iGigbook

Jim Kaznosky

I stumbled upon an app for both iphone and ipad, which is well worth discussing. Essentially, iGigbook is an index app that allows you to import the popular fakebooks in pdf format, search by song, and save songs into a setlist. You can email a setlist to bandmates and the email will include pdfs of the songs in the setlist. Additionally, if a book is not in their index, you can creat your own index.
While the Django Fakebook is there, the Nolan book isn't. If you were to scan your own copy of Nolan's gigbook, you could index it and import it into the program. There are pdfs of transcriptions floating around here. You could import them into this app.

Not spamming...I found this earlier this week and we had a girl singing a few Billie Holiday songs. This helped me out.

HotTinRoof

Robin - I think you have a new medium to sell your gig book! The post office workers may miss you tho. 8)

Thanks for the writeup jkaz. I only have an ipod touch but I'll check it out - making my eye bleed on the small screen.

TimmyHawken

Does it have or automatically convert files to Bb and/or Eb? That could be really handy if you're having a Clarinet/Sax sitting in with you.

Jim Kaznosky

No, Timmy. It is an app that stores and indexes PDFs you already have. You would need the corresponding versions of those tunes. Irealb may be better suited for you.

keary18

I bought this APP today thinking that it's easy to use and that the song lists are there, or all you have to do is download, and unless I'm really chasing a rabbit here, it's a pain in the butt. For example, if I go to download the song Whispering, it tells you what book it's in and with a message that says you haven't downloaded that book/file/pdf, etc. But the only thing is "WHERE" do you get the file/pdf? Do I have to find it online somewhere and then download it? I feel like a complete idiot trying to figure this out.

I would love some help on this,,,,

thanks,
david