Basically you need separate tracks for the guitar and everything else. There are a number of indy music songs available for FoF, but most of the fan-made songs don't have separate guitar tracks to work with. FoF also has an "Import" function that can import the songs from a copy of GH1 or GH2 and have the separate guitar tracks. (Or you can search for "Frets of Fire" on Pirate Bay and download them.)
FoF stores the songs audio as guitar.ogg and music.ogg in the song's directory. When you're playing correctly, it plays both tracks. When you screw up, it just plays music.ogg.
Suppose someone was wanting to take a song from their CD collection and make a FoF song. Obviously, the CD doesn't have separate tracks for guitar and everything else. What most people making songs end up doing is just putting 2 copies of the same file as the 2.ogg files. When you screw up, the music keeps playing, guitar and all, but much quieter. I have downloaded a few fan-made songs that only had the guitar.ogg file. This means that the song cuts out completely when you screw up - very distracting. Of course this is easily fixed by copying the file myself.
Why OS/2? Because that user account exists solely to plug ecom station at every conceivable opportunity. Look at the post history for that user. Literally nothing else.
True, but consider this: These drives will likely be targeted at laptops, particularly the ultra-small, "Road-warrior" type laptops. I know you can get TV cards for laptops, but there is probably very little overlap for TV card owners and users of these drives.
WTF? Just use an external keyboard. I realize that some hardware failures would make it impossible to run the system recovery, but a keyboard failure is not exactly an insurmountable obstacle here.
I know that's not entirely true. I remember just yesterday hearing "You've been listening to A Prairie Home Companion brought to you by Select Comfort, makers of the Sleep Number Bed, and by Toyota, makers of the Prius with Hybrid Synergy Drive." Heard it several times, in fact. Enough to give a nearly direct quote.
I've been trying to gradually make the switch to Kubuntu for several months, but I'm still booting into XP about 75% of the time. The two biggest obstacles:
1) I can't get my dual monitors to work. This weekend I figured I'd buckle down and try to get it working again and spend most of two days working with Google, the Ubuntu forums, and xorg.conf. With the open-source ati driver, the best I could do was both monitors cloned. But the frustrating thing was that the pager showed a double-width desktop - I could even drag windows onto the second half of the desktop, I could just never see that half. After deciding to try the closed-source fglrx driver, I eventually got to an even more frustrating state of almost-working. I was extremely excited to see a dual screen desktop at the login screen. Once I logged in, I was back to the familiar clone mode. I swear to God this thing is mocking me.
2) Some sort of insane system slowdown. If I leave my PC on overnight, it is running insanely slow in the morning. The truly bizarre thing is that the clock down in the corner will be off by several hours, almost as if the machine thinks time is slowing down. I have my suspicions that this one is hardware related -- likely either RAM or power supply, but my windows boot on the same hardware is rock solid.
All this being said, I have switched my laptop from Win2K to Xubuntu, and I'm not going back there. But I just can't make the switch on the desktop yet.
I run a dedicated IPCop box on my home network with the plugin for Dan's Guardian content filtering. (I have a 6-year-old daughter.) Running the VM would hardly be noticeable on a modern PC. My IPCop box is a P2 333Mhz with 64 MB because that's what I had on hand. It will run on a lot less.
I started with Ubuntu myself and sorta got used to it. I re-installed my entire PC a few months ago and went with Kubuntu to try out KDE. There are a few things I liked better about the Gnome system, but K3B by far makes up for it. I did change the default "Click to launch" to "Click to select, double-click to launch". (I hated that setup with Win98, and I still hate it.) I also like Synaptic better than Adept, but that may just be a familiarity issue.
I'm also running Xubuntu on an old 500Mhz laptop I've got. It takes a bit more research to do what I want with it, but it runs a whole lot better than Kubuntu on that old of a machine.
HL2 was deeper than gun and run even if that is the game play in effect. That is why it could do stuff without a weapon.
What I loved about the opening segment of HL2 was the "chase" scene. You're just an unarmed civilian franticly running, trying to get away. I liked that aspect of the airboat chase as well, though that broke down a bit during a couple of "stop the boat and fix the ramp" puzzles. That stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit too far.
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Might want to explain to the youngsters that MTV used to show music videos.
I think someone's been playing too many adventure games.
FoF stores the songs audio as guitar.ogg and music.ogg in the song's directory. When you're playing correctly, it plays both tracks. When you screw up, it just plays music.ogg.
Suppose someone was wanting to take a song from their CD collection and make a FoF song. Obviously, the CD doesn't have separate tracks for guitar and everything else. What most people making songs end up doing is just putting 2 copies of the same file as the 2 .ogg files. When you screw up, the music keeps playing, guitar and all, but much quieter. I have downloaded a few fan-made songs that only had the guitar.ogg file. This means that the song cuts out completely when you screw up - very distracting. Of course this is easily fixed by copying the file myself.
File that patent! I'd love a full-auto soggy toilet paper launcher. You'd make a killing selling them to teenagers for Halloween.
Why OS/2? Because that user account exists solely to plug ecom station at every conceivable opportunity. Look at the post history for that user. Literally nothing else.
Somebody's been paying too much for their dog crap.
True, but consider this: These drives will likely be targeted at laptops, particularly the ultra-small, "Road-warrior" type laptops. I know you can get TV cards for laptops, but there is probably very little overlap for TV card owners and users of these drives.
WTF? Just use an external keyboard. I realize that some hardware failures would make it impossible to run the system recovery, but a keyboard failure is not exactly an insurmountable obstacle here.
OK, I've figured out that D: is your porn partition, but I'm a bit confused by the .txt files.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that every time I see that dialog.
I know that's not entirely true. I remember just yesterday hearing "You've been listening to A Prairie Home Companion brought to you by Select Comfort, makers of the Sleep Number Bed, and by Toyota, makers of the Prius with Hybrid Synergy Drive." Heard it several times, in fact. Enough to give a nearly direct quote.
Crap. I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted. Very well stated.
And here I thought they were talking about Jerry Springer...
I don't use that one in Firefox, but it's my favorite Thunderbird extension. It actually makes me enjoy cleaning out my Junk Mail folder.
1) I can't get my dual monitors to work. This weekend I figured I'd buckle down and try to get it working again and spend most of two days working with Google, the Ubuntu forums, and xorg.conf. With the open-source ati driver, the best I could do was both monitors cloned. But the frustrating thing was that the pager showed a double-width desktop - I could even drag windows onto the second half of the desktop, I could just never see that half. After deciding to try the closed-source fglrx driver, I eventually got to an even more frustrating state of almost-working. I was extremely excited to see a dual screen desktop at the login screen. Once I logged in, I was back to the familiar clone mode. I swear to God this thing is mocking me.
2) Some sort of insane system slowdown. If I leave my PC on overnight, it is running insanely slow in the morning. The truly bizarre thing is that the clock down in the corner will be off by several hours, almost as if the machine thinks time is slowing down. I have my suspicions that this one is hardware related -- likely either RAM or power supply, but my windows boot on the same hardware is rock solid.
All this being said, I have switched my laptop from Win2K to Xubuntu, and I'm not going back there. But I just can't make the switch on the desktop yet.
I run a dedicated IPCop box on my home network with the plugin for Dan's Guardian content filtering. (I have a 6-year-old daughter.) Running the VM would hardly be noticeable on a modern PC. My IPCop box is a P2 333Mhz with 64 MB because that's what I had on hand. It will run on a lot less.
Couldn't hurt. People love chimps.
Actually, I think Radio Shack should do this instead of CompUSA, simply because of the new slogan.
"Radio Shack. You've got questions. We fling poo."
Don't forget Sexy Sheep!
I'm also running Xubuntu on an old 500Mhz laptop I've got. It takes a bit more research to do what I want with it, but it runs a whole lot better than Kubuntu on that old of a machine.
Not as such, but there is a small container of ashes that has developed a slight variation in its orbit.
What I loved about the opening segment of HL2 was the "chase" scene. You're just an unarmed civilian franticly running, trying to get away. I liked that aspect of the airboat chase as well, though that broke down a bit during a couple of "stop the boat and fix the ramp" puzzles. That stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit too far.
What your terrier doesn't know is that the lab has been sharpening a stick.
Read this on a forum somewhere, so I can't take credit for this, (hence the quotes).
-DING-
It caught that one, but only because I talk while I type.
Not true. Two Zune owners would be thrilled. The other one thinks he's got a brown cell phone with really crappy reception.