Songpress 1.8.1

This bugfix release fixes some issues:

• A problem with find-replace (#53)
• An error on application exit (#54)
• An internationalization problem with some languages (#55)

Songpress 1.8.0

We are happy to release a new version of Songpress!

Songpress 1.8 comes with new long-awaited features:

• Text formatting: font face, size and color of lyrics and chords may be changed, according to Chordpro specifications
• Song subtitle: you may add a subtitle below the song title
• Export as text file: your songs may be exported as simple text (TXT/TAB) files, with chord above lyrics
• Songpress portable: as an additional distribution format, we provide a portable version of Songpress. No installation required! Just unzip and run Songpress.exe.
• German translation by Axel Schneider
• Refined chord notations: German/Scandinavian and Traditional German have been differentiated

Have a happy Easter!

Songpress 1.7.2

This is a point-release that fixes a bug that prevented Songpress from starting by opening a chordpro file.

Songpress 1.7.1

This is a point-release that fixes a bug, that could prevent Songpress from starting when updating from a previous version, as well as a couple of minor bugs and regressions.

Songpress 1.7

We are happy to release a new version of Songpress!

The most important change in Songpress 1.7 is under the wood: we modernized our framewok, by upgrading our code to run on Python 3 and and wxPython 4 (Phoenix) series. This change allows Songpress to take advantage of improvements of the language and the libraries, and makes it easier to run Songpress on recent platforms (especially Linux and, maybe, mac os).

The visible new features or Songpress 1.7 are the following.

• improved SVG export: now font spacing is perfect, thanks to an improved SVG support by the wxWidgets library requested for Songpress
• you can now export your song as a karaoke-like PowerPoint presentation
• added spanish translation, thanks to Miguel Dell'Uomini
• some bugs have been fixed, as usual

Songpress 1.6

Songpress 1.6 introduces the following features:

• Windows 10 compatibility
• Different output for different usage: chords are not always useful. For a large lead sheet, chords on every single verse are welcome, but for a small leaflet one could prefer to put chords only on the first verse and on the (first) chorus, in order to save space, or even to remove chords completely (for example for singers). Therefore Songpress introduces three levels of "chordeness":
  • complete, chords are typeset on every verse
  • minimal, only one verse for each type gets chords (Songpress will determine automatically the first occurrence of a verse with a new chord pattern)
  • chords off
• Chord normalization: quickly clean up chords, so that a homogeneous notation is adopted

Furthermore, we moved our project from Google Code to Github, and prepared some scripts to automate builds. Hopefully new releases will take less time to be prepared, and will benefit from contributions from the community. Please contribute by forking our code!