Song List
This panel is the main entry point to manage the list of songs.
It displays a table containing all the songs defined in the application.
Form this table you can:
- Select some songs to do some actions on them (delete, add to current songbook, export, print...). See list of actions below.
- Add/Edit song data by triggering the Song details dialog.
- Display the song in the Song Viewer screen: simply double-click on a song or selected the song and move the the Song Viewer panel.
- Edit the text of a song: selected the song and move the the Song Editor panel.
- Add songs to current songbook: selected some song(s) and press the Add in songbook toolbar button.
This dialog shows all data about a Song.This data is used to generate the 'header' part when song is displayed (title, singer, author, year ...).
The fields are:
- Singer: the singer of the song.
- Title: the title of the song.
- Prefix: First word of the song title when it should be omitted in sorting (usually 'The' or 'A').Leave it blank if not applicable.
- Authors: authors of the song with their contributions.
- Language: language of the song.
- Original language: When the song is a translation of another song, the language of the original song.
- Creation year: Creation year of the song.
- Capo position: Recommended position (fret number) of the capo.
- Info: additional info about the song (original title or a sentence which is often confused with the title).This info create extra entries in the PDF songbook index to enrich song referencing.
- Notes: Free text to keep info about the song.
Toolbar actions
In addition to the global actions, This panel defines the following specific actions:
Song data edition actions
New
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Create new element.
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New As
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Create new element by copying the current.
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Open
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Open selected element.
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Delete
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Delete current element.
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Move in song list actions
First
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Go to first element of the list.
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Previous Group
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Go to previous group of elements of the list.
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Previous
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Go to previous element of the list.
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Next
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Go to next element of the list.
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Next Group
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Go to next group of elements of the list.
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Last
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Go to last element of the list.
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Songbook actions
Add in songbook
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Add the song(s) in the current songbook
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