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Load an album on connected tablets - ROMAN - 11-29-2024
In the first part of this thread I explain in detail how I use MobilSheets. In the last part I describe what I think is a bug in loading a full album on Connected tablets.
I have been using MobileSheets for many years, first on a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 in portrait mode.
A few months after the warranty period expired, the motherboard broke and I bought a new tablet, a Lenovo Yoga tablet 2 Pro 13.3. For this tablet I found no tablet holder and used a standard music stand with the tablet in landscape mode. I did have to rewrite my scores: where in portrait mode there were 5 bars on a staff, for example, this became 10 bars in landscape. To change pages I used a bluetooth page turner. The Yoga tablet is outdated (still on Android version 4.4.2) and therefore cannot work with face gesture. Working with 2 pages on the display is also very difficult; the pages are too small.
I bought 2 new identical tablets Lenovo Tab M11 (so 11 inch size) with Android 14 and MobileSheets 3.9.7.
I had hoped that I could replace the bluetooth page turner with face gesture but for the time being I find this too unreliable (often false triggers but maybe I still have to search for the right settings).
I use the tablets next to each other in portrait mode (I have rewritten the newer scores) on one custom tablet holder.
The first tablet is called "Aaa" and is the master, the second is called "Bbb" and is the slave.
The library of "Aaa" is maintained via the backup/restore function of the MobileSheets Companion and "Bbb" is made identical via the "Sync Library" function. Via wifi that works perfectly, via bluetooth it sometimes works, sometimes not (message "no connection"). I suspect that the latter is caused by the different uses of Bluetooth at the same time: in addition to the "Sync Library", the page turner is also linked to "Aaa" and the "Connect Tablets" function is active.
The "Connect Tablets" function is in "Book mode".
When I select a score on "Aaa" in the "Piece" tab, the first page appears on "Aaa" and the second page of that score on "Bbb". And when I select a next page via the page turner, page 2 appears on "Aaa" and page 3 on "Bbb". So that is perfect.
When I select a setlist on "Aaa" in the "Setlists" tab, I see the different scores that are part of that setlist. And when I select one of those scores, the first page appears on "Aaa" and the second page of that score on "Bbb": also perfect.
And when I choose "Load All" instead of 1 score, the first page of the first score appears on "Aaa" and the second page on "Bbb". Via the page turner I can then browse through all the scores of this setlist on both tablets. When a score only has 1 page, that page appears on "Aaa" and tablet "Bbb" is black. If the next score has multiple pages, page 1 appears on "Aaa" and page 2 on "Bbb": still perfect.
When I select an album on "Aaa" at the "Albums" tab, I see the different scores that are part of that album. And when I choose one of those scores, the first page appears on "Aaa" and the second page of that score appears on "Bbb": also perfect.
But when I choose the "Load All" function instead of 1 score, the first page of the first score appears on "Aaa", but on "Bbb" the message "No setlist found with name "<name of the album>" appears, although the album on "Bbb" does indeed exist!
RE: Load an album on connected tablets - Zubersoft - 11-29-2024
If you want to be able to use "Load All" with Albums (or any other group type other than Setlists), you have to enable the option to "Create temporary copies of setlists on follower devices", as MobileSheets is creating a temporary setlist when you tap "Load All" containing all of the songs in the album, and the other device won't have a setlist to match that. This is something I'll have to address at some point (basically forcing a temporary setlist to be created on the follower device in these scenarios).
Mike
RE: Load an album on connected tablets - ROMAN - 11-29-2024
Thank you Mike,
I can confirm this works.
ROMAN