Using Tags to Organize Songs

The Tagging Rabbit Hole As noted previously, the use of Songbook Categories is one way of creating a primary organizational structure but is not necessary. Songbook Tags can be used instead. The use of tags allows each song to be in various groupings similar to, but...

Song Organization

The application provides three ways to organize a Songbook Collection: Categories, Playlists, and Tags. A WORD OF CAUTION ABOUT CATEGORIES In Songbook, assigning a song file to a category will move it to a sub-folder under the default user-data location. Just...

Install Supplemental

The Songbook developers have a separate help page for each hardware OS it supports. The supported platforms are: iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows PCs, Windows Tablets, and macOS PCs. This blog page provides supplemental information and concepts for using Songbook on a...

Songbook vs SongbookPro

There Can Be Only One Songbook (SB) is not the only game in town. There are several ChordPro implementations available. However, after some research there appears to be only one contender that is available across all major platforms: Songbook Pro (SBP). Cross-platform...

The ChordPro Specification

What is ChordPro? Essentially, ChordPro is a set of formatting and action instructions that are added to a plain text file containing lyrics to a song. These instructions are called “Directives”. They tell an application how to display and print the lyrics and chords...