Talk:List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series

upcoming

Please put the upcoming songs back into the main article. For those of us that use the page regularly, what's the point in having to go to different pages for that information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.127.197 (talk) 01:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

i agree with the above. can we please have the upcoming songs back in here? 118.100.120.249 (talk) 12:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see the Upcoming List in this article instead of having to watch the 2009 list. UltimateSin01 (talk) 13:09, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

This article is too long to include anything else but all of the songs to make it usable for all readers, per the recent decision to split the pages. If you were watching "this" page, just bookmark the other page to keep track. --MASEM (t) 13:23, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

This is meant to be the "complete" list. If songs are confirmed, they'll show up here eventually anyway. You're not saving anyone anything, especially not time, as those who do not want this long-ass list would've went to one of the other split up ones, not this. 118.100.12.220 (talk) 18:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

The upcoming list barely adds any to this list, and most of the upcoming list will eventually merge with the main list anyway. If people's computers can't handle this page they can go to the other page. 131.238.224.85 (talk) 17:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

How does the upcoming list not add anything to the FULL list of songs for Rock Band? It's rediculous to split it up. If the song is confirmed to be implemented it should be in here.216.64.12.206 (talk) 13:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Song totals being tracked manually?

I've noticed since the split that each of the pages now has a box in the lead containing a breakdown of total number of songs, albums, and packs. Now, from the looks of things...this is a manual thing. Which means that inevitably we're going to run into a situation where these are going to get forgotten by an editor, leading to problems tracking them accurately. Is it at all possible to set up these tables so that they can be programmatically generated by an edit to only one place...? -- TRTX ^{T / C} 06:43, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that as of viewing the numbers now, 11:03 PM PST the total number of songs is incorrectly at 663, it should be 653. 72.223.90.224 (talk) 06:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ready to remove Wii Availability column?

I suspect every song will be available for the Wii in the next few weeks. I say we remove this column entirely. If there are a couple songs that take much longer to show up on the Wii, we should just add a letter note (a, b, c, d, etc., like we've been doing) for the few songs that don't have it and at the bottom at a note that says "Not available for the Wii". We could probably do that now. There used to be so many songs not available for the Wii that the column was very useful. Now that 99% of them are available the column just doesn't make sense anymore. Wildonrio (talk) 21:41, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree. The column isn't needed anymore. A letter note will be good enough from now on.216.64.12.206 (talk) 13:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

We'll have the best indicator on Friday when next week's Wii backlog tracks are announced. If they don't include the tracks released this week, then based on how they've been doing, they should officially complete all missing Wii tracks up to this week's releases (Petty, etc.). Thus, they will be fully on parity with 360/PS3 the following week (with 9/1 DLC). If that is the case, then after we've gotten then on Friday, we can remove the Wii column. This scenario makes sense as it gets them to DLC parity just before TB:RB comes out- and even though that is not compat DLC, it's a worthwhile and notable goal to be at. --MASEM (t) 14:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

So if and hwne the Wii Availability Column is taken is out, that leaves room for the Upcoming List, or you could just put it in now... UltimateSin01 (talk) 15:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

that doesn't change the size issues that the list was split for. We'd still keep that at a separate page. --MASEM (t) 15:06, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

The Upcoming List should be put into this article but it should only include the songs that will be avaiable for the following week. It won't include the songs chosen from RB Unplugged or andything like that, only the upcoming week's songs. UltimateSin01 (talk) 15:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Offtopic. Start a new section to argue about this. On the topic of the Wii column, I say this Friday when the backlog is announced we go ahead and remove the column and add the letter notes for the few remaining non-wii tracks. It looks like they are going to be releasing in this order from now on: X360, PS3, Wii, with X360 being on Tuesdays, PS3 on Thursdays, and Wii being the following Tuesday. If this is the case, then the Wii will always be a few tracks behind the other two systems. Instead of waiting for synchronicity, let's just get this done on Friday. Wildonrio (talk) 04:06, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Could we possibly change that last column to just be the letter notes to be able to choose to organize by song price (free, $1, or standard pricing) or something similar to that fashion? We have the space available, and could then remove the letter annotations near the song (sans the promotion note), or would this just cause more trouble (due to packs and whatnot)? Foximus (talk) 00:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Could be a good idea, it's just that those prices are not set in stone. Someone would have to constantly keep tabs on them. Plus I tried to pitch this idea a few months ago and they told me that wikipedia is not a sales site to advertise prices like that. Wildonrio (talk) 01:16, 16 September 2009 (UTC)