# How do I get a simple list of the songs currently in the database?

**URL:** <https://quelea.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-get-a-simple-list-of-the-songs-currently-in-the-database/229>\
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**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-get-a-simple-list-of-the-songs-currently-in-the-database/229 "2019-08-25T04:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![brumac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@brumac](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/brumac)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-get-a-simple-list-of-the-songs-currently-in-the-database/229/1 "2019-08-25T04:14:48Z")

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Now that I have nearly 2/3 of our song library entered into Quelea, I would like to make a list of what I have and compare it the list of songs we had on our Mac, so that I can complete the job.

Is there a way to dump the list of songs to a text file?  
For the moment, I exported every song to pdf, unzipped and used the directory listing.  
If there isn’t anyway to do this other than that, consider this a feature request.

When I have the entire library entered, I’d like to dump the lot to individual text files also – complete with Verse, Chorus etc markings. The pdfs I exported didn’t have those markings.

Thanks,  
–B

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**Author:** ![DeeTigIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DeeTigIT](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DeeTigIT)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-get-a-simple-list-of-the-songs-currently-in-the-database/229/2 "2019-09-03T17:19:33Z")

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Your suggestion is useful to our church as well.  
I registered a request for change for this:

# RFC: new menu item - Database, Export, List of Songs #187

> <https://github.com/quelea-projection/Quelea/issues/187>

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**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-get-a-simple-list-of-the-songs-currently-in-the-database/229/3 "2019-09-25T20:39:15Z")

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This is now in the CI release, slated for a 2020.0 stable release.