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Your first library and search

Understand PDFs, indexes, books and playlists, then find your first tune.

The four library concepts

A book is an item in your TuneFinder library. Its PDF contains the pages you read; its index contains tune titles and PDF page numbers. Importing a PDF does not automatically make its titles searchable. A playlist stores an ordered selection of tunes from your indexed books for practice or performance.

Your personal PDF import stays private. The library works locally without a cloud account. Synchronization is optional and uses separate providers on iOS and Android.

Build your first library

1. Tap Books in the bottom navigation.
2. Tap Import PDF and choose an unlocked PDF you own or are permitted to use.
3. Tap the imported book to open its details.
4. Use Detect tune titles and review the suggestions, or Create index manually to enter titles yourself.
5. Save the index, then tap Use for search in the details if the book is not selected.

For detailed steps, read Import and share a PDF and Detect and review titles.

Find your first tune

1. Tap Search.
2. Enter part of an indexed title.
3. Tap the result for the book and page you want.
4. Read the PDF and use the viewer’s + button to add the tune to a playlist.

Move between views

The bottom tabs are Search, Playlists, and Books. A book row opens its details; the gear button opens Settings, including synchronization and app language. Back returns from a detail/editor screen to the preceding view.

Free search uses one selected indexed book. You can keep several books and choose a different search book without deleting anything. See Search and reading.