08-29-2024, 08:01 AM
While MobileSheets supports "Collections", they are of almost no use if multiple "collections" of songs are VERY SIMILAR.
I'll be specific.
I'm involved with several Barbershop Quartet groups...... several separate CHORUSES and QUARTETS.
Each of these groups have HUNDREDS of songs in their libraries. UNFORTUNATELY, while many of the SONG
NAMES are the same........the song FILES are VERY DIFFERENT.
For example, three or four of these groups might all have the same song (say, for example,
"Amazing Grace" in their libraries.) BUT, the .pdf files are DIFFERENT (the songs might be
in a different key, or altered by a different ARRANGER). The audio "learning tracks" also have the SAME
NAMES, but are likewise COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Trying to put them in separate "collections"
just does NOT WORK.
Attempting to merge these libraries has been a DISASTER......as MobileSheets automatically
tries to store the conflicting files in a FOLDER with the COMMON NAME (e.g. "Amazing Grace") and the
PDF and .mp3 files are getting overwritten and lost by the hundreds, every time I try to IMPORT
a different collection into a common database.
I have tried dropping the "Guess Title from Filename".......but the names are often IDENTICAL (contents
differ)......and MobileSheets winds up putting them in a common location, with files getting overwritten and lost.
I have tried disabling "Let MobileSheets Manage My Files"......... but that doesn't fix things....they still wind
up getting a common name and file folder somewhere.........with the resulting loss of data. Trying to
"Set the MobileSheets Storage Location" gets really tricky, .....it's a multi-step process, and files are
STILL continually getting overwritten and corrupted.
Is there any way to get MULTIPLE INSTANCES of MobileSheets loaded on a single tablet,
with EACH having a DIFFERENT STORAGE LOCATION and MAIN DATABASE file.........so that different
groups of songs (with identical names) won't wind up stepping on each other? You know,
a "MobileSheets for Chorus A", and a "MobileSheets for Chorus B".....that are COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT
of each other, so files with the same names won't OVERWRITE each other in your SHARED DATABASE???
[ Yes, I know that I could alter the original .pdf file names ......say, for example, put a different suffix
on each file so they would look different.....and would wind up in different subfolders.........but then I'd
have to RE-IMPORT EVERY SONG BY HAND (HUNDREDS OF THEM) to get them in different collections....
and then I'd STILL have the nightmare of these different groups giving me "update files" that don't have
those same "suffixes" included, which would corrupt all my databases when imported. ] This REALLY doesn't work....
and I've been fighting with this file conflict issue for a long time now. HELP!!!.
I'll be specific.
I'm involved with several Barbershop Quartet groups...... several separate CHORUSES and QUARTETS.
Each of these groups have HUNDREDS of songs in their libraries. UNFORTUNATELY, while many of the SONG
NAMES are the same........the song FILES are VERY DIFFERENT.
For example, three or four of these groups might all have the same song (say, for example,
"Amazing Grace" in their libraries.) BUT, the .pdf files are DIFFERENT (the songs might be
in a different key, or altered by a different ARRANGER). The audio "learning tracks" also have the SAME
NAMES, but are likewise COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Trying to put them in separate "collections"
just does NOT WORK.
Attempting to merge these libraries has been a DISASTER......as MobileSheets automatically
tries to store the conflicting files in a FOLDER with the COMMON NAME (e.g. "Amazing Grace") and the
PDF and .mp3 files are getting overwritten and lost by the hundreds, every time I try to IMPORT
a different collection into a common database.
I have tried dropping the "Guess Title from Filename".......but the names are often IDENTICAL (contents
differ)......and MobileSheets winds up putting them in a common location, with files getting overwritten and lost.
I have tried disabling "Let MobileSheets Manage My Files"......... but that doesn't fix things....they still wind
up getting a common name and file folder somewhere.........with the resulting loss of data. Trying to
"Set the MobileSheets Storage Location" gets really tricky, .....it's a multi-step process, and files are
STILL continually getting overwritten and corrupted.
Is there any way to get MULTIPLE INSTANCES of MobileSheets loaded on a single tablet,
with EACH having a DIFFERENT STORAGE LOCATION and MAIN DATABASE file.........so that different
groups of songs (with identical names) won't wind up stepping on each other? You know,
a "MobileSheets for Chorus A", and a "MobileSheets for Chorus B".....that are COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT
of each other, so files with the same names won't OVERWRITE each other in your SHARED DATABASE???
[ Yes, I know that I could alter the original .pdf file names ......say, for example, put a different suffix
on each file so they would look different.....and would wind up in different subfolders.........but then I'd
have to RE-IMPORT EVERY SONG BY HAND (HUNDREDS OF THEM) to get them in different collections....
and then I'd STILL have the nightmare of these different groups giving me "update files" that don't have
those same "suffixes" included, which would corrupt all my databases when imported. ] This REALLY doesn't work....
and I've been fighting with this file conflict issue for a long time now. HELP!!!.