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- <h1 class="centered">Songbook/OnSong and chordpro (.pro) files</h1>
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-<p>Rather than carry around sheets of paper for everybody, fumbling
-and trying to find the right song sheet etc., you can use your
-computer to help automate this process.</p>
-
-<p>A chordpro file (signified by a .pro extension) is not a fancy file
-format, but it gets the job done and is easy to edit with any editor
-like notepad. You can google "chordpro" and read all about the format
-if you like.</p>
-
-<p>If you have a iPad or a Android tablet you can have all of your
-songs with you wherever you go. Linked
-with <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">DropBox</a> and everybody can
-be on the same page. Worst case you have all of the music you know at
-your fingertips. There are two apps, one for iPads
-(<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onsong/id502344938?mt=8">OnSong</a>)
-and the other for Android and PCs
-(<a href="http://linkesoft.com/songbook/windows.html">Songbook</a>)
-that will work with .pro file to render them nicely on your iPad or
-Android tablet. And Songbook also works on your Windows PC where
-you can print out copies of the songs if you inist on dealing with
-paper.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, you could go to my website and render any of the songs in
-my Songbook using the web (described below).</p>
-
-<h2>Chordpro file format</h2>
-
-<p>You can go
-to <a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/Songs">http://defaria.com/songbook/Songs</a>
-and you'll see a list of all the files in that directory, the .pro
-files of the songs I have. You can click on any of them but what you
-will get is an unrendered version of the .pro file. For example: If
-you click on Brown Eyed Girl.pro you'll see:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
- {t:Brown Eyed Girl}
- {st:Van Morrison}
- {key:G}
-
- [G]Hey, where did [C]we go, da[G]ys when the ra[D]ins came
- [G]Down in the holl[C]ow, [G]playin' a ne[D]w game
- [G]Laughin' and a-s[C]ingin' hey-hey, [G]skippin' and a-j[D]umpin'
- [G]In the misty mor[C]ning fog, with o[G]ur he[D]arts thumpin and yo[C]u[D]
- My Brown-eyed gi[G]rl[Em], yo[C]u my[D] brown eyed [G]girl [D]
-
- [G]Hey whatever [C]happened, [G]Tuesday went [D]so slow
- [G]Goin down the [C]old mine with a [G]transistor [D]radio
- [G]Standin' in the [C]sunlight laughin', [G]hide behind the [D]rainbow's wall
- [G]Slippin' and a-[C]slidin', [G]all along the [D]waterfall with [G]you
- My Brown-eyed gi[G]rl[Em], yo[C]u my[D] brown eyed [G]girl [D]
-
- {soc}
- [D]Do you remember when we used to [G]sing
- Sha-la-la [C]la-la la-la [G]la-la la-la [D]de-da
- [G]Sha-la-la [C]la-la la-la [G]la-la la-la [D]de-da
- La-de-[G]da[D]
- {eoc}
-
- [G][Em][C][D][G][D]
-
- So hard to find my way, now that I'm all on my own
- Saw you just the other day, my how you have grown
- Cast my memory back there lord, sometimes I'm overcome, thinkin'bout
- Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you
- My brown eyed girl, you my brown eyed girl
-
- {soc}
- [D]Do you remember when we used to [G]sing
- Sha-la-la [C]la-la la-la [G]la-la la-la [D]de-da
- [G]Sha-la-la [C]la-la la-la [G]la-la la-la [D]de-da
- La-de-[G]da
- {eoc}
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>You see things like {t:Brown Eyed Girl} (title) and {key:G} as well
-as embedded tags for the chords ([G], [C], etc). Doesn't look as
-pretty right? But when you include the webchord.cgi portion you are
-running a script named webchord.cgi which reads the file from the
-parameter chordpro (that's why you need the chordpro=song.pro portion)
-and then reformats stuff into HTML that looks pretty, centering the
-title of the song, putting the chords over the words and bolding the
-text between {soc} and {eoc} (start of chorus, end of chorus). So
-given the above SongTitle="Brown Eyed Girl" we can formulate the URL
-to render it thusly:</p>
-
-<blockquote><a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Brown Eyed Girl.pro">http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Brown Eyed Girl.pro</a></blockquote>
-
-<p>You can do the same thing for the other songs there too.</p>
-
-<p>I should just write a quick script that gets all of the .pro files
-in the directory songbook/Songs and then formulates a page of links
-that have the webchord.cgi links to render them like:</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Across the Universe.pro">Across the Universe</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/American Pie.pro">American Pie</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Amie.pro">Amie</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Back in the USSR.pro">Back in the USSR</a></li>
- <li>...</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>You have to fill in the <SongTitle> portion of the link. So, for
-example, you take:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-http://defaria.com/songbook/Songs/webchord.cgi?chordpro=<SongTitle>.pro
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>pop it into the address bar of your browser then change <SongTitle>
-to the title of the song you want to render:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Amie.pro">http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Amie.pro</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><b>Note:</b></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>URLs are case sensitive! ...chordpro=amie.pro is not the same as ...chordpro=Amie.pro</li>
- <li>Browsers tend to change spaces in a URL to %20. %20 is the octal representation for a space character. So if you see %20 in a URL like http://defaria.com/songbook/webchord.cgi?chordpro=/web/songbook/Songs/Back%20in%20the%20USSR.pro. Don't fear - they're merely spaces.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Songbook for PC</h2>
-
-<p>You can get a Windows PC version of Songbook
-at <a href="http://linkesoft.com/songbook/windows.html">http://linkesoft.com/songbook/windows.html</a>. It
-will run on your PC and render songs like:</p>
-
-<img src="songbook.jpg">
-
-<p>It's $20 and you can even print out your stuff if you still use
-paper or need paper for other people.</p>
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