Can’t play dem old songs
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For some reason, whilst not connected to Xbl to play customs, I cannot play a large portion of my songs.
Workaround?
Redownload them (actually, you’re gonna redownload just the license, so it’s gonna be pretty quick).
Redownload them (actually, you’re gonna redownload just the license, so it’s gonna be pretty quick).Well, yes, and no.
This behaviour occurs as a result of downloading the songs on another Xbox (e.g. you bought them under your profile on an old Xbox, or at a friend’s place on their Xbox). You need to do a licence transfer through Microsoft’s site, and then queue up all your DLC to download again with the new licence. The licence transfer is fast and easy. The actual downloads are REALLY fast. Queuing up the downloads is a tedious slog involving going through your download history (I recommend doing it through Microsoft’s website, at least) and setting songs to re-download.
I came up against this problem several times in 2012 and 2013 – when I upgraded to a new xbox and again when that new xbox died and was replaced again – just this past weekend I decided to ‘jailbreak’ those songs so to speak so that I’d never have to do that again. It was super easy:
1. copy song/song packs from xbox hdd to thumb drive (need to be signed in for this)
2. open thumb drive on PC with Party Buffalo
3. copy tracks to PC hdd
4. open each file in Le Fluffie, changing from JTAG to Retail(CON) format.
5. copy re-saved tracks back to thumb drive…
At this point, the files can be treated like any custom but more importantly you now have a backup of these files locally for the day when Microsoft takes those servers down. Another step I did was to then create a package file with Le Fluffie of all of those single songs to make it easier to manage.
Keeping the content Canadian since 2017!
SomeOldGuys: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/someoldguys
MrPrezident: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/MrPrezident1. copy song/song packs from xbox hdd to thumb drive (need to be signed in for this)
2. open thumb drive on PC with Party Buffalo
3. copy tracks to PC hdd
4. open each file in Le Fluffie, changing from JTAG to Retail(CON) format.
5. copy re-saved tracks back to thumb drive…
If you only copied the song and didn’t delete it from the HD, wouldn’t it show up twice after following your directions, one working and one not – or, if the song ID is the same, it would see only one (which one?)
I wondered if something like this would work, so i’m considering trying it – I’m missing a few dozen songs because of this quirk and I’d rather not f*ck around with MS if I can avoid it.
Yes exactly, the original file on the xbox is no longer needed and was deleted. People always tell you to delete your music library cache file but you will lose a lot of scoring, so what I do is back it up to a thumb drive and then delete it… if the number of tracks is the same then might as well restore the backup. But not everyone cares about scores. Anyhow that would be the next thing I would try. Good luck
Keeping the content Canadian since 2017!
SomeOldGuys: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/someoldguys
MrPrezident: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/MrPrezidentYes exactly, the original file on the xbox is no longer needed and was deleted. People always tell you to delete your music library cache file but you will lose a lot of scoring, so what I do is back it up to a thumb drive and then delete it… if the number of tracks is the same then might as well restore the backup. But not everyone cares about scores. Anyhow that would be the next thing I would try. Good luckScores used to be important, but it’s more about the playing now. Besides, with customs you’d need to keep track on a spreadsheet and that gets annoying and inaccurate after a while.
I’m missing all of The Cars and Boston, a bunch of Foo Fighters, “The Kill” and dozens more that I’ve only stumbled across and moved on from. Plus more that I’m not even aware of. This is gonna take some time. I’ll post again when it finally gets done.
Thank you for your time, MrPrezident, I know you have a full schedule. (*salutes)
OK, I pulled one song and one pack that didn’t work under TU4 (“The Kill” and The Cars Album pack). I managed to convert them to CONs, delete the old ones off the HD and sure enough, there they all are, running under TU4! Hooray!
SO I then went through my entire library looking for songs that don’t load (don’t even preview) – the total number of songs I couldn’t play under TU4: 101. Every song that I downloaded before July 2009 when my house burned to the ground.
So now I’m digging through the HD, copying the rest of the unplayables, converting (C3CON Tools), deleting and reloading them onto the HD. I’m so happy this worked – I suffered for over a year. I may end up backing up all my songs this way so if I lose the HD, I can just dump them back on a new console and stay forever under TU4.
Thanks again to all who made it possible.
You guys are converting these to cons 1 by 1? There are batch tool that will covert them all at one. C3ConTools is the best at everything else. Hands down. But for batch conversions of multiple files you’re going to want to use DLCxplorer. It can be hard to find so let me know if you need me to upload it. What took you guys I’m sure nearly an hour or more to do could have been done in as little as 2 or 3 minutes.
There were reasons why I chose not to add a batch signing feature like that.
But if you’re packing them into big packs, no need to convert first, since they’re rebuilt into a CON when you package the files.
You guys are converting these to cons 1 by 1? There are batch tool that will covert them all at one. C3ConTools is the best at everything else. Hands down. But for batch conversions of multiple files you’re going to want to use DLCxplorer. It can be hard to find so let me know if you need me to upload it. What took you guys I’m sure nearly an hour or more to do could have been done in as little as 2 or 3 minutes.The most tedious aspect was sifting through my library looking for songs that wouldn’t preview. The files I moved to the thumbdrive were simply strings of letters and numbers with no extension. There don’t seem to be any real directions for the C3CON Tools, so I played around until I found that the Quick Pack Editor would “dePACKage” each file and place the CON into a folder called “dePACKaged”, even if it was a single song, not a pack. I did this with singles and packs alike and it took about a half hour or so. I did not re-package anything, only transferred them all as singles to the TD then (tonight) to the HD.
I started having a problem recently with Party Buffalo crashing a lot. I’ll probably start a new thread about it later, but I had to DL Horizon in order to get them on the TD. Horizon sucks, BTW, when compared to (a properly functioning) Party Buffalo. >
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_frown.gif” />I find I can get Party Buffalo to crash consistently if the CON file has any ‘.’ periods, commas, ampersands, exclamation points, etc (for example, Against Me! and Motorhead with those umelot symbols). Actually, almost any characters that aren’t letters numbers or hyphens.
I don’t know if its just me but now before I write a batch of songs to the thumbdrive, I use a tool to search for and remove those characters (its literally called ‘bulk rename utility’ for windows) and then everything works fine.
Also – are you deleting the files via the Xbox or via Party Buffalo? Party Buffalo is terrible at deleting files in that xbox filesystem – it doesn’t wipe the data correctly and as a result your thumb drive has less and less writable space. To fix this I just tell the xbox to quickly reformat the thumb drive and it goes back to normal.
Glad things are working better for you!
Keeping the content Canadian since 2017!
SomeOldGuys: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/someoldguys
MrPrezident: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/MrPrezident…for batch conversions of multiple files you’re going to want to use DLCxplorer. It can be hard to find so let me know if you need me to upload it. What took you guys I’m sure nearly an hour or more to do could have been done in as little as 2 or 3 minutes.If you wouldn’t mind uploading this, I’m sure there will be other people who run into this problem.
You are absolutely right, I spent the better part of last Saturday doing this one file at a time. It was actually a lot of fun because I was able to make a few minor fixes to things as I went along, adding album art to the package, adding missing album titles, pro guitar upgrades and harmonies. Everything I needed to do those fixes was found on this site in the forums.
Keeping the content Canadian since 2017!
SomeOldGuys: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/someoldguys
MrPrezident: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/MrPrezidentI find I can get Party Buffalo to crash consistently if the CON file has any ‘.’ periods, commas, ampersands, exclamation points, etc (for example, Against Me! and Motorhead with those umelot symbols). Actually, almost any characters that aren’t letters numbers or hyphens.That’s probably what it was. I used it last night to transfer some songs and things went fine.
Also – are you deleting the files via the Xbox or via Party Buffalo? Party Buffalo is terrible at deleting files in that xbox filesystem – it doesn’t wipe the data correctly and as a result your thumb drive has less and less writable space. To fix this I just tell the xbox to quickly reformat the thumb drive and it goes back to normal.
Glad things are working better for you!
I have been “moving” the files to the TD then “moving” the converts to the HD on the 360. Seemed to work fine – I have access to all the songs I didn’t before and had no troubles. Thanks again.
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