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BandHelper => Repertoire Help => Topic started by: sbp66 on August 30, 2025, 02:10:03 PM

Title: Adding new songs is problematic
Post by: sbp66 on August 30, 2025, 02:10:03 PM
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.
Title: Re: Adding new songs is problematic
Post by: arlo on August 31, 2025, 03:16:53 PM
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.
Title: Re: Adding new songs is problematic
Post by: franks1954 on March 12, 2026, 11:25:00 AM
I am currently using SongbookPro and I can click to search online, type in the song name and a list of songs and versions is displayed. I select one and click to save and it immediately shows up in my song list. If it is the case that SongbookPro is not totally above board in this practice I will accept that and move on with copy and paste but if it something that can be implemented without incurring additional costs that would be great.
Title: Re: Adding new songs is problematic
Post by: arlo on March 12, 2026, 11:41:16 AM
This functionality was added since this post:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/adding_lyrics.html#searching