Insert Unused Files into the Song List

After inserting the PDF, music, or video files into SongBook, they appear as "Unused Files".

PDF files in the "Unused Files" section can be opened and viewed, but for more functions, you need to make songs from them, as described below.

Manually Insert Individual Files

With the following steps, you can add them to the song list and enter additional information such as title, artist, genre, and MP3 file for background playback.

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.

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.

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.

In the settings "Import of metadata (from Midi, ChordPro, MP3)" you can specify which metadata should be imported from such files.

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.

Imported Metadata from MIDI Files

For MIDI files, the following meta-events are read:

• Song title: 0x03 (track name)

• Key: 0x59

• Time signature: 0x58

• Tempo: 0x51

• Artist: 0x4B (M-Live Tag)

• Genre: 0x4B (M-Live Tag)

• Metronome Tempo: 0x51

• Metronome Accent: 0x58

Imported Metadata from MP3 Files

For MP3 files, the following ID3 tags are read:

• Song title: TIT2

• Tempo: TBPM

• Artist: TPE1

• Genre: TCON

• Metronome Tempo: TBPM

Imported Metadata from ChordPro Files

For ChordPro files, the following directives are read:

• Song title: {title:...} or {t:...}

• Key: {key:...}

• Tempo: {tempo:...}

• Artist: {artist:...}

• Genre: {genre:...}