Importing entire OnSong Database

Bobbeanbags · June 19, 2016, 03:45:17 AM

I have close to 1,000 songs in my OnSong database. I would like a way to import all the songs at once to SLM. I can export all songs into a .onsong file and when I import into SLM, they are all strung together in one song. It would be great for OnSong users wanting to use SLM to separate out the individual songs in SLM.

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arlo · June 20, 2016, 08:42:35 AM

I can look and see how practical that would be. I'm not that familiar with OnSong; can you tell me where in that app the function is located that exports the multiple-song file?

Bobbeanbags · June 20, 2016, 10:43:52 AM

Hi Arlo, thanks for the quick reply. In onsong you go to the set menu and display your set, then choose share>export to an onsong file (saves to Dropbox). It will export all of the songs with a 3 dash delimiter between each song(---). Please see attached screen cap. Thanks! Let me know if you want my file to look at.

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Bobbeanbags · June 20, 2016, 10:45:12 AM

Here are some screengrabs

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arlo · June 21, 2016, 12:29:14 AM

I can put this on my to do list, but I'm preparing a big release for the end of this month and won't be able to get to this until after that is done and stabilized.

Bobbeanbags · June 21, 2016, 01:34:40 PM

No problem, let me know if you need some files to test. This would be a HUGE timesaver for SLM users. They could even concatenate their lyric files via text file and import using this format.

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Bobbeanbags · July 19, 2016, 01:22:42 AM

Hi Arlo, will you have a chance to look at this during the summer? Thanks!

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arlo · July 19, 2016, 01:50:43 AM

I would like to, but I can't promise anything yet.

arlo · July 27, 2016, 01:16:18 AM

I tried working on this today, but whenever I export a set, I just get a separate file for each song. Do you have any more specific instructions for how to export all the songs in one delimited file as you described?

arlo · October 08, 2019, 11:11:56 AM

Exporting OnSong songs as separate files is not a problem now, because you can now zip them on your computer, then import the zip file using the Batch Import button on the Repertoire > Songs page of the website.