SingStar

[Lestrade]

Hi all,

Today sees the release of a new online update for SingStar on PS3. It includes an exciting addition to our My SingStar Online community gallery: as well as viewing uploads in Latest Media and the Hall of Fame, you can now view the highest rated uploads of the week in "Hot Picks of the Week". Even more reason to get performing!

To update your copy of the game, just head online to automatically start the download.

A second enhancement will be available from 4pm GMT on Friday 16 May that will introduce the following new features and functionality:

• Harmony Mode: Play duets in our new Harmony Mode, where two players can sing different lines to a song at the same time, showing off their harmonising skills.
• PSP Remote Play: Using a PSP and a wireless Internet connection, players will be able to access various areas of the game such as the SingStore and My SingStar Online.
• HD Audio Calibration: A new option that allows you to customise your settings if your HD system introduces a slight audio lag into the game by measuring any lag inherent in your system and adjusting the scoring accordingly.

Both downloads will be available free of charge to our online users.

Thanks a lot,

Lestrade

[dandliver]

Thanks for that lestrade

[mufc76]

That's great news - the pick of the week sounds really good, should get a bit more variation. Nobody ever looks at my videos so this might help!

I know a few people have been waiting for the lag issue to be sorted too so another good addition.

Thanks for the update.

[bnz99]

Wow, this even makes me stop playing GTA4 for a moment to check this out ;-)

[Reaverman]

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Lestrade wrote:

Hi all,

Today sees the release of a new online update for SingStar on PS3. It includes an exciting addition to our My SingStar Online community gallery: as well as viewing uploads in Latest Media and the Hall of Fame, you can now view the highest rated uploads of the week in "Hot Picks of the Week". Even more reason to get performing!

To update your copy of the game, just head online to automatically start the download.

A second enhancement will be available from 4pm GMT on Friday 16 May that will introduce the following new features and functionality:

• Harmony Mode: Play duets in our new Harmony Mode, where two players can sing different lines to a song at the same time, showing off their harmonising skills.
• PSP Remote Play: Using a PSP and a wireless Internet connection, players will be able to access various areas of the game such as the SingStore and My SingStar Online.
• HD Audio Calibration: A new option that allows you to customise your settings if your HD system introduces a slight audio lag into the game by measuring any lag inherent in your system and adjusting the scoring accordingly.

Both downloads will be available free of charge to our online users.

Thanks a lot,

Lestrade

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How do you use your PSP, with Singstar?

[MikkelP-DK]

Hey! HD Audio calibration! This is indeed great news! Now please introduce a feature to inactivate individual songs downloaded. I have international friends and while using "pass the mic" option, it is not fun for them to sing Swedish and Danish songs if all they know is English...

Message Edited by MikkelP-DK on 08-05-2008 09:22 AM

[PhoenixUK]

Ah excellent, the calibration is much needed. Now you just need to get decent pop-punk/rock songs on the Singstore (Sum 41, Less Than Jake, Zebrahead, The Offspring, Goldfinger... etc.)

[NavanMan]

Even though I don't suffer from the lag issue,I have a bad feeling about this.

Read Lestrade's post again and his careful choice of words.

It does not say anything about audio calibration to bring the audio and video back into sync. It says that the games scoring will be adjusted to compensate for audio lag.

I'm guessing that singstar will now recognise if a singers is consistently singing out of synch with the video and alter the score, but the lag will remain.

 Lestrade - feel free to correct me if I'm wrong?

BTW - I used Bold in 2 places within this message (hardly a hanging offence) and got this error.

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[bnz99]

Navaman: well, they will probably compensate by adjusting the delayed audio input to when it is expected depending on how much lag the hardware introduces. I don't think that there is any difference in the scoring scheme itself. The lag itself probably can't be fixed.

[Teemu]

Just tought one possible example to fix the audio lag.
One person uses the sixaxis to press button when a sliding mark shows in a right spot (just like in the singstar game except the singing). This repeated ten times to get the average respond of the person.

Then the same person does the same thing ten times but this time a sound is playded at same time intervals as in the previous test.

The average lag of the second test minus the lag in the first test should be the lag caused by the stereo system or vice versa for the tv processing lag. Test could be done with mic using voice input. The minor sixaxis lag doesn't matter because it's used in the both tests.

I think the method they are using is just a manual setting to adjust the delay of the sound to compensate the lag. Probably a sliding meter is used.