What does this program do ?

This program aim is to create and manage electronic and printed guitar songbooks.
The power of this program is its ability to convert very simple 'plain text' songs (you don't have to bother about text layout, diagrams, chord fingering...)
into very nice-looking, ready-to-print songs with chord diagrams.

Here is an overview of the program functionalities in 6 screenshots:

 
 
Managing songs screenshot

Managing song data

Informations about the songs and their author is kept in a local database. The "Chansonnier" allows you to easily add/update/remove songs and authors. Import and export functions to various external formats are also provided.

Editing songs

The song are stored internally as simple text, so it is very easy to create and edit them. The "Chansonnier" provides a little embedded text editor with specific syntax-coloring and function for song edition.
The exact chords fingering can also be edited in the chord diagram edition GUI.

Editing songs screenshot
Grouping songs into songbooks

Grouping songs into songbooks

A songbook is simply a persistent selection of songs. The songbooks can be displayed directly or exported to PDF to be printed.

Displaying songbooks

The songs of a songbook are displayed on the screen nicely formatted. The chords are displayed above the song lines using english chord names (A, B, C...) or french chord names (Do, RĂ©, Mi ...). The diagrams of the chords used in a song are displayed at the top. The chords can be transposed on-the-fly in this screen.

Displaying songs screenshot
Songs on smartphone
 

... also on Android

There is also an Android application to display your favourite songbook on tablets or smartphones.
The songbook must be exported to a zip file copied on the device SD card. This android application can also transpose song chords and display chord diagrams.

 

Printing songbooks

From a songbook, an export function creates ready-to-print PDF documents. Those PDF documents displays song in the same nice format (including chord diagrams) as the application and also contains generated indexes.

Printing songbooks