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Hi, I'm a new user of MobileSheets. I'm happily importing individual pdf music scores, and using MS with a foot pedal, all great.
Now I want to be able to select individual music scores from my electronic Real Book.
I know what a CSV file is but I'm not sure how to use it.
Do I import the whole Real Book, then create bookmarks namng the songs I want to see?
Or do I only import the individual songs?
Should I place bookmarks in the Real Book pdf?
It would be great to have a simple tutorial importing a large pdf (like a Real Book) and being about to sccess individual songs somehow!
TIA.
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12-09-2023, 01:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2023, 02:09 AM by McAroni.)
There is a forum round about csv questions....
https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...um-29.html
You already had a look there?
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There are lots of csv for realbooks already so check to see if one already exists (guessing do a forum search for Realbook or CSV)
Basically, you use a simple text editor to create a csv file that has a single line header and one line for each of the songs you want to access (the header line specifies the fields used in the other lines).
The format is quite fussy so you should look at another realbook (any) csv to see what it looks like.
Ideally you want to define lines for each song in the songbook.
It is a good idea to add a field to each line specifying a dedicated collection name for that book - this makes it easier to select all the files with a filter e.g. select all it's songs so that they can be deleted prior to reimporting.
The songbook and the .csv have to be in the same directory when the book is imported. The key bit is that the csv is only used during the import i.e. it not so easy if you decide to add missing songs that you omitted on the first import ( e.g. you could delete/reimport but this will probably lose any annotation that you have made).
Assuming you define entries for the whole book, please post your .csv for others to use
This advice is based on my experience about 3 years ago; things may have changed a bit since about reimporting the book.
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I use csv and pdf bookmarks in different situations. Both work well, but adding bookmarks to a pdf is more difficult and requires more effort, at least for me it does. But I make bookmarks in the pdf sometimes because my backup music reading tablet is just a Kindle that can't run mobilesheets. So it's either pdf bookmarks or none at all in that case.
I have about 20 fakebooks in my library which have mobilesheets song files for every tune as well as one for each whole book. I choose to use a single database for all my music.
