I've searched and can't seem to find a solution that allows for exporting all songs. When i click "export" at the bottom of the repitorie-songs page, it just gave me a text edit fil of all the songs fields.
What do you want to do with the exported songs? There are a few different export options depending on what you need to accomplish.
Wanting to transfer the chord pro formate type text into ultimate Guitar for public access. I've had a couple people interested in how I personally do covers and want to perform my originals.
Does Ultimate Guitar have an import function, or will you be copying and pasting individual songs into UG?
It would be individually but would love a bulk export from bandhelper.
If you have bracketed (ChordPro-style) chords, you can go to Settings > Appearance and set Bracketed Chords to Inline and turn off Hide Brackets When Inline.
Then go to Repertoire > Smart Lists > Active Songs, or make a new smart list that shows all songs. Then select Share Songs. That will give you a PDF that you can copy and paste song lyrics with bracketed chords from. Or if you use the website, you can copy and paste directly from the HTML preview.
I'm not looking for PDF files of the songs. I know that can be done easily. I'm looking for the text files of each song when importing.
You can copy and paste the text from the PDF file (or the HTML preview) into Ultimate Guitar.
This would be song by song- not bulk.
You can export all the songs in a set list. or all the songs in a smart list. A smart list can include all the songs in a project or some subset of those songs based on the criteria you set up.
I am evaluating BandHelper I bought it for a month, we'll see how it goes. About a month back or so I initially did the free evaluation after watching a couple of YouTuber's talk about it. But, after about an hour using BandHelper I was so frustrated with it, I didn't go back. I proceeded to evaluate other solutions like OnSong which I did use for a short bit in 2015 and thought it was good back then but it seems to have taken a big turn for the worse. Then I tried MobileSheets and found 2 syncing bugs on MacOS and iOS and reported them within first hour. The nice thing was I got quick response. So, it seems this is the better of the lot? I do have a serious reservation of not being able to export Songs in a defacto format such as chord pro
You can export to PDF, which is a standard and useful format. If you want ChordPro text, you could copy and paste from an exported PDF file as described above.
You can also export to a tab-delimited format with the Export button at the bottom of the Repertoire > Songs page, but for what the original poster wanted to do, I think the PDF option would be easier.
Thanks for the quick response!
If I spend the time creating a chord pro files in BandHelper, I don't want them to be stuck in BandHelper and not be able to export or batch export, copy and paste songs from BandHelper ... not an good response. Chord Pro is the defacto standard and should be fully supported. At the same time I don't want to create them in another tool and then import them into BandHelper, just so I can have a backup copy in a standard format. This seems to be an attempt to keep customer from leaving BandHelper after investing their time in creating charts.
Have never used ChordPro so can't offer help there, but it seems that you only want to do one very specific thing and BandHelper is a much more holistic program that just that one use. Seems BandHelper may not be the fit for your need and maybe you should stick with ChordPro as the Defacto Standard for that one use. Just as it seems ChordPro won't support my 6 active projects with 20 users, Midi triggers, shared setlists, presets and Automation, bluetooth capabilty, mp3 recordings, etc... I won't be switching to ChordPro either, as it doesn't do what I need. Having options is a good thing.
QuoteIf I spend the time creating a chord pro files in BandHelper, I don't want them to be stuck in BandHelper and not be able to export or batch export, copy and paste songs from BandHelper ... not an good response.
This is confusing because I already described two ways to export songs in ChordPro format from BandHelper in this thread.