You can put your song files wherever you like, since you have to locate them by the File, Open menu in BIAB. I do recommend using a folder under /BB so that your songs are not clumped in with all the demos and styles that ship with the program. For example, I have all my songs in one of two folders: /BB/Matt Originals or /BB/Matt Arranged. Then there are many subfolders in each of those two folders.

About the song file extensions, this is from the BIAB Help about Song Files:

Song Files
Song files end in ?G? extension.

If the song has a melody the extension will begin with M (otherwise it’s S).

The second letter of the song name is G.

The third letter is the style of the song, 1-9 and A-N for built in styles and U for a User style.

Example: My Song Title.MGU

The M tells us that a Melody is recorded.

The G is always present in song names telling us that it is a song.

The U tells us that the style is a user style.

Example: My Song Title.SG1

The S indicates that no melody is recorded.

The G is always present in song names telling us that it is a song.

The 1 indicates style #1, which is Jazz Swing.

The song files are quite small. This means that you can store hundreds or thousands of songs without using up too much of your hard drive space.



.FSO

This file contains info about favorite song/style set lists specific to Band-in-a-Box for Windows that have been saved under a user-defined name (with the .FSO extension.) These files allow the user to make "set lists" of favorite songs and/or styles in an organized fashion, regardless of their actual physical location on the computer system.



.WAV files.

If you have recorded an audio portion of a song, this gets saved beside the song (e.g. MySong.MG1 as a .WAV file called MySong.WAV).

[EDIT} Robb's post shows that you can often get the info you need in several ways: the BIAB Help, the FAQ, or by searching the forum.

Last edited by Matt Finley; 01/14/12 10:21 AM.
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