03-27-2024, 05:36 AM
Have you tried putting all the songs in a "book" into a collection that contains only the files in that "book".
You can then use a filter to restrict the choice to songs in that book/collection. This allows you to use the index letters to jump around the collection and/or filter on a word that you know is in a title.
Having individual entries also means that you can easily use a setlist to move between songs in different "books"
Of course, there is a lot of work in splitting the book into entries - the easiest way is to create a .csv file which contains one line per song specifing the metadata for that song. How much metadata is up to you. The line should also contain a field specifying the collection name for the "book". You will have to delete your existing pdf file in MS and reimport the file with the associated .csv file (you can't apply a .csv to something that has already been imported).
You may find that someone on the forum has already created a .csv file for some of your large files.
Another alternative is that you associate a link in your pdf index to each song (with hundreds of songs there must be an index) and use that to jump around the "book". This is purely a pdf thing and has nothing to do with MS (however please note that, depending on where a link is on a page, it may clash with MS touch action areas).
I believe that someone has developed a tool to automatically create a .csv from these index links.
Note: Not using a .csv file means that you can't easily use set lists and this will make things more awkward if you do performances
Just in case you aren't aware, there is still only a single pdf file when you use a .csv file; you just have individual song entries that point into the one physical file i.e. you don't end up with hundreds of individual physical files.
Hope this helps you decide how to oraganise your library.
Geoff
You can then use a filter to restrict the choice to songs in that book/collection. This allows you to use the index letters to jump around the collection and/or filter on a word that you know is in a title.
Having individual entries also means that you can easily use a setlist to move between songs in different "books"
Of course, there is a lot of work in splitting the book into entries - the easiest way is to create a .csv file which contains one line per song specifing the metadata for that song. How much metadata is up to you. The line should also contain a field specifying the collection name for the "book". You will have to delete your existing pdf file in MS and reimport the file with the associated .csv file (you can't apply a .csv to something that has already been imported).
You may find that someone on the forum has already created a .csv file for some of your large files.
Another alternative is that you associate a link in your pdf index to each song (with hundreds of songs there must be an index) and use that to jump around the "book". This is purely a pdf thing and has nothing to do with MS (however please note that, depending on where a link is on a page, it may clash with MS touch action areas).
I believe that someone has developed a tool to automatically create a .csv from these index links.
Note: Not using a .csv file means that you can't easily use set lists and this will make things more awkward if you do performances
Just in case you aren't aware, there is still only a single pdf file when you use a .csv file; you just have individual song entries that point into the one physical file i.e. you don't end up with hundreds of individual physical files.
Hope this helps you decide how to oraganise your library.
Geoff
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