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Ray,

The forums have pretty strict rules about not sharing copyright material. These would potentially affect anything with melodies and/or lyrics unless the songs are in the realm of public domain.

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Originally Posted By: raymb1
What's the best way to send song files to someone in this forum? It seems like the only files one can send in a post here are .jpg, pdf.

You could PM the person and ask them for an email address if you wanted to communicate something with them.


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If I share files, I generally upload to my DropBox account, then PM the person and provide them a link to download.


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I would only post chords, which have no copyright rules.


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I seem to recall years ago that PGM decided not to do this maybe because it's skirting the legal line. Consider, chords alone are OK and song titles alone are OK but if you combine them? Not sure about that. You as a company provide the chords to Witchcraft and also name it Witchcraft?

I also have IRealPro and they specifically say that as a company they can't do that. All the songs on their forum are user created. I don't see the legal distinction since they own the forum but whatever, that's their decision.

Even without a melody the chords with the name doesn't smell right to me. As a keyboard player I see this all the time with patches emulating famous named instruments like a Rhodes piano. They call it a tine piano or for a Wurly they call it a reed piano, a Hammond B3 is a tonewheel organ. It's the same with guitars too. SampleTank has tons of guitars but they don't use the name Fender or Gibson, they use tele or ES5 or something. Trademark and copyright are not exactly the same thing but they sure are similar.

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Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
... It's the same with guitars too. SampleTank has tons of guitars but they don't use the name Fender or Gibson, they use tele or ES5 or something. Trademark and copyright are not exactly the same thing but they sure are similar.

PGM have always used a similar concept, using Style names like:
=CHUK_B.STY
EltonPno.STY

I don't have a problem with it at all smile .


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Originally Posted By: Heine Svendsen - Indigo 2
I would like to have a list of standard songs in a songpicker window, that I could chose from, and have the chords imported into the chord window in Band-in-a-Box.
IReal Pro has this feature, and I see no reason why Band-in-a-Box should not have it?
http://www.irealpro.com/


Originally Posted By: MarioD
Note's site has BiaB discs that cover many fake books:

http://nortonmusic.com/

Just load a file and the chords are exactly like what is the fake book. It even uses a BiaB style that loads with the song.

You might want to look at them.


MarioD alludes to why Biab should not necessarily build a database of Biab sgu standard song files in a Songpicker window. A much more massive database than anything Biab could ever compile already exists. It is accessible and can be filtered by the User to their specific choice of genre or individual song choices. This huge, diverse database consists of nothing more than the lowly MIDI File...

Biab has an automatic feature that loading a MIDI File decodes the file and imports the Key signature, tempo and chord chart. It will also import lyrics and a Melody line if they exist in the file. It decodes and imports this information as quickly as doing a SongPicker search, selection and load of a Biab SGU file.

Imagine the years it would take to compile a list of Biab SGU songs that would equal the quantity of MIDI Files that exist. New MIDI Files are added to the internet daily and there are numerous sites that will create a MIDI File for whatever version of a commercial release you wish.

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The extraction of chords from midi files is not that great when you're talking about jazz standards because those chords are complex. Simpler styles like country, rock, blues are easy for the program, jazz isn't. Remember, chord info is not part of the midi standard so Biab is making educated guesses as to what the chords are and many times it guesses wrong.

The best way to compile a library of jazz standard Biab songs is to find them somewhere in the internet whether free or buying them from Norton Music.

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