OpenSong support

[sonoftheking]

Please consider adding support for the OpenSong's [mostly] XML format: http://www.opensong.org/pages/song-file-format-specification.html

The non-XML bit is the text contained in between the tabs, eg:
[V1]
Verse 1 line 1
Verse 1 line 2
Verse 1 line 3

[P]
Pre-Chorus line 1
Pre-Chorus line 2
Pre-Chorus line 3||
Pre-Chorus line 4 (on slide 2)
Pre-Chorus line 5 (on slide 2)
Pre-Chorus line 6 (on slide 2)

[C]
Chorus line 1
Chorus line 2
Chorus line 3

[V2]
Verse 2 line 1
Verse 2 line 2
Verse 2 line 3

[B]
Bridge line 1
Bridge line 2
Bridge line 3

[ChrisMBarr]

Looking at this now, it seems the file format has greatly changed in the past few years!
http://www.opensong.org/home/file-formats

However... I cannot find any sample songs at all, except for that one listed as a demo on that page. I see this page is supposed to give out songs in multiple languages: http://www.opensong.org/home/download
However most of the links seem to be dead.

@sonoftheking do you have any information about this? Is OpenSong a format that's still in use anywhere? It seems pretty dead to me.

[KevinFromUpThere]

Hey! I think OpenSong is still quite popular due to it's free-ness :)

Here's a sample song (i think this is royalty free)- natively there's no extension, but I added .txt because of the forum limitations.

O Come All Ye Faithful.txt

[ChrisMBarr]

Cool, thanks for the info. The format is a bit unknown to me. I took a look at your code repos @KevinFromUpThere and I see this: https://github.com/KevinFromUpThere/PraiseMusic/tree/master/OpenSong/Songs

That will probably be a good sampling and test bed for this if you don't mind me copying those files!

[KevinFromUpThere]

Ha oh yeah I forgot I put those there... probably in no-no territory with copyrights?

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On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 2:14 PM Chris Barr ***@***.***> wrote: Cool, thanks for the info. The format is a bit unknown to me. I took a look at your code repos @KevinFromUpThere <https://github.com/KevinFromUpThere> and I see this: https://github.com/KevinFromUpThere/PraiseMusic/tree/master/OpenSong/Songs That will probably be a good sampling and test bed for this if you don't mind me copying those files! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACCR5O2Y6CEEJXNSM5ASHBTXJ5XPLANCNFSM4AYZTPEA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[ChrisMBarr]

Lol, well I won't tell anyone. If I used them it would simply be for testing purposes to make sure it can read the format correctly.

I will get to it at some point though. Currently LyricConverter can read and write 2 different XML based file formats (ProPresenter and OpenLyrics), this one shouldn't be any harder really. I recently moved my OpenLyrics parser into its own NPM package which makes it more modular and easier to implement inside of LyricConverter. When I get around to OpenSong I'd like to do something similar.

[KevinFromUpThere]

Nice, that's very cool. The one kind of strange thing OpenSong does is lines with chords that start with a dot (.) ... a bunch of apps convert this format, like OpenLP brings in an entire folder of OpenSong, but not much OUTPUTS to OpenSong. You may have noticed I wrote a little script to convert someone's scanning of our 500 song hymnbook into OpenSong... this was pretty brute force line-by-line stuff. I considered doing another for UltimateGuitar copy-pastes.... that would definitely be a useful thing, but a very different non-xml format.

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On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 4:58 PM Chris Barr ***@***.***> wrote: Lol, well I won't tell anyone. If I used them it would simply be for testing purposes to make sure it can read the format correctly. I will get to it at some point though. Currently LyricConverter can read and write 2 different XML based file formats (ProPresenter and OpenLyrics), this one shouldn't be any harder really. I recently moved my OpenLyrics parser into its own NPM package <https://github.com/FiniteLooper/openlyrics-parser> which makes it more modular and easier to implement inside of LyricConverter. When I get around to OpenSong I'd like to do something similar. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACCR5OYQWQ6J6TWYHZATOK3XJ6KWPANCNFSM4AYZTPEA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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