{"id":12201,"date":"2013-06-21T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2013-05-28T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T00:28:00","slug":"linkesoft-songbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/linkesoft-songbook\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkeSOFT SongBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like to sing songs and play along on your guitar, banjo, ukulele, etc. at a campfire, bar, church, etc., the tablet revolution has been a boon. No more binders to carry around! Instant access to lyrics and chords for approximately 1 bazillion songs!<\/p>\n<p>The downside, though, is that the quality of the song transcriptions you find online are of widely varying quality. Additionally, the web pages that contain the transcriptions are chock full-o-ads, and as a rule, the best campfires are found where the internet access is the worst.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to these problems is to curate your own collection of song transcriptions. The best tool I&#8217;ve found to do this is LinkSOFT&#8217;s cross platform SongBook.<\/p>\n<p>SongBook allows you create and manage files for songs in the simple, plain text based <a href=\"http:\/\/linkesoft.com\/songbook\/chordproformat.html\">ChordPro file format<\/a>. It is easy to start with the transcription of a song from one of the online archives, and then correct \/ customize it within SongBook. Once the song is set up, it is easy to do things like change keys and display chord fingering.<\/p>\n<p>SongBook has versions for both desktop and mobile platforms, and the mobile versions support DropBox for syncing. This makes it easy to utilize the strengths of each. I use the desktop version to create and edit song files, and the mobile versions for performances. That said, if I need to edit a song on the go, those edits get automatically synced thanks to the magic of DropBox.<\/p>\n<p>The app does cost a few bucks. However, I have found it to be a good value. There are new functions being added regularly, and when I have had (rather minor) problems, the developer has been very responsive.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App to curate your own collection of song transcriptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[1483],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}