1 Reply by Raputtak

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Thank you 'mom. 

I followed the links and it all (well, most) seems to make sense. I have a couple of areas of confusion:

Area 1
Indexing.  You said " I don't believe that the admin indexes originals, so your songs will not likely make it to the public Chordie search making it easy for all the people of the world to search them on Chordie (but they will be able to see, play and enjoy them if you find another way to use the links)." 

That seems strange as Chordie is full of warnings about copyrighted material.

Area 2
Indexing. In the ukes4fun Part 2 link it says  "This does NOT mean that your song has been indexed by Chordie, ie. if you use the Chordie Search function you will not immediately find your song in the Chordie database. Eventually, Chordie will find your song and it will be indexed." 

So does that mean Chordie will eventually index original songs if I put them in my songbook and make them public?


I guess I will need the {st:xxxx} directive in my files to give an artist name.

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2 Reply by Raputtak

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Thanks for your reply, KevinRK. I looked at the sites under Resources. Many had broken links, others were sites like chordie, or "how to play" sites.

I looked on Chordie  at Country Roads by John Denver.  The lyrics and chords were there quite nicely thank you. At the bottom of the listing was this comment:

"Important: The song above is NOT stored on the Chordie server. The original song is hosted at getsome.org. Chordie works as a search engine and provides on-the-fly formatting. Chordie does not index songs against artists'/composers' will. To remove this song please click here."

So I went to getsome.org. It was basically a stub site - no content, and no sign of Country Roads.

Am I missing something fundamental that all y'all can see? 

All I want to do is post songs that I have written so Chordie can index them and display them for all the world to see, play, and enjoy.

I have the text files in ChordPro format. Can anybody tell me where to put them?  (In the nicest possible way, that is!!!)


-Frustrated in North Carolina

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3 Reply by Raputtak

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I looked at many songs on chordie to see where they were hosted. Guitartabs and tenbyten came up often, but I could find no way on those sites to publish stuff.  How does everybody get their stuff up there?  A lot of the songs appear to be copyright. Has everybody got a release? Or are they hoping no one will notice?

-Confused in North Carolina.

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4 Reply by Raputtak

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Yup. This is all our own work. We own all rights. Words and music.

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5 Topic by Raputtak

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Can anyone suggest a site or two where one can host songs in ChordPro Song File format so that chordie.com can find 'em and index 'em?

Being a skinflint I use wix.com to host my web site and it does not seem to show text in a form whereby a search engine can find it.

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