You can edit an existing song by selecting it in your song library and then tapping the edit button:
💡 🖱️ You can also edit by selecting a song and pressing
F2
Song text layout
Chordle supports editing songs in two formats, Chords above text and ChordPro format. You can switch between these formats at any time using the Edit as dropdown menu in the song editor:
⚠️ Chords above text format is not as flexible as ChordPro, for example, not all comments are supported and there is no way to preserve unknown directives. These will be lost when switching formats.
Song metadata
Key and capo
The song’s key corresponds to the chords as they are written in the editor. By default, changing the key will automatically transpose your written chords to match.
If you need to update the key without altering your existing chords, you can turn off the Update chords in song text option in the editor settings:
The capo position is purely informational while you’re editing. It just tells Chordle which default capo position to use when you actually play the song. The written chords are always the shapes you play relative to that capo.
Tempo and Time signature
The tempo of the song controls the metronome flash and is recorded in beats per minute (BPM). You can manually enter the tempo or tap the button in time with the beat of the song to set the tempo.
The time signature controls the number of beats in each bar. This is used when you are using a multi-beat metronome as in the above video, and controls how the beats are grouped.
Duration
Specifying the duration of the song in minutes and seconds (mm:ss) allows you to control the amount of time the song will scroll for when using scrolling layouts.
Web link
You can add a web link for a song, e.g. to a YouTube video. This shows up as a link when you are playing a song, so you can quickly open it.
Additional metadata fields
In addition to the song text, you can also add additional metadata for a song by tapping “Add additional field…” and choosing the field to add:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Alternative title | An alternative title for the song. This is useful if a song is known by more than one name, e.g. “Amazing Grace” and “How sweet the sound”. When searching for a song in your song library, a song will appear listed twice, once by the main and once by the alternative title. |
| Album | The album the song is from. |
| Artist | The artist who performed the song. |
| Web link | A web link for the song, e.g. to a YouTube video. This shows up as a link when you are playing a song, so you can quickly open it. |
| Year | The year the song was released. |
| CCLI | The CCLI number for the song. |
| Composer | The composer of the song. |
| Copyright | Any copyright information for the song. |
| Lyricist | The lyricist of the song. |
Saving songs
When you are finished editing a song, tap the “Save” button in the toolbar to save your changes.
💡 🖱️ You can also save by pressing
CTRL+Son your keyboard.
Pasting chords from Word and other sources
When you copy chords-over-text from a source that doesn’t use a fixed-width font, such as a Microsoft Word document, the chords rarely line up once they land in the editor. This is because the spaces that positioned them were measured against a proportional font, not the monospaced text the editor uses.
The Paste button in the editor toolbar is a split button. Tap the main part to paste as normal, or tap the arrow next to it to choose Paste and realign chords (e.g. from Word):
This realigns where each chord sat above its word in the original text and rebuilds the spacing so the chords sit over the correct words again.
💡 Realigning works on the chords-over-text you paste in whichever editor format you’re using. If the result still isn’t quite right, you can nudge individual chords by dragging them.