10-06-2023, 07:30 AM
Thanks for all the valuable insight to my questions. I have now added a suffix to the file name of songs in the other Collections that may have duplicate song names to avoid duplicate names and have now loaded all the song sheets into Mobile Sheets on my Windows PC. I now have the following questions:
1. As for disabling auto-update of the App, should I do this on both my PC and my Android device.
2. There is a settings in Mobile Apps that allow you to switch library. I assume if this function use different folders to store the song files in the future, then it can be an alternate solution for duplicate song names but switching between library while searching for a song may not allow a complete view of all song sheets available in both library.
3. My use of the Android device is purely to be able to take my song sheets when I have a gig or practice session. For this purpose only, should I just use the Backup and Restore function and duplicate the database from the Windows version and to my Android device before I go out each time to ensure it is in sync with everything I have done on my PC since I will be managing everything (ie. importing/updating, setting up playlist etc) on the PC. Is there anything I need to watch out for if I do this as I won't even bother putting any song files on my Android device myself and just do this backup and restore from time to time to keep in sync with the PC. Is this the best approach so I won't duplicate my work.
4. It is a must that I Enable "Let Mobile Sheets Manage My Files" on my Android device to ensure the Backup and Restore process works smoothly.
5. What is the difference between Sync Library and Backup and Restore and under what scenario should each be used.
6. For synchronizing my song sheet files I maintain on my PC with Mobile Sheets on my PC. Can I just do the Batch Import process from time to time to sync everything up or is there a better approach to this. I really don't want to keep track of the song files I changed or updated and then try to refresh them to Mobile Sheets.
7. If I do the Batch Import process to update/keep sync of all the song sheet files, should I be enabling the Settings a) Avoid Duplicate songs and b) Update songs when Matching files are found. I think I will need to enable the setting "Update songs when Matching files are found" since I would not know which song files I may have updated or changed in between he Batch Imports so it would not missed importing a newer version of a song sheet from one of my Collections.
8. However, if I do enable the setting "Update songs when Matching files are found" whenever I do any Batch Import, I may run a risk of overwriting an existing song sheet if I add a new song sheet into another Collection that have the same name as the one in an existing Collection in Mobile Sheets and the Batch Import will just overwrite the one already there since it does not know the sheet is from a different Collection then the existing one and if it does that, I will have no idea that this has happened and that I'm now missing the song sheet with the same name in my other Collection. Is there something I can do to avoid this potential risk.
Again, thanks for the quick response to my previous questions.
BTW, I think Mobile Sheet is an excellent tool to manage song sheets digitally and I would be recommending it to any of my friends that would like to use digital song sheets instead of paper
1. As for disabling auto-update of the App, should I do this on both my PC and my Android device.
2. There is a settings in Mobile Apps that allow you to switch library. I assume if this function use different folders to store the song files in the future, then it can be an alternate solution for duplicate song names but switching between library while searching for a song may not allow a complete view of all song sheets available in both library.
3. My use of the Android device is purely to be able to take my song sheets when I have a gig or practice session. For this purpose only, should I just use the Backup and Restore function and duplicate the database from the Windows version and to my Android device before I go out each time to ensure it is in sync with everything I have done on my PC since I will be managing everything (ie. importing/updating, setting up playlist etc) on the PC. Is there anything I need to watch out for if I do this as I won't even bother putting any song files on my Android device myself and just do this backup and restore from time to time to keep in sync with the PC. Is this the best approach so I won't duplicate my work.
4. It is a must that I Enable "Let Mobile Sheets Manage My Files" on my Android device to ensure the Backup and Restore process works smoothly.
5. What is the difference between Sync Library and Backup and Restore and under what scenario should each be used.
6. For synchronizing my song sheet files I maintain on my PC with Mobile Sheets on my PC. Can I just do the Batch Import process from time to time to sync everything up or is there a better approach to this. I really don't want to keep track of the song files I changed or updated and then try to refresh them to Mobile Sheets.
7. If I do the Batch Import process to update/keep sync of all the song sheet files, should I be enabling the Settings a) Avoid Duplicate songs and b) Update songs when Matching files are found. I think I will need to enable the setting "Update songs when Matching files are found" since I would not know which song files I may have updated or changed in between he Batch Imports so it would not missed importing a newer version of a song sheet from one of my Collections.
8. However, if I do enable the setting "Update songs when Matching files are found" whenever I do any Batch Import, I may run a risk of overwriting an existing song sheet if I add a new song sheet into another Collection that have the same name as the one in an existing Collection in Mobile Sheets and the Batch Import will just overwrite the one already there since it does not know the sheet is from a different Collection then the existing one and if it does that, I will have no idea that this has happened and that I'm now missing the song sheet with the same name in my other Collection. Is there something I can do to avoid this potential risk.
Again, thanks for the quick response to my previous questions.
BTW, I think Mobile Sheet is an excellent tool to manage song sheets digitally and I would be recommending it to any of my friends that would like to use digital song sheets instead of paper