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Adding new songs is problematic

Started by sbp66, August 30, 2025, 02:10:03 PM

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sbp66

Adding new songs in other setlist apps is streamlined. Other apps better integrate looking for an appropriate version on the web, and, once a version is found that looks good, you can just click a button to import it. No copy-pasting is necessary. This is to me the biggest drawback of BandHelper. AFAICT the only way to import a song is to copy and paste from some search result (not easy to do especially on a tablet or phone). And in my case at least the chord-over-lyrics style doesn't get converted to ChordPro when using the [C] ChordPro Tools button. Further, the ChordPro button should also  convert curly braces to "starting with #" ({abc} --> #abc), since a leading # is (apparently) the only way to make a heading in BandHelper.

arlo

What is an example of an app that has a good import function from the web?

A function like this would rely on the content you want being available from a third-party website, which probably prohibits scraping its content, and then some amount of reformatting, which would vary from website to website. So given the lack of a single, standardized and legal source of content, I have preferred to leave content creation up to the user.

That will be easier through BandHelper's web interface on a computer.

Also, another way to make headings is to use the text formatting tools on the Lyrics field.