Store Update 2015/04/29: Import Tool incoming!

Dan Amrich just announced that the long awaited Import Tool for RS1 songs is expected to be released for EU and AU territories on May 1st.

D. Amrich's announcement on the Ubisoft forums

Well that's some good news.

A look into the PSN-store shows in addition to the Dethklok content, the following songs and packs have been added:

• Audioslave Songs
• The Killers Song Pack (might be a re-publish to fix previous issues)
• 311 Song Pack
• Blink-182 Song Pack (the files are correct, just the picture is wrong)
• Megadeth  Song Pack
• 9mm Parabellum Bullet - Atarashii Hikari
• 9mm Parabellum Bullet - Punishment
• RIZE - PARADOX Taiso
• Biffy Clyro - Many of Horror
• Biffy Clyro - Mountains
• Biffy Clyro - Stingin' Belle
• The Cure - The End of the World
• The Guess Who - American Woman
• Vampire Weekend - Cousins
• Straightener - Rocksteady
• ACIDMAN - Shinsekai
• The Birthday - Stupid
• Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams

Added after the first wave:

• My Chemical Romance Song Pack (currently badly priced, DO NOT purchase!)
• My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na

Also, permission issues for Megadeth's Hangar 18 has been fixed.

Store Update 2015/04/22: Some good some bad

Sony has been keeping up the rythm in fixing permission issues over the past days. Quite a few songs should now be available for free to previous owners. Still broken are, among others:

American Woman - The Guess Who (missing)

Hangar 18- Megadeth (broken)
Bush Pack and songs with permission issue

A usually up to date list by R2_ can be found here.

The update itself was rather meek as well:

• Alt-Rock Singles (£9.49/€11.99/$17.95)
• ‘Memeshikute’ by Golden Bomber (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Earphone’ by Golden Bomber (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘All Signs Point to Lauderdale’ by A DAY TO REMEMBER (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Black Tongue’ by MASTODON (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Oblivion’ by MASTODON (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Colony of Birchmen’ by MASTODON (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• China Grove – The Doobie Brothers (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Kiss On My List – Daryl Hall and John Oates (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Black Chandelier – Biffy Clyro (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Through Glass – Stone Sour (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• My Own Worst Enemy – Lit (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Feel The Pain – Dinosaur Jr. (£2.49/€2.99/$4.5)
• Hemorrhage (In My Hands) – Fuel (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Rocksmith Vampire Weekend – Cousins (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Rocksmith The Cure – The End of the World (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Atarashii Hikari’ by 9mm Parabellum Bullet (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• ‘Sweet Dreams’ by Roy Buchanan (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Rocksmith 2014 – Mountains – Biffy Clyro (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)
• Rocksmith 2014 – Stingin’ Belle – Biffy Clyro (£2.49/€2.99/$4.55)

Marked in orange are the songs that are currently reported missing. Nevertheless, there is reason to be happy. After all we have endured months of stagnation and we have had some major catch-up updates in the past month.Let's motivate Sony to keep this up, head over to our blog comment!

Major permission fix

Hey everyone,

our ComDev Dan Amrich announced the following good news:

"Sony is reporting to us that the permissions for the DLC added April 1 and April 8 should now be fixed. If you were disappointed that these PS3 purchases were not downloading for free on PS4, please try downloading them on PS4 now and report back on what you experience."

Please, if you come across a permission that does not work, head over to the Ubi forums and let Dan (and us) know. Thanks!

Minor permission fix

Hey everyone,

the following permission issues are reported to have been fixed:

Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Hysteria - Muse
Stockholm Syndrome - Muse
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Muscle Museum - Muse
1979 -Smashing Pumpkins
More than a feeling - Boston
dammit - blink 182
Have you ever seen the rain - CCR
Living after midnight - Judas Priest
Oh yeah - Aerosmith
Legendary Child - Aerosmith
Dream On - Aerosmith
Same Ol' Song and Dance - Aerosmith
Free Bird - Skynyrd
Barracuda - Heart
Juicebox - The Strokes

Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan *

As of today 04/17*:
Come out and play - The Offspring
When I'm Gone - 3 Doors Down

If this is not consistent with what you are experiencing, try either searching for the songs individually, maybe even in the browser-version of the store or to restore your licenses in PS4.

Besides, I will now start to call these issues (PS3-song ownership doesn't transfer to PS4-songs as promised) permission issues, instead of cross buy issues. Simply because the latter term is misleading, as Dan Amrich explains here.

It works! + 1 FREE Song

Hey everyone,

I'm happy to have some mostly good news to spread:

• The announced batch of legacy DLC seems to be online and available.
• In this case, "available" also includes previous owners, meaning that (according to Ubisoft forum users) this time there are no cross buy issues and previously purchased songs can now be downloaded to your PS4, even if you're European or Australian. :)
• Maybe a mistake, maybe a compensation, but you can currently purchase and download Be Yourself by Audioslave free of charge (might be time-limited, hurry up!).
• As of now does not seem as if the persisting cross buy issues from the April-1st Update have been fixed. Let's keep fingers crossed this is done in the course of the day.

Feel free to update me anytime if something changes! As always, we'll hit the PS-Blog later, this time to express some gratitude, but also to remind SCEE of the remaining cross-buy issues. Join us and support the first RS2014-related post!

EDIT: THIS JUST IN
Apparently not all songs are completely free of cross-buy issues. Please check the Ubisoft forums thread (Pages 95 to 97) to see whether users have reported problems with one of the songs you might be interested in.

Legacy DLC Schedule Update

Hey everyone,

for the sake of transparency, Dan Amrich just added a couple of pack's to tonites / tomorrows store update schedule:

15. Apr	Kiss Song Pack - BUNDLE
15. Apr	The White Stripes Song Pack - BUNDLE
15. Apr	Alice in Chains Song Pack - BUNDLE
16. Apr	R.E.M. Song Pack - BUNDLE
16. Apr	B'z Song Pack - BUNDLE

That, together with the previously announced songs, makes for a nice batch of content. Let's hope it goes online soon without cross buy issues!

Also new on the menu, some stuff that's in for next week's store update:

Release Date	Artist	Song
22. Apr	Golden Bomber	Memeshikute
22. Apr	Golden Bomber	Earphone
22. Apr	The Doobie Brothers	China Grove
22. Apr	Mastodon	Oblivion
22. Apr	Mastodon	Colony Of Birchmen
22. Apr	Mastodon	Black Tongue
22. Apr	Daryl Hall and John Oates	Kiss On My List
22. Apr	Biffy Clyro	Black Chandelier

AU & GB: Support formal complaints

Hey Aussies and Brits,

as published on the Ubisoft forums, complaints regarding this matter have been issued to the ACCC (Australia) and the Trading Standards Institute (Great Britain). If you want to support one of these complaint, consider the following information:

Australia:

Complaint to the ACCC
issued by The_Lexx (Ubisoft forums)
Web form ID: 400040361

Complaint to Australian Department of Fair Trading

issued by The_Lexx (Ubisoft forums)
Complaint number: 7590 939

Great Britain:

Complaint to the Trading Standards Institute
issued by Danson79 (Ubisoft forums)
Citizens Advice consumer service reference: 12742621