Next week, Rock Band will achieve a special milestone as its library reaches 2000 songs between DLC and each Rock Band titles exportable setlist. We had a long chat with MTV Games ' Paul DeGooyer last week about Rock Band 3 DLC, moving from Rock Band 2 to Rock Band 3, Harmonix employees threatening to set themselves on fire, and how much that Pro Mode DLC is going to cost you. Read on for all the juicy details, and take our poll to guess which artist's track will be song number 2000 - or come back here next Monday, when IGN will have the exclusive reveal.

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Paul DeGooyer: Songs you already imported, if you will, will work automatically in Rock Band 3 - if you purchased a key for Rock Band or AC/DC or any of the other games, you're set for Rock Band 3. That's generally how our platform strategy works. Once you've used your key, you can access that content across the games.DeGooyer: Rock Band 2 into Rock Band 3 will be very similar to the export function for Rock Band into Rock Band 2. There are more songs in Rock Band 2, so the key will be a little bit more expensive.DeGooyer: We're able to go right down to the wire (with discussions with content owners. We're still working on getting them all, but we've got most of them locked up, and we may be able to get all of them. With Rock Band, we weren't able to get all of them because of some licensing issues that arose.DeGooyer: We anticipated the possibility that Rock Band might become what it's become on the digital distribution side, but it became a reality much faster than we expected. So we were able to have our licensing strategy account for it.DeGooyer: There's two ways we could go. We could continually try to make it part of the "key", and there may even be a way that we could supply people who purchased keys in the past with those songs. We also foresee a time when, for example, the original Rock Band is difficult to find in a new disc form. We want to make sure that people can still get access to those songs. You can't pick up Rock Band or a Rock Band 2 used and transfer that content if that disc has already been used to export – each disc is serialized. If we were sell the entire Rock Band setlist as DLC once the disc goes away, we may be able to include those songs that were supposedly lost, and hopefully make people that purchased the key whole with those songs as well. It can actually get pretty complex, but we don't want those songs to be lost. A lot of the songs in Rock Band 1 were songs that people liked to play online, and it becomes very difficult for them to do that if they're not available to everybody.DeGooyer: Going forward, all DLC released for Rock Band 3 will be fully Rock Band 3-compatible, which means it'll come with Pro Mode for keyboard and drums, harmony mode, etc. The only thing that's more difficult for us in terms of authoring time is the guitar stuff, so we've decided to sell Pro Mode for guitar separately. If you're not interested in Pro Mode for guitar, you can still get the DLC that should conform to our current DLC pricing, and you get Pro Mode for all your other instruments.