Musicians SongBoard (Scrolling Chords and Lyrics)

This is your electronic SongBook / SongBoard

if you want to play and sing along your favorite songs with chords and lyrics.

Just import your songs and let the app scroll them.

IF YOU LAUNCHED THE APP FOR THE FIRST TIME:

1. Check out the DEMO Song (see app menu)

2. Check out the tutorial videos on youtube (see button on HELP tab)

3. Sign up for an account (see app menu: LOGIN). Then you can save songs to your user space

4. easy import songs from xml or textfiles (see app menu: IMPORT)

5. easy import songs as plain text from websites (select the text and share to the app)

6. Visit the forum for questions, bug-reports and feature-requests (see button on HELP tab)

PLEASE REPORT BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS AND QUESTIONS IN THE FORUM.

YOU CAN GET SOME SONGFILES THERE, TOO:

http://songboard.freeforums.net

CHECK OUT THE TUTORIALS ON YOUTUBE:

https://www.youtube.com/user/heavilyloadedgames/playlists

FEATURES:

- easy import chords/lyrics in plain text or xml-format

- easy editing on the fly (long press on rows and part names

- open system and format: export and share songs as xml or plain text to print

- smart wrapping of chords and lyrics

- transpose chords (6 semitones +/-)

- auto scroll (speed +/-)

- scale text +/-

- metronome (speed +/-)

- save textsize an scrollspeed for each device and each orientation

- floating YouTube player (long press to move the player-window)

the app stores your user-specific settings for all your different devices and for each screen orientation. your songs always start with exactly the same settings (transpose, textsize, scrollspeed).

internally the songs have a specific xml-format. you will find an example here:

https://pastebin.com/EQ8TRD2K

You can write down songs in this format or import plain text into the app and edit the song on your device. Always save the song after editing (floating action menu on the top right).

share your songs with your friends and invite them to use SongBoard!

have fun and give SongBoard a good play store rating :)

PERMISSIONS

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- Internet-Connection -> for cloud-storage (google firebase)

- contacts -> to share songs

- reading/writing files from/to the device

- DrawOverlays (System Aler Window) -> for the floating YouTube View

- deactivate sleep-mode -> used only in the scrollingActivity

- the app uses google firebase analytics to understand how users interact with the app. no personal informations are collected!

- the app is prepared for admob ads.

bye

phil

p.p.s.: the app is still in beta mode and under development. i really appreciate your suggestions and bug reports!