Latest SingStar Update Brings More Problems
4.30 fixes 4.20's issues, but stops you listening to your purchases songs!Published 03/12/2009 at 9:00 by nofi
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Back in the middle of November we reported that the SingStar team were hard at work with an update that fixed all the problems patch 4.20 brought about. Well, 4.30, the latest version just released, appears to have brought another major bug to the table despite clearing the decks of the previous issues. “USAGE RIGHTS:,” the game tells you when you try to play a song you’ve download, “this song cannot be played because its owner has been deleted.”
Nice, eh? Well, it’s fixable, but you’ll have to re-download it. “To Play,” says the game, “delete the song via Delete songs in Options and then download it from the SingStore.” Not ideal, in my opinion, I’ve probably got close to 100 songs from purchases over the months so there’s no way I’m sitting through that massive download given the PSN’s rather tardy speeds these days. There’s also anicdotal evidence to suggest that in some cases the game fails to boot at all.
Still, it’s not all bad. The SingStore now has a ‘what’s hot’ Top 10 feature, a ‘quick buy’ button to take you straight from watching someone sing a song to you buying that track and a quick jump to the SingStore from the song selection screen. All designed to make you buy more, of course, but if you want handy options then you’ve got them. There’s also a ‘download all purchased songs’ button, something you might be needed if the first two paragraphs of this post apply to you.
Finally, there’s an option to bookmark community clips for easy access, the ability to transfer ownership of a ‘club’ and a child-friendly cartoon interface, which is rather neat.
Thanks, bavian.
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cc_star | 03/12/2009 09:03
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Can’t believe it’s took them so long to this through QA, a lot of other developers get critical patches through in a day or 2
DeforMAKulizer | 03/12/2009 09:04
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Middle of November*
Unless we went back in time, or something
Still no problems here! Liking it so far…
Vandix | 03/12/2009 09:05
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Hate to say it, but do you live in the future, nofi?
‘Back in the middle of December’, should be November, I think?
Tuffcub | 03/12/2009 09:07
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Have you nicked the TSA Tardis again Nofi?
jonny_bolton | 03/12/2009 09:28
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He’s got a hold of Gasto’s microwave again!
jonny_bolton | 03/12/2009 09:12
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I’m scared to turn Singstar on these days!
burtens | 03/12/2009 10:52
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Dude!
Me to.
djdustb | 03/12/2009 09:20
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It just gets worse with this. We had no problems with the last update that came out so best hope there are no issuies with this version for me. My girlfriend is having a singstar party this weekend, I hope it works for her.
RedStarGlow | 03/12/2009 12:35
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She might be in a jam since I think you have to take the patch to access the SingStore or go online…
Burkatron | 03/12/2009 09:50
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Hey look at the big picture, its hardly the end of the work and it only takes a few minutes to download a track again. At least its fixed and we can all get our drunken singstar groove on just in time for the christmas banter.
djdustb | 03/12/2009 09:57
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yeah but the problem is as mentioned by Nofi is that if you have in thre region of 100 songs this could time a lot of time and effort.
Burkatron | 03/12/2009 10:32
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Point taken, but at least you get them back even if it does take a while for some people. I personally have never had any download speed problems with PSN but i’ll check out what all the fuss is tonight when i update singstar.
Burkatron | 03/12/2009 09:50
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* world
whay do i keep doing this lol.
Dlaf42 | 03/12/2009 10:09
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well i updated singstar last night and got the message on my tracks i had bought of the store to delete. i went into options and you have to select each track you want to delete,then went into download history and thank god there is a select all button now and i began downloading 130 tracks.i stared at 10:30 and finished at 1,this was with my 20meg broadband too,so good luck to anyone with more songs
davidjmclare | 03/12/2009 11:07
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wow that sucks, my mate has over 200 downloaded songs!
i should be getting singstar at christmas so i hope they have a decent working version by then!
Matherz | 03/12/2009 12:15
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It never ceases to amaze me.
Does anyone in the world of Sony these days get something working before release anymore or is it just a hit and hope?
All I ever see are never ending articles about sony and sony products releasing update to fix updates / patches to fix patches, and none of them ever seem to work, just merely bring another kind of issue.
Get your acts together!
RedStarGlow | 03/12/2009 12:37
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I think I will try and write Ken Bulter (the guy on the PS3 commercials)….
Dear PlayStation,
Sony had one the best singing games around, Singstar, with videos and multiplayer support.
Now they are alienating their Fan-base and releasing bugging, untested code into production and appear to be attempting to cripple the game (Region locks and application lock-ups). Don’t even get me started on the US release of the Latino version…. It is great for Latinos but not exactly going to compete with MW2, ya know!!
Several people have lost all gigabytes in songs that have to be redownload from the SingStore….. Have you ever downloaded from the SingStore (reminds me of early days when I got my first 300 baud modem!!)
Ken Butler, VP of QA Perks: The PS3 does everything!! Games, Moves, and NOW even Facebook!! Now strike up an aroma therapy candle, send your wife and kids over so we can watch my new montage and that new movie Uncharted 2!! By the way, What is Singstar? I am not even sure it is a real game!!
welshbloom | 03/12/2009 13:09
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Blargh. There’s no denying Sony London have cocked up royally with these updates, but it’s not necessarily apocalyptic: I had 84 songs downloaded (I know…) of which 16 had the ‘Usage Rights’ problem. Deleted ‘em, Downloaded All (which obviously just downloaded the missing ones) and a visit to the shops saw it done. A bit of a pain but nothing worth getting one’s knickers in a twist over.
(What I mean to say, of course, is that Singstar’s for girls and I don’t own it and only enjoy killing chickens and Russians in Monster Warfare 3).
Burkatron | 03/12/2009 13:51
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Why are people calling this patch buggy? surely this resolves the problems of the past, such as missing songs? even if you do have to re-download tracks, im sure that is all a intentional part of the fixing process and the only way to sort out these bugs.
Tntnnbltn | 03/12/2009 14:10
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The thing is that those songs worked (and still work) absolutely fine under 4.21. If you have multiple discs you can update one to 4.30 and it will say your media is locked… Stick in the other one still on 4.21 and suddenly all of your songs work again.
It especially annoying for people who never experienced any problems with the 4.21 patch to begin with.
Burkatron | 03/12/2009 15:57
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Damn…beat down once again
djkaty | 03/12/2009 16:00
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This patch introduces a large number of new bugs including 2 we would mark as critical. All the bugs are being tracked on this page and the SingStar Team, SCE and QA are reading if you would like to post a comment:
http://www.totalmusicgaming.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=866
Please keep your comments constructive.
Katy
TotalMusicGaming