Looking to start up a charting group in Australia, but...

[Maghook]

What I don't understand is how RBN songs are blocked because they are unrated, yet the parent game required to play the content does have a rating... pfft, loopholes. Oh well. I'm still going to manage to get content on there through proxy release, via Fairwood Studios.

Hopefully. *Fingers crossed*

[Runesmith]

You wouldn't happen to have any connections to Flying Nun Records, Maghook? Great indie-pop record label from Australia/New Zealand with some excellent twee bands like The Chills.

[Maghook]

You wouldn't happen to have any connections to Flying Nun Records, Maghook? Great indie-pop record label from Australia/New Zealand with some excellent twee bands like The Chills.

Hmm, probably not. I can ask around, though... there's a guy here who plans all the major events around the area when they go on tour, from Grinspoon to Lady Gaga. He may know.

I'll have to look into it once I get more experience with handling the business side of things. I'm thinking of adding a wishlist type of thing to the website where people can submit artists and links to their website/label that I can get in contact with.

I probably won't be able to get every artist on the RBN, but I'll try. It'll just take some time.

[TalkieToaster]

What I don't understand is how RBN songs are blocked because they are unrated, yet the parent game required to play the content does have a rating... pfft, loopholes.

Haven't we been through this? :P

XNA was designed for games. All XNA games are unrated, so all of XNA is blocked. RNB uses XNA for distribution.

If HMX used it's own distribution system, or regular XBL, there wouldn't be a problem. But since it uses Microsoft's XNA framework, RBN is blocked along with the games.

That's why I suggested earlier that Microsoft could probably come up with a workaround if they thought it was actually worth their while.

[Lowlander2]

Don't suppose you could try to contact Alligator Records for some old Dave Hole?

[LucidCharting]

Let it be known that this plan has come to fruition. Figure it warrants a long overdue update. Here's the site, now with a legitimate address: http://lucidcharting.com.au/

Get in contact with us that way if you're looking for a position on the team or for more info!

Thanks a lot, guys. Hopefully this will be a real thing.

[johnnyboyblade]

^ Awesome news!

I was actually thinking the other day whether there had been any progress made with this.

I wish I could help contribute, but it looks like all I can do is buy the songs you upload to the RBN.

Other than that I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours :-)

Also your site is looking pretty sweet now. I hope one day I get to see more artists in the upcoming section ;-)