08-09-2022, 03:37 AM
Hello Trevor,
When MobileSheets mentions files, this typically means one of two things:
1) A PDF, image file (.bmp, .jpg, .png, etc) or a text/chord pro file (.txt/.cho/.crd). Files of this type are displayed when a song is loaded. With PDFs and images, more than one file can be added to a single song, so there is not a one-to-one correlation of files to songs. Multiple songs can also share the same file which is important when dealing with large fakebooks so that duplicates are not made for the large file.
2) An audio file (.mp3, .wav, .mid, etc). These can be added to songs for audio playback
One thing many users do is use a csv file to break up a large PDF into individual songs. This makes it faster/easier to populate metadata and allows many songs to be created at once that use a smaller range of pages from the PDF. If you go to https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...php?fid=29 on the forum you can see many CSV files that have been uploaded by users for common realbooks/jazzbooks/fakebooks/etc. If you find the right csv for your PDF, you can place the two in the same directory, tap Import->CSV or PDF Bookmarks, select the csv file and you will be given a list of songs. You can create any of those songs and MobileSheets will copy the large PDF into the storage location and each song will share that same PDF but use a different range of pages.
When it comes to transposing, only text/chord pro files can be transposed. That's because transposing a PDF is incredibly complex, and requires something called Music OCR that allows an image of sheet music to be scanned and the music notes and other information extracted from that image. Then the software can reconstruct all of the sheet music from the notes it read. As you can imagine, this can be very error prone if the image quality is low or there are other things that interfere with the image analysis. There aren't many Android applications that can handle Music OCR (at least not well). There are some great products for Windows though, although they are anywhere from $100-$250. I don't support this in MobileSheets because I haven't found an open source library that can help with the image analysis that can be used for commercial products. I may try to tackle this in the future, but it will be a very large undertaking, so it's very low in my list of priorities.
As far as your question about a source of jazz standards - I can't help with that unfortunately. Hopefully another user can chime in if they are aware of anything like that.
Mike
When MobileSheets mentions files, this typically means one of two things:
1) A PDF, image file (.bmp, .jpg, .png, etc) or a text/chord pro file (.txt/.cho/.crd). Files of this type are displayed when a song is loaded. With PDFs and images, more than one file can be added to a single song, so there is not a one-to-one correlation of files to songs. Multiple songs can also share the same file which is important when dealing with large fakebooks so that duplicates are not made for the large file.
2) An audio file (.mp3, .wav, .mid, etc). These can be added to songs for audio playback
One thing many users do is use a csv file to break up a large PDF into individual songs. This makes it faster/easier to populate metadata and allows many songs to be created at once that use a smaller range of pages from the PDF. If you go to https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...php?fid=29 on the forum you can see many CSV files that have been uploaded by users for common realbooks/jazzbooks/fakebooks/etc. If you find the right csv for your PDF, you can place the two in the same directory, tap Import->CSV or PDF Bookmarks, select the csv file and you will be given a list of songs. You can create any of those songs and MobileSheets will copy the large PDF into the storage location and each song will share that same PDF but use a different range of pages.
When it comes to transposing, only text/chord pro files can be transposed. That's because transposing a PDF is incredibly complex, and requires something called Music OCR that allows an image of sheet music to be scanned and the music notes and other information extracted from that image. Then the software can reconstruct all of the sheet music from the notes it read. As you can imagine, this can be very error prone if the image quality is low or there are other things that interfere with the image analysis. There aren't many Android applications that can handle Music OCR (at least not well). There are some great products for Windows though, although they are anywhere from $100-$250. I don't support this in MobileSheets because I haven't found an open source library that can help with the image analysis that can be used for commercial products. I may try to tackle this in the future, but it will be a very large undertaking, so it's very low in my list of priorities.
As far as your question about a source of jazz standards - I can't help with that unfortunately. Hopefully another user can chime in if they are aware of anything like that.
Mike