Exporting songs!

[MasonJames]

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.

[arlo]

What do you want to do with the exported songs? There are a few different export options depending on what you need to accomplish.

[MasonJames]

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.

[arlo]

Does Ultimate Guitar have an import function, or will you be copying and pasting individual songs into UG?

[MasonJames]

It would be individually but would love a bulk export from bandhelper.

[arlo]

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.

[MasonJames]

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.

[arlo]

You can copy and paste the text from the PDF file (or the HTML preview) into Ultimate Guitar.

[MasonJames]

This would be song by song- not bulk.

[arlo]

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.