SongBook lets you control your Linn Klimax DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS or Sneaky Music DS from your Mac or iPhone. Currently only Twonky MediaServer is supported but support for more MediaServers will be added later. Unlike other UPNP controllers SongBook is designed exclusively for Linn DS devices. This means you get full playlist support and interoperability with Linn GUI. You can use the track navigation controls on the remote control too. SongBook supports Album Art from Twonky MediaServer.
MySongbook App. Take your entire collection with you! IPhone, and iPod) iOS App as well as a Mac App. Get your copy today! IOS Features/Description: No more carrying around your heavy folders and music books, your iOS device is now all you need for your chord charts and guitar tabs. Take your entire songbook of chord charts wherever you.
What's New in SongBook. SongBook lets you control your Linn Klimax DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS or Sneaky Music DS from your Mac or iPhone. Currently only Twonky MediaServer is supported but support for more MediaServers will be added later. Unlike other UPNP controllers SongBook is designed exclusively for Linn DS devices. This means you get full playlist support and interoperability with Linn GUI. You can use the track navigation controls on the remote control too.
SongBook supports Album Art from Twonky MediaServer. Note though that there is a bug with the Mac version of Twonky MediaServer that will result in some lost images if you have image scaling turned on. To avoid this turn off image scaling.
Songbook Apps These are my personal opinions on each of these applications. There are definitely more out there than these four apps available, but these apps satisfy my base requirements:.
Relevant for a musical community (filk, in my case). Has the ability to scroll music. Database functions for sorting your music and presenting for performance. Under $10 (For example, from BauM Software is somewhat similar to forScore, but is a midi and lyrics app that retails for $50- and actually doesn't appear all that useful in a primarily acoustic community.) is an iOS app that is focused on one thing: the ability to do a timed scroll of any file thrown at it. Written by filker Phil Mills from Ontario, Canada, it is the most basic of the apps reviewed here, and is also the least expensive (at $4.99).
The filetypes that it can read are:. PDF (.pdf). Text (.txt). Rich Text Format (.rtf). Word (.doc).
Excel (.xls). Powerpoint (.ppt).
Keynote (.key). Numbers (.numbers). Pages (.pages) There are no sharing functions in this app- files are imported into the app through iTunes on your desktop Mac or PC. Is an iOS songbook that only reads PDF files.
However, it is the single best PDF reader I have seen. The interface is pretty good, and the speed of rendering is faster than anything else I've seen on the iPad. This is the preferred program if you are an instrumentalist, and you work primarily from music notation. You can share original or individual pages of PDFs via email, or you can send annotated files to other forScore users. Page turns are accomplished with either a single touch on the screen, or with a bluetooth foot pedal.
You can also pre-program page turns (how many seconds you see each page). In addition to this, you can place links to jump from page to page- so codas and repeat endings do not have you flipping through several pages just to find that 'return to' spot! As with all the other apps on this page, you can also link it to an mp3 file in the Music application on your iPad to rehearse with a performance that you wish to emulate.
Recommended for iPad instrumentalists is an iOS-only program that is optimized for ChordPro, but will also read the same file types as. This is the best app for guitar players and groups; and is (in my opinion) the easiest of the songbook apps to use. In addition to the basic requirements above, you can leverage the ChordPro format to transpose chords on the fly, settings for transposition with guitar capos, independent settings for lyrics and chord fonts and color on each song; as well as several other features focused towards multiple users (Bluetooth sharing, projection of lyrics on a large screen, etc). See the comparison page for more uses. If you are playing in a group, you can also use a function called OnCue.
In this, a master device running OnSong will take over the screens of other devices running OnSong (in a voluntary, ad hoc network). As the 'master' changes songs, navigates the song or makes formatting changes, all screens will update accordingly. This runs over Bluetooth; and so is independent of any local network.
ChordPro files written in OnSong are compatible with. Recommended for iPad users by LinkeSoft is the only songbook app that runs on both Android and iOS (as well as having programs for Windows, MacOS, PalmOS, and PocketPC). For iOS, it is $6.99 in the Apple App Store. For Android, it's $5.99.
Note that this app will.not. read PDFs- it is text or ChordPro only. Feature for feature, it is almost the same as; though the user interface is more basic. A primary focus of this app is to be available on as many platforms as possible, and I feel that this limits what can be done with the UI. With this app, you can leverage the ChordPro format to transpose chords on the fly, and you can set lyrics/chord fonts/color in the main settings, to be universally applied to all songs. There are also several other features focused towards multiple users (Bluetooth sharing, projection of lyrics on a large screen, etc).
See the comparison page for more uses. If you don't wish to have your lyrics scroll across the screen, this is the only app that gives a multi-column option to be able to fit all the lyrics into one screen. There is also a master/slave group function in this app like OnSong's OnCue; but I have not been able to get it work. ChordPro formatted files in LinkeSoft Songbook are compatible with OnSong. Other benefits include transposing chords on the fly, creating setlists, and organizing your song library. Recommended for Android users.