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Even if it was "Illegal" it falls under civil law rather than criminal.

At worst you would get a fine rther than a prison sentance.

Also, don't waste any money on note recognition software. It's not worth it. I haven't found a single one that works as expected and it's almost always quicker and easier to do it by hand.

^this

I have spent unfathomable hours mucking around with sheet music to midi conversion to use with Synthesia, (think RS for Piano)

Trying to parse anything with ocr is very hit and miss and mostly miss! This is coming from someone who has wasted ages on Piano sheet where things are standardized way more fully than tab!

Don't waste your money.

 

My initial thought was to see how things where passed to the printer and simply dump that to txt file. But someone previously mentioned another site that simply lets you download the tabs anyway.

The first errors are fairly straightforward.
Its just Tone issues:
Aerosmith_Eat-the-rich_v1_p.psarc
DLC was converted from 'Pc' to 'PS3' with erros. See below:
There is a tone name error in XML arrangement: PART REAL_GUITAR fuzz is not properly defined. Use EOF to reauthor or Notepad to attempt manual repair

Disassembly shows:

<tonebase>dist</tonebase>
  <tonea>dist</tonea>
  <toneb>fuzz</toneb>
  <tones count="3">
    <tone time="148.576" name="fuzz"/>
    <tone time="163.889" name="dist"/>
    <tone time="232.736" name="fuzz"/>
  </tones>

in Lead.xml

Fairly straightforward to fix.
This seems to account for the bulk of conversion issues, Its just poor authoring. Don't get me wrong, I'm not finger-pointing! It's not like any of us are getting paid for this, besides, its an easy fix :D

The next error for example:
tool_Lateralus_v_1_p.psarc
DLC was converted from 'Pc' to 'PS3' with erros. See below:
Obect reference not set to an instance of an object.
Followed to a spew of references to the codebase (made difficult by the fact that errors don't seem to get logged to text and things get shortened, makes readability a pain)
As far as I can tell, at least with Lateralus, it's down to tones again, in this case because of the way it was authored it lets the dlc converter assign a null where it really shouldn't. As far as I can work out (bear in mind I've limited experience with the codebase and am still researching, no means an expert in C# either, but I'm proficient) when converting it reads then lowercases the tone name and assigns it to three different variables this.ToneBase song.ToneBase and attr.Tone_Base somewhere along the line one winds up with a null value leading to object instancing issues. song.ToneBase in this instance... I think... (like I said, still looking into it)
This seems to occur when either "Tone_Base": "ToneName" is set in the json file but doesnt link to either "Tone_A": to D": or when Tone_A to D is omitted from the json entirely.
Not sure as to why, I figured Base was the default and did not need to be assigned to anything.
Anyway, im still reading through the github codebase, to see where the issue really stems from.
 

To be fair, i dont really know!

ive just noticed that some files dont convert between platforms, (the log file seems to have rewritten itself rather than been appended so i cant check specifics until i get a moment to duplicate) but from memory it seemed to be mostly xml errors, like the pc version referenced something that was navailable to the ps3 version for instance.

 

I'll have a nother attempt later tonight and check the errors agint the source code to see exactly whats going on and what needs to be edited and repacked to allow conversion.

Are there differences between platforms in trms of core components?

I tried to batch convert a few filees from PC to PS3 and noticed some errors.

 

Ive searched around and cant seem to find anything to let me know what theese differences may be and figured id ask here before reading through the RST source files on github to figure it out.

just install webman (or webman mod) and this will allow you to ftp into your ps3.

 

I typically use filezilla to just move files over into the appropriate directories.

I have mine configured to autoboot webman so as soon as i power on my ps3 i can ftp in.