Thursday, April 15, 2004

Chordie.com

What an Amazing Thing this is! These guys find tab/chord sheets in text format on any/all Internet sites, analyze it, and format it *on the fly* into that clever x-by-2 line table format to keep the chords where they belong! Who even thought it would be possible!?! An amazing parsing job, considering how many nearly-randomly-formatted chord files are out there.

And just for fun, since they've auto-detected the chords versus the words, they put little chord diagrams on the right. And on top of that, they do on-the-fly chord transposition, too. I am totally impressed.

They even "extra format" any found-in-the-text, 6-number, chord "diagrams", with the little string numbers over the fret numbers. Careful, though, it's still all the "OLGA-quality" (oxymoron alert!) files that are being presented. Just 'cuz the format's nice doesn't mean that the chords/words are right. Cool, anyway.

http://www.chordie.com/index.php