Month: October 2011

With Perfect Guitar Song Book, you can easily starts web searches from the app’s add song dialog. Thus, you just have to set a URL, that contains placeholders for title and/or artist as start URL of the built-in web browser in the app’s settings.

Example:

www.google.com/search?q=%a+%t+chords   

This starts a google search with the song’s artist, title and the word “chords” (If you have entered artist and title in the add song screen before)

Placeholders:
%a     will be replaced with the artist
%t      will be replaced with the title

Examples for search URLs:
Just copy an URL from here and paste into the start URL field in PGSongBook’s settings.

911tabs:

http://www.911tabs.com/search.php?search=%t&type=song   

Ultimate Guitar:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?search_type=title&value=%t   

Guitaretab:

http://www.guitaretab.com/fetch/?type=tab&query=%t   

Azchords:

http://search.azchords.com/cgi-bin/azseek.cgi?q=%t&Search=Go%2521   

Tabrobot:

http://www.tabrobot.com/cgi-bin/tsearch.pl?mode=name&terms=%t&submit=Go%21   

YourChords:

http://www.yourchords.com/index.php?page=search&search_artist=%a&search_songtitle=%t&search_button=Search&search_button.x=0&search_button.y=0&search_button=Search

If you want to quickly scroll to the top of a song, this little trick can always help you: Just tap on the time in the status bar of the iOS.

This will work for any list of PGSongbook and for most of the lists in any other app, as well.