Szalkow

About
This DLC Manager was built from scratch to improve on the concept of Caitsith2's old DLC manager. This program allows you to organize, view, and move your DLC song files for Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band as well as RawkSD customs on your SD card and computer. It is significantly faster than previous DLC managers, supports list caches, lets you reorganize and sort by field, and uses colorcoding to show which songs are up to date.

Installation
Unzip the DLC Manager and run from anywhere.
Uses .NET framework 3.5.
Not tested with mono.

Usage
1. Begin by setting your DLC collection and SD locations (File > Change xx Location). First time only.
2. Click to select songs. Hold Shift to select a range of songs, or Ctrl+click to select multiple individual songs. You can also select all songs, all missing songs, or all duplicate songs using the right-click menu.
3. Use the radio options in the middle to toggle between copying to/from the SD card (arrow shows which way).
4. Copy or delete songs using the buttons in the middle.

* DLC Collection is shown at top, SD contents at bottom.
* Status bar at the bottom shows size remaining on your drive/SD card and size of selected songs (can be hidden).
* Log on the right prints technical details and errors (can be hidden).
* Colors of songs show songs which exist in both libraries or which are mismatched. You can change the colors in File > Settings.
* Columns can be resized, reordered, or hidden, either by dragging them around or right-clicking them. Once it looks the way you like it, you can copy table settings from collection to SD and vice versa.

The Tools menu contains advanced stuff that most people won't need to mess with. Most of the stuff in there is done automatically.
The Song cache is saved automatically, meaning that only newly-added songs need to be read when you fire up the manager (no more long wait times). The program checks for new songs when it's started. You can use Tools > Reload (No Cache) to refresh your entire library if you need to.

Handling customs
Rock Band DLC Manager can handle RawkSD customs much like it does any other DLC. Since custom indexes can change when you add or remove customs from your card, it's recommended that you use Tools > Force Index Sync > SD to Collection after adding songs in RawkSD.

Beatles DLC
DLC for The Beatles: Rock Band requires your Wii key saved to rng_key.bin, kept in the directory where the DLC Manager is located. You can obtain this key using BootMii's NAND dump feature, xyzzy, or FTPii. Rock Band DLC Manager can create the key bin from BootMii NAND dumps on your computer using the Tools menu. See the Help menu in the manager for details.

Release History

v0.25 (11-2-10)
* Should prevent crashes caused by having RB3 DLC present
* Should prevent crashes caused by RawkSD v3b2 song files

v0.22 (3-15-10)
* Loading songs/dumping DTAs should no longer cause the UI to stop responding
* Status bar now provides updates while doing loading/copying/deleting - now using the program with the log hidden is viable!
* Beatles DLC should now report the proper year (reload without cache may be required)
* Prevented from closing program during a load/copy (avoid crashes)

v0.21 (3-9-10)
* Prevents crashing when importing "mangled" DLC downloaded with cIOS
Does not distinguish between good and mangled DLC, which may lead to problems in-game

v0.20 (3-1-10)
* Copying songs no longer stalls/locks the UI

v0.18 (2-28-10)
* First public release
* Stability tested
* Supports RB2, TB:RB, RawkSD
* Supports all known song tags

Credits
* Coded by Remfin
* DTA parsing code by AerialX
* Icon by Szalkow
Thanks go to the RawkSD dev team (AerialX, tueidj) and the many testers in #RawkSD on EFNet.

So, Hermes cIOS 222/223 has been great for getting the newest generation of music games to run via USB Loader and for guaranteeing full instrument compatibility. However, I've noticed with many of the games it is used for, there are some desync and chopping issues partway through songs. Examples:

* The Beatles: Rock Band occasionally experiences a 1-2 second freeze but resumes in perfect sync.
* Guitar Hero 5 occasionally experiences stuttering and chopping but generally stays in sync.
* Band Hero will occasionally jump and lose 1-2 seconds, remaining desynced for the rest of the song (even if you pause).

From my experience, RB2 and Lego Rock Band have been problem-free so far with Hermes.

I have retried all problematic songs and the problem appears at random on any song, so it's not a bad rip or install. I also do not have this issue with any of the rhythm games that run under IOS249 (even Aerosmith runs lag-free). I personally run the games using IOS37-merged-36 installed to 223, although I have heard similar reports of stuttering from others with different versions of the Hermes cIOS.

So, I ask, is this a problem inherent to the cIOS itself, or is there something in the settings or install options I can mess with to correct this? Is the Hermes cIOS author aware of this issue? Is it fixable?