Just for the sake of argument... how would you folks (and particularly James, if he's reading) feel about seeing Silver Sun appear in a game like, oh, I dunno, Guitar Hero or Rock Band?

...alright, specifically Rock Band 2. The reason I say this:

http://creators.rockband.com/

Long story short, it gives bands the means to make their songs playable in the game. Which means selling them on Xbox Live. For money. And massive exposure - sales of Rock Band 2 on the Xbox 360 alone stand at over 1.6 million and rising, and selected songs will also appear on the PS3 version which has sold over 600k.

Just thought I'd throw it out there to see if it's the sort of thing people might be interested in.

Not being cynical, just asking, genuinely... how is this different from say, being able to sell songs on iTunes, which millions of people have access to, but which also contains thousands of bands who most people won't search for?

Well... there'll be considerably fewer bands on this and it seems to be categorised far more clearly. The main reason, I guess, is that it's better value for money - if you buy it on iTunes, you can listen to it; if you buy it to play on Rock Band 2, you can play along with your fake plastic instruments while listening to it... double the entertainment and replay value, I guess.

Also, there's dozens of bands that I've got into after playing their songs in games like this, it works really well as a music suggestion service.

A good way of summing it up would be this: Motley Crue released their recent single 'Saints Of Los Angeles' simultaneously through Rock Band and iTunes... care to guess which sold more? ...yup, that'd be Rock Band, despite their songs being £2/$2 and iTunes charging 79p/99c. And that's just the regular songs - stuff that bands put in themselves can be set at different price points to make it even more competitive with iTunes and the like.

I'd love to get The Cakes on there, but it looks like I'd have to pay a $99/year subscription to be able to add a song?

And is the below something I'd be able to do? I have a master copy but not separate tracks, I'm not sure if that's what stems are.

"You'll be able to take the stems from any master recording* and create MIDI charts for each instrument using the Reaper Digital Audio Workstation equipped with our free authoring plugins."

I'd put songs on for free if possible as we just like people enjoying our tracks.

As for your original question, I don't like Guitar Hero so wouldn't be interested in seeing Silver Sun on there (though it would be cool knowing they were on there).