The two tabs at the top of the application’s interface allow you to switch between Song Mode and Set Mode.įrom a functionality point of view, you can expect to get the following from OpenSong: present songs and lyrics on a single or dual-screen setup transpose chords to another key print out sheets present Bible passages, verse by verse pick a style for the presentation, edit existing styles import and export data and more. The wizard will also ask you if you want to install OpenSong as a portable application.Ī Full Installation includes the following: OpenSong core files, OpenSong extra files (backgrounds, example set, songs), King James bible, multiple languages. The wizard will ask you to choose one of three installation options: Normal, Full, or Custom Installation. Support is provided for Linux as well.Ī setup wizard will help you install OpenSong on a Windows-powered PC. Support is provided for Mac OS X as well, any edition from OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard onward. Support is provided for 32 and 64-bit Windows editions, anything from Windows XP onward. And last but not least, you will like that OpenSong works as advertised – the application allows you to manage and present lyrics, chords, lead sheets, and so on.Īs mentioned above, OpenSong is available for multiple platforms. You will like that the application is available for multiple platforms you can use it on a PC, Mac, or Linux machine. You will like that the application is free and open source you won’t have to part with your money unless you want to make a donation. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.There is much to like about OpenSong. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2013 at 5:05 pm and is filed under Tools. (you might notice a lot of geeky stuff about “word lengths” and “standard deviations” - ignore this, part of my tuning process) whether it only recognizes “standard” chord names such as Bm or Cadd9 or Gaug, or should the formater allow people to have chord names like “ G-superDiminishedAdd9“?Īllowing flexible chord names means, for example, that it’s more likely to accept two C chord voicings: standard, first position and then second position (or or ). This is still very much a “beta” tool I’m still trying to “dial in” how forgiving I want my song formater to be, e.g. and something.” because you probably wanted this: “. You know this, I know this, the tools? Not so much. Don’t put blank lines between a chord line and its lyrics (unless you want a line of only chords) Chord liness immediately precede their lyrics.If a converter is confused and mixes none-chords into your lyrics add some separation, that is, put some blank lines in. So eschew Times or Arial and use the old stand-by, fixed-width fonts (monospaced) such as Courier or Courier New. Every font, yes, even Comic Sans, has its moment, and when your aligning by columns you need every character to be exactly the same width - something our old Smith-Corona typewriters always did. To your editor they might mean “indent the equivalent of 6 single space characters” whereas on my machines it’s always 4! Since we’re relying on fixed-width columns you need to use spaces. Review! You’ll always check the results from these as they’re never going to be perfect. Now it’s ready for the song sheet editor! Tips Streets are uneven when you're downĪbove is the same song we saw earlier after running through my ChordPro formatter (colorized-emphasis added).
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