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TuxGuitar Help

# Playing a song

## Opening an existing song

TuxGuitar currently supports several file formats. Besides its internal .tg format (which is recommended), it can open and play all Guitar Pro formats (.gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx, .gp) and also the Power Tab Editor (.ptb) and the TablEdit v2 and v3 formats (.tef).

You can open a file through the File → Open dialog in TuxGuitar. If you installed TuxGuitar using our regular installation packages, the above file types are associated with TuxGuitar in your operating system, so you can open them directly by clicking on the file in the file manager.

## Playback

You can find the playback controls in the main menu bar, the main menu entry Player and in a separate window you can open in the menu View → Show Player.

All the playback features are described in detail on this page.