ghost lineage

@@cozy1 I only have access to Macs at the moment, but should be able to get my hands on a Windows pc some time early next week. I'll report back with whatever results I may have. 

What version of toolkit and CFSM did you use for conversion/repair?

CustomForge Song Manager v1.5.4.4

Rocksmith Toolkit v2.9.2.0-3274d735

Thanks again for your continued investigation. 

@@ghost lineage  Have you tried using CFSM to repair your CDLC?  With what results?  Only two of the CDLC on your list have actually been released as Mac CDLC.  These were created with old versions of the toolkit (prior to Remastered).  Which means the others have all been converted from PC to Mac (again maybe with old version of the toolkit).  You should re-download the CDLC from Ignition and then re-convert them with a new version of the toolkit.  Let us know what your results are.

 

Footnote:  You may find some CDLC are not repairable with CFSM.  These need to be reauthored wth EOF and the toolkit.

Yeah, I'm afraid I already repaired them, using the Song Manager. Strangely enough, though, *all* the CDLC that I've downloaded, I downloaded as _p.psarc, converted to _m.psarc, and repaired. Most tracks do work, though. This includes (first few songs that show up in CFSM):

Blur - Beetlebum

Neil Young - Southern Man 

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

Interpol - Not Even Jail

Chris Rea - Auberge

I don't believe the repair fixed any tracks that weren't working before.

Thanks!

@@ghost lineage if you could report which one broke things for you, we could do investiguation to see why they do so and if we can deploy some kind of fix for it. But without information, we can't really do much.

Thank you for your hard work and attention!

Songs that have broken the game thus far include:

Nine Inch Nails - Happiness in Slavery

Mike Oldfield - Sentinel

Milky Chance - Stolen Dance

Morrissey - Suedehead

Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nature Boy

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee

Metric - Help I'm Alive

Metric - Breathing Underwater

Foo Fighters - Virginia Moon

I don't know whether links are allowed on this forum, but the Nick Cave and Morrissey tracks should be easy enough to identify, as I believe there's only one version of them on CustomsForge. 

Thanks again!

What I’m discovering is that it’s a problem with specific pieces of CDLC. Having even one “broken” song will prevent all other CDLC files from working. I’m having to manually add tracks more or less one at a time, and so far, 10-15% of songs appear to be broken.

The workflow I’m using is as follows:

Start rocksmith

Check all cdlc appears ok (album art loads, preview plays)

Back out to start screen

Command-Tab to Finder

Drag a few songs into CDLC folder

Command-Tab to Rocksmith

Check all cdlc again

If all cdlc appears ok, repeat. If cdlc is broken:

Quit rocksmith

Remove most recent cdlc

Try adding it one by one until you find the one that breaks the game

I’ll try to figure out what makes these cdlc files ruin everything... so far I’ve seen nothing in common, with regards to tracks, file size, length, special characters, etc. I’ll have to dig in with the toolkit.

I’m using the latest version of the Mac patch on Mojave, on a 2015 MacBook Pro. Rocksmith is up to date, purchased from Steam.

*some* CDLC works, but others do not.

I don’t have a comparison for whether it worked previously, as I just purchased Rocksmith three or four days ago.

I’ve collected over 300 CDLC songs, but the majority freeze after tuning. A telltale sign I’ve identified that I’m fairly certain is a good predictor of failure is that the album art will not load, or the songs will not have the DLC tag.

But again, *some* CDLC tracks do work, even while having the faulty songs loaded.

I can scoop out song IDs if that’ll help, when I go home.