Recent Changes
I've made some more changes:
- Removed the list of songs from the front page. There were getting to be just too many songs listed to be helpful. Instead I now have a drop down list of artists and songs as well as a search box. Select an artist or a song and then select go to go to an artist page or a song page. Or search for a term. The search will search for a word or phrase in the title, artist or in the song itself. The search is not that bright but works fairly well.
- There's a new artist's page which shows you all of the artists songs in one page. Many artists have only one or a few songs. Some artists have quite a few songs.
- The song pages now are on auto play. If they have music assoicated with them then their music will start playing automatically.
Past Changes
- Changed the home icon to something much bigger. Clicking on this gets you back to the Songbook home page.
- Now if the song has an associated .mp3 file in the Media folder that exactly matches the song's title then a little HTML5 MP3 player will appear. You can play the song while you read the words and follow the chords! Note: You can right click and save the song's mp3 file to your computer. If the song does not have a corresponding .mp3 file then no .mp3 player is displayed. For example, Amie.
- Again, if the song has a corresponding .mp3 file I now re-write the .pro file to include {musicpath:/sdcard/SongBook/Medai/<title>.mp3}. This string "links" the ChordPro file with music such that (in SongBook, the app I use on my Android Tablet) you can play the song's mp3 file on your tablet! I'm not sure if OnSong (the iPad equivalent of SongBook) does the same thing. If you sign up for sharing my songbook via DropBox (send me email if you want an invite) you should be all set.
Note: Currently my code is very picky. The file name for the .pro file and the .mp3 file must match exactly - is case sensitive, etc. If you have access to my songbook in DropBox and wish to add a .pro file and it's corresponding .mp3 file then be sure to match the names up correctly and put the .mp3 file in the Media folder.
Future Changes
Here are some of the things I'm thinking of implementing:
I'm thinking of re-vamping the main page. Instead of listing all the songs, which are getting to be a bit much, I would like to possibly make a little search facility that would scan the .pro files for text matching in the song titles and lyrics themselves.- Another change I'm thinking of making is making it so that when you hover over a chord a little popup happens that shows the chord's fingering. Sorta like it's done over on tabs-ulitimate-guitar.com (For example: here). Anybody know how to do that?
- Maybe a simple editor so people can edit songs directly.
- Maybe interfacing with Dropbox to display information about the last person to update the songfile...