songpress 1.9.0rc1

Songpress is a free, easy to use song typeset program for Windows and Linux, that generates high-quality songbooks.

Songpress is a free, easy to use song typeset program for Windows and Linux, that generates high-quality songbooks.

Songpress is focused on song formatting. Once your song is ready, you can copy-paste it into your favorite program, to give your songbook the look you like the most.

Installation

You can install Songpress using https://github.com/pypa/pipx:

pipx install songpress

Then you can run Songpress simply typing:

songpress

You can create a start menu shortcut by executing:

songpress --create-shortcuts

Highlights

• Produce high-quality guitar scores (text and chords)
• Easy to learn, quick to use
• You can paste formatted songs into any Windows application, to layout your songbook with maximum flexibility (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Microsoft Publisher, Inkscape etc.)
• Export formatted songs to PNG and HTML (web pages and snippets)
• Chord transposition with automatic key detection
• Chord simplification for beginner guitarists: determine the easiest key to play your song, and transpose it automatically
• Support several chord notations: American (C, D, E), Italian (Do, Re, Mi), French, German and Portuguese; notation conversion
• Support Chordpro and Tab (i.e. two-line) chord formats
• Clean up dirty songs with spurious blank lines (such as songs copied and pasted from web pages) and not homogeneous chord notations

Learn more at http://www.skeed.it/songpress

Upgrade

To upgrade Songpress, run:

pipx upgrade songpress