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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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