BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  09:15:45

Ok, I have downloaded the the demo version. I have also downloaded a tune from the list of tabs on this site. I have tried to save them as text, html and pdf. Then I have tried to get Tabedit to load them with not success. What am I doing wrong?

danielburdett - Posted - 01/31/2011:  09:28:44

you need to save them as .tef. That should work

davidtoc - Posted - 01/31/2011:  09:30:03

Download the TABLEDIT version of the tab. Not all songs in the Tab archive are available in that format.

dave

BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  09:48:24

I have Windows Vista. When I try to save the file, there is no option to "save as .tef"??????

banjotom2 - Posted - 01/31/2011:  10:10:22

Actually, you really should have downloaded "TEFView", rather than the Demo version of Tabledit... it may not have been obvious to you when you did your download... but the Demo version is less than satisfactory on several fronts... It prints 'demo' through your tab, which is annoying enough... but you're also on a 'timetable'... after 30 days or whatever the pre-set time limit is, you will be required to purchase... or it will lock-up...

TEFView will keep working forever and it will not print anything through your tablature. The only real issue with TEFView is that you can't save much with it... you can't create a tab of any length and save it...

Tabledit itself is a great program, I've been using it for 7 years now to write and save arrangements for banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle...separately and together. I'm completely and totally happy with my purchase.

If your main goal is just to open and read tabs created by others... to see what is available to you here on the BHO, TEFView might be the best place to start. Once you get acclimated to the program... you could then decide to purchase or not, for the benefit of gaining the ability to write and save your own arrangements... and saving the works of others that you enjoy from the BHO tab archive.

Tabledit and it's free sister program TEFView open a variety of formats and have MIDI playback for the formats that allow it, which is one of the greatest features of Tabledit (TEFView)... being able to 'hear' an arrangement before committing your time to learning it.

You still have the ability to unload the demo version, re-start your computer and start from scratch with TEFView...

Ask up if you have any other questions, there are a lot of knowledgeable, friendly people here on the Banjo Hangout...

Hope this helps,

Tom

banjotom2.com

Edited by - banjotom2 on 01/31/2011 10:20:49

gradelyduck - Posted - 01/31/2011:  11:12:55

Get Tefview here tabledit.com/tefview/download.shtml

BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  11:15:08

I have installed Tefview., but I still have the same original problem. The tune from the tab archive is in a format that Vista doesn't recognize. So when I try to save it I'm given choices of HTML, Text, or something else. I am not given an option of saving the file in .tef format. None of the optional formats are recognized by Tefview????????

Andy McC - Posted - 01/31/2011:  11:48:10

Lon

What is the tab? What is its full name (eg Washington square.doc or Washington square.txt). Where did you get the tab file?

Andy

BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  11:55:55

Its a Duane Langston link from BanjoHangout. I got to a page that was labeled "Banjo Tab Page". It has two columns of songs One for tabledit and one for Tabrite. The song is in the tabrite column named "washington square".. I hadn't noticed before that it was tabrite and not tabedit. Can anyone convert it for me. Thanks

Andy McC - Posted - 01/31/2011:  12:14:36

Supply the link here and I'll have a look.

BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  12:19:29

myweb.cableone.net/duanelangst..._page.htm

Andy McC - Posted - 01/31/2011:  12:29:45

PM your email address

SteveMcBill - Posted - 01/31/2011:  13:26:39

Lon,

If the tab you have is in TabRite format then TablEdit can open it without you having to 'convert' it first.

However, you need to know HOW to open it. When you go to File, Open there is a drop-down on the "Files of type" format - click the downward pointing arrow on the right hand end of this drop down and choose "Tabrite - (*.bjo, *.gui)" file type - once this file type is chosen then TablEdit will open TabRite files - so you should then have no problem opening the file you have downloaded.

Hope that helps.

Steve
stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/tag.htm
stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

BanjoLon - Posted - 01/31/2011:  16:34:33

Andy
My Email address is: Boxsters986@comcast.net
Lon

jbaker7 - Posted - 01/31/2011:  19:11:18

Lon,
Steve McBill's post is dead on...Use his method and it will open Duane's .bjo files in Tabledit as Tabledit will then save all .bjo files and open them instantly...Jack Baker NYC

Edited by - jbaker7 on 01/31/2011 19:12:33

Brian T - Posted - 02/02/2011:  11:17:05

I've had no luck at all, typical success story for me.

At some time in the past, I downloaded Cat 'n Mouse, which is/was a .bjo file
Just fo8nd it in "Downloads".

I can't remember but TabRite seems a reasonable guess.
Now what?
I get no drop down windows with any instructions like what's described above.
Open
Reopen

If I click on Open, the computer takes me to folders of old photographs, taken when I still had a working digital camera.

banjo_brad - Posted - 02/02/2011:  12:43:04

Brian T -

You first start the Tabledit program, then use the file open menu and the "file type" tab to specify the .bjo.

-B-

Brian T - Posted - 02/02/2011:  14:56:02

So TEFView won't open TabRite files?
I printed Steve McBill's instructions.
There are no words in the drop-down menu to choose from.
I see
OPEN
REOPEN (gives me a long list of tabs that I have saved somewhere)

Click on OPEN. Screen says supposed to open with TEFView.
Nope. Another blank music/tab staff page.

I thank you for your suggestions but don't worry. Most of what you can do on your computer doesn't happen on mine.
Never did at work and not since I retired.
Still a puzzle.

WesBrown - Posted - 02/02/2011:  15:14:07

Brian, Tefview is only for viewing .tef files. Your computer is working just fine.
You need Tabledit, the full program to open .tef files, to write songs yourself, and to open .bjo files.
It's not that expensive.
If you intend to play the banjo, and participate in this hangout forum, it is well worth the expense, as many have attested.

banjo_brad - Posted - 02/02/2011:  15:15:51

Right, the viewer (TEFview) only opens .tef files.

If you want to email me a copy of the .bjo file, I'll run it through Tabledit to convert it and email a .tef file back to you.

-B-