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Create a song from an unused file
Create a song from an unused file
Press “Edit”.
Press the “+” symbol next to an unused file.
Change the title if necessary. (The file name is taken as a suggestion.)
If you have numbered your songs, enter your numbers here.
Here you can enter a short additional annotation, which will be displayed, for example, in the preview of this song.
Enter the artist and genres or select existing ones with "..." from the list.
If you want to play one or more audio files and/or a MIDI or video file, select them here.
Press “Save”.
Add another song with the “+” symbol or press “Done” to finish.
## Insert All Files at Once
If you have copied many new files to SongBook+ and do not want to insert them individually into the song list, SongBook+ can also automatically add them to the song list.
The file name is then used as the title. All other fields remain empty and can be edited later.
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From version 6.4, SongBook+ can also extract metadata like title, artist, genre, key, tempo from MIDI, MP3, or ChordPro files. Information about this can be found in a separate section below.
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In the settings "Import of metadata (from Midi, ChordPro, MP3)" you can specify which metadata should be imported from such files.
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Convert all unused files into songs
Press here to start the process (icon with rectangle and arrow).\
After confirming that you really want to do this, entries will be created from all unused files.
After the process, the song list will be sorted by date so that the newly inserted songs appear at the top and you can see them.
You can then switch back to your preferred sorting.
### Import Metadata from MIDI, MP3, ChordPro Files
From version 6.4, SongBook+ can import metadata like title, artist, genre, key, tempo from MIDI, MP3, or ChordPro files.
In the settings "Import of Meta-Data (from Midi, ChordPro MP3)" you can specify which data should be read from these files.
