OMS - Only My Songs Guide

Only My Songs Guide

Mission Statement:

Maintain a central store for all your song chords and lyrics. Searching, editing and viewing lyrics/chords should be easy and fast. The ultimate end is to help you find and play songs easily in a format that is tailored exactly to your needs.

Features:

Only My Songs keeps track of your own collection of song chords and lyrics.

Features include:

Search
Style your song in your choice of fonts, colours and font sizes
Change Key
Categorise your songs
Create personal song books - eg. favourites, rock and roll etc.
Export songs to comma separated file for backup purposes

Song/Chord information format:

Above the line chords (example)

[Verse 1]
F                                   C              Eb      
  Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy
Bb                           
  Wounded in the line of duty
Gm                        F            Cm           
   parachuting acid into    diplomatic cocktail parties
Eb                        Bb                 Fm        
  Urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles
          Eb          Gm
  Leave it all like a man

In-line chords using square brackets (example)

[Verse 1]
Field Commander Cohen, he was our [C]most important [Eb]spy
[Bb]Wounded in the line of duty
[Gm]parachuting acid into  [F]diplomatic [Cm]cocktail parties
[Eb]Urging Fidel Castro to [Bb]abandon fields and [Fm]castles
Leave it [Eb]all like a [Gm]man

Section headings and repeats

You can create your own headings by including them in square brackets like:

[Verse]
When I need you...
[Chorus]
I just close my eyes

Also you can repeat any section (such as Chorus) by including the key-word 'repeat' in square brackets. Note that section name is case insensitive with regard to repeats. eg:

[Verse]
When I need you...
[Chorus]
I just close my eyes
[Verse 2]
When I need love
[repeat chorus]

Lyric Comments

You can make 'comments' in your lyrics by starting a line with [comment]
Eg:

[Verse 1]
Field Commander Cohen, he was our [C]most important [Eb]spy
[comment]This line will display as a comment
[Bb]Wounded in the line of duty