New sorting by stars is helpful

A new patch was released for RB2 on the PS3, adding among other things the ability to sort songs by stars. We were originally going to pick the worst songs by score (ex: starting with below 100K), but being able to scroll down from 3 stars allowed us to save some valuable time. Thanks Harmonix! :)

I did notice today that there are a lot of songs where we have below 200K that we didn't see in the star-sorted list yesterday. That is probably because the star rating is based on the instrument and difficulty combination when it was originally played. Therefore some well played songs on solo drums will be at the bottom of the star-sorted band list. It looks like we'll have to continue using our RockBandStats.com score output and/or scrolling down the whole list to find the low score songs, at least until Harmonix adds a "Sort by Score" option.

We ended up playing about 36 songs, mostly ones where we had 3 or 4 stars and a score below 300K. In the next few weeks, we'll probably concentrate on moving up all our scores to 5 stars, starting with songs with the lowest score (playing on Hard sometimes if we have to). Our total score went up from 866M to 885M, helping us move up the "All Songs" Leaderboards.

Highlights:
- Stars breakdown for the 36 songs: Gold stars (9), 5 stars (13), 4 stars (9), 3 stars (5, for "They're Red Hot", "Thrasher", "Wake Up Dead", "B.Y.O.B." and "Run to the Hills (Original Version)")
- Near the end Trapper resumes his role as the Pathmaster, leading to many Gold stars, thanks!
- Sylvie's friend Brendan helps us out on Bass for a few songs, thanks!
- Bongoo was the "Top Performer" for the most songs (16), followed by Phoenix (11), Sylvie (10), Raikan (8), and then Brendan (1)
- Bongoo had the most FCs (5), followed by Sylvie and Raikan (2 each), and then Phoenix and Brendan (1 each)
- We play "They're Red Hot" many times in order to move it up past a certain score threshold (100K, then 200K, etc...), but we'll have to play on Hard to gain more points
- Some of the songs in the 3-star and 4-star categories are very difficult on Drums, and Pheonix manages to survive an 8-set that starts with "Run to the Hills (Original Version)", "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate", "Clouds Over California" and "Ever Fallen in Love"! :)