How do you sort out your CONs?
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So you download one CON. Cool.
Then another. And then another… and by the end of the first hour, you’ve got dozens of CONs in your hard drive, and possibly hundreds by the end of the day.
And while CONs are practically godsent by many contributors, not all CONs are the same. Some are expert only, some are multi-tracks, some come from a specific game, and sometimes two CONs of the same song appear, but one has more things than the other, say, a karaoke track, or reductions done. Then you figure out that the CON you thought was amazing probably isn’t ready for your hard drive yet so you decide to remove it. All you need to do is find it. But with names like “asd65f465f_con” “and MuStSyv7_con” it’s hard to tell which CON is which.
In your hard drive, how do you organize this chaos? How do you sort and group your CONs? By title? By preference? By artist? By “release” group? Do let us know.
You can start by using Batch Renamer in Lefluffie to rename all your songs. It has a wide variety of naming and sorting options.
Then you can use visualizer to see which songs have what instruments and whether they’re expert only or not.
As far as which ones have multitrack or karaoke, if the songs were created with Magma: C3 Roks Edition, Visualizer will be able to tell you that. Otherwise there is no way short of you opening each mogg in Audacity and looking at what’s in the audio.
I have good memory. I know which one is Expert only and which one isn’t.
That and I tend to play Expert only most of the time anyways.
I personally name the CONs the title of the song. I am sure this will eventually cause problems because of multiple songs having the same title but I haven’t had that issue yet. I preface that with where the song is from. Most songs will have C_ in front of them for just good old custom songs but others that are GH converts from one of those games are prefaced with that. For example, GHWT_SongTitle. I use this for the Rock Band exports that wouldn’t export too. Like RB2_EnterSandman. It’s not great but it works. I typically only download FB all instrument songs so I don’t have to worry about that much. If for some reason it doesn’t have all difficulties (I think I only have one custom that is Expert Only) I try to note that in the file name of the CON like the one I have C_HaloTheme_ExpertOnly.
I would be interested in seeing how others do it.
I have a folder on my desktop that has my customs junk in it.
I have it divided into subfolders.
C3 Releases
Likely Future FTV Releases (basically GH2RB project and EMHX stuff on the spreadsheet)
Expert Only
The Beatles RB
Stuff not on the spreadsheet that I have found in places, some sanctioned by this website, some not. I will say, any customs that add stuff to official HMX releases I have bought before.
I make packages based on these folders. When new FTV songs come out I redo the Future FTV release package. I long for the day that everything has been redone.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Every time I download a new CON, I use the “Batch renamer” option in Le Fluffie so that the title of all my stuff is “The Artist – Title”, which is totally useful to find out a song when you must replace it by a “better” version of it.
Then, I sort everything by game source and have different folders on my computer : The Beatles 1 to 3 are everything sang by The Beatles ; a Guitar Hero folder is present for each Guitar Hero game there are songs converted from (so I have a lot of folders here), and I also have a GH DLC folder for converted DLCs.
Finally, I have 10 “Custom Songs” folders (as of today) where I put all C3 and other customs I downloaded, so those ones are pretty much with no special classification.
Also, usually I create 500 MB folders and rarely work with bigger ones ‘cos modifying them would take some time.
I propose an annotation system. The visualizer is amazing, seriously. My proposal is for when we deal with the CONs on the computer, where the visualizer isn’t present.
The GHtoRB3 team used a system to sort out their customs (GH3, GHWT, GHDLC, etc.), and it worked pretty well, imo. When they posted non-GH customs, they sorted them between multitracks (MULT) and non-multitracks (CUST).
For C3 material, it could be something similar: C3_ at the beginning of the name, followed by the type of track we’re dealing with, say, full or partial multitrack (MULT), Karaoke (KAR), normal custom (CUST), and for works in progress, a 1-to-4 acronym consisting of the instruments charted available (Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Keys).
After the acronym, an underscore would follow, and the name of the CON.
Optional “_X” after the song name to denote the track as Expert Only.
Let’s take… “Hold me Tight” by the Beatles. It would be listed as:
C3_KAR_HoldMeTight
For “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, it would be listed as:
C3_MULT_BlurredLines
Let’s pretend “Layla” is a work in progress track, with only expert guitar and bass charted. It would be listed as:
C3_GB_Layla_X
“But Galexio! What about material that’s not released via GHtoRB3 or C3? What about the back catalog and content released by independent authors?”
I was pondering hard on this one. I still am. I was thinking of the following abbreviations to replace C3:
-We have the back catalog that gets referred to as the “vault.” While there are plenty of CONs in the vault, most material is not up to C3 standards, ergo, is not C3 official, so it would be C3 “unofficial.” (C3U).
-We have material created by C3 members, but not through C3. And we also have material found through the interwebs from unknown authors or indie authors. They’re independent (IND), though I personally label these as C3U due to varying levels of CON quality.
*cue lynching mob of indie authors for labeling them as unofficial*
I pretty much play alone and only play expert drums, I play other instruments but very rarely I pretty much stick to expert drums so I’m not concerned about other difficulties. I’m using Trojannemos C3 version of LeFluffie to sort all my songs into packs, I gotta say it’s a very nice tool!
I propose an annotation system. The visualizer is amazing, seriously. My proposal is for when we deal with the CONs on the computer, where the visualizer isn’t present.The GHtoRB3 team used a system to sort out their customs (GH3, GHWT, GHDLC, etc.), and it worked pretty well, imo. When they posted non-GH customs, they sorted them between multitracks (MULT) and non-multitracks (CUST).
For C3 material, it could be something similar: C3_ at the beginning of the name, followed by the type of track we’re dealing with, say, full or partial multitrack (MULT), Karaoke (KAR), normal custom (CUST), and for works in progress, a 1-to-4 acronym consisting of the instruments charted available (Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Keys).
After the acronym, an underscore would follow, and the name of the CON.
Optional “_X” after the song name to denote the track as Expert Only.
Let’s take… “Hold me Tight” by the Beatles. It would be listed as:
C3_KAR_HoldMeTight
For “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, it would be listed as:
C3_MULT_BlurredLines
Let’s pretend “Layla” is a work in progress track, with only expert guitar and bass charted. It would be listed as:
C3_GB_Layla_X
“But Galexio! What about material that’s not released via GHtoRB3 or C3? What about the back catalog and content released by independent authors?”
I was pondering hard on this one. I still am. I was thinking of the following abbreviations to replace C3:
-We have the back catalog that gets referred to as the “vault.” While there are plenty of CONs in the vault, most material is not up to C3 standards, ergo, is not C3 official, so it would be C3 “unofficial.” (C3U).
-We have material created by C3 members, but not through C3. And we also have material found through the interwebs from unknown authors or indie authors. They’re independent (IND), though I personally label these as C3U due to varying levels of CON quality.
*cue lynching mob of indie authors for labeling them as unofficial*
This.
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