veltzer/openbook — pull request #65 by captbaritone (2013-08-21 02:48:38+00:00)
Title: Harvest chord changes from iRealb

The ios app iRealb cannot have tunes/words because of copyright, but they can have the changes. They have a file containing 1,300 changes on their forum in a format that we could probably parse. It would probably be a few days project, but it could probably save us from having to enter the chords for most tunes.

I read that they might have changed their format, but the file I have seems to be basically xml for the meta data and here is an example of one of their songs:

chordProgression
{*AT44F^7 |Eh7 A7b9 |D-7 Db7 |C-7 F7b9 |Bb^7 |Bb-7 Eb7b9 |Ab^7 | x |N1Ah7 |D7b9 |Gh7 |C7b9 |F6 |D7b9 |G-7 |C7b9 }|N2E^7 |E7 |Bbh7 |Eb7b9 |Ab^7 |x |Gh7 |C7b9 ][*BF-7 |Dh7 |Gh7 |C7b9 |Eb-7 |Ab7 |Db6 |x |Gh7 |C7b9 |F-7 |F-7/Eb |Dh7 |G7b9 |Gh7 |C7b9 ][*CF^7 |Eh7 A7b9 |D-7 Db7 |C-7 F7b9 |Bb^7 | x |Bb-7 |Eb7 |A-7 |D7 |G-7 |C7b9 |F6 |D7#9 |G-7 |C7b9 Z
composer
Porter Cole
keySignature
F
style
Medium Swing
timeSignature
n
title
All Through The Night

That being said, depending on the book we are going from, the chords would probably need to (at least) be tweaked. So, I'm not sure what the actual net time benefit would be, but I thought I would propose it.