MUMBAI:Brazilian music software company D`Accord has announced a new version of its award-winning software -- iChords -- that recognizes and presents chords from any MP3, WMA files or CDs.By using iChords 2.0, musicians can learn how to play any song on keyboard or guitar. It also exports song videos to iPods(TM) and mobile phones. Popular features enable users to automatically retrieve CD chords, and those from MP3, WAV and WMA files. It also creates WMV or MP4 videos with the song, chords and lyrics.

The new export video feature generates a file with the song being played on the guitar or keyboard and allows musicians to create personalized transcriptions. For instance, they can change the transcribed chords and add song lyrics in a karaoke-like style. If lyrics are added and chords transposed, they can be printed together with chord diagrams.

For guitar players, there are four different guitar-view modes, including one for left-handed players. And, users can control the tempo, according to skill.

Novice players can configure the difficulty level of the presented chords and choose from easy, medium or difficult; it`s possible to play from simple harmonies to complex musical pieces.