[How-To] Playing Customs on PS3
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You’re at the exact point that I am Tamijo, I thought there was only supposed to be one songs.dta file not a bunch of them.
One dta file for all songs, but one folder for each song.
The dta file sits besides the folders.
the dta file contains metadata, folders contains audio, chart, album art, and other stuff.
Where is the DTA file? Shouldn’t that file include all the songs already on my console?
If you enable Merge when converting, the single DTA file is filled for you and put under the “Merged Songs” folder together with all the converted songs folders (instead of the “All Songs” folder). You only need to create a blank songs.dta in that folder before the first merging.
In the songs folder, right besides the folders for all your songs.
The dta shouldn’t include ALL the songs on your console, only the custom songs. It also only contains metadata (such as the location of the actual files for each songs, song name, artists, etc etc). The actual song is in its own folder.
If you enable Merge when converting, the single DTA file is filled for you and put under the “Merged Songs” folder together with all the converted songs folders (instead of the “All Songs” folder). You only need to create a blank songs.dta in that folder before the first merging.
This looks like it’s what I’ve missed. I’m going to give it another go this morning and see how I get on.
Thank you!
Just gone back to this now.
In my PS3 converter I have a tick box with “Merge new songs with existing” which is ticked and greyed out, so I’m unable to change it. I assume I want that on anyway? Under Tools I have “Merge songs” and “Manage pack DTA file”, both of which are greyed out (with no tick?). Whenever I complete the process I only get folders with songs.dta in them, I don’t get a single songs.dta file with the metadata for all of the songs on it.
You need to either add an empty text file named “songs.dta” (make sure to remove the .txt extension) to the “Merged Songs” or take the one from your console if you do own the RB2 free pack 01.
Like TamiJo, the “Merge new songs with existing” is grayed out. I created the “songs.dta” file like Alternity suggested and started the conversion process again. When it finished, the songs.dta file within the “Merged Songs” folder is still 0 KB.
I created the file by opening a new notepad document, hitting “Save as” and then you need to make sure you are setting it to “all files” not “text files”. If you keep it as text files it will automatically add .txt to whatever you save it as, even if you can’t see the extension on it.
Creating a file and changing it’s extension is not difficult. I even said I was able to do so. I was expected the file size to change from 0 KB to literally anything else after the conversion process completed, otherwise what is the point of this file?
My question was in regards to Alternity’s comment
The dta file sits besides the folders.
So we copy the entire contents of “C3CONToolsv400ps3All Songs” and the “songs.dta” file from “C3CONToolsv400ps3Merged Songs” into the “/dev_hdd0/game/BLUS30463/USRDIR/HMX0756/songs/” on the PS3?
How does that address ensuring existing songs on the PS3 such as DLC are still indexed correctly?
No, you have to copy all the folders and dta file from the “Merged Songs” folder. The “All Songs” folder is only used if you want to convert songs but not merge them. If you have zero folders in the “Merged Songs” folder it means you didn’t check the “Merge songs” checkbox before converting. Also I have to point out that this dta file should always stay in that folder, but once you copied the songs in your PS3, you’re free to delete the folders. The reason to keep the dta file is that you need to keep the metadata of the custom songs you already have.
It won’t affect your other songs because the “HMX0756″ folder is only used for the RB2 Free Pack 01. If you do have this pack, instead of creating an empty dta file in the “Merged Songs” folder, you should take the original one instead if you don’t want to loose access to the 8 songs in that pack, if you don’t, you don’t have to worry about it.
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