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App for lyrics and chords that I can tap and turn the page? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm trying to find the optimal setup for me but I'm struggling with it, I'd love to hear your suggestions.

  • I wanted something that I can have a lyrics data bank for me to use offline if I need to.
  • I wanted to be able to tap and flip the page... not scroll. Scroll requires me to be precise on the move during a song... can't do it. A pedal would work but this is for me to play at campfires and stuff, I don't want to carry a Bluetooth pedal around.

I downloaded Ultimate Guitar and it's good in the sense that it has a lot of songs... but the autoscroll sucks because sometimes there's a section in the middle with details of a riff and I don't want to do that so I have to stop and move the song forwards. I guess if there's an app that would download the lyrics/chords and keep it on the phone and another that simply reads files and I can tap and turn a page, that would work as well.. How do you guys do it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Open Song Android App can handle PDFs and changing pages is, if I remember correctly, a quick flick of the finger.
The developer, Gareth, is super responsive and open to suggestions. Check it out. https://www.opensongapp.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That is an excellent tip, thank you so much! It seems that all apps should be able to do something so simple, and in this case, a tap at the bottom of the screen brings that section to the middle automatically, looks great.

Tomorrow I'll play around with trying to load songs I want so I can then figure out how I'll download a mass of them so I can import there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I use ForScore on my iPad. I have a Bluetooth pedal that advances the pages, but you can tap also. It imports PDFs just fine, so if you had your lyrics in that format, that would work

https://forscore.co/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah I had seen that one but it seems to be just for the Apple environment and I only have Androids... thanks though.