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Just to let you know, your post has been seen… Unfortunately, I’m a Mackie so not well placed to answer you. Hang in there, likely my partner in crime will get back to you when he can!

PC only I believe. That’s partly what I meant when I said Ubisoft has been behaving a little oddly lately; plus the fact that RS+ won’t run on Mac. Note the Windows symbol.

Correct. The newer PSs are what you pay for is what you get. PC vs Mac… I have both, haven't found it to matter much, except that the current macOS is incompatible; apparently it works with the jew beta, though, so we’ll see in due course whether that will true when it goes live. The recent Ubisoft behaviour suggests PC may be the safer/better platform, though. I have PS+ and have given up on it. Thousands of songs, but few I like (<200) and it sounds like synthesizer to me. Choose what YOU like best. RS+ is also more expensive; you might wait for a sale. Also: Sony told me the sake price would repeat, but it is not true: once the first subscription expires, you’re on the hook for the whole thing. Be aware.

If you go the Mac route, you could ask questions from the real experts on our Discord channel. I would do that first, before you spend any money, see what you need to make it work.

It’s been years since anyone has mentioned PS3 so I’ve forgotten what is and isn’t possible with that (someone else may know), but, in general, anything along the lines of piracy (since you mention jailbreaking) is something this community steers away from. So if that’s an essential feature of what you need, you are not likely to get any help with it. I would avoid bringing that up, if I were you. On the other hand, if you have a Mac and you can somehow get the Steam version of RS, you would be able to use CDLC. Now, I know a while back there was some re-release of RS which, if I recally correctly, is a little more limited than the original… and I can’t remember whether that’s at all useful for CDLC, unfortunately. I never kept track of that because I’ve had RS for many years

It would be helpful to be a bit more descriptive with the details. Presumably you launch the software, then …. (I’m not trying to be smart. It’s just hard to assess exactly where you are in the flow, what you see or don’t, etc., which makes it really tough to diagnose.)

I do not. I have a Steinberg UR22 mk II. Works with most things, I don’t know about RS+, I gave up on that; when I did use it, I ran it through a PS5 so no help there either, sorry. Also a Mac user mostly.

No worries, mate, I saw nothing wrong in your tone!! Now, I regret not knowing more about Windows; on Mac, that sort of file rename is fairly trivial to do. I would expect there’s some way to do this quickly. Perhaps there’s a command line rename utility you can use? I would recommend backing up what you have somewhere before you go to surgery in case you make a goof…. But look into multi file rename. It has to be possible somehow and would save you loads of time. Good luck!

Ah, thanks for letting us know. So, it was an issue outside our software. Good on you for figuring it out! No need to be embarrassed, we’ve all made those kinds of errors before. (Except Sniper. He’s infallible, on the ballot to be next pope LOL.)

Hey guys, I found it, but it won’t do much good, it’s a Mac utility https://github.com/glebb/rocksmithconvert Make absolutely sure they are all in the right place. Check the files carefully. On Mac, I’d say check the permissions. If neither tool is seeing them, since they are independent tools, it rather suggests a problem outside either of them….

@ Sniper Reload3d T’es, I realize CFSM is supposed to be able to donit, but clearly it’s not seeing them (suggests maybe they aren’t in the right place? I don’t know). I was referring to a different tool, which is independent. You just drag the lot onto it and it converts and moves them to the folder, all in one. Let me see whether I can find out. Sorry my memory is so bad….

It seems unlikely if they were working before, but the obvious guess, if CFSM and RS are showing the same songs, would seem to be IDs not set to match a purchased CDLC. That’s very easily tested/rectified by running them through a tool we have for that, the name escapes me just now….

Courtesy note to Mac users!! I ran Steam the other day after quite some time away from RS only to find that RS would no longer run. Checking out the mac-OS channel on our Discord confirms that as of macOS 15.4, RS will no longer run at all, and it is not likely that we can do anything about it. As things stand, 15.3.2 is the last working version of the OS as far as RS 2014 is concerned. Be advised!

Good stuff. Well, CDLC vary in quality, some are just that. But you can always use the DLC Builder tool to rebuild a file if it doesn’t have dynamic difficulty. It’s an algorithmic solution, so limited but most CDLC aren’t done by hand in detail anyway.

If you have any issues, just let us know. Give details, though, such as what you did, what is happening or not, precisely, so that we can diagnose. Good luck!