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this allows you to open a different song database. For example, to open the
sample Christmas lyrics database that's included with Sing Along!, click
the "Open Song Database" button, double-click on the Data folder then select
"Christmas.dbf" and click the "Open" button. To go back to the default database,
click the Open button again and select "Songs.dbf". The name of the current database
is always displayed on the status line in the lower right corner of Sing Along!
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opens a standard Windows 95 Print dialog box where you can select
the printer, number of copies, etcetera. When you click the "OK" button, the
currently selected song is printed.
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sorts the records by Artist or Song Title, or returns them to un-sorted.
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opens a dialog box with checkboxes for "Song Title", "Writer Credits",
"Artist" and "Album Title" plus an empty field in which to type the filter
text. Check one or more of the checkboxes and type some text into the empty
field. Then you'll be able to browse through all the songs that match the
filter criteria you've entered. For example, all songs with "lennon" in the
"Artist" or the "Writer Credits" fields.
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toggles between the full database and the filtered subset.
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there are two sections to the Find dialog box -- "Index Search" and
"Full Text Search". There is a button beside each one which determines the
type of search to perform. The Index Search is the default because it's the
fastest. However, you can only search by Song Title or Artist. The Full Text
Search is much more flexible but not as fast. You can select any combination
of "Song Title", "Artist", "Writer Credits", "Album Title", "Lyrics" and
"Notes". Don't forget to click the little "book" icon to the left of the
Full Text Search checkboxes to select Full Text Search.
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goes to the next record that matches the search criteria or
displays a message if there are no more matches.
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allows you to import from text files or from other Sing Along! databases.
For example, to import the songs from the sample Christmas lyrics database
into your default Sing Along! database, click the Import button.
Select "Sing Along! database (*.dbf)" from the pull-down list next to "Files
of type", then select "Christmas.dbf" and click the "Open" button. The Text
file import is meant for songs stored in individual files.
Each file becomes a new record in the database. If you have any songs in
individual text files, give it a try -- that's the best way to see how it
works. All of the text is imported into the Lyrics pane. From there you can
cut and paste things like artist name and songwriters into the song data
area at the left. It's not necessary to fill in all of the fields -- just
song title and whatever else you want to enter. Initially, the song title
field will contain the filename of the text file plus a "~" character to
indicate that this is an imported record and you've got some cleaning up to
do. After you've cleaned up the data to your satisfaction, edit the song
title field to whatever you want, removing the "~".
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allows you to copy the current song to a different
Sing Along! database. For example, if you currently have the sample Christmas
database loaded and you want to copy a single song to your default database,
click the Export button, select the default database ("Songs.dbf") and click
"Save".
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this allows you to hide the song data in the left half
of the screen so that the lyrics (or song list if in Browse mode) fills the
whole window. This comes in handy if you're using a low-resolution video
mode on your computer or your lyrics have very long lines that you can't
otherwise see without scrolling.
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shows a list of Song Titles and other data instead of the
lyrics. This is especially useful when the songs are sorted by song title or
artist, or when you've got a filter set. Click the Browse Mode button again
to return to Lyrics Mode.
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