• Registered: 2015-06-10
  • Posts: 19

Topic: Suggestion: artist songbook made easier

First of all: great website, great idea

So now for my suggestion. In order to create a songbook related to some artist wouldn't it be fine if one could at first select all songs by them with one click and afterwards deselect the ones one doesn't want in the book by one click for each of them in the songbook's content index. You wouldn't have to open each song one by one  at first.

With this tool there could be more artist songbooks even for the recently not so popular ones. Then it would be easier to compilate specific songbooks by selecting from more artist songbooks.

I see that for some artists the initial all-select would make a huge songbook including duplicates that no one would ever actually use nor downoad nor print. But these artist songbooks could be a database for easier creating songbooks. I don't know how a songbook is stored, but i suppose it is just the link-database-references and not the text. In this case the existence of whole-artist-songbooks would not fill the server with trash.


Thanks for reading.

  • From: Almancil, Algarve, Portugal
  • Registered: 2006-09-02
  • Posts: 6,205

Re: Suggestion: artist songbook made easier

There is a 100 song limit for a songbook and many artistes ( especially with the duplications of their songs) have many more than this so I do not think it would work.

Roger

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  • Registered: 2015-06-10
  • Posts: 19

Re: Suggestion: artist songbook made easier

OK, thanks. I suppose you got my point.

Then sooner or later someone will find a workaround. Wel, sooner or later there will be some sophisticated database functions anyway. If it is an OOP. Just let it, for say 210 songs, automatically create three songbooks. beatles-username-1, beatles-username-2, beatles-username-3.

Or the word search function: Let there be a private rabbit breeder meeting somewhere without wifi. You might quickly sort the songs by using the search engine and take with you a songbook about white rabbits, one about black rabbits and so on. Then you might make a stage gag out of it. "You really want another white rabbit song? No, I don't have to google, I'm prepared" I mean, not that the website wouldn't be a creativity tool already, but it might be a quick-and-easy (and a little dirty) tool. To my experience working musicians love these things, especially the ones that play all kinds of stuff.

Sorry, each time I discover a software tool I soon slip into raving about it's future capabilities. Of course I didn't take into account if this kind of usage in in the operators' interest.