RockBandContent.com is being shut down because the maintainer hasn’t got time to do it anymore, which is a shame because it’s a really nice site for browsing the increasingly crushing number of Rock Band tracks available and finding videos of people playing the charts before you buy.
However, I found over time that the best videos came from corporalgregg2, who always posts full-band videos which saves a lot of time over the individual instrument videos, as well as being very good so you can actually hear the song with everyone playing on Expert 
So I’m just subscribed to him from now on for reviewing the new songs as they come out. This week is really good again – you can’t complain when you get Blur, Kaiser Chiefs and Foo Fighters in one week.
One thing that’s always irked me about Rock Band 2 is that despite the song database being really good, with album groupings, filtering by artist / genre etc, album art, individual instrument difficulties and all that, it’s missing one vital feature: a ‘Recently Added’ playlist, or at least a sort by release date. When you get quite a big song list, and your friends ask ‘So what’s new recently?’, you’re forced to either remember (never a sound strategy for me), or page through all the songs looking for things that are new. It’s such an obvious feature that I wonder whether they just don’t have access to that information on the DLC files which is why it’s not there – I can’t imagine no-one’s asked for it; our list is ‘only’ 270-odd songs deep and it’s an issue, I can’t imagine what it’s like if you own all 800+ songs.
However, I found a website which helps with that in the comments of the RockBandContent.com shutdown post – MyRockBandSongs.com. It lets you add all the songs you’ve purchased and then sort them by date added. And when you add in bulk, that still sub-sorts by release date, which is perfect. At least I can whip out my mobile and look it up when someone asks, or link friends to it! Here’s my personal hastily constructed page – it may not be 100% complete, I added things in a rush.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Seriously bummed. I loved that site. The comments on the shutdown post mentioned http://www.rbdlc.com/ which is unfortunately nowhere near as good but still better than not having a similar webpage to fallback on. I really don’t know why Harmonix doesn’t just do something similar on their own website. I’ve bought a TON of songs that I either hadn’t recognized the name of or simply loved the charts when I saw their expert guitar video on youtube. Those quick preview audio snippets in RB do nothing for me, I need to see the charts. After all, the charts are one of the main reasons I love RB and can’t stand GH3+. Good call on using MyRockBandSongs.com to sort by latest download, that’ll be quite useful.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Yeah, I got the link to the site from you originally so I expected you’d be upset
I know what you mean about needing to see the charts. I’ve skipped songs that I like but have boring charts, and picked up new songs I wouldn’t have thought of otherwise. Definitely try corporalgregg2 for that though.
September 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Glad you enjoy using http://myrockbandsongs.com ! Hopefully it helps you out next time you play with friends =)