Is Chordie at risk of closing down. (Page 1 of 2)

Shanden, what I do sometimes is copy some songs and paste them in WORD.
I did print a great amount of songs. You will notice sometimes that in some songs, like a song
A     C    D   C
lalalalalalalallala should have a G in stead of the C at the end.
What they shutdown more are "download sites" for music. I use WinMx and Limewire. I paid 40$ a few years ago, to have these programs, and even then, I am more focused on bootlegs.
The Rolling Stones have a lot of those.

I have tried to make my songbook ( books ) available to work with offline - and havent been able to do it . Anyone know how to do it ?

Hi
I do not think this is possible

sorry

Ken

thanks- going to give ita go . i have printed out almost 150 songs for personal use (only) and was trying to keep a back up somewhere in case anything like the site closing down happens . it would be an aweful shame . all the hard work done by people on here just for a hobby seems criminal to even think about closing it . anyway - rumours are always rife - lets hope its just one of them ...

You can always use ''Print Screen'. This puts what is on the screen into the memory, from where it can be pasted into Microsoft Word, and saved as a doc. Sometimes you need to use 'Ctrl' when you press Print Screen.
You can make a 'selection' and simply print the selection, or you can copy the selection to the memory and paste into Microsoft Word again.

Moral is, whenever you compile something to post, like a chord progression, keep a copy of the original as you finish it!

Happy Fretting
Chordwayze (John)

I realize that this answer is quite low tech, but I'm living in my 7th decade and enjoy mixing old tech with new.

If you have a scanner/printer combination, print the song, then scan it and save it as a graphic file.

Or... I've find that PDF Creator is a better freeware app for creating PDF's and Foxit Reader is a much better PDF reader than Adobe's bloatware.
you can get them here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

This site is brilliant beyond words, so I hope it isn't attacked by the lawyers.

I don't think the entire site would get shut down, they would just have to exclude artists for which the lawyers are flustered about. Personally, I'd want my lyrics / chords known for the songs of mine. I don't really understand why they would want to remove them from chordie since having them in chordie is like having your website in google. And if something's incorrect in the chord, you can just correct it. So chordie is the number one site out there in my opinion for chords / tabs. Every other site is littered with a tangled web of advertisements and an inability for community contribution. Good job chordie!

Yesterday I have converted my ACAD document into PDF with this Free PDF Creator.

On Safari on a Mac (maybe PC too?), you can save a webpage as a Web Archive file.

If Chordie does get shut down, it would be cool to have the code to display songs that you've formatted on your own. I think there used to be something like that in the early days. If you can edit your own songbook, you can properly set up any song for Chordie to do its thing.

I use a program called Songbook from Linkesoft.com.  I copy the songs off screen in Chordpro format, then past them into notepad and save in Songbook.  If the're Chordpro, from there I can print them, edit, transpose, etc.  So I get a lot of the same functionality whether I'm online in Chordie or offline in Songbook.