How to get Rock Band song data (.mid files)

[stridera]

I've been searching the forums for this answer for the last half hour and finally gave up and just decided to create a new post. My apologies for that.

I've been working on a project that reads the .mid files from rhythm games. I've done this with the Guitar Hero 3 songs and I'm looking at adding Rock Band, but I can't find the song data. (I can download the ISO and it just has DVD like data. VIDEO_TS directories, etc.) I'm curious how I can get access to the .mid data from rock band itself.

Also, once I finish, I'll make sure I put my code up on github so nobody else has to go through this trouble of reverse engineering the song files.

Thanks for any help you can give me,
Matt

[raynebc]

The RB series songs posted on this forum should have the original MIDIs included (the MIDIs' filenames will mention that they are unedited). If you want to learn how to rip them from disc yourself, you might get more informative responses from ScoreHero (http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/index.php). If you want to rip MIDIs from DLC, it's as easy as using your game console's storage management to copy the DLC that you buy to an external storage device (hard drive, flash drive, etc), plug that storage device into your computer, use a program like Modio to extract the file to your computer, and use "Le Fluffie" to extract that file's contents, which will include the original MIDI file.

If you run into specific questions about Rock Band notations, you can check out the RBN documentation (http://creators.rockband.com/docs/Authoring), examine source code for an existing program that reads RB charts like EOF (http://code.google.com/p/editor-on-fire) or post questions here or on ScoreHero.