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Your scores

Web tabs, PDFs, and Guitar Pro files, and the home they live on.

A score is anything you play from

A web tab, a PDF you own, a Guitar Pro file. Once it’s in Afinar, every score behaves the same: it opens clean, without browser chrome; your takes collect under it; and its name is editable in place, click the title.

The home

Afinar opens to your collection. Top to bottom: search, your bookmarks, your recent scores, and the full grid of everything you’ve added.

• ·Search (⌘F) matches your whole collection, and doubles as the way to find new songs.
• ·My bookmarks are the tab sites you actually use; they appear on their own as you play. Right-click to pin, rename, or remove; Bookmark this site in the browser toolbar pins the site you’re on.
• ·My scores is the full grid: sort by recently played, recently added, or A–Z; filter by type or source. Each card shows what kind of score it is and how many takes it holds, click the takes count to drill into them.

Right-click a card to rename or delete a score. Deleting a score deletes its takes, and the dialog says so. Mark a song Nailed when you land it: right-click the card, or use the SONG control in listen back. It’s your call, there are no scores kept on you.

Press L from any score to come home. The song keeps playing: the strip at the bottom of the home shows what’s on, and clicking it takes you back to the score.

Web scores

Browse to the tab inside Afinar like you would in Safari. Your logins work: Songsterr, Ultimate Guitar, YouTube, including Premium. Add to Afinar saves the page you’re on as a score; from then on it opens clean and your takes file under it. If you click through to a different song later, the header offers to add or switch, so takes always land under the page you’re actually playing.

Finding songs

Type into the home search. A web address opens as itself; a site’s name opens the site; anything else is a song title, pick where to look from the row of sites that appears: tab sites, sheet music sites, or YouTube.

PDFs

Drag a PDF anywhere in the window, or press ⌘O. Afinar copies it into its own library, so nothing breaks when you clean out Downloads. Read it your way, see Practice tools for the display modes. Drop a PDF and an audio file together in one drag and the score arrives with its backing track attached.

Guitar Pro files

Drop in a .gp file, pick the track you play, and it becomes a chart on the stand: pages, pedal turns, the works. The original file is kept with the score. Guitar Pro files arrive already synced (see Auto-scroll). If the song you’re learning exists as one, it’s the best version to bring. Downloading a .gp inside Afinar’s browser imports it directly.