OpenChords2.4.1.0

OpenChords is a lightweight audio application whose purpose is to help musicians display chords and lyrics of a set of songs on the computer screen, take notes, transpose the song key, and export the lyrics to PDF file format.

Portable running mode

You can copy the tool on portable media devices like USB flash drives, carry it with you, and run it on the target system by simply opening the executable file (there’s no installation setup included in the process).

Cleverly designed GUI

The utility adopts a clean and intuitive design that provides quick access to a list with songs. With just one click on the target audio file from the list, you can check out the lyrics and chords in the main window.Plus, you can track all notes embedded in the current song, perform searches for identifying songs, open the folder where the songs are saved, and copy lyrics data to the clipboard.

Editing and saving options

OpenChords gives you the possibility to alter the lyrics data directly into the main window, insert additional notes, as well as modify the general information revealed for each audio file, such as title, author, copyright, tempo (e.g. fast, moderate, slow), signature (e.g. 2/4, ¾, 4/4), reference, and key.What’s more, you are allowed to fix the formatting of the lyrics and notes for the selected song, export the songs to PDF file format, and save a set of songs to OpenSong.

Full screen display and adjustments

OpenChords lets you display the lyrics and chord data in full screen mode, change the size of the text, show or hide chords, lyrics and notes, switch to the previous or next song, and jump to the next or previous page.There are a lot of display settings that you can tweak, as you may change the screen width and height, paragraph spacing, content line spacing, note width, top and bottom page margin, as well as the font, size, color and style of the title, headings, lyrics, notes, and next page text. The same settings can also be applied to printing options.

Bottom line

All things considered, OpenChords comes with handy features for helping you create, edit and reveal songs in full screen. On the downside, while testing the utility on Windows 8.1 Pro, we have noticed several bugs. The app does not close properly and you may end up with an error message upon trying to refresh the lyrics in full screen.