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CampFire Guitar Chapter 3

Downloading Songs From the Internet

The Internet has thousands of songs available for download, and CampFire Guitar will help you find and organize all your favorite songs.

To find songs on the internet, you must use a Web Browser. The page that you are looking at right now is being displayed in the default Web Browser on your system. The most popular Web Browsers available are Internet Explorer and Netscape.

To get songs from the internet, you must follow three steps.

Start your Web Browser (already done!)
Find a site that has songs.
Transfer the songs you want from your Browser to CampFire Guitar.

To get started finding songs, go to the CampFire Guitar. Home Page.

Once connected to the CampFire Home Page, follow the links and instructions on the web pages to find the songs that you want. Remember that Chord style songs are preferred over Tab style songs for CampFire Guitar.

Getting songs from the internet into CampFire Guitar:

Once you find a song and click on it, one of two things will happen:

1. The song will be visible in the Web Browser, for example:

   E
   I met her in a club down in old Soho
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   Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry Cola

To get this song from your browser into CampFire Guitar, you must first copy the the song, and then paste it into a new empty Song Window in CampFire Guitar.

To copy text, you must select the text of the song by dragging your mouse accross the text. Once the entire song is selected,
Hold down the Ctrl key and press 'C'. This will copy the song.
Next, switch to CampFire Guitar by pressing the taskbar button for CampFire Guitar.
In CampFire Guitar Select File and then New. A new empty Song Window will be displayed. Next, place the cursor in the bottom pane of the Window and
Hold down the Ctrl key and press 'V'. This will paste the text into the Song Window.

If you are uncomfortable with this, practice copying and pasting text here:

Select the following text by dragging your mouse across it (to drag, hold down the left mouse button):

   I met her in a club down in old Soho

Hold down Ctrl and press 'C'

Click your mouse inside of this edit box.

Hold down Ctrl and press 'V'. The text you selected should be displayed in the edit box now.

The other thing that may happen when you click on a song is

2. A Window similar to the following will be displayed.

The key to what to do in this situation depends on what the name of the song is that you are downloading. In this window, the name of the song that is being downloaded is 'its_alright.crd'.

If the song ends in '.crd', you may choose 'Open it' and then hit OK.

This will bring the song directly into CampFire Guitar. Then within CampFire guitar, you can Select File, Save As to save the song to the CampFire guitar song folder.

If the song does not end in '.crd', you must save it to disk.

When you save it to disk, a dialog similar to the following will appear:

You must use the Save As window to save the file into your CampFire Guitar Song Folder.

Before saving the file, change the file name extension to '.crd'

For example:

    If the file name is  'Song1.txt'  change it to 'Song1.crd'
    If the file name is  'Song2' change it to 'Song2.crd'
    If the file name is  'Song3.tab' change it to 'Song3.crd'

Changing the file name extentsion will allow CampFire Guitar to automatically open the song.

Before saving the file, switch to the CampFire Guitar Song Folder. This is the Song Folder that CampFire Guitar creates when it is installed. Use the Save In Drop down box to find the CampFire Guitar Song Folder. If you installed CampFire Guitar in it's default spot, the folder will be located at:

c:\CampFireGuitar\Favorites\Songs

Once you save a song to a folder, your web browser should default to that same folder the next time you download a song.

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