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Getting started

Your library, folders, setlists, and search, plus how sync keeps every device up to date.

SONGUIDE is a songbook for musicians. You keep your songs with lyrics and chords in one library, organize them into setlists, and perform straight from your phone, tablet, or laptop. This guide covers the basics of organizing your library.

Songs

A song in SONGUIDE holds lyrics with inline chords, plus metadata like artist, key, tempo, and time signature. Songs are stored in the ChordPro format, a widely used plain text format for song sheets. You do not need to know ChordPro to use SONGUIDE, the Text editor lets you work with plain lyrics and chords. When you want full control, the ChordPro format guide explains everything the format can do.

Create a song from scratch, or import existing files from other apps and services. See Import and export.

Folders

Folders keep your library tidy. They are one level deep, so a folder holds songs but not other folders. Typical uses are grouping by band or by project.

Setlists

A setlist is an ordered list of songs for a rehearsal or a gig.

  • Reorder songs by dragging.
  • Songs from different folders can be part of the same setlist.
  • The same song can appear multiple times in one setlist.
  • Dividers are the non-song moments of a set, like a welcome, announcements, or a break. They can hold their own notes and open on stage like a song.

When a setlist is active, swiping or paging through songs follows the setlist order, so on stage you always land on the next song of the set.

Search

The search field filters your whole library as you type. It matches song titles, artists, and lyrics, and it forgives small typos in titles and artists. Results from other folders are listed too, so you find a song no matter where it lives. Press Enter to open the top hit.

Sync and offline

SONGUIDE is built local first. Your library is stored on your device, so everything works without an internet connection, in the mountains, on the high seas, or in a basement rehearsal room. When you are online, changes sync automatically to your account and to all your signed in devices. You can use up to 5 devices at the same time.

There is no save button and no sync button. Edit a song on your laptop, and it is on your tablet moments later. The Sync and offline guide explains the details, including working offline and the device limit.

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