99 points

They also always have a countdown on the top of the page, suggesting their unbelievable 80% off deal is about to end and you should buy it now or it‘ll be gone forever! Quick!

It‘s not ending. It never ends. It just resets at the end of the day. The guys running this site are dickheads.

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16 points

You should probably buy it though! You know, just in case!!!

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48 points

Use https://freetar.de as your front-end to Ultimate Guitar - much nicer

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I will add https://www.songsterr-downloader.com to this, works for both Songsterr and UG

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Songsterr has the option to download all of the transcriptions, current or past, from the website itself. Just click on the revision date at the top of the tab and it will bring up a list with all of the revisions with a download button next to them.

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The link suggests you still have to purchase Guitar Pro though

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The funniest thing is when you are looking at the tab for a metal song that uses only ultra-distorted, 8 strings guitars with the lowest tuning, and the proposed tutorial shows a gentle finger picking on an acoustic guitar. I will not fall for your deceptions today, Ultimate Guitar!

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Yeah as a bass player I never fell for that video for one second lol. Get out of here with all those strings!

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29 points

I remember when U-G used to be good. You just downloaded the user submitted tabs and there you go. Now thing thry have are ASCII charts from 2010 and ads.

Songsterr is much better now, even if most of it’s tabs are suspiciously similar to the same user submitted guitar pro files I remember from back in the day.

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Yeah, and now to reach the minuscole download button you have to scroll an entire page that is trying to sell you their pro tabs.

Songsterr is nice, but unfortunately they still have way less tabs than UG

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ASCII guitar tabs go back to the 1990s (at least). I wrote a couple out there that stayed in search engines top results for those songs for multiple decades.

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20 points

This is the same company that bought up the open source Musescore and brought us Muse Hub: An insanely bloated launcher for MuseScore that was not told would be installed when installing Musescore. Muse Hub takes half as much RAM, storage, and load time as Musescore itself, despite doing 1% of what Musescore does. It also defaults to running at startup, which feels like a sign it might be spyware.

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