Songbeamer Chords Import

Godisawesome · January 2017

Our church is looking at replacing songbeamer with openlp. We have around 2,200 songs to import. Some of them have chords included. I know that can import songs from songbeamer but do the chords get imported as well?

tgc · January 2017

Currently chords are not supported or imported, but in the upcoming 2.6 release chords will be supported, including import from songbeamer and other formats.
We hope to release 2.6 this spring.

Godisawesome · January 2017

Cool, thanks for that, that is the only thing holding us back from moving to openlp.

I'll download the trunk of 2.6 off launchpad to evaluate it in preparation for the spring release.

It will give me some breathing space from the worship team

tgc · January 2017

Just to warn you, the chord support is not in trunk yet, but should be soonish.

Godisawesome · January 2017

Ah ok, I'll hang fire for now. Does it import them so that they are editable using the chord tags {c} and {cl} or just as if it is a normal line of text?

Godisawesome · January 2017

While it on my mind, the version of Songbeamer we use is ancient, V2.41d, the current version is V4.37a. Would this make a difference in the ability of openlp to import the songs complete with chords?

Is this the branch that has the proposed songbeamer import with chords function?

https://code.launchpad.net/~tomasgroth/openlp/chords

tgc · January 2017

Chords will be supported with ChordPro notation, so it will look something like this:

A l[C]ine of l[G]yric

No need of the c and cl tags anymore.
I could imaging that the version of songbeamer could influence the database format, so it might not work... But maybe you can download free demo/trial version of the newer songbeamer to do a conversion to the format.
And yes, the branch you mention is indeed the chord development branch, though it is in middle of a small refactoring, so I can't promise everything is working...

Godisawesome · January 2017

That will make things a whole lot easier. I will try out the branch version and see how it looks.Using the latest trial version of songbeamer might not be possible as i use linux but can try it under wine maybe

raoul · February 2017

@Godisawesome if you want to try your hand at it, the Ubuntu instructions on this page are up to date:

http://wiki.openlp.org/Development:Linux_Development_Environment

Then just checkout the code and run OpenLP:

$ python3 openlp.py

Godisawesome · February 2017

I had a play around with the chord development branch, it seems to import songbeamer songs complete with chords, for some reason the text formatting isn't right, some lines are centre aligned while others are left aligned.

The chords appear on the live screen on the remote browser view but not on the stage view, I thought that was a feature that worked on V2.4 using the {cl} tag method. is this a feature yet to be included in the new code?

Godisawesome · February 2017

Thanks I'll give that a go

Godisawesome · February 2017

Hi Raoul, have brought down the checkout of the development trunk and added Tomas Groths chord branch on top of the trunk download all looks to be working good except for text formatting on the live screen & the remote browser main screen been wrong. (see attached screen shots). I couldn't see it already listed as a bug (I might have missed it maybe)

Image: https://forums.openlp.org/uploads/editor/1i/sbe55ucvugzu.png

Image: https://forums.openlp.org/uploads/editor/t0/agxlhfkmzbsr.png

Godisawesome · February 2017

I had a look again at this, I think it is related to the theme as Moss on trees seems to be ok

tgc · February 2017

To display the chords on the main screen you have to enable it in the settings in the songs section.
The problem with the alignment is a bug in the chord handling that I hope to fix in the near future.
The transposing is not currently working in the chord stageview.

Godisawesome · February 2017

Hi there. I set it so chords are not displayed on the live screen so that is not an issue.

I am working through all the songs that have imported in from songbeamer as some have chords already in chord pro format when imported them from songbeamer and others have the chords as part of the lyrics.

Thankfully I found a online tool that performs the conversion into chord pro format which is saving a lot of time

tomasss · February 2017

@tgc big big thanks for your branch with chords
i can see, that you are working with my older version of chords.html, chords.js
could you please add control to show/hide chords? or check https://github.com/tomasss1024/openlp_chords/tree/master/stages

big thanks once more
tomasss

tgc · February 2017

@Godisawesome Could you send me an example of a songbeamer song with chords that does not import correctly? Would be great to get it right the first time

@tomasss I'm actually currently testing a new approach using tables instead of spans in the html. This has the advantage that it can also be used when printing.

Godisawesome · February 2017

@tgc you mean a song where the text alignment isn't right? I solved that by changing the theme to moss on tree. It only changes the alignment when I edit them and it changes the theme to blue burst. Other than that they seem to be importing correctly

ConnerNA · January 25

Are chords going to be supported in OpenLP? Chordpro format

JohnM · January 26

Yes! The current development version will support chords when it is released.....at least that is the plan!

Songbeamer Chords Import

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