This app doesn’t work - tunes can’t be imported
This app is completely useless. There are no options for adding tunes to a Tunebook. In short it allows you to add a Tunebook title and nothing else.
Love it!
Would love to see an update. This is one of the better ABC apps in the Apple sphere. It would be a real shame to see it abandoned.
Abandoned. 5yrs since last update
Almost impossible to import ABC Files
I use this all the time
Like the title says, I use this all the time. It is very handy when I am learning something new and want something to play along with. I am sorry the developer seems to be having trouble with the App Store
Almost there
I actually have v3.2.17 (3.1.17 listed as latest.) It pretty much does everything I want it to, and the ability to change instruments is a plus. My main beef—I cannot select Tunebook as an “Open In” option when downloading an abc file. I can save it anywhere else, including Tabledit, but not Tunebook. I’m sure there is a simple workaround, but it’s just odd that an app whose sole purpose is to read and create abc files is not recognized by iOS as an associated app. Otherwise, it’s a pretty well designed and stable app.
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Great App for Organizing your Tuneage!!
This is sooo much better an app for organizing your fiddle tunes than TunePal, though that app obviously has its place too. You can also back up your tunes via Tunebook using Itunes file share which I learned from the designer who happens to be not only a brilliant app designer but also a really nice guy! Once youve saved your tune list file to your desktop you can retrieve and add to another ios device etc. Buy this!!
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Great app!
This is a great app. Works just like it says. But there are a few little tricks that aren't obvious. First, there's only one copy of each tune. The Tunebooks are just different views (catalogs) of the full collection. So, you can create temporary Tunebooks for setlists, favorites, or whatever. Just never delete the tunes, or they'll be gone. Second, you can create a new tune manually by using the + button in the All Tunes list. Third, Tunebook appears in the share menu for a text file in any other app. This lets you import ABC files from other apps, cloud servers, etc.
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An essential tool
I have been using Tunebook for several years. It keeps getting better and more essential to my life as a musician. I focus on Irish traditional music. There are written versions for many tunes readily available on the web. Locally we play our own versions. So it is very enabling to be able to get a version from the web, customize it to reflect our local version, and then share it with friends. Now days it is very well connected to other apps so it is easy to share via email or text. I highly recommend Tunebook to anyone interested in Irish Trad.
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great app.
Excellent app. I am using it with dropbox. Would be 5 stars but some abc is not implemented. e.g K:Dphr^F for hijaz mode. Also some ornamations.
A must-have app for any musician
Dump all your paper sheet music and have all of your tunes, and limitless others with you wherever you go. I still see people lugging notebooks full of paper sheet music at all the jams and sessions I go to. Tunebook eliminates the need for that and does much more besides. The built-in player is extremely flexible and provides the ability to hear any tune with any mix of instruments and orchestration, at any speed you like, which is a godsend for tunes with complex broken rhythms or odd meters. Plug your ipad into your stereo and play along with tunes with accompaniment to help you get your playing up to speed. If you don't already know how to work with ABC notation, you can learn all you need to know in a few minutes and the you can use this app to store and help develop any new tunes or songs you write or pick up at jam sessions. It's very intuitive and this app gives you instant access to hundreds of thousands of traditional tunes even if you aren't ABC savvy.
I can't say enough good things about this app, if you play music, you need it!
I can't say enough good things about this app, if you play music, you need it!
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Great tool for session and practice
Love the app!
Simple yet elegant
Renders my abc collections accurately and provides a decent playback. I find the edit interface to be easy to use with symbols readily available in a toolbar above the virtual keyboard. Easy access to cloud storage to import collections thru internal browser or start up the program's internal server to upload thru a browser. Easy and quick access to any tune within one collection or across all collections with search function and sorting by key, title or index. I have my collections rendered as PDF files also for use in Goodreader, but I find Tunebook to be much quicker for accessing the tunes. Playback of tunes with parts works correctly if you have i.e. P:ABC in the header of your tune as well as labeling each part in the tune body (P:A etc.).
Best app on my ipad.
Best app on my ipad.
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Gets better and better...
I am very happy with this app.
I've been using this for quite a while and it runs very well. Easy to enter new tunes and edit existing ones, easy to download ABC files containing multiple tunes and easy to organize into individual tunebooks.
The latest updates have been very useful. I have no complaints and I have no regrets in choosing this app.
The idea of carrying all my fiddle tunes on my iPad is wonderful. One downside is that you cannot make "pencil-notes" on the sheet-music -- but that's asking a lot technically speaking. At a jam session I can look up a tune without having to rifle thru a fat non-alphabetized 3-ring binder for a tune. By the time I would find the tune it would be half over.
Yesterday I downloaded 3 ABC files containing about 300 Irish fiddle tunes in total. Not only was the process fast and easy the app asked if I wanted the tunes put into 3 separate tunebooks.
5 Stars for this app!
I've been using this for quite a while and it runs very well. Easy to enter new tunes and edit existing ones, easy to download ABC files containing multiple tunes and easy to organize into individual tunebooks.
The latest updates have been very useful. I have no complaints and I have no regrets in choosing this app.
The idea of carrying all my fiddle tunes on my iPad is wonderful. One downside is that you cannot make "pencil-notes" on the sheet-music -- but that's asking a lot technically speaking. At a jam session I can look up a tune without having to rifle thru a fat non-alphabetized 3-ring binder for a tune. By the time I would find the tune it would be half over.
Yesterday I downloaded 3 ABC files containing about 300 Irish fiddle tunes in total. Not only was the process fast and easy the app asked if I wanted the tunes put into 3 separate tunebooks.
5 Stars for this app!
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Great App
I've been using it since it's beginning. I like being able to carry around my favorite music on my iPad instead of a big book.
Update makes it even better
I’m using this every day to explore different tunes, and remind me of ones I’m learning. the transpose function makes it easier for me on my hurdy gurdy, the developer is responsive and sorts out any niggles
Fantastic!
This app is no doubt the best app anyone interested in playing music can own. Tunebook has always worked well, with the ability to import large abc files and sort them according to index, title, key, or meter. Jerry, the app's developer, added a Transpose Key feature in the previous update which I have found to be enormously helpful. The recent update makes this app even nicer. The file management improvements are fantastic. You now longer have to be afraid of clogging up your library with a bunch of tunes that you might not like. Just download them to a tunebook folder, preview them and remove the ones you want to keep, then delete the folder to trash the remaining files. Also the multiple delete and other changes recently made to the app are quit useful.
Lloyd
Lloyd
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Excellent app!
Once you start working with Tunebook, there's no turning back! It's fast, flexible and easy to use. With the new update, it even transposes! If you're sick of lugging tons of paper around, this app is for you!
Fantastic app for traditional musicians
This is not the first app I've bought to store, interpret, edit and generally manipulate abc files but it does virtually everything I want.
Tune sets at sessions are often on pages from here and there and some have errors or are poor reproductions. Tunebook provides a great way to get rid of these problems.
Tune collections always have tunes that are hard to get going on even for skilled sight readers so Tunebook's MIDI playback with speed and voicing choices gives a hand. Even tunes you are learning can be played along to helping build up speed and feel.
Exporting your own Tunebooks as PDF files lets you print out what you want, how you want it to look and sized for your eyes!
I've imported several abc collections (O'Neill's, Phil Hardy's etc) so have a huge library of tunes. The search facility finds individual tunes faster than you could in any book. Sets can be compiled quickly and even a quick screen capture on the iPad gives you a series of pics in your Photo Album to play from.
The only thing missing is a transpose option but that could be in the pipelines or just a matter of looking online for the right site.
All traditional musos with iPads should give the developers a standing ovation and then buy the App.
Eamon Spillane
Melbourne, Australia
Dec 2013 update - New design looks fantastic and is easier to use. Best of all we now have inApp transpose. I've been waiting for this. Very happy.
Tune sets at sessions are often on pages from here and there and some have errors or are poor reproductions. Tunebook provides a great way to get rid of these problems.
Tune collections always have tunes that are hard to get going on even for skilled sight readers so Tunebook's MIDI playback with speed and voicing choices gives a hand. Even tunes you are learning can be played along to helping build up speed and feel.
Exporting your own Tunebooks as PDF files lets you print out what you want, how you want it to look and sized for your eyes!
I've imported several abc collections (O'Neill's, Phil Hardy's etc) so have a huge library of tunes. The search facility finds individual tunes faster than you could in any book. Sets can be compiled quickly and even a quick screen capture on the iPad gives you a series of pics in your Photo Album to play from.
The only thing missing is a transpose option but that could be in the pipelines or just a matter of looking online for the right site.
All traditional musos with iPads should give the developers a standing ovation and then buy the App.
Eamon Spillane
Melbourne, Australia
Dec 2013 update - New design looks fantastic and is easier to use. Best of all we now have inApp transpose. I've been waiting for this. Very happy.
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Really useful
Imports tunes from The Session easily. Am looking forward to using this more
Just needs a favoriting system
As a traditional Irish whistle, flute, and fiddle player, this app has been invaluable. The ability to store the massive number of tunes available in ABC format for easy reference has been welcome.
However, with so many tunes at one's disposal, the size of the library becomes an impediment. Most players will be working on a small number of tunes. There is no easy way to create such a list other than copying and pasting the ABC source for the tune into a new list, a cumbersome process at best.
This app would benefit tremendously from the ability to add tunes to a favorites list, or at least a way to quickly copy a tune to a new or existing list.
However, with so many tunes at one's disposal, the size of the library becomes an impediment. Most players will be working on a small number of tunes. There is no easy way to create such a list other than copying and pasting the ABC source for the tune into a new list, a cumbersome process at best.
This app would benefit tremendously from the ability to add tunes to a favorites list, or at least a way to quickly copy a tune to a new or existing list.
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