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Rock Band adds in-game music store

Posted on March 21st, 2008 at 05:53 EDT

Rock Band owners will be delighted to find out that once they load up their copy of the game today, they will be prompted to download a patch with some exciting new features.

After selling more than 6 million songs through its weekly downloadable content, Harmonix has given Rock Band owners an even easier method to access downloadable tracks through the inclusion of an in-game Music Store that was made available by way of the new patch.

The team over at Harmonix commented on this new feature by saying, the music store will have a "user-friendly interface to streamline and enhance the music shopping experience," and will let players "view, purchase, and sort all downloadable songs tracks by Artist, Song Title, Genre, Albums, Pack," with full album art, song previews, and instrument-by-instrument difficulty levels.

"Thank you to the music lovers who have helped Rock Band reach an incredible milestone of over 6 million purchased downloads at such an early stage. The success of Rock Band downloadable content to date firmly reinforces our vision and its potential as a platform for music discovery.”

The new Music Store also allows users to preview tracks before they buy them and also allows users to evaluate their purchases beforehand by being able to view each individual track's difficulty rating for each individual instrument. The patch is live now once the game is booted up.

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posted 6:23am EDT - March 21st, 2008
1

Great update, I'm popping in Rock Band right now!

posted 9:39am EDT - March 21st, 2008
2

It's not even out in EU yet, and already got 6 million downloads... Send the game to us (not US...) and it will at least be 15 million starting at summer! :P

posted 11:38am EDT - March 21st, 2008
3

it's nice to have the store, I dont have to go scavenging youtube for music samples to help make my decision on whether to buy a track anymore. The patch also preloads all of your DLC so that there's no delay between that and the regular on disk tracks... not that the PS3 ever really had a big problem with that though.

posted 12:01pm EDT - March 21st, 2008
4

The thing is freaking amazing! I absolutely love the store, especially the fact that you can stream the preview!

posted 8:56pm EDT - March 21st, 2008
5

its cool

posted 9:13pm EDT - March 21st, 2008
6

the difficulty ratings will be helpful.

i was kind of dissapointed when i bought juke box hero only to fin it was one of the easiast songs in the game.

crushcrushcrush as well.

posted 12:07am EDT - March 24th, 2008
7

So is this just for the PS3?  Devs are slowly eating away at the HDD space and half the 360 base can't get anything because MS is stupid.

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