sburb's loading screen. That's all.
+    I just adapted an old mashup [[artist:kobacat|Felix]] made because I thought it would be fitting for Sburb's loading screen. That's all.
 
     <i>Koba:</i> (Artist)
     Hi I helped I guess.
@@ -130,11 +132,11 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:showtime-imp-strife-mix
 Commentary: |-
     <i>meems:</i> (Composer)
-    As I was looking through the possible flashes to work on, nothing struck me with more joy than JOHN THIS IS NO TIME FOR SLUMBER. Right when I heard that first group of violins come in in the original song, it was at that point, I knew. I had to do my work. It was a sunny September day. There was a humid summer air, yet, it felt as if the end of the unbearable heat was in sight. I opened up my DAW of choice, and knew what had to be done. As the song came together, there was only one thing that I could think of that would make this song great. Little did I know that this choice would have immediate repercussions on this song. As I placed the GM Trumpet onto the pattern, my heart sank. However, this sinking wasn't because of sadness, it was because of great joy. I had created a masterpiece. This masterpiece, however, had to be handled masterfully. There was only one thing that I could do: A sprite replacement. The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness.As I opened up Flash, and replaced all of the sprites with our favorite protagonist, the work only got better from there. I replaced the audio, and moved the cursor over to the "Preview" button. Did I want to click it? Did I want to find out what would happen if I pressed that button. Yes. Yes I did. I clicked play. My jaw dropped. It was as if I was in a pit of crocodiles, dauntlessly staring death into the eyes, and proceeding to say "fuck you", as this magnificent savior rescues me. Tears were streaming down my face. Emotions were being tampered with. It was a work of gods. I exported my masterpiece, and from then on, the world was never the same.
+    As I was looking through the possible flashes to work on, nothing struck me with more joy than [[flash:397|JOHN THIS IS NO TIME FOR SLUMBER]]. Right when I heard that first group of violins come in in the original song, it was at that point, I knew. I had to do my work. It was a sunny September day. There was a humid summer air, yet, it felt as if the end of the unbearable heat was in sight. I opened up my DAW of choice, and knew what had to be done. As the song came together, there was only one thing that I could think of that would make this song great. Little did I know that this choice would have immediate repercussions on this song. As I placed the GM Trumpet onto the pattern, my heart sank. However, this sinking wasn't because of sadness, it was because of great joy. I had created a masterpiece. This masterpiece, however, had to be handled masterfully. There was only one thing that I could do: A sprite replacement. The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness.As I opened up Flash, and replaced all of the sprites with our favorite protagonist, the work only got better from there. I replaced the audio, and moved the cursor over to the "Preview" button. Did I want to click it? Did I want to find out what would happen if I pressed that button. Yes. Yes I did. I clicked play. My jaw dropped. It was as if I was in a pit of crocodiles, dauntlessly staring death into the eyes, and proceeding to say "fuck you", as this magnificent savior rescues me. Tears were streaming down my face. Emotions were being tampered with. It was a work of gods. I exported my masterpiece, and from then on, the world was never the same.
 
     <i>Interrobang:</i> (Compiler)
     The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness
-    <img src="media/misc/jhon-play-us-a-ditty.jpg" width="450" height="117" />
+    <img src="media/misc/jhon-play-us-a-ditty.jpg" width="450">
 
     <i>Makin:</i> (Missing the point)
     It's my dishonorable duty to transcribe the commentary in the image above against all possible spirits.
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer)
     "What's the deal with all those songs that start with ""Skaian"" or end with ""of Skaia""???
-    Like my later song on the album, this was me messing around on my piano, but making a more serious thingie. Doing CANHS in a more serious manner (all my other ones have been jokes) is a funny thing; you have to make a song that fits the feel of the flash while avoiding replicating the original song. I got a boost here by not being the first person to replace the music on this flash; Radiation did it when Bolin left, and I still prefer the original, which is why the opening is a riff on his opening. I went for a much softer approach than Toby's harsh synths/strings for the second half, too.
+    Like my later song on the album, this was me messing around on my piano, but making a more serious thingie. Doing CANHS in a more serious manner (all my other ones have been jokes) is a funny thing; you have to make a song that fits the feel of the flash while avoiding replicating the original song. I got a boost here by not being the first person to replace the music on this flash; [[group:toby-fox|Radiation]] did it when [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] left, and I still prefer the original, which is why the opening is a riff on his opening. I went for a much softer approach than Toby's harsh synths/strings for the second half, too.
     Formation is an underrated motif, even if my transcription is rather imperfect.
 
     <i>nights:</i> (Artist)
@@ -259,7 +261,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:umbrella-tomato
 Commentary: |-
     <i>413:</i> (Composer)
-    Harleband 1 had to have been the greatest and most beloved song of the [S] CaNH Disk 1 Discography, and as such it was my duty to reinovate it from the ground up to deliver a quality sequal... not the sequal this world begged me to not make, but the sequal I made despite the flipant ironic remarks as to how terrible it was.
+    Harleband 1 had to have been the greatest and most beloved song of the [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|[S] CaNH Disk 1 Discography]], and as such it was my duty to reinovate it from the ground up to deliver a quality sequal... not the sequal this world begged me to not make, but the sequal I made despite the flipant ironic remarks as to how terrible it was.
 
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     Inspired by [[track:harleband|this masterpiece]]: <a href="https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband">https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband</a>
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     Just a screenshot from this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9A21SLVMwI
 
-    <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350" height="235" />
+    <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350">
 ---
 Track: Unbreakable Unity
 Artists:
@@ -340,7 +342,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Hallowed Halls
 Commentary: |-
     <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer)
-    My goal with this song was to take the original and see how many leitmotifs I could stuff it with. They're designed to match up with the cloud visions Jade experiences in the accompanying Flash. Well, except for that one part where RCT plays. For the last few seconds I came up with my own chord progression that, looking back on it, sounds kind of like Falling Down. Disclaimer: any resemblances to other video games are completely coincidental.
+    My goal with this song was to take the original and see how many leitmotifs I could stuff it with. They're designed to match up with the cloud visions Jade experiences in [[flash:1073|the accompanying Flash]]. Well, except for that one part where RCT plays. For the last few seconds I came up with my own chord progression that, looking back on it, sounds kind of like Falling Down. Disclaimer: any resemblances to other video games are completely coincidental.
 
     <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist)
     I liked the imagery of the Skaian clouds, and although this scene isn't in the actual Flash this song is based off of, I thought it felt appropriate. It was a pain in the ass removing all the stardust clogs from that panel (the actual one is super glitchy) but I'm proud of the effect.
@@ -415,13 +417,13 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Courser
 Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Interloper)
-    If this song had Snow Halation in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore.
+    If this song had [[track:snow-halation|Snow Halation]] in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore.
 
     <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer)
-    Cookie, please, we all know that We Are Number One is a vastly superior Siiva meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was Jit,) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before CANH2 had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use Frog Forager as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [S] Make Her Pay. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting.
+    Cookie, please, we all know that [[track:we-are-number-one|We Are Number One]] is a vastly superior [[artist:silvagunner|Siiva]] meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]],) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|CANH2]] had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use [[track:frog-forager|Frog Forager]] as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [[flash:2578|[S] Make Her Pay]]. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting.
 
     <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist)
-    <img src="media/misc/pic-of-koykoy13-message.jpg" width="400" height="75" />
+    <img src="media/misc/pic-of-koykoy13-message.jpg" width="400">
 ---
 Track: Sunslammer is my music waifu
 Artists:
@@ -500,7 +502,7 @@ Sampled Tracks:
 - Tock
 Commentary: |-
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer)
-    For this one I adapted my countdown arrangement of Jungle #3 to sync with this flash, and I think I put it to pretty good use. Just as Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Sburban Jungle, cool and new Act 6 Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Jungle #3. Better yet it replaces literally just windy sound effects.
+    For this one I adapted my countdown arrangement of Jungle #3 to sync with this flash, and I think I put it to pretty good use. Just as Act 1 ends with a [[track:sburban-countdown|countdown version of Sburban Jungle]], cool and new Act 6 Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Jungle #3. Better yet it replaces literally just windy sound effects.
 
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     The bad thing is the explosion you nutshack
@@ -579,7 +581,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     We need more songs like this
 
     <i>MrCheeze:</i> (Exile)
-    Puts Garden of Eden to shame tbh
+    Puts [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]] to shame tbh
 
     <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Artist)
     I hope cookie appreciates this track art, i put a fuck ton of work into it
@@ -605,7 +607,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     justascreenshotfromthis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G38hwkte5u4
 
-    <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350px" height="150px" />
+    <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350px">
 ---
 Track: Moody Nigra Shit
 Artists:
@@ -830,7 +832,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     When I got my electric keyboard a few months ago, I wondered "what am I going to do with the dual voice functionality and the split voice functionality and the auto-harmony functionality and all these instruments like 'horse'??" Well, now I know. I managed to nail this in the first take, though I planned out what instruments I'd be using ahead of time.
 
     <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist)
-    Act 6 Act 6 Act 5 is one of my favorite flashes in the comic solely because of its comedic value, so I wanted to do the song justice with my artwork. And what better way to do that than by including some PURE ART SKILL? I know that that pose shows up in A6A6A4 (and later in A7), and not in this act, but the opportunity was too good for me to pass up. I used the actual PURE ART SKILLS as reference for Caliborn's body, added some lasers and gradients for effects, and it was good to go. But there was something missing. Something that the art so desperately needed. What I'd created, I came to realize, wasn't actually art at all. Like Cool and New Webcomic, it was a shaker of boundaries - a metastasizing amalgam of memes that toppled the boundaries between shitposts and reality. This didn't involve PURE ART SKILL at all, I realized. It was PURE "O" SKILL.
+    [[flash:7409|Act 6 Act 6 Act 5]] is one of my favorite flashes in the comic solely because of its comedic value, so I wanted to do the song justice with my artwork. And what better way to do that than by including some PURE ART SKILL? I know that that pose shows up in A6A6A4 (and later in A7), and not in this act, but the opportunity was too good for me to pass up. I used the actual PURE ART SKILLS as reference for Caliborn's body, added some lasers and gradients for effects, and it was good to go. But there was something missing. Something that the art so desperately needed. What I'd created, I came to realize, wasn't actually art at all. Like Cool and New Webcomic, it was a shaker of boundaries - a metastasizing amalgam of memes that toppled the boundaries between shitposts and reality. This didn't involve PURE ART SKILL at all, I realized. It was PURE "O" SKILL.
 
     <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer)
     Once again my music got far better art than it deserved
@@ -879,7 +881,7 @@ Lyrics: |-
     I'm incredibly turned on right now
 Commentary: |-
     <i>GoomFloops:</i> (Composer)
-    Wow, how relevant! How new! This song represents the empty joy that comes from memes
+    Wow, [[track:radiation-is-now-on-youtube|how relevant! How new!]] This song represents the empty joy that comes from memes
 
     <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist)
     I was going to animate this but meh this is better
@@ -997,7 +999,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     Fun fact: originally I accidentally made this part twice as long as it should have been. Whoops! At least we all figured it out before this thing was put together. Anyways, this part of the song ended up sounding pretty spacey and epic, and to me at least, not unlike something C418 would compose. Go check him out, he made the music for Minecraft and is a pretty cool guy.
 
     <i>Minish:</i> (Composer, 1:02-1:26)
-    First music I've contributed to the team since Volume 2, actually. I took a break from the team because I couldn't do anything original and lacked the proper motivation to work on the CANMT. I hope to come back to it one day, but no promises. Also, the original version I produced is absolute garbage, Hadron deserves any and all praise.
+    First music I've contributed to the team since [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|Volume 2]], actually. I took a break from the team because I couldn't do anything original and lacked the proper motivation to work on the CANMT. I hope to come back to it one day, but no promises. Also, the original version I produced is absolute garbage, Hadron deserves any and all praise.
 
     <i>Hadron:</i> (Composer, 1:02-1:56)
     Hey this is hadron and I'm cool like sunglass emoticon.
@@ -1006,7 +1008,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     Fun fact 2x combo: I didn't actually make this song for act7 originally. Regardless of that, it was a pleasure to make this song for any productive work, and to have hadron remake it in his own style. This song was made without any real acquired inspiration from other songs, which believe it or not is what I typically don't do when I make music. I really like the way I arranged the song, and how it sorta shifts into a piratey theme towards the second half in the full version (I'm not sure if that makes it into the overall act 7 theme).
 
     <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer, 2:12-2:35)
-    CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use Voidlight in this section, so the song has still never been referenced.
+    CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use [[track:voidlight|Voidlight]] in this section, so the song has still never been referenced.
 
     <i>WHATSISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer, 2:35-3:21)
     SUDDENLY, THE LONGEST PART WRITTEN BY ONE PERSON COMES. This section was made in the span of about 2 days, after the people originally slotted in for this section bailed/didn't finish/were rejected. I think it kind of shows? Still, even if I'm not entirely happy with my piece for this collaboration, it at least blends well with the next section. (Fun fact, originally, the second half of this was just snow halation layered over the original audio. Sadly, that was rejected, but I kept its memory alive with a snow halation piano arrangement instead.)
@@ -1088,10 +1090,10 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - RollerCoaster Tycoon Theme
 URLs:
 - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/revisit-rewind
-# TODO: reupload both this and Resend to youtube individually
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdkqgf9D90
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Aris Martinian:</i> (Composer)
-    I was going to make it better but my computer's shit and logic broke, so I lost half the project file. Makin wanted me to remake it but I'm lazy. Sorry about the lack of panning and the bad drums.
+    I was going to make it better but my computer's shit and logic broke, so I lost half the project file. [[artist:makin|Makin]] wanted me to remake it but I'm lazy. Sorry about the lack of panning and the bad drums.
 
     <i>nights:</i> (Artist)
     I drew this with 3 babies in my lap please enjoy it
@@ -1109,6 +1111,7 @@ Art Tags:
 Duration: '04:48'
 URLs:
 - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/resend
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DicaC5kw8
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Cascade (Beta)
 - Crystalanthemums
@@ -1122,4 +1125,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - track:endless-climb
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Noisemaker:</i> (Composer)
-    I initially made this as a submission for credits about a month before the deadline, and proceeded to not finish it until 45 minutes before the deadline, hence the uncompleted song (seriously its like 3 minutes shorter than [S] Credits is), but hey everything worked out in the end :^)
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+    I initially made this as a submission for credits about a month before the deadline, and proceeded to not finish it until 45 minutes before the deadline, hence the uncompleted song (seriously its like 3 minutes shorter than [[flash:8130|[S] Credits]] is), but hey everything worked out in the end :^)
+
+    <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet Maker)
+    Glad to be done with these tbh (for now at least)
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