A number of people have asked me for a desktop version of my iPhone/IPad Tunebook app. I wasn’t going to do this due to laziness but it appears that recent events in the Mac world have conspired to reduce the ABC software available to Mac users, so I’m stepping in. I’ve hacked up a new app this weekend and I’m looking for people to give it a go and give some feedback. Tunebook for Mac is a version of the iPhone/iPad app Tunebook which runs on the desktop Mac. It lets you view, edit, play and print your library of tunes in ABC format.
A selection of business audio software programs for Windows, Mac & Linux that can be downloaded free. This software includes a sound editors, sound recorders, telephony software and many other audio related tools.
It’s a bit bit like iTunes in that it maintains a library of tunes and you import tunes into the library from ABC files. It never edits your source ABC files. Phantom of the opera 25th anniversary movie.
You can download an alpha version here: (800Kb) It’s currently very basic but I hope to improve it as time goes on and if I get encouragement. Eventually it might appear on the App Store for an extortionate fee of about £1 (Guinness is not available as a payment currency), but for now it’s free. If you want to give it a go, there’s no help, but it should be fairly self-explanatory. Just drag some ABC files into the bar on the left under where it says 'Tunebooks'.
You’ll need to be running at least Mac OS X Leopard, and I’m quietly confident that it’ll run on Lion, but I’ve not had a chance to test this yet. Its tune database files are compatible with the iPhone/iPad versions so you can sync between them if you want. No, there is no Windows versions, and there won’t be unless big Trad wants to give me a huge payoff - the whole thing is written in Objective-C and it would be a massive task. Posted by 7 years ago.
Re: New ABC software for Mac. You should be able to drop ABC files from the Finder anywhere in the left bar under the word 'Tunebooks' (you can’t drop ABC text from a text editor yet). You should see a line appearing under 'Tunebooks' indicating that you can drop there. Do you not see the line, or does the line appear but nothing happen when you drop?
If this fails, try creating a new tunebook by pressing the '+' button at the bottom left and then dragging an ABC file onto the world 'New Tunebook' that appears. Posted by 7 years ago. Re: New ABC software for Mac. Thanks for working on this! Here’s what I have found so far: Leopard (10.5.8) - App will not run. (Says that it won’t work under that version of OSX) Snow Leopard (!0.6.8) - App runs, and the limited functionality seems like it’s all working, except that if you select a second tune, after having played another one, they both play. And this continues, so if you select a third tune, it plays all three Lion (10.7) - App runs.
Other than the same issue with playing multiple tunes, the only glaring issue I see is with the tune list. If you load in a tunebook with enough tunes so that the list needs to scroll, you have no way of scrolling the list.
A number of people have asked me for a desktop version of my iPhone/IPad Tunebook app. I wasn’t going to do this due to laziness but it appears that recent events in the Mac world have conspired to reduce the ABC software available to Mac users, so I’m stepping in. I’ve hacked up a new app this weekend and I’m looking for people to give it a go and give some feedback. Tunebook for Mac is a version of the iPhone/iPad app Tunebook which runs on the desktop Mac. It lets you view, edit, play and print your library of tunes in ABC format.
A selection of business audio software programs for Windows, Mac & Linux that can be downloaded free. This software includes a sound editors, sound recorders, telephony software and many other audio related tools.
It’s a bit bit like iTunes in that it maintains a library of tunes and you import tunes into the library from ABC files. It never edits your source ABC files. Phantom of the opera 25th anniversary movie.
You can download an alpha version here: (800Kb) It’s currently very basic but I hope to improve it as time goes on and if I get encouragement. Eventually it might appear on the App Store for an extortionate fee of about £1 (Guinness is not available as a payment currency), but for now it’s free. If you want to give it a go, there’s no help, but it should be fairly self-explanatory. Just drag some ABC files into the bar on the left under where it says 'Tunebooks'.
You’ll need to be running at least Mac OS X Leopard, and I’m quietly confident that it’ll run on Lion, but I’ve not had a chance to test this yet. Its tune database files are compatible with the iPhone/iPad versions so you can sync between them if you want. No, there is no Windows versions, and there won’t be unless big Trad wants to give me a huge payoff - the whole thing is written in Objective-C and it would be a massive task. Posted by 7 years ago.
Re: New ABC software for Mac. You should be able to drop ABC files from the Finder anywhere in the left bar under the word 'Tunebooks' (you can’t drop ABC text from a text editor yet). You should see a line appearing under 'Tunebooks' indicating that you can drop there. Do you not see the line, or does the line appear but nothing happen when you drop?
If this fails, try creating a new tunebook by pressing the '+' button at the bottom left and then dragging an ABC file onto the world 'New Tunebook' that appears. Posted by 7 years ago. Re: New ABC software for Mac. Thanks for working on this! Here’s what I have found so far: Leopard (10.5.8) - App will not run. (Says that it won’t work under that version of OSX) Snow Leopard (!0.6.8) - App runs, and the limited functionality seems like it’s all working, except that if you select a second tune, after having played another one, they both play. And this continues, so if you select a third tune, it plays all three Lion (10.7) - App runs.
Other than the same issue with playing multiple tunes, the only glaring issue I see is with the tune list. If you load in a tunebook with enough tunes so that the list needs to scroll, you have no way of scrolling the list.