01-22-2022, 12:09 PM
Hi Mike,
Recently I've been using the 'sync to cloud folder' function to keep the libraries on the different tablets in sync with each other and I thought it had been working but now I'm not so sure. The other day I updated the title of some pieces on one tablet, then synced the cloud folder to that tablet, then synced the other tablets to the cloud folder. When I tried to use the follower/leader function to play those pieces it wouldn't bring them up on the other tablets and it turned out that that was because the titles hadn't updated when I synced the other tablets to the cloud folder. I checked the settings in the sync dialogue and realised that I hadn't selected 'check for updated files in cloud folder' so I tried it with that selected and it took a lot longer and still didn't update the titles. In the end I went back to using 'sync to device' and that did update the titles and bringing them up on the other tablets using leader/follower now works. Should the 'sync to cloud folder' function update the titles?
When I went back to using 'sync to device' I noticed that there are still a couple of glitches there. You updated the dialogue so that the device which is being used as the server shows the device name of the device it's connected to, or at least I thought that was what you were planning to do. What it actually shows is the device name of the device itself (the server device). It would be more useful if the dialogue on the server showed the device name of the client device so that you know which device you're updating.
Also I was doing the sync to device using bluetooth and that occasionally fails. When it does fail, the server device just continues to show 0% in the progress bar but the client device says that the sync has been successful even though it hasn't. Would it be possible to have the client device say that the sync has failed in that situation, and if possible have the server device say it too?
Earlier in this thread I mentioned that when the page alignment is set to centre and the piece doesn't fill the screen to the top and bottom it would position the page in the centre to start with but then when I turned the page it would send the page to the top of the screen first and then require an extra touch to move to the next page. You fixed that but now when there is a piece where the page doesn't extend to the top and bottom of the screen, if the piece is the last piece in a setlist then it aligns it to the top of the page from the outset, even with alignment set to centre. No biggie but thought I'd mention it.
Also touching the right side of the screen with the overlay on will still sometimes advance the piece by half a page rather than a full page if vertical scrolling is on.
Just thinking about my first point at the top of this post and realising that the titles might not have updated in the cloud folder when I did the first sync. Presumably it shouldn't be necessary to select 'check for updates files in cloud folders' when syncing the cloud folder to the device though - the titles on the device would automatically update the titles in the cloud folders wouldn't they?
Just one other thing. When I'm syncing the libraries it would be great if the sync dialogues said which library I was in so that I can be sure that I'm not syncing the wrong libraries together. I imagine that will be irrelevant when the versioning update happens and it may not be a feature that many people use but if it's an easy fix then I would appreciate it.
Guy
Recently I've been using the 'sync to cloud folder' function to keep the libraries on the different tablets in sync with each other and I thought it had been working but now I'm not so sure. The other day I updated the title of some pieces on one tablet, then synced the cloud folder to that tablet, then synced the other tablets to the cloud folder. When I tried to use the follower/leader function to play those pieces it wouldn't bring them up on the other tablets and it turned out that that was because the titles hadn't updated when I synced the other tablets to the cloud folder. I checked the settings in the sync dialogue and realised that I hadn't selected 'check for updated files in cloud folder' so I tried it with that selected and it took a lot longer and still didn't update the titles. In the end I went back to using 'sync to device' and that did update the titles and bringing them up on the other tablets using leader/follower now works. Should the 'sync to cloud folder' function update the titles?
When I went back to using 'sync to device' I noticed that there are still a couple of glitches there. You updated the dialogue so that the device which is being used as the server shows the device name of the device it's connected to, or at least I thought that was what you were planning to do. What it actually shows is the device name of the device itself (the server device). It would be more useful if the dialogue on the server showed the device name of the client device so that you know which device you're updating.
Also I was doing the sync to device using bluetooth and that occasionally fails. When it does fail, the server device just continues to show 0% in the progress bar but the client device says that the sync has been successful even though it hasn't. Would it be possible to have the client device say that the sync has failed in that situation, and if possible have the server device say it too?
Earlier in this thread I mentioned that when the page alignment is set to centre and the piece doesn't fill the screen to the top and bottom it would position the page in the centre to start with but then when I turned the page it would send the page to the top of the screen first and then require an extra touch to move to the next page. You fixed that but now when there is a piece where the page doesn't extend to the top and bottom of the screen, if the piece is the last piece in a setlist then it aligns it to the top of the page from the outset, even with alignment set to centre. No biggie but thought I'd mention it.
Also touching the right side of the screen with the overlay on will still sometimes advance the piece by half a page rather than a full page if vertical scrolling is on.
Just thinking about my first point at the top of this post and realising that the titles might not have updated in the cloud folder when I did the first sync. Presumably it shouldn't be necessary to select 'check for updates files in cloud folders' when syncing the cloud folder to the device though - the titles on the device would automatically update the titles in the cloud folders wouldn't they?
Just one other thing. When I'm syncing the libraries it would be great if the sync dialogues said which library I was in so that I can be sure that I'm not syncing the wrong libraries together. I imagine that will be irrelevant when the versioning update happens and it may not be a feature that many people use but if it's an easy fix then I would appreciate it.
Guy