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Finding hidden songs

Over time, you may end up with a few songs that don’t show. This will mostly occur when installing multiple packs that share the same songs.

Rock Band 3 warning the user that they're about to delete many songs from the library.

Rock Band 3 showing a song library that has 5 songs missing.

You can use Nautilus to help solve this problem.

  1. Open Nautilus and select File Indexer.

    Nautilus' main screen. A cursor hovers over 'File Indexer'.
  2. Click on Add New Folder.

    File Indexer with a cursor over 'Add new folder'.
  3. Go to where your Rock Band game data folders are.
    This will be dev_hdd0\game\BLUS30463\ for Rock Band 3 content and usually dev_hdd0\game\BLUS30050\ for Rock Band 1/2 content.

    A Windows Explorer window, with Rock Band 3's folder selected. Its name is 'BLUS30463'.
  4. Enable PS3 Mode (check for songs.dta files) in the middle then click on Build Index.

    File Indexer with 'PS3 Mode (check for songs.dta files)' enabled and the cursor over 'Build Index'.
  5. Click Yes on the warning. As it says, it may take a while to scan.

    A warning that tells the user that the process of scan may take a while.
  6. After it finishes scanning, click on Tools at the top, then enable Find songs with ID conflicts.

    File Indexer with a 'Tools' dropdown menu activated. The cursor is hovering over 'Find songs with ID conflicts'.
  7. The list at the bottom will now show you songs that have conflicts, usually caused by installing the same song.

    A list of songs in File Indexer. Each song is duplicated twice and since they are included in two packs.
  8. Right click the song (or songs) you want to delete. Alternatively, you can press the Delete key on your keyboard.

    A duplicate of a song being right clicked in File Indexer. The cursor hovers over 'Delete selected file(s).'.