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Nice to see you’re still charting! Especially on Rush, Marillion, Frank Zappa, U2, Van Halen…

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Have you actually copied the songs files and folders to the correct target folder on your ps3? Check in the main thread what is the path and name of the target folder depending on whether you have the NTSC or PAL version of the game. If the songs show up in the game but don’t preview or load, it means the songs.dta file is in the right place but the songs files are not.

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In what sense they don’t work?

Many of these old customs have the “loop ending” problem, that can be fixed in a variety of ways, but otherwise they work.

When converting with C3 CON Tools, make sure you choose the correct PAL/NTSC for your PS3 and select Type 3 encryption.

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Not my fix:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_d9UDgoctvP8d0it2varSW6uQKejT_i

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Ruggy made a guide, but it’s on his website:

https://therogerland.tumblr.com/proguide/mastering/trainers

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Someone suggested to clear the cookies if you keep being redirected to the token request

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Good. If you want,send me the songs.dta file that should have worked i.e. the “previous” and I can take a look.

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Sounds like the situation is a bit messy now, but typically when the game gets stuck loading songs, and doesn’t reach the songs list, there’s indeed a problem with the “songs.dta” file.

I am not 100% sure but I think at that stage, the game only reads dta files, which means that whatever is wrong with files inside the “songs” folder, it should not yet cause problems.

What is disconcerting, is that even a previously working songs.dta doesn’t help. I would double check that you really used a previously working dta file. Otherwise try creating a progressively smaller songs.dta by removing songs at the end, or even a single-song dta file.

If you have an editor like Notepad++ you can search for “(” and count, then search for “)” and count, and see if they match in number. You can also analyse your dta file using the Setlist Manager in C3 CON Tools.

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Updating here because the original post is not editable…

Top 5 songs

Elton John – Grey Seal (’73 version from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album)
Peter Gabriel – Shock the Monkey
Rod Stewart – Da ya Think I am Sexy? RELEASED! Thanks a lot @TheSheepQueen !
Roxy Music – More than This charted this myself
Toto – Stop Loving You RELEASED! Thanks a lot @ElectricSkyLab

Other songs

Adamski – Killer
Alanis Morissette – Eight Easy Steps
Alanis Morissette – Front Row
Bob Marley – Iron Lion Zion
Cardigans – Erase and Rewind
Chris Rea – Auberge
Chris Rea – Josephine
Cocteau Twins – Bluebeard
Cocteau Twins – Carolyn’s Fingers
Cocteau Twins – Iceblink Luck
Commodores – Night Shift
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)
Cranberries – I can’t Be with You
Devin Townsend – Life RELEASED! Thanks a lot @devomeister
Devin Townsend Band – Random Analysis
Devin Townsend Band – The Traveller
Dream Theater – Our New World
Dream Theater – The Gift of Music
Elton John – Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding RELEASED! Thanks a lot @Farottone
Elton John – Honky Cat
Elton John – Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Elvis Costello – Busy Bodies
Elvis Costello – Green Shirt RELEASED! Thanks a lot @yaniv297
Elvis Costello – Senior Service RELEASED! Thanks a lot @yaniv297
Elvis Costello – The Impostor
Fleetwood Mac – Family Man RELEASED! Thanks a lot @EdTanguy !
Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere
George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
George Michael – Freedom ’90
George Michael – Monkey
Imagine Dragons – Polaroid
Imagine Dragons – Thief
Imagine Dragons – Summer
Jackie Wilson – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & HigherJethro Tull – Black Sunday
Jethro Tull – Fylingdale Flyer
Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses
Jethro Tull – Living in the Past
Jethro Tull – One Brown Mouse
Journey – Topaz
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
Katy Perry – Birthday
Katy Perry – Chained to the Rhythm
Lionel Richie – All Night Long
Lionel Richie – Easy RELEASED! Thanks a lot @yaniv297 !
Marillion – Childhood’s End / White Feather
Marillion – Heart of Lothian RELEASED! Thanks a lot @nsw1-6 !
Marillion – Waterhole / Lords of the Backstage / Blind Curve
Mike Oldfield – Family Man
Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out
Olivia Newton-John – Magic
Pet Shop Boys – Always on my Mind
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Police – Bring on the Night
Police – Deathwish
Police – Driven to Tears
Police – Hole in my Life
Police – Man in a Suitcase
Police – Miss Gradenko
Police – Reggatta de Blanc
Police – Tea in the Sahara
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Backwoods
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Behind the Sun
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Knock me Down
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Nobody Weird Like Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Subway to Venus
Red Hot Chili Peppers – True Men don’t Kill Coyotes
Rod Stewart – Forever Young (any version)
Rod Stewart – Handbags and Gladrags
Roxy Music – Pyjamarama
Sam Cooke – What a Wonderful World RELEASED! Thanks a lot @SomeOldGuys
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Shadowtime
Status Quo – Dear John
Status Quo – Down Down
Status Quo – Ol’Rag Blues
Steve Vai – Here and Now
Steve Vai – In my Dreams with You
Steve Vai – Still my Bleeding Heart
Steve Vai – Survive
Sting – I Hung my Head
Sting – Seven Days
Styx – Superstars
Talk Talk – It’s So Serious
Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It RELEASED! Thanks a lot @Bansheeflyer
Talk Talk – Talk Talk
Talk Talk – Today
Taylor Swift – I Wish I Would
Taylor Swift – Welcome to New York
Tears for Fears – Change
Toto – Make Believe
T.Rex – Get it On
U2 – Gloria
U2 – Lady with the Spinning Head
U2 – Out of Control
U2 – Sweetest Thing
U2 – The Electric Co.

[edit 06.07.2022]

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I don’t have any problems with the new database…

The forums however have indeed dried up, but in my opinion that’s primarily because most discussions have moved to discord. I do have a couple of technical gripes with the new forums: not being able to edit old posts, and new posts often going into “awaiting moderations” for no reasons.

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Is there any other way? (That does not go against the community rules of course)[/quote]

You can use C3 CON Tools.

Select the Phase Shift converter. This will convert an encrypted mogg audio file into a single-track audio file. You can ignore the rest of the generated files.

You can then us Magma to open the CON, replace the mogg with the single-track audio and re-build the CON.

I am not sure but you might also replace the audio directly using C3 CON Tools.

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[quote quote=520333]Will the harmonies project continue? Or Pro Guitar/Bass charts? Too many RBN songs has (still) doesn’t have harmonies.[/quote]

You can contribute by playtesting 3 pro g/b upgrades of mine if you can: https://rhythmgamingworld.com/forums/topic/three-pro-guitar-bass-upgrades-for-the-police-dlc/ 🙂

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In theory, you could fix the “tempo map” by extracting the MIDI file from the CON (using C3 CON Tools), editing the MIDI (for example in Reaper), and replacing the old MIDI into the CON (using C3 CON Tools).

The difficult part is obviously in Reaper, where the “tempo map” appears as a list of speed markers, usually once per measure. You normally need a visual clue to place markers correctly, and this is provided by the audio file (which you can also extract from the CON). You might be able to correct existing markers if you’re lucky, but editing a pre-existing tempo map can also make it worse, and I think in general people prefer to scrap a bad tempo map and start from zero. You definitely want to watch the original “let’s author” youtube video by pksage to learn how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rfk21tm1I

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You should be able to change the genre with the DTA editor, it is just an entry in songs.dta and if I remember right you might be able to put any string there.

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Hi Spike, I was just wondering where you’be been, and here you are!

[quote quote=520095]On the PS3 Converter window, the ‘Merge new songs with exi’ box is checked, but it is greyed out.[/quote]

You figured it out already, but to others’ benefit, I believe that when it is greyed out it is because the “songs.dta” file is not found by C3CONTools under the folder where it is supposed to be, which is the “Merged Songs” folder.

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