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Setlist popup: strange "save" behavior
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(03-26-2023, 05:33 PM)Zubersoft Wrote: That window is mainly meant to be used to make temporary changes to a setlist.

Oh, I never thought of that. That changes everything. I guess the way it works generally makes sense if the user understands that any changes made there are temporary. I didn't know that :-)  And for me, any changes I make to a setlist are always meant to be permanent, so the "temporary" feature is not for me. 

But I find this popup useful in order to make setlist changes while INSIDE the setlist. Let me explain a problem I face, and why this is currently my best way to handle it. If there's a better way, I'd love to know!

Very often -- like all the time -- I'm sorting through multiple versions of the same song from different Fake Books. If it were just a matter of finding the best one and adding it to my favorites, that would be easy. But I need to keep multiple versions in my favorites, because they have different applications: one shows the bass part, one might have the keyboard vamp, one might show the horn harmonies, one might just be overall simplest for most people, and I might want one in the other key since some tunes like Autumn Leaves are popular in two different keys. But they might all have the same exact name in their indexed books, such as Wave:

   

So every single gig I prepare for, I have to sort through my "short list" which still have many versions of Wave, and find the right one(s) to send to the band. Since they're all named "Wave", the only way I can tell which is which is to preview the actual sheet. So I start in my favorites setlist and go through one at a time until I find the one I want:

   

Then I want to add that to ANOTHER setlist, the one for the upcoming gig. But I don't see a way to easily do that from that page, so I have to back arrow back to the favorites setlist and try to remember which Wave I tapped on that I wanted to keep, and do it from there. But which one was I looking at?

Basically, I think what I wish I had was a way to move songs between setlists in a way that allows me to preview it before doing so. For it's weaknesses and its much weaker Library management features, iGigBook had a pretty flexible way of moving tunes between setlists; but it only allowed you to preview a large "thumbnail" of the song, so I had that problem there, too. 

Does this use case make sense? This is how I do everything. Maybe MS already has a feature I'm missing??

Thanks!!
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RE: Setlist popup: strange "save" behavior - by reggoboy - 03-27-2023, 01:16 AM



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