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Sing Alongs
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[Latest Releases](https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/sing-alongs/-/releases)
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Motivation
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I love to play the tin whistle and around 2012 I was looking for some sheet
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music. There are a lot of good resources out there but the one thing I have
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never found was a collection which was free (as in freedom) and usable for
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printing. And if something does not exist why not try and create it yourself?
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At this point I discovered [Lilypond](http://www.lilypond.org/) a wonderful
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project for music engraving. The best part is that it has support for embedding
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its scores in LaTeX files so it is possible to get complex layouts without a
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big hassle. As a programmer I instantly liked the approach because I did not
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need a big editor but could just write text files which I then could manage
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with something like [git](http://git-scm.com/).
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Development
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Main development happens at https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/sing-alongs.
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Take a look at the command list in the makefile to see what you need for building.
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The makefile defines multiple targets:
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- pdfs: builds all songs as single pdfs (without lyrics for now)
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- midis: builds the midi file for each song
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- opus: converts the midi files into opus files
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- book: concatenates the songs (with lyrics) to a songbook
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- booklet: converts the songbook to a booklet fit for double sided flip printing
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To build all just run `make` and it takes care of everything.
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License Stuff
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I am still not quite clear on how this works. My understanding is that all these
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songs already are in the public domain and there is no need to explicitly set a license.
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All copyrights that could arise from other sides (makefile or whatever) are waived
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under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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Contact
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You can reach me at [sebastian@vanwa.ch](mailto:sebastian@vanwa.ch)
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