Oh ok, so this is weird, the root folder is on another hard drive. So to save room on my main hard drive I have like all of my steam games installed on another internal hard drive. For some reason all of my games are there and that rocksmith folder is there on D:, but then on C:, my main hard drive, steam has another folder for Rocksmith (but for no other steam game which I have installed) which is actually the root directory. Here is what this C: directory looks like: https://i.imgur.com/wKtFcTz.jpg It's really weird because these folders are obviously interacting in some manner because editing the ini file in the D: folder allowed me to be able to start up the game yesterday when I was getting a no-audio glitch upon starting the game. I will replace the .dll file in the actual root directory in steam and report back. If the CDLC is still not working, I will try putting it in the dlc folder, but in their own subfolder. I think I read on here thats where the songs are actually supposed to go.