In terms of presentation and editing, I believe the guys at http://www.soundslice.com/ have a solution that is much better. I would love to see a synthesis of these two technologies, with YouTab producing a first draft of a sheet for SoundSlice based on any video.
A bit of feed back on the editor -
First, in general, it's a little... mysterious? It's not immediately clear exactly what clicking in difference places will do, and it's easy to click the wrong the and have the song jump around or a element shift or something, so it ends up feeling a bit twitchy. One thing that might help is better mouse cursors, like the i-bar for moving the current play position line, or the hand for grabbing-and-repositioning.
I get what's going on with the timeline being split in three horizontal rows, but I still find it kind of confusing, especially when working near the edges.
Also, scrolling the timeline backwards is awkward when the music is playing, as it brings the play line closer to the end of visible timeline which causes the whole thing to jump forward, negating your progress. I think a zoomed-out preview box would be helpful with highlights marking what's currently visible (like graphics editors often have). I did see you can move around in the song in the player controls but it doesn't show the blocks.
Keyboard shortcuts would be very helpful, particular for fine-tuning block positioning. Perhaps even you could have a key to mark positions during playback for later use in aligning blocks? In fact, in general it would be helpful if you could align blocks to one another, or to the beat.
As a non-musician, I would find it useful if you could "play back" the chord track, for comparison with the song.
This is my favorite feature though.
One feature that might be nice would be to allow for transposing or denoting that a capo should be used.
Example:
https://www.youtab.me/music/_vAC1WCDa4n/band-of-horses/no-on...
However, it seems to have "gone crazy" with this song (which is hard) https://www.youtab.me/music/gkE29Y2PPdd/one-without/withered...
But this one it got very well (it's easy) https://www.youtab.me/music/zGvQx6E4KO4/ruth-laredo/mozart-r... I don't remember all the details but it is pretty close to the original
I tried a few songs. It was not clear you could make the screen larger but once I did I just loved the way it counts the beats.
The second song I tried did not work. It stated the song could not be analysed because it was not public, although it was in the search results.
The last song: https://www.youtab.me/search/arctic-monkeys-mar it did not do so well on, but I guess this is where the community comes in.
But... it doesn't seem to play, which is kind of a bummer.. Maybe the server is being swamped?
https://www.youtab.me/music/XnWT_wslaBc/lindsey-simon/its-a-...
2) The back button is there for a reason and I like to use it. Again, without this, I'll never use your site.
3) Search for '"billy preston" circles' (without the single quotes). From the results, choose "D&F - Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston - [Dave and..." -- Nothing happens on the resulting page other than chords are generated. The chords are close to right (IIRC) but, you cannot listen to the song to transcribe the lyrics. Zoom in and out works.
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.