Sorry for the dumb question. How do I create a song in the Editor and then get it into my iPhone?
Bill
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Sorry for the dumb question. How do I create a song in the Editor and then get it into my iPhone?
Bill
Create a song by typing in the chords you want.
When done press the "Email Song" button (the one with the picture of the iPhone on it).
This will open Apple mail.
Send the email with the song in it to yourself.
Open the email on your iPhone in the Mail program and click on the song code.
I have an itouch & this doesn't work. There is no way to click on the code. You can select & copy it but there doesn't seem to be a way to paste it in the irealbook editor. Any ideas?
Assuming you have emailed the irb file to yourself, and collected it in Mail on your iPod Touch, open the email and tap directly on the song title (it should be colored blue and underlined) in the body of the email. (Do not copy/paste as this does not work.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cogster
iReal Book should automatically open and ask if you want to add the song to your irb library.
I've just started using the Mac editor, and I want to get a song onto my iPod Touch. When I chose an "email" option the first time, it opened Mail, which I can never use any more (at work it's all gone Gmail) so I quit Mail. When I tried again, it opened one of my Gmail accounts in the browser but didn't create a message or offer a link to click anywhere. When I tried to send to a Forum topic (Contemporary Jazz) I got a lot of html garbage that did not look worth posting.
Is there more complete Help on this somewhere?
When I try the PDF method, I can get it into my mail on the iPod. But it doesn't offer iReal Book as an option for opening the file.
[QUOTE=CHartman;3235]When I tried to send to a Forum topic I got a lot of html garbage that did not look worth posting.
Try posting it ("html garbage") to the Sandbox section of the Forums as a test.
Also check this thread:
http://irealb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488
:))BOB
Our recommended method is to use Mail since it does not corrupt the song codes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
Also there have been reports of corruption using gmail addresses (sometimes hotmail also.) If you have an independent ISP email addresses, try those.
No, the PDF will not open in iReal Book (currently v3) but will be viewable in the iOS device as it can display PDFs.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
I tried the Sandbox but it still looks like raw code ("irealbook://Wrong%20Together%3DSwallow%20Steve%3DSlow%20Swing% 3DF%3Dn%3D%5BT44E*m9*%2C%20" etc).
How do I convince the Mac Editor to use Mail? It did once, but after that it always opens up one of my two Gmail accounts in the browser instead. There are (almost) no Preferences, and I can't find a menu item for this anywhere.
Hi CHartman, sorry for all the problems you are having.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
Check that Apple Mail on your Mac computer is set to the default Mail app:
Mail>Preferences>General....Default mail reader .... Mail.
Once this is done, Clicking Mac editor>Playlist to device (or Song to device) should open Mail and insert the song code into the body of your email. If you can use an email address from your ISP (not gmail) and able to pick this up on your iOS device then the code should stay intact. This might mean you have to set up a new account in Mail (Preferences>Accounts so they send from the ISP (or your alternate email address) and set up Mail in your iOS device to collect email from there.
(But try gmail/hotmail first as they could work ok.)
Please let us know if you are still having problems. :(
Thanks. But I cannot set Mail as the default mail reader, because it's not fully compatible with my work-dictated Gmail. On the other hand it would be very inconvenient to set it that way whenever I want to use the Editor, then reset it afterwards. There have to be *lots* of other people in this situation, since Gmail is replacing Mail at multiple businesses and institutions. There's got to be a solution, doesn't there?Quote:
Originally Posted by dflat
You do not have to have the account in Mail on all the time. You can set it up and turn Enable this account Off, when you do not need it. Is it possible for you to try this to see if it works? (then turn off Enable.) This will give us an idea what is happening (or not.)Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
Thanks.
I tried this, setting the Mail preference for "Default email reader" to Mail.[*] Then I chose "Email Selected Song to iOS Device." A new-message window appeared in Mail. But instead of a link it had the text (html) version. When I mailed it, of course, and fetched mail on my iPod Touch, it was still that version and wouldn't open iReal Book. So I must be missing something else, besides the which-mail-program problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by dflat
I'm not sure how I'd "disable" the Mail account, though I can use Mail's own prefs to make it not the default email reader.
[*] This method has another disadvantage: during the five minutes while Mail was the default email app I got two messages, both of which ended up permanently shunted away from the Gmail I need to keep my mail in.
I presume you are using the latest version of Mac editor? (v0.6.4.) When it appears in Mail it will show the code. Once sent then collected on your iPod touch, tapping on it in Mail should open and import the song into iReal book.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
But if you are using a gmail address for this, then this could be causing the corruption.
On your computer; Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Advanced,Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
you will find the Enable this account box.
You can email them back to yourself just so they are in the correct place (but remember not to directly reply to them as they have been forwarded to yourself.)Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
On your computer; Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Advanced,
you will see the option to 'Remove the copy from the server after retrieving a message' ... you can turn this off also.
I am still wondering if you are using gmail for your email and if you have another choice? as this could be causing the problem.
:(
Could a Gmail address cause the song-thing to get rendered as a character string and not show up as a link? (That seems to be what's happening.) Unfortunately, though my email address looks the same as it used to, with a .edu domain, the institution's shift to Gmail (away from Outlook) presumably means that this address gets translated behind the scenes into a gmail.com one of some kind.
Any other ideas? On iPod Touch, iReal Book is a handy study device. But it's also making me think seriously about taking the plunge for an iPad. (A whole suitcase of fake books on one backlighted tablet??) I'd need to know I could use/modify it, though.
Slight updates: I have two addresses, a Gmail one and one (as I said) that doesn't look like a Gmail address but now automatically gets translated to https://mail.google.com etc. Earlier I was trying to send from Mail to the plain Gmail address which didn't work. When I try sending from Mail to the other address (my main one), I see that in the outgoing message the code does get highlighted as a link.
On the iPod, at the moment I have no way to use Mail (though I can work on that); I get all my mail through Safari instead. There, the message's content does not appear as a link. So I think the problem must be on the receiving end, a problem with receiving the file within a browser? Does that sound right?
I'm very happy to report that it now works -- now that I've got Mail working to receive on the iPod. Thanks! So far so good.
I'm not happy about having to use Mail on the Mac itself to send it. (It fusses with the system here in little bad ways.) It occurred to me that if the problem is with receiving the link-message in a browser, maybe I could send from browser-based mail on the Mac. But now when I try that (through Google Notifier, the only option besides Mal for a default mail reader), I get an error message: "Request-URI Too Large -- The requested URL /accounts/TokenAuth... is too large to process."
Anyone know a way around that?
I think this is possible and seems to be what is happening with others' experiences (but not entirely sure as I have not carried out lots of tests on this.)Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
This could be what is happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
You could find someone (family member or friend) with an ISP-based email address and run some tests using their email address (temporarily!) with the view to adding you as a new user using that ISP email system. Their ISP might enable different users under the same account without you needing to create and pay a separate account.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
You might be able to find another user of iReal book and ask what email address/ISP they use.
iPad is very useful for adding all your music charts (iReal book and iBook app - showing scans of anything you need in PDF form.) You would love it.
iPad could connect via 3G to an account (so you use this outside your work internet and email system entirely.)
I would think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
Great news! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
Not sure what this means exactly. I know that many ISPs have a maximum file size restriction for (perhaps both) sending and receiving. This is why many use Dropbox or ftp or MobileMe (Mac), cloud-based services etc. for sending and receiving big files. Also if you are sending (or receiving) through your work, the computer system there might be restricting file sizes also.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
- Not that our song codes are large, but if there is 'corruption' or alterations/additions or confusion of what it thinks it is, then it might create an error message (as unhelpful as it is.)
Anything else to report yet?
If you had to, you could use this forum's Sandbox for transferring your charts if all else fails (just delete your post uploads afterwards - this is not really how we wanted the Sandbox to be used however.) If you can solve it another way via email addresses and Mail this would be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
(referring to the error message I got) I suspect what it means is not that the data in the message/object/iRealBook thingy is too big. As far as I can tell, the song's entire content is being used as the link. So Chrome looks at it and sees it as a URL too big to parse. Does that make sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by dflat
There has to be an easier way to "package" the song for transfer to an iPod etc that doesn't run into all these variables. But I admit I can't think what it would be.
We had problems with Chrome for our web editor and do not recommend it for this reason. I am not surprised it does not work for webmail and our song code. Chrome is made by Google who make gmail so it all probably goes through the same systems (coding etc.)Quote:
Originally Posted by CHartman
The Mac editor creates a 'normal' computer file if you save it, but it needs to work with our web editor, forum and iOS (and we have a basic version of iReal book on Android.) The format of songs may very well change in the future to make this process more seamless and easier.
I'm posting this in two different places.
I received an .irb file from a Mac App user, but my iphone was not able to open it ("Mail cannot open this attachment"). I believe it should, from reading posts. I asked to send it again by choosing a different option from the menu, but shouldn't the file be universally openable?
Cheers.
David
Edit: OK, just read this thread: Backup or transferring from Mac editor between iReal book for Mac. Too bad (.irb files aren't openable with ios)...
I need some help as well.
I'm using iRealBook Editor 0.6.4 on OS X 10.7.2, and have created a five song playlist, and saved as an .irb.
When I click on "Playlist to Device", it creates a new email in Mail 5.1 (which I have set as my default email client), but it does not embed a link or attachment. All it creates an an email with the song titles...no link or attachment.
When I email this to myself and pick it up on the iPhone 4s, there's nothing to click on.
Can anyone provide some guidance? Thanks so much.
Tim
There is a conflict with Lion.
I've fixed the editor.
Download the new one form the website (it's still named 0.6.4) and see if it works.
http://irealb.com/downloads/ireal_book_editor_0.6.4.zip
New version works perfectly! Thanks so much, Massimo!
Tim