AranhaHunter
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BoilersFan23 said:
Agree, variable pricing structure is ideal.
Tntnnbltn said:
Surely this is just for the UK and not WW?
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SingStar PS3 - Official Thread: Share your drunken vorspiel videos!
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Agree, variable pricing structure is ideal.
Surely this is just for the UK and not WW?
UK SingStore Update, 14th April 2009
English:
Song pack - Madness
Finnish:
French:
Spanish:
Swedish:
English:
Anouk - "Sacrifice" (Preview)
Aretha Franklin - "Say A Little Prayer" (Preview)
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame" (Preview)
Delorentos - "Basis Of Everything" (Preview)
Delorentos - "Do You Realise" (Preview)
Delorentos - "The Rules" (Preview)
Di-rect - "A Good Thing" (Preview)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "The Power Of Love" (Preview)
George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag" (Preview)
Kings of Convenience - "I'd Rather Dance With You" (Preview)
Kylie Minogue - "Better The Devil You Know" (Preview)
Kylie Minogue And Jason Donovan - "Especially For You" (Preview)
Lily Allen - "The Fear" (Preview)
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti" (Preview)
Montgomery Gentry - "What Do Ya Think About That?" (Preview)
Princess - "Say I'm Your Number 1" (Preview)
The Reynolds Girls - "I'd Rather Jack" (Preview)
Sara Bareilles - "Love Song" (Preview)
Sara Evans - "Born To Fly" (Preview)
Sonia - "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" (Preview)
The View - "Shock Horror" (Preview)
Westlife - "If I Let You Go" (Preview)
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's OK" (Preview)
Will Young - "Leave Right Now" (Preview)
Aretha Franklin - "Say A Little Prayer" (Preview)
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame" (Preview)
Delorentos - "Basis Of Everything" (Preview)
Delorentos - "Do You Realise" (Preview)
Delorentos - "The Rules" (Preview)
Di-rect - "A Good Thing" (Preview)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "The Power Of Love" (Preview)
George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag" (Preview)
Kings of Convenience - "I'd Rather Dance With You" (Preview)
Kylie Minogue - "Better The Devil You Know" (Preview)
Kylie Minogue And Jason Donovan - "Especially For You" (Preview)
Lily Allen - "The Fear" (Preview)
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti" (Preview)
Montgomery Gentry - "What Do Ya Think About That?" (Preview)
Princess - "Say I'm Your Number 1" (Preview)
The Reynolds Girls - "I'd Rather Jack" (Preview)
Sara Bareilles - "Love Song" (Preview)
Sara Evans - "Born To Fly" (Preview)
Sonia - "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" (Preview)
The View - "Shock Horror" (Preview)
Westlife - "If I Let You Go" (Preview)
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's OK" (Preview)
Will Young - "Leave Right Now" (Preview)
Song pack - Madness
Madness - "Baggy Trousers" (Preview)
Madness - "Driving In My Car" (Preview)
Madness - "House Of Fun" (Preview)
Madness - "My Girl" (Preview)
Madness - "Our House" (Preview)
Madness - "Driving In My Car" (Preview)
Madness - "House Of Fun" (Preview)
Madness - "My Girl" (Preview)
Madness - "Our House" (Preview)
Finnish:
French:
Céline Dion et Garou - "Sous le Vent" (Preview)
Jean Pierre Francois - "Je Te Survivrai" (Preview)
Renaud - "Mistral Gagnant" (Preview)
Sinclair - "A Chaque Seconde" (Preview)
Jean Pierre Francois - "Je Te Survivrai" (Preview)
Renaud - "Mistral Gagnant" (Preview)
Sinclair - "A Chaque Seconde" (Preview)
Spanish:
Macaco - "Sideral" (Preview)
Swedish:
Herrey's - "Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley" (Preview)
US SingStore Update, 14th April 2009
Songs from this week's European update:
Songs from previous European updates:
Songs that didn't make it:
Songs from this week's European update:
Anouk - "Sacrifice"
Aretha Franklin - "Say A Little Prayer"
Delorentos - "Basis Of Everything"
Delorentos - "Do You Realise"
Delorentos - "The Rules"
Di-rect - "A Good Thing"
George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag"
Kings of Convenience - "I'd Rather Dance With You"
Kylie Minogue - "Better The Devil You Know"
Kylie Minogue And Jason Donovan - "Especially For You"
Lily Allen - "The Fear"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Montgomery Gentry - "What Do Ya Think About That?"
Princess - "Say I'm Your Number 1"
The Reynolds Girls - "I'd Rather Jack"
Sara Evans - "Born To Fly"
Sonia - "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
The View - "Shock Horror"
Westlife - "If I Let You Go"
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's OK"
Will Young - "Leave Right Now"
Aretha Franklin - "Say A Little Prayer"
Delorentos - "Basis Of Everything"
Delorentos - "Do You Realise"
Delorentos - "The Rules"
Di-rect - "A Good Thing"
George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag"
Kings of Convenience - "I'd Rather Dance With You"
Kylie Minogue - "Better The Devil You Know"
Kylie Minogue And Jason Donovan - "Especially For You"
Lily Allen - "The Fear"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Montgomery Gentry - "What Do Ya Think About That?"
Princess - "Say I'm Your Number 1"
The Reynolds Girls - "I'd Rather Jack"
Sara Evans - "Born To Fly"
Sonia - "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
The View - "Shock Horror"
Westlife - "If I Let You Go"
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's OK"
Will Young - "Leave Right Now"
Songs from previous European updates:
Bananarama - "Venus"
DJ Bobo - "Because Of You"
Good Charlotte - "The River"
Marillion - "Incommunicado"
Mark Ronson - "Stop Me"
The Monroes - "Sunday People"
DJ Bobo - "Because Of You"
Good Charlotte - "The River"
Marillion - "Incommunicado"
Mark Ronson - "Stop Me"
The Monroes - "Sunday People"
Songs that didn't make it:
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "The Power Of Love"
Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"
Madness song pack
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "The Power Of Love"
Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"
Madness song pack
love song is on vol. 2. my guess is it's not on the US store yet because of that. of course the only singstar that's even been announced or dated for the US at this point is PS2 queen in october.......lupinko said:
yay . . . . . . .
edit - lol... you go on the US singstar site and Vol. 2 doesn't even exist anywhere on the site.
sorry guys... as an american I am REALLY close to giving up on this game.
Toy Soldier
Member
Tntnnbltn said:
Not including the Britney songpack, this has got to be my favorite update thus far.
Jam packed full of PWL - plus The Fear, which is just awesome.
Even those of who you aren't huge PWL fans, try one song and you'll like 'em all.
Or even if not, I'll at least say that BTDYK is the best song Kylie has ever recorded, so at least give THAT a shot.
Toy Soldier
Member
I'm scanning through the new songs right now, and the only new foreign language songs I see are three French songs.
Celine Dion et Garou - Sous le vent
Jean Pierre Francois - Je Te Survival
Sinclair - A Chaque Seconde
The Finnish, Spanish, and Swedish songs from the UK update didn't make it, it seems.
Celine Dion et Garou - Sous le vent
Jean Pierre Francois - Je Te Survival
Sinclair - A Chaque Seconde
The Finnish, Spanish, and Swedish songs from the UK update didn't make it, it seems.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Are all the Singstar/Singstore songs censored? I could've swore I played a Singstar (on PS2) that had cuss words but it might've been just me singing and the alcohol :lol
Anyways if the songs are all censored that's actually a deal breaker for me and I won't be buying the Singstar wireless mic bundles when (if)they come out in the US.
Anyways if the songs are all censored that's actually a deal breaker for me and I won't be buying the Singstar wireless mic bundles when (if)they come out in the US.
Depends on the song.AranhaHunter said:
There are two types of censoring in SingStar:
* Replacing swear words in lyrics with asterisks, but not removing the actual sung word from the audio (occurs in some of the earlier disc releases)
* Censoring out the word entirely from the song (lyrics + audio)
In some circumstances, the censoring is not a voluntary choice made by the SingStar Team. Some music videos already have the swear words removed, similar to the radio edit. The is most prominent in the US.
A lot of the songs which have been released on retail discs are censored so they can get a lower PEGI/ESRB rating. When these songs are released on the SingStore, the censoring is carried over to the digital version. Off the top of my head, examples include:
* Pink - "Just Like A Pill" (SingStar Party, 2004) censors the word "Bitch"
* Gwen Stefani - "What You Waiting For" (SingStar Pop, 2005) censors the word "Ho"
* Panic at the Disco - "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (SingStar Pop US, 2007) censors the words "God damn", "whore"
* Meredith Brooks - "Bitch" (SingStar 90s, 2006) is completely uncensored, presumably cause there wouldn't be much song left otherwise
Songs released solely on the SingStore are probably a bit more relaxed towards censoring. From recent releases, Lily Allen's "The Fear" uses the censored version of the music video (compare the uncensored and censored versions at 0:18 and 1:26), whereas Sara Bareilles' "Bottle It Up" contains 'Shit out of luck' uncensored. As a general guide, I'd say that 'Fuck' will probably get censored (especially if a censored version of the music video already exists), lesser swear words may slide.
actually patches we (NA) receive almost immediately.. mostly because the patch is rolled out for all version/territories of the game.. so yeah, we'll get the patch at the same time or shortly after PAL gets it... songs/games/releases/love on the other hand.. good luck in waiting for that.............. :\
BoilersFan23
Member
Get the party started also censored "a**" as they put it. I play that song a lot, so I know.Tntnnbltn said:
borghe said:
I dunno, there was one patch from before which we didn't get at the same time as the PAL regions.
EDIT:
I bought these yesterday:
Aretha Franklin - "Say A Little Prayer"
George Baker Selection - "Little Green Bag"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's OK"
Céline Dion et Garou - "Sous le Vent"
I was very tempted in buying songs out of boredom (Madness and Britney packs, dunno what I was thinking about the Britney pack, for Madness I'll just hold out some more).
And the Celine Dion song isn't even her song, it's that other guy's, yet London Studio made her the main focus for it. :lol
AranhaHunter
Banned
That sucks, the censoring of the songs is bullshit, I completely understand censoring on the discs but not on the singstore. I can even maybe accept the words not appearing on the videos (though I'd prefer they would) as long as it's not bleeped out when sung.
Hopefully they'll add a mature community without the censoring BS as was kinda hinted in that eurogamer interview...
Hopefully they'll add a mature community without the censoring BS as was kinda hinted in that eurogamer interview...
Surprise of the... same day: SingStar Pop retail released has been delayed too. Expected to be released in the week following next.
So that's last week's SingStore update, the upcoming SingStore update, Patch v3.10 and SingStar Pop Edition that they've delayed all in the last week... (Insert some DelayStation meme here or something)
So that's last week's SingStore update, the upcoming SingStore update, Patch v3.10 and SingStar Pop Edition that they've delayed all in the last week... (Insert some DelayStation meme here or something)
hmm.. not sure. I know we got the harmonies patch right away (because we got the harmony songs right away). And we got the PS2 patch right away. Not saying we got every patch within a day or so, but I know we got the big ones pretty much the same day.lupinko said:
Using SingStore code identifiers to track licensing chronology
Just thought I'd share this here. As I've mentioned here before, content produced for SingStar is identified with a 6 digit code. For songs, this code is in the format 100xxx. (Song packs are 200xxx, wallpapers are 300xxx, 'SingStar Extras' are 400xxx). The last three digits of songs was originally in the format of "NCC" (N = numerical character starting from 0, C = alphanumeric character 0-9 then A-Z). Sometime in 2006, the format was changed to "LCC" (L = letter), starting from 100Fxx. For the remainder of this post, I'll only be referring to single songs, so I'll drop the "100" precursor.
The last three digits displays a chronological history of song licensing*. For example, the lowest value code (001: Westlife - "World Of Our Own" appeared on the original SingStar for PS2). The highest value code (ND3: The View - "Shock Horror") appeared in the most recent SingStore update. This information can be used to track the licensing dates of various songs. For example, here are the identifier codes of songs released by Kylie Minogue. Songs are ordered chronologically by date first featured on SingStar (be it retail or digital).
Key things worth noting:
So yeah. That's one of the things I look into with the weekly updates. Some very interesting things you can learn through this. I imagine some of you would be surprised how long the tracks from Queen, ABBA and Michael Jackson were in limbo before they got their releases in 2008.
* I have oversimplified things a bit here. In reality, this probably reflects the time at which the team begun to seek licensing. Subtle but important difference, and reflects the spread of identifier codes that come out in SingStore updates every fortnight.
Just thought I'd share this here. As I've mentioned here before, content produced for SingStar is identified with a 6 digit code. For songs, this code is in the format 100xxx. (Song packs are 200xxx, wallpapers are 300xxx, 'SingStar Extras' are 400xxx). The last three digits of songs was originally in the format of "NCC" (N = numerical character starting from 0, C = alphanumeric character 0-9 then A-Z). Sometime in 2006, the format was changed to "LCC" (L = letter), starting from 100Fxx. For the remainder of this post, I'll only be referring to single songs, so I'll drop the "100" precursor.
The last three digits displays a chronological history of song licensing*. For example, the lowest value code (001: Westlife - "World Of Our Own" appeared on the original SingStar for PS2). The highest value code (ND3: The View - "Shock Horror") appeared in the most recent SingStore update. This information can be used to track the licensing dates of various songs. For example, here are the identifier codes of songs released by Kylie Minogue. Songs are ordered chronologically by date first featured on SingStar (be it retail or digital).
Code:
CODE TITLE RETAIL SINGSTORE
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02P I Should Be So Lucky 19 Nov 2004 22 Dec 2008
07R In Your Eyes 13 May 2005
07O Kids 13 May 2005
MRJ Give Me A Little More Time 11 Dec 2008
LRW Confide In Me 12 Feb 2009
MRI Better The Devil You Know 9 Apr 2009
0H9 Especially For You 15 Apr 2009Key things worth noting:
- The values for "I Should Be So Lucky", "In Your Eyes" and "Kids" match expected values for tracks on SingStar Party and SingStar Pop (x2) respectively.
- The identifier codes MRI and MRJ are consecutive, indicating that they were requested at the same time. This occurs for songs by other artists too. It's also worth noting that MRK is currently blank on the database, and could possibly represent a third Kylie track still in limbo.
- There is a 4 month difference between the release dates of MRI and MRJ, despite being requested at the same time. This, my friends, is SingStore limbo.
- Possibly most surprising is the code for "Especially For You". It is 0H9, matching up to songs licensed for SingStar 80s. But despite being released in 1988, "Especially For You" was never featured on SingStar 80s. The track would have been on the SingStar 80's provisional tracklist, but was replaced by another song for one reason or another. This is something we wouldn't have known about before.
So yeah. That's one of the things I look into with the weekly updates. Some very interesting things you can learn through this. I imagine some of you would be surprised how long the tracks from Queen, ABBA and Michael Jackson were in limbo before they got their releases in 2008.
* I have oversimplified things a bit here. In reality, this probably reflects the time at which the team begun to seek licensing. Subtle but important difference, and reflects the spread of identifier codes that come out in SingStore updates every fortnight.
Only when it comes to SingStar.Returners said:
Still not 100% sure how the SSC website is able to access user videos directly from My SingStar Online. I have my suspicions, but won't be able to test them until I get my PS3 back from the repair centre. Only thing is the forthcoming SingStar patch is going to redesign My SingStar Online, and might fix whatever hole SSC has been using.
Toy Soldier
Member
Awesome confirmation about the PS3 version, thanks as always.
Tntnnbltn said:
So it sounds like there will be one big patch next week, instead of the two that were originally promised (trophies in one, then voice control in the next). Glad they're sticking to the schedule (so far) of delivering voice control next week. Here's hoping they deliver as promised.
Oh right a tidbit about Queen in North America, I think one of the big hold ups with them for the NA SingStore DOES have something to do with UMG. You see, while Hollywood Records (Disney) owns their North American distribution rights, apparently Hollywood Records also does their distribution with UMG for various artists (one of these is Billy Ray Cirus). Which makes a lot of sense actually (so I was half right the first time) considering the debacle with UMG over SingStore pricing or whatever.
