Scrolling text of a song

[Bigdin]

Thanks for letting me in
Hoping I can use apache open office on my Android for writing song texts. The main thing for me is it possible to scroll the song lyrics while I am playing guitar?

Many thanks Bigdin

[keme]

in the office suite Writer is the app of choice for writing songs, but to my knowledge, autoscroll is not readily available in Writer (nor in any other app in OpenOffice or related software suites).

I suggest you use the Ultimate Guitar app. AFAIK you can have your personal library of songs also in the free version, and you have access to a huge song library. There is adjustable speed autoscroll available in the UG app.

If you want a more professional layout/design for your music sheets, try MuseScore. Autoscroll may not be as smooth as in UG, but perfectly useable IIRC. There is lots of additional functionality. There is also a learning threshold (probably worth the effort ; at least for me it was).

Happy playing!

Note that MuseScore has a looser connection between the music app and the songs library. They are both there, but you may need to select them individually for install.

[Bigdin]

Hello Keme,
Appreciate your prompt reply. Shame there is no scrolling on open office. UG I have, I'm more to arranging and writing songs and UG is a bit of a struggle, you can , but it ain't so easy to go to. I'll check the Muse one.

Kind regards Denis

[Zizi64]

Shame there is no scrolling on open office.

It not needed in a text editor of an Office Suite - IMHO.

You can try put the text into some Impress slides, set your favourite automatic slide transition, and try to use the SlideShow feature.