The Attachments Thingamabob & Why You Might Actually Need It

The attachments menu is basically your backstage pass to all the different flavors of the same song. You know, in case you got bored with the original.

Peeping at Your Attachments

Attachments hang out in two neighborhoods: text & attachments (yeah, we're real creative with names). The text section is where all your nerdy chord charts live—you know, the ones you actually read. The attachments section? That's where the PDFs & Word docs go to cry. In our example, we grabbed a ChordPro file & threw it into OnSong's text renderer, which honestly does more than your brain can handle—transposition, formatting, lyriken projection, chord detection, the whole circus.

Then there's the attachments section with all the other files just chillin'. PDFs everywhere. Some might be a "2 column layout" in like, seventeen different keys (because apparently one key wasn't stressful enough). Oh, & there's a piano version & an SATB score if you're into that whole "organized music" thing.

Tap an attachment & boom—it's now your main squeeze for that song. That becomes the default. Congratulations.

Fixin' Up Your Chords & Words

If you've got a text chart rockin', hit the Edit Chords and Lyrics button at the bottom & the Song Editor opens up like magic. Viewing something that's not text? The button'll say Edit Song Metadata instead (same energy, different label). Either way, you're gonna mess with the song's guts.

Shoving More Files In

See that + button up top? Tap it to unlock the Import Menu & browse literally every file format we bothered to support. Add 'em as attachments. Revolutionary.

Doing Stuff to Your Attachments

Long-press (iOS/iPadOS) or right-click (macOS) on any attachment & get a context menu full of options. It changes depending on whether you picked text or a file, & whether it's already selected. Extract text, convert to PDF, all that nerd juice.

Song Viewer Settings (AKA The Wrench Dungeon)

See that wrench icon in the top-left? Tap it & boom—song viewer settings. You're welcome.