SingStar Toolbox

A Custom Disc Creator for SingStar.

Combine existing SingStar discs, create custom discs with your own songs, now with PS3 + FTP support!

Also includes tools for various formats used by SingStar games (PAK, PKD, PKF, IPU, MIB, IAV, CHC etc..)

Tutorials/Guide: Check out the Wiki

Join the Discord server for help: https://discord.gg/jNet59FPVz

Main Features

• Import & convert UltraStar songs (txt)
• Import songs from official SingStar discs to use in your own (PS2/PS3)
• Convert audio & video to proprietary SingStar format (IPU + MIB)
• Build an ISO compatible with emulators & real hardware (PS2/PS3)

QoL Features

• No external tools (apart from ffmpeg)
• M2V to IPU converter (no SDK needed)
• Audio normalization for consistent volume
• Entirely rewritten TXT to XML converter
• Support for regular, duet, rap songs
• Fix text encoding automatically
• & much more..

Setup & Requirements

• Getting started (recommended)

• Download the latest version of ffmpeg.exe (direct link for Win10) and place it in the same folder as Singstar Toolbox.

• .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime

Roadmap

In progress

• GLOBAL: Drag & Drop songs (TXT & SSTP)
• PS4: Import songs from SingStar PS4
• PS2: Build NTSC PS2 discs
• GLOBAL: Import/Convert SING-IT to SingStar

Completed (v1.4)

• GLOBAL: Extract audio from video (for .TXTs with video only)
• GLOBAL: Convert PS2 songs to PS3
• GLOBAL: Convert PS3 multi-channel audio to stereo for PS2 (no loss)
• GLOBAL: Convert PS3 songs to PS2
• GLOBAL: Edit videos to include time gap
• GLOBAL: Scale BPM & notes when BPM is too high
• ISO: ISO Rebuilding
• PS3: PS3 Full Support
• PS3: Export/Build PS3 Data
• PS3: Auto-decrypt supported ISOs when needed
• PS3: Update existing song library via FTP
• PS3: NTSC video support
• PS2: PAK file Unpacking/Repacking
• PS2: M2V to IPU conversion
• PS2: Import songs from NTSC discs (IAV+IND)
• PS2: IPU swizzling
• PS2: 99% codec compatibility
• PS2: Audio Encode to ADPCM
• PS2: MIB + MIH export
• PS2: BMP to TX2 + TX2 to BMP
• PS2: Import songs from other discs
• PS2: Edit/disable menu music
• PS2: Multiple Language support (English, French, German, Italian)

Scrapped/Cancelled

• yt-dlp support: Many UltraStar managers already handle this
• Edit PS2 boot logos: Users can edit that from DiscData folder
• Medley Editor: Would require a lot of user input. Not cancelled but very low priority. Medleys are currently automated.

Source code

Source code is available as multiple modules and tools that will be published gradually.

• IPUenc (IPU<->M2V video)

Credits

• Chris (@christphen) joined the project as a collaborator
• ffmpeg
• DiscUtils.Iso9660
• NAudio
• Ude.NetStandard
• nQuant
• ss_cover.cc (TX2 to BMP conversion)
• scee-london (PKD unpacking)
• BouncyCastle (Whirlpool Hash)
• Holger Kuhn (hawkear@gmx.de) for his work on SingStar overall
• Special thanks to @locastan for his help

Notes

It is possible to add more than 100 songs to a single PS2 disc, however it might cause unexpected behaviour in-game.
PS3 isn't affected by this.