Hi Josh,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Message: 5<br>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:16:11 -0500<br>
From: Josh Lawrence &lt;<a href="mailto:hardbop200@gmail.com">hardbop200@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: [LAU] using linux to manage your gigs?<br>
To: <a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</a><br>
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hi list,<br>
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this is one of my busiest times of the year for gigging; I&#39;m usually playing at least once a week, and sometimes multiple times a week.  there are a couple of things I&#39;m frustrated about:<br>
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* my song lists are all on paper.  they have no information about the song at all.  it would be nice to be able to sort by key, genre (rock, pop, r&amp;b, motown, etc.).  it would be nice if calling up the song called up the chord chart, which brings me to my next point?<br>


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* I looked through many presentation softwares, chord chart management, etc.  they all seem focused on the church crowd.  I need something *simple*.  I choose a song, and the chart that I have available for it (either text or pdf or whatever) is displayed in a split window.<br>


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ok, that&#39;s what I want, and no one gets what they want.  :)  so, I&#39;m open to any and all ideas.  what do you use?  do you manage your set lists with linux?  chord charts?  I tried the whole &quot;thinking outside the box&quot; and looked for maybe some file management software, but I got overwhelmed quickly.  any and all ideas are welcome.<br>

</blockquote><div><br>I am kind of in the same problem. Having a folder full of .txt, .pdf, or tiff, or .png files all holding chord structures, sheet music etc.. Stuff for one band, stuff for another band, stuff for lessons etc..<br>

Organizing with sub folders for genre or type is simply not enough.<br>I am playing around with Tellico a generic collection manager with some templates for all kinds of collections (stamps, coins, files, etc..). It&#39;s fairly easy to make your own collection with fields for, for example, key, genre, type etc..<br>

It allows for having (file) URL&#39;s so when you have found what you need in the catalog you can open the file directly. <br><br>Tellico is in the Ubuntu repositories.<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Frits van der Holst<br>

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