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diff --git a/album/the-wanderers.yaml b/album/the-wanderers.yaml
index 97f2454..5804dd5 100644
--- a/album/the-wanderers.yaml
+++ b/album/the-wanderers.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Cover Art: Lauren Ross
 Wallpaper Art: Lauren Ross
 Banner Art: Lauren Ross
 Banner Dimensions: 1463x270
-Wallpaper Style:
+Wallpaper Style: |-
     background-size: auto;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-position: top left;
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Wallpaper Style:
     opacity: 0.75;
 Date: July 14, 2011
 Date Added: November 15, 2019
-Color: #ffcc66
+Color: '#ffcc66'
 Groups: Official
 Art Tags:
 - WV
@@ -21,19 +21,19 @@ Art Tags:
 - WK
 URLs:
 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF3092FD8EA59F218
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Homestuck:</i>
     413 years in the future, all is devastation. Great lakes are now empty pits, sprawling cities are now rubble, and humanity is now extinct, fossilized under the endless blanket of sand that covers the Earth.
     However, all is not lost. Exiled to our world through gates in space and time, a few brave, carapaced individuals toil to give our planet new hope.
     They are...
     The Wanderers.
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+---
 Group: Main album
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+---
 Track: Carapacian Dominion
 Artist: Seth Peelle
 Track Art: Sarah Fu
-Duration: 7:20
+Duration: '7:20'
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - PM
@@ -41,36 +41,36 @@ Art Tags:
 - WQ
 - Serenity
 URLs: https://youtu.be/bhG6zJpC60c
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+---
 Track: Aimless Morning Gold
 Artist: Michael Guy Bowman
 Track Art: Leondra
-Duration: 3:48
+Duration: '3:48'
 Art Tags:
 - AR
 - Serenity
 URLs: https://youtu.be/KrimTgZi5uk
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+---
 Track: Endless Expanse
 Artist: Erik Scheele
 Track Art: Guy
-Duration: 5:59
+Duration: '5:59'
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - PM
 - AR
 URLs: https://youtu.be/TktueKyYBKs
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+---
 Track: Gilded Sands
 Artist: Nick Smalley, Solatrus
 Track Art: Nyanface
-Duration: 4:00
+Duration: '4:00'
 References: Stone Tower Temple
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - Serenity
 URLs: https://youtu.be/i5gsRSo3sMo
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Solatrus:</i>
     That was an episode of shenanigans with me and Mr. Nick Smalley.
     We’re both huge Majora’s Mask fans (obviously we were inspired from Stone Tower Temple), and we think Wayward Vagabond is rad, so we wanted to make a walkabout inspired theme for him.
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ Commentary:
     <i>Nick Smalley:</i>
     Take one night goofing off with Jeremy; add FamiTracker, Jeremy’s newfound love for Grossbeat, and Majora’s Mask, and you pretty much have Gilded Sands.
     Seriously.
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+---
 Track: Years in the Future
 Artist: Robert J! Lake
 Track Art: Shad Andrews
-Duration: 4:35
+Duration: '4:35'
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - PM
@@ -93,18 +93,18 @@ Art Tags:
 - WK
 - Carapacians
 URLs: https://youtu.be/CadBaY2j6pE
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+---
 Track: Mayor Maynot
 Artist: Toby Fox
 Track Art: Shad Andrews
-Duration: 3:20
+Duration: '3:20'
 References: Mailtime
 Samples:
 - Judge Dredd
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 URLs: https://youtu.be/d9KVN4WfHHc
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAY YER MAYER<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAYYERR~
     MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAY YER MAYER<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAYYERR~
     MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAY YER MAYER<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAYYERR~
@@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ Lyrics:
     MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAY YER MAYER<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAYER MAY MAYER MAY<br>MAY YER MAY YER MAY YERMAYYERR~
     HERE’S THE MAIL IT NEVER FAILS<br>(MAY YER MAY YERMAY MAYER MAY YR-YR-Y-Y)<br>IT MAKES ME WA-AN-NA wwwWAG MY TAIL tail<br>(MAYER MAYER MAYERMAYMAYYERMAY MAYMAYYERMAY YER YER~)<br>HERE’S THE MAIL, IT NEVER EVER FAILS (boo)<br>(MAY-MAY-YER-MAY MEH-MEH-YR-ME MAY-MAY-YER-MAY M-M-MAY-YER-MAY)<br>it MAKES ME WA-AN-N-N-N-NA W-WAG MY TAIL-TAIL-TATA-T-T<br>(MAYOMAYOMAYOMAYOMAYOMAYOMAYOMAYO YER-MAY-YER-MAY YERRRRRRRRRRR~)
     YER. MAY, YER, MAY YER. (TAIL. MAIL, MAIL, MAY TAIL.)<br>MAY, YER, MAY YERRRRR~! (MAIL, MAIL, MAY MAILLLL~.)
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+---
 Track: We Walk
 Artist: Steve Everson
 Track Art: Emi
-Duration: 2:42
+Duration: '2:42'
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - PM
@@ -133,15 +133,15 @@ Art Tags:
 - WQ
 - Serenity
 URLs: https://youtu.be/0DILZ3Qi_Wg
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Steve Everson:</i>
     My most recent contribution to Homestuck’s music, and another of my favourites. This piece is actually pretty old, going back to before Volume 5, where it was much simpler (playing out more like a round) and with poorer sound quality in general. Like most of my music it was inspired by a similar piece from somewhere else - in this case, the original Bionicle flash adventure game that used to be on the Lego website way back. If you’ve played it, you might notice the similarity, at least as far as instrumentation goes. It had been many years since I’d last even seen the game, long after it fell off the site, so I couldn’t recognise what I liked about the piece and so the imitation I’d made was pretty poor!
     Fast forward a year or two. Some discussion with internet friends had led me to find that old flash game again, and I heard my old favourite tune in all its glory (significantly less glorious than I remembered; nostalgia does that to you). Still, it showed me the main place I was going wrong, which was that I’d neglected harmony. All of the three or four lines of music that piece had were monophonic, making a really drab sound, while what I needed where chords. A stupid mistake? Sure, it was, but then, I wasn’t that good a musician when I first wrote the piece. I started over, applying all the experience I’d got both from writing music and simply listening to it with a critical ear to get my main contribution to the Wanderers album, and something I could be proud of.
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+---
 Track: Requiem for an Exile
 Artist: Solatrus
 Track Art: Zilleniose
-Duration: 2:01
+Duration: '2:01'
 References: track:requiem
 Art Tags:
 - WV
@@ -149,15 +149,15 @@ Art Tags:
 - AR
 - WQ
 URLs: https://youtu.be/aAphwUVKFm4
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Solatrus:</i>
     I made James’s great composition sound, well, better. Imagine it without the panning, without the reverb, etc.
     I’d be a bit flat sounding!
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+---
 Track: Raggy Looking Dance
 Artist: Alex Rosetti
 Track Art: Zilleniose
-Duration: 3:28
+Duration: '3:28'
 References: Squiddles!
 Art Tags:
 - WV
@@ -165,25 +165,25 @@ Art Tags:
 URLs:
 - https://youtu.be/kHSVHbxBEHU
 - https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/track/raggy-looking-dance
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+---
 Track: Riches to Ruins Movements I & II
 Artist: Toby Fox
 Track Art: Khoroshonov
-Duration: 2:20
+Duration: '2:20'
 Art Tags:
 - WK
 URLs: https://youtu.be/K7WRrBG6BM8
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+---
 Track: Litrichean Rioghail
 Artist: Malcolm Brown
 Track Art: Hanni Brosh
-Duration: 5:00
+Duration: '5:00'
 References:
 - track:explore
 Art Tags:
 - PM
 URLs: https://youtu.be/RtzNs4pH11Y
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Malcolm Brown:</i>
     Aaah this one. This caused me a bit of unexpected grief, but we'll get to that.
     Basically, I wanted to do some kind of Parcel Mistress/PM theme. Representing her transition from postal worker, to warrior, to queen. We start off quite desolate, and we gradually build up to a kind of royal, celtic march.
@@ -194,28 +194,28 @@ Commentary:
     As a few people pointed out when they first heard it, that the notes starting from 0:20 onwards by the sitar are viciously close if not identical to the start of Schala's theme from Chrono Trigger. And yes, yes they are. There is a subtle difference but the majority of the phrase matches. Depending on who you ask this ranges from either an atrocity or an inevitability given the limited nature of conventions and structure of music.
     Personally, the reference was unintentional. Let's get this straight also, I'm a ludicrously huge Yasunori Mitsuda fanboy. I'm not fully ruling out that at some level I was remembering ST when making LR, but I honestly could not recall the song until someone linked a video, and even afterwards I don't recall the song from the game. There are tonnes of tracks from CT that I recall fondly but ST just isn't one of them. This all said, there was no malevolence nor deceit intended when writing LR and I apologise to anyone offended by it.
     That's really all I have to say on the matter.
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+---
 Track: Ruins Rising
 Artist: Michael Guy Bowman
 Track Art: Raizor
-Duration: 5:00
+Duration: '5:00'
 References:
 - track:ruins
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - Jack Noir
 URLs: https://youtu.be/pDYCL68d3wI
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+---
 Track: What a Daring Dream
 Artist: Alex Rosetti
 Track Art: Noot
-Duration: 2:46
+Duration: '2:46'
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - Serenity
-- cw: blood (abstract)
+- 'cw: blood (abstract)'
 URLs: https://youtu.be/qtt0o-v2yco
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Alex Rosetti:</i>
     The Wanderers is my favorite Homestuck album. Its focused premise, interesting takes on a theme, and general aesthetic all appeal to me. Not to mention the fact that it contains some of the best songs in the Homestuck discography. This song is not one of those.
     I don’t mean to sell myself short, but What a Daring Dream is hard to appreciate on its own as music, and this was intentional. As a matter of fact, I wrote it to underscore WV’s dream sequence, which is one of my favorite parts of Homestuck. And even then, my approach wasn’t as programmatic as Malcolm’s, as he had the same idea with his track, Nightmare. Funny enough, we even ended up giving our pieces the same title, but he was generous enough to change his so that I could keep mine. Of course, because of this the two songs compliment each other very well, and make for a great double-closer to the album.
@@ -223,22 +223,22 @@ Commentary:
     I wanted the music to be very hazy and meditative, very much like a dream (naturally). Unclear sounds fading in and out, soft messages you’re not quite sure you’re hearing. The use of Morse code was an obvious choice, though I did not have the patience to translate every single line of code in that sequence. I just used the same sample repeatedly, altered it a bit, and panned the two versions of it to each side of the mix. I did, however, think it would be worth my time to whisper the English translation of the Morse code, so throughout the piece you hear my voice narrating ever so slightly in the background, even up to Vriska’s dialogue.
     The instrumentation was a lucky coincidence since I modeled parts of it off the Evangelion score, and those happened to fit the very broad “Eastern music” theme we were going for for the most part. So the piece turned out to be a great candidate for the album and I worked on it a lot more before submitting it to be on there. Overall it was one of the most fun songs I’ve had the pleasure of making for Homestuck, and the fact that it spooked some people is an added bonus.
     Speaking of bonuses, Noot did the art we used for this track. It was one of a few pieces of track art that weren’t commissioned. I happened to be looking around for artists and saw this, and I already knew it was perfect.
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     What a daring dream, to combine the finest qualities of humanity with the elegance and nobility of the animal kingdom. How you wish you could know their world. To hear one night those muted pawpads traipse up your stairs. A low but friendly growl unsettles your slumber, and as the sopor seeps from your eyes they detect a sharp pair of ears cutting moonlight. A mysterious wolven tongue invites. Wouldn't these ears suit you? Would not this proud long snout assist you in the hunt?
     What a daring dream...
     (Just what do you think you're planning on doing with that ring?)<br>(Whatever it is forget it)<br>(The Slayer is miiiiiiiine)<br>(Now w8ke up)<br>(I said W88888888KE!)
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+---
 Track: Nightmare
 Artist: Malcolm Brown
 Track Art: Left
-Duration: 4:13
+Duration: '4:13'
 References: Liquid Negrocity, Rex Duodecim Angelus, Carapacian Dominion
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 - Carapacians
-- cw: blood (abstract)
+- 'cw: blood (abstract)'
 URLs: https://youtu.be/CVxTL43Czuc
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Malcolm Brown:</i>
     This one was a bit weird, and went through several revisions trying to figure out what to do. It's loosely designed to be a bit of music for WV's dream in which he effectively turns into Bec Noir and starts killing everything before Vriska turns up disguised as Serenity and makes the whole sequence even weirder.
     Firstly, the concept - It starts of quite dreamlike, then as we get to 1:40 the transformation starts, then there's some more preamble up to around 2:45 onewards, which is the "Red Miles" section where everything starts to go haywire. In betwixt there's lots of creepy choirs, weird noises and distorted barking all set to a kind of pseudo Egyptian theme (One working title was 'Anubis')
@@ -247,27 +247,27 @@ Commentary:
     The ending (3:50 odd) attempts to mimic the beginning of Carapacian Dominion, to act as a kind of bookend for the album. It doesn't do it perfectly, but that's my fault :P
     I quite like this one. I'm not fully sold on the odd sound effects since they're always a bit gimmicky, but the overall theme kinda works. The name was fairly obvious - I did attempt to call it "What a daring Nightmare" but Alex Rosetti beat me to it.
     Also hey, 4:13. Love it when that happens.
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+---
 Group: Bonus tracks
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+---
 Track: Vagabounce Remix
 Artist: David Ko
 Track Art: Noot
-Duration: 1:55
+Duration: '1:55'
 References:
 - track:vagabounce
 Art Tags:
 - WV
 URLs: https://youtu.be/P_pCaNbhExo
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+---
 Track: Tomahawk Head
 Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei
-Duration: 3:29
+Duration: '3:29'
 Track Art: Lexxy
 Art Tags:
 - AR
 URLs: https://youtu.be/vqs4yf_Fs4I
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Tensei:</i>
     I always felt like this song was in a bit of an unfortunate position, being a bonus song on the Wanderers album, which basically meant that only people who bought the album or those who specifically scoured youtube for it would get to hear it.
     So I’m gonna bring it to your attention and hopefully someone will be hearing it for the first time!