[dallaskruse]

@dallaskruse: I read in your post
"I use 8 tablets at a time for my band situation. When I add a new song, I have to go into each tablet and add tempo and key information of the songs individually on each tablet."
If the main question is how to add identical metadata to all the tablets: Why not writing the metadata into a CSV file and using CSV import instead of "Import Local File"? If you describe your workflow in detail and post an example I might be able to propose how to improve it.
The original intention of CSV import is importing several songs at once from a multi-song PDF like a fakebook. But it also works fine when the PDF contains only one song.

Thanks for the reply.

TBH I'm brand new to PC/Android. I'm still figuring out the ins/outs.

Here's my process start to finish

I have 9 tablets. Each band member gets a tablet. Each tablet is permanently assigned to Piano or Bass or Drums...so ONLY piano charts on the piano tablet, only drums for drums, et al.

I write a chart in Finale. Some are 1 page, some are 2 or 3 pages. (I currently have about 500 songs that equal to about 2k+ pages for my entire library).

I print PDF's from within Finale. I get about 8 files per song (Piano, Bass, guitar, drums, sax, bone, trumpet, vox).

IMPORTANT: the songs, when printed, have different file names (i.e. "Stand By Me (D) - Chart - Piano" and "Stand By Me (D) - Chart - Drums"). Each part is labeled by their instrument.

I upload those charts to a DropBox folder.

I go 1 by 1 and grab a tablet and import the new charts to each tablet. Then I'll go into MSP and assign Key/Tempo to the songs.

Very often I'm updating charts for new arrangements or bettering the layout. I'll upload the charts in the Dropbox and import them into MSP using the IMPORT feature.

I spent the last 3 days going in 1 by 1 for each tablet and song and adding Tempo and Key information. Took many many hours but I got it done.

I'm wondering if theres ANY way for MSP to grab Key/Tempo information from the imported PDF so I don't have to do it by hand?


I was doing some research on this forum about CSV files but I don't really understand the concept. 

I do have a master list of all our songs in a spreadsheet with the key and tempo listed if that helps in any way.