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I also noticed that my guitar skills change when expressed through a keyboard.

Let me be the first (maybe) to post a link to Frets on Fire, the PC clone of Guitar Hero. It's open source, works on Windows, Linux and Intel OS X, three songs come with it, it imports the GH songs from CD and it's a lot of fun. Also nice when you have a couple of friends over - everybody can keep talking while a few "heros" take care of the music. ;)

Worth downloading alone for the ingenious way they make you hold the keyboard as a makeshift Guitar Hero controller.

Check out the ultimate Guitar Hero clone, Frets on Fire!

I'd like to see a Guitar Hero for the PC (I dont play console games) and with the ability to put in your own tracks.

Frets On Fire. FOSS version of Guitar Hero.

Import GH1 and GH2 songs. Fret your own songs (or download frets others have done). Rock out using your keyboard as the guitar (enter = strum, F1 through F5 = frets).

No story mode or multiplayer, but it's a helluva lot of fun.

If you like Guitar Hero as a concept, I'd recommend checking out Frets On Fire, an open source quitar playing game, where the aim is to "play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible". Totally addicting.

yes indeed, why play guitar hero and shell out the ~$300 when you can play frets on fire for free on your computer?

http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/

im not affiliated, its just a much better option than shelling out for ps2, guitar controller and game.

If they'd just open all the consoles, we could port Frets On Fire to them all, and get it that way too. I'm sure someone will eventually get homebrew code running on everything, much like stepmaniax running on xbox, but the hardware developers sure aren't making life easy for the rest of us.

Can't have a guitar hero thread without the required link

Frets on Fire is the required link imo :)

Mashed potatoes school food style. That's some badass mashed potatoes right there, I wonder if it could be used for construction in seismically active areas.

MP3Bookhelper (mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net) is great for mass tagging files. It won't lookup information for you, but it makes batch tag editing a breeze.

CDex is another fantastic piece of software. It's an open source CD ripper that can automatically check the FreeDB.org database to add tags to your ripped music. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos

Album Cover Art Downloader will, surprise!, download and insert album cover art from Amazon,Walmart, and Yahoo into your mp3s. Did you know you could insert a jpeg into the id3v2 tags? A little rough around the edges but still recommended. http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumar t/

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Just use spec

This guy is a quantum computer.