[gitfidler]

I'm sure it's an easy answer, but I need to set up two different song lists - one for the jazz band, one for church.

[Zubersoft]

You can go to the Setlists tab, tap "New", enter the name of the setlist for the jazz band, add your songs, tap Save, then on the Setlists tab, tap "New" and do it all again for the setlist for the church. This video covers a lot of information related to creating and editing groups (Collections, Setlists, Genres, etc): https://youtu.be/g07JYnIiiQk

Mike

[gitfidler]

I'm trying to keep the songs in each list separate.  There will be maybe 200 songs in one, 120 in the other.  As I build a setlist I only want to have to dig through the songs pertaining that show/service.

[Geoff Bacon]

Keeping them separate means you are talking of collections.

Setlists are normally used for a performance when you want to play a "small" number of songs in a particular order.
So, put all the songs into their own collection and choose that when looking at songs for that group.

When you want to create a setlist, show the filter and specify that group in the collection field
You can then just select songs specific to that collection.

If required, a song could be in both collectiosns but, if it is is likely to be changed, I would suggest you give each collection it's own version.
Song names need to be unique so put a small mnemonic at the end off the name e.g. _ch or _jazz or -ch and -jazz This means that even if a song is in both groups, they will have different file names (there are other ways to do this using name formatting but this is the simplest method for the number of files you are talking about).

When importing, you probably want to select "Use Filename as SongName" rather than "Guess..." (not quite sure the exact settings description)

Geoff

[gitfidler]

I think I get it - thanks.  So, start moving the charts into a new master file in 'Collections'.  No there won't be any crossover; Jazz is the Devil's dance music after all...  But thanks for responding; I'll figure it out in time.

[Geoff Bacon]

It's easy to put your existing songs in a collection

Open Songs

Long Press one of the songs until checkboxes appear
Tap other songs to select them
Three vertical dots (top right)
"Create Collection from Songs"
New - Type in a New Name
It may be a good idea to not select too many songs at once (should you accidentally hit something else then you might have to reselect them).
To add further existing songs to this collection, use the "Add Songs to Collection" and select the previously used name.

When importing new songs, fill in the Collection field (it will apply to all songs in the import)

You can't delete songs from the collection screen - when removed they still exist in Songs.
Deleting from Songs gets rid of it completely.

Geoff

[briff]

I use different libraries for the very different use cases (see Settings > Library Settings)

[IanMSpencer]

It is easy enough, I have 4 groups I play with - I use collections for that - and I play bass, ukulele and guitar so with each group I have more than one instrument. So I have renamed custom group to be Instrument and use that to divide the songs by instrument, and then another by group. Songs can have more than one instrument and more than one group - sometimes I'll use a bass tab, other times I'll just have a chord sheet as a hint. 

I've now tended to create duplicate songs as I've added in foot pedal programming into songs and I use the same pedal for both bass and guitar.

Really easy to create new set lists with only the right songs being offered using the collection and instrument filter, as each combination will be less than 100 songs, and so easy to flick through the alphabet list.

[gitfidler]

So, here is my solution moving forward (p.s. we all have different levels of OCD-ism!). The big band set list is done, now, as I import the jazz group songs I'll create a title starting with a symbol, say *.  Then the songs should appear in a different location in the song list, but still alphabetized. My jazz band does a different key for 'All of Me', my cover band does the John Legend version. When I load the songs in, I don't want to get them all in the same list.  Yes, I know how 'collections' work.

[Geoff Bacon]

I wouldn't recommend using * as the first character of your Jazz titles (you can if you want, but not ideal).
Using * effectively puts them under a single letter (perhaps not an issue now but could cause probelms as the number of songs increase).

Much better to put something like "-Jazz" at the end of the titles and put them in a Jazz collection.
Select the Jazz collection to view them and use the index letters to move through the collection.

Alternatively you could create a separate Jazz library but that means that you would have to switch between libraries.

Geoff

[Lester]

Others have mentioned using separate libraries. Let me explain how that works for my wife. By day she is a piano teacher so she needs only her classical piano pieces available to her. On Sundays and rehearsal evenings she is the piano player at church and so only needs church songs.

By keeping each of these two as separate libraries, I keep my iPad up to date with church stuff and do a (3 dots on the right hand end of the menu bar) Sync Library which overwrites her existing library of church songs with mine, hence the Sync name. If we kept her classical music as a collection in the same library, there is no way we can sync and not overwrite her classical stuff.

Check out the option to have separate libraries for us it is the perfect way to have such different music to hand.