[miles_muso]

I'm still looking into other options for handling Real Book PDFs such as index files, but I just haven't had time to deal with this issue yet.

Mike

Hi Mike

Firstly, thanks for a great Android app. I've only just started using it, but I can see us getting on famously!

I've just sent you a long question about this topic using your 'Contact Me' page, but I thought I'd post here as well, as it's quite relevant.

There is an existing pdf index format known as pdfb. pdfb files are freely available for many real books. The pdfb file is basically just a semicolon-delimited text file and looks like this:

Code:

PDFB1;Real Book 1, 6th Edition;file:///sdcard/Documents/The Real Book Volume 1, 6th Ed.pdf;
140;A Fine Romance;Kern;Jerome;;Medium Ballad;;4/4;;
262;A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme);Lai;Frances;;Medium Even 8ths;;4/4;;
302;A Night In Tunisia;Gillespie;Dizzy;;Medium Afro Latin;;4/4;There's better versions, this one doesn't switch from latin to swing.;
388;A String Of Pearls;Gray;Jerry;;Medium Swing;;4/4;;
392;A Sunday Kind Of Love;Prima;Louis;;Medium Swing;;4/4;;
10;African Flower (Petite Fleur Africaine);Ellington;Duke;;Medium Latin;;4/4;;
11;Afro Blue;Santamaria;Mongo;;Med Fast Latin;;4/4;;
12;Afternoon In Paris;Lewis;John;;Medium Swing;;4/4;;
13;Airegin;Rollins;Sonny;;Bop;;4/4;;
14;Agua De Beber (Water To Drink);Jobim;Antonio Carlos;;Medium Bossa;;4/4;;
etc.......

The first line is the name of the book to be created and location of the reference pdf file.  The rest of the file is a set of data for each page, where the field names are as follows:

Page number (in the pdf); Song Title; ArtistSurname; ArtistFirstname;AKA field (but it worked out better to put this in brackets in the Song Title); Style; TimeSig; Comment

I've asked if it's possible to use something like this for importing fake books, maybe by using the pdfb file as a look-up table and adding the data as metadata when splitting the real book into separate pdf sheets - one for each song.

Perhaps someone else on this forum has had some success with this type of approach?