Mad_Duck

Thanks to @@ForgeOn for his work on "The Big List"

+1 on the "bagde" idea / highlighted Lead, Rythm and Bass

+1 "Approved" should not be a separate list from the main search database

+1 on need for DD. I already downloaded a song where DDC simply did not work. And those users who really hate it that much can always remove DD with DDC, am I right? That is at least much easier for them as for a noob who first needs to find out what the toolkit is. Also: While charting, you have to restart RS a looooooot of times for testing and editing... doing that just one more time at the very end to check if DD works is not that much of an extra...

 

My thoughts:

1. On the entry page for a song, there could be simple checkbox fields for L,R,B: "thumbs up", and "thumbs down".

Then you could present results like: 75% of 22 people liked the Lead track, 22% of 5 people liked the Rythm track and so forth.

 

The badge or highlight could then be automatically applied when some criteria are met

- minimum number of votes e.g. 10 people

- 50%<bronze, 70%<silver, 90%<gold

 

This would keep the process simple, automated and influenced by the whole community (because I cannot imagine how a limited group of selected people want to test 3 tracks on currently more than 1600 songs)

 

2. Another thought, because it seems like nobody has addressed it in this thread:

Should "approved" require support of all four platforms? In terms of "having the same features as any official DLC"?

I generally agree with most of your points. For dynamic difficulty, in the database, instead of having a check like it is now, also make it an (X/Bronze/Silver/Gold) people could then 'promote' really well done DD, while the songs that have 1 level of it are marked as "not yet excellent."

Relating to your thoughts: point 1;

I get quite wary of the thumbs up/thumbs down, because of trolls and what happened elsewhere.

I almost feel like you would have to have a first question of "Do you like this Artist/Song? (or are you just here to bitch about something you don't like?) because enough people refuse to understand that any Approval process is supposed to be about Quality of work, and not about the song's content/lyrics/genre, etc.

^that being said, I agree there has to be some way to make the process a voluntary, community effort, instead of having like you said "3 people testing 1600 songs"

For me, I'd rather test in genres I understand and enjoy, and might have something meaningful to contribute to. If I had a dozen people "demanding" that I test their mandarin-death-polkas (sorry to any fans out there  :-P) I'd really have nothing meaningful to base my judgements on. 

This may relate to point 4,

What if in the Customs Database, The 'Parts' section (L/R/B/V) in addition to keeping the not done sections as greyed out, parts at a Workshop level were coloured bronze, parts that need tweaking get silver letters and parts that "sound like Jimi himself were playing" get gold/diamond sections.

Example: (totally made up, if you've released song X and are now crying because I'm saying it's bad, its not you, it's me)

I look through recent posts in the database and see that B.B. King "Every day I have the blues" is fresh out of someone's workshop and is in the database listed as:

[L] coloured gold - (it's accurate and it's gotten (~5) votes

[R] coloured black/silver - (released, but only a vote or 2 for approval so far, maybe in the song thread, someone has commented tone/bends aren't quite right yet, and author mentions plans to fix it)

coloured grey - (I have a bass tab, and am confident and willing to chart it, so offer to do that part and send it to the original CDLC'er for co-credit or no credit or whatever.)

[V] X or [N/A] - (pretend it's an instrumental and no lyrics exist, so song could be 'Approved' without needing this category filled)

I think as a partial solution, it could get more people involved who wouldn't otherwise.

example: someone who loves lyrics but has no confidence with guitars could quickly skim through the list and find songs to contribute to by learning to chart the lyrics, which would leave more time for guitar charters to chart.

EDIT: append an [A] part for Album art (maybe rate the metadata here like Artist/Title/Album Cover are correct, and display correctly in game - there are a few songs that sort weird from capitilisations, etc)

It appeared my follow up question might have gotten lost in chat.
I was wondering what method you were thinking of using to keep things from going sour like it did elsewhere.
 
So things like:
Could you elaborate on the planned approval process?
How many "votes" are needed to give a nod for approval?
Who gets to vote?
Will 'approvers' be named?
etc.

 

...WWise - first thing is that you need to register to download that tool. Without registering I was only able to download the Authoring binaries standalone. So, go ahead, and register, download and install the WWise to your default directory, mine was: C:Program Files (x86)Audiokinetic

 

Can you recall which components you installed/which are needed?

(I'd rather skip whichever SDKs Demos, etc aren't necessary) 

Robert Johnson

B.B.

Jimi

Jaco Pastorius

(I know, he was a bassist, but innovative as crap) 

If there is a limit, it's higher than 600.

Also, if you remove CDLC from Your DLC folder inside of Rocksmith, it should be removing the song listing. 

I can't recall if any of the metadata is persistent though. ie: if you play a song, then remove the song, then put the song back, if it will 'remember' your original scores for that song.

see below (Website crashed mid edit)

I screwed up the time conversion: so 18:00 ZULU = 10:00 PST?

Not for the record or anything though,

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=233534982

(I was Dazzling even :sad: )

Ben Harper & Buddy Guy are runners up to the guy in my sig.

^ (I love that VM Jag )

For lead/rhythm:

Nonstop 60% - I'll sort by mastery, and do a quick run through of any 0%-10% songs in a specific tuning,

25% of the time I split between Learn a Song/Riff Repeater for any passages I need to hammer out.

5% is Guitarcade or challenges.

10% is watching the lessons with my son, or helping him do his playthroughs.

For Bass:

90% Nonstop

10%Games/Challenges

I can't do it. What I can try is:

Elementary school: Dark Side of the Moon (Blew my mind that cash registers and clocks could be used musically)/Sgt. Peppers

Jr High: Joshua Tree (Don't hate, I'm still fond of it. ;P)

High School: I essentially left Pearl Jam's 10 in the CD player for my grad year.

During the "Now I'm a grown up and living on my own" phase I found NIN - The Downward Spiral and Ben Harper's Welcome to the Cruel World the same summer. (I'm pretty sure Whipping Boy is the most groovingest-badassed song ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMYCUVuDYg&feature=kp) 

From this Century, the two I'd pick would be Sweet Tea by Buddy Guy (for pure blues authority) and The Concert for George (Harrison) because of the virtuoso musical diversity.

...or B.B.King's entire catalogue... I have to stop now.

I got 83% twice in a row on lead. I can hear how the B (Yellow 2) following open D (Blue 0) sounds correct. When I learned the song though, I never noticed it, so it was almost crippling to try and hit it. :D

RR works, the outro passages seemed a wee bit long, but I wouldn't bother trying to shorten them on this song, but maybe consider it on later songs.

(DD didn't drop down for me, cause hey I'm an expert player and all that (yes of course, lol))

I played on my tele's neck humbucker and it sounded quite decent. (as a minor, minor quibble you might want a bit more gain, and/or bump up the fuzz, but subtly, because your tone already sounds good) 

I also tried the lead arrangement on my bridge singe coil, but it didn't sound full enough, so I kept wanting to hit an overdrive pedal.

(But I think it was played on an SG, so dialing it in for humbuckers is the logical choice)

...my semi-final opinion, I'd tell you to not make any big changes, just little tweaks if you feel you have to.

I've got to restring my bass in the next week or so, but will try to check back, and give feedback on the bass too.

Luther Allison to ZZ Top, and all the blues between.

I play bass, but have always used picks a lot. My favorite picks are the Everly Star Picks. The purple 1.14mm tortex is my go to.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Pruitt/Music/EverlyPicks.jpg

 

 

 

.88 green star picks about 88% of the time for me!

The rest of the time I just use my organic built-ins.

Yeah, why the hell not?

First page at least.  :P

My sig has most of 'em...

also, you can throw in harmonica & digridoo.

If my wife ever leaves me I'll probably take up banjo and/or bagpipes...

...Of course, if I ever took up banjo or bagpipes, my wife would probably leave me...

why not shiny and colourfull ? nobody love unicorn ? 

Rarity for the day, and Twilight Sparkle for the Evening?

(I'll be handing in my adult-male card now)