JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like

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Post by RWilson » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 2:17 AM UTC

JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like
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Post by joepestro » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 3:16 AM UTC

I've played with JamLegend before. It's really well done, and this feature seems to be one that is the natural next step for what people want from a music-oriented game. Nice work!

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Post by unalone » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 3:34 AM UTC

Damn it. I tried using Amarok (an hour-long piece) and it jammed uploading, and I need sleep. I want to see if it worked by tomorrow morning.

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Post by rantfoil » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 4:01 AM UTC

Really impressive work -- the beat detection and game generation logic is top notch. I haven't seen any other rhythm game execute this well on uploaded songs.

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Post by adamhowell » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 4:14 AM UTC

I'm surprised bands uploading their music for a fee isn't a better business model than users paying for the privilege to upload and play songs they own.

I'd think a heavy metal fan would be willing to buy songs they liked after playing along to them.

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Post by Osmose » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 6:05 AM UTC

I'm really impressed that they're embracing existing tools for charting like EOF. GH4's custom song system is garbage.

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Post by mhansen » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 10:15 AM UTC

Osmose wrote: post #6

I'm really impressed that they're embracing existing tools for charting like EOF. GH4's custom song system is garbage.

You mean Frets on Fire?

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Post by ashwnacharya » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 10:18 AM UTC

Why can't bands sell their song maps along with the music CDs. This will give the fans an incentive to buy the CDs instead of download them.

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Post by PStamatiou » Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 10:56 AM UTC

Grats on the coverage guys! I blogged http://paulstamatiou.com/first-impressions-jamlegend-it-rock... > about JamLegend almost a year ago after I heard about it from a cofounder (Andrew Lee IIRC) and I didn't think much of it at the time as I wasn't huge on gaming/GH/etc. And then the comments on my post started trickling in.. my readers LOVED it. I ended up giving out some 4,000 invites (http://www.jamlegend.com/user/PStamatiou)

JamLegend is a LaunchBox Digital (DC incubator) startup for those curious.