To permanently change the chords in the song, select menu View - Transpose - Update Song.Īlternatively you can directly transposes parts of the song by selecting it in the song editor and then transposing it with the context menu Transpose Selection Up/Down. With menu View - Transpose, SongBook lets you transpose a song to a different key by automatically adjusting all chords. If you want, you can save the current playing time in the song, so it will automatically be preset the next time you open the song. Use the Auto-Scroll menu to accelerate/decelerate until you find the right speed. To start/stop automatic scrolling, select on View - Auto-Scroll - Start/Stop. SongBook will automatically display a song in multiple columns, if it fits on the screen without scrolling and all lines of the lyrics are short enough. When you select View - Zoom - Auto-Zoom, SongBook will try to show the song as large as possible so that it still fits on the screen without scrolling. The song will be re-formatted according to the current size. You can also quickly increase/decrease the font size with the zoom slider, or via the View - Zoom menu. Chord, lyrics and tab font and color can be changed in Preferences. Click on a chord to look up the chord definitions.
The song view displays the current song with lyrics and chords. Note: you can show/hide the Song List via View - Song List. You can export indivdual songs in Tab, RTF or HTML format via the File - Export menu. SongBook will watch for changes in the SongBook folder and automatically refresh the song list, so you can also work with other programs directly in this folder. To add songs to SongBook select menu File - Open, or drag-and-drop files to the song list. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) on a song to change it's category, add it to one or more playlists, delete it, or reveal it's location and file name in Finder. Hold down the Alt-Key and click on the "." button to open Finder with the current song folder. Use the "." button next to the category dropdown to change the main SongBook folder. Use the search box at the bottom to search for songs with a certain title, subtitle or text. You can filter by category (sub folder), and sort the list by title, subtitle or key.
The song list displays title, subtitle and key of all songs currently in your SongBook folder. Just write the lyrics as usual and insert the chord names in square brackets at the appropriate positions as in the following example: Alas, my love, you do me wrong, You can also easily create your own songs. To use songs stored in Pages, Word or TextEdit, convert or save them in plain text (*.txt) format, then copy the text file into the SongBook folder. The built-in SongBook editor can also help with converting tab files (chords are written on separate lines above the lyrics). "song title chordpro" or "song title tab", then copy/paste the song text into a new song in SongBook. However, the Internet has huge archives of songs in chordpro format: simply type the song name and file extension pro, chopro or chordpro into your favorite search engine in your browser, e.g. Unfortunately, we cannot provide songs on this site due to copyright restrictions. SongBook understands the widespread chordpro format where chords are written in square brackets within the lyrics. Almost all functions have keyboard shortcuts (see menu).
You can switch on/off any of these areas with the View selector in the upper right or via the view menu. SongBook consists of a single window with three areas: the song list, the song view, and the song editor. To synchronize your songs with SongBook for iOS or other platforms, simply select your Dropbox/SongBook folder as the song folder. You can change the song directory at any time with the "." button next to the category dropdown. You can find the version history at the end of this page.Īt first program start, you need to select the directory where your songs will be stored.
LYRICS CHORDS APP FOR MAC INSTALL
You can download and install SongBook from the Mac App Store. It is optimized for macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon. SongBook runs on all 64-bit Macs with macOS/OS X 10.13 or higher.
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