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Hi, thanks for the comment. Chordify indeed does it differently. The difference is the presentation of time, whether time is linear (YouTab) or non-linear (Chordify). Since YouTab is also an editor where you can fix notation linear layout it used. I am aware of this issue and will fix this soon.

Thanks for the insight. I agree that a 3rd party media provider such as YouTube & SoundCloud has it potential for problems. It's not a perfect solution I agree. I have been toying with re-attaching tabs to different audio sources when a video dies for example. I'm not entirely happy with current results. It should be automatic, which I have a pretty good idea on how to do, but haven't gotten around to implementing yet.

The detection is very sensitive to the harmonic definition of a song more than anything else. On some songs it will do a great job and on other miserably fail. That's why it's also an editor, nothing beats the human ear.

OK, so here goes:

1. The site is DMCA compliant 2. Lyrics are provided legally through musixmatch 3. Chords as they are presented on the site are legal. We spent a lot of time and money making sure of that.

Yes, the TOS should be updated which I will take care ASAP.

Hello,

I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong.

I am hoping that this will develop into a useful resource for musicians and music lovers and I'd love to hear what you think about it and get ideas as to what you might like to see next.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.