Hi all, I have a gig coming up where I only need lyrics only no chords no backing so I decided to create a 12 song list with Lyrics Only which I have never used ST3 that way , I was very disappointed in a number of things when using my iPhone 16 pro max 512gb , all I needed was to be able to jump to any song quickly and finger control the lyrics to move to any part of the lyrics , this is the most basic way of operating , nothing fancy or automated.
What I found very frustrating was,
If you double tap on any song to select it , it automatically plays through it for 3 minutes , this is not what I want as I don’t know how long I am going to be using this lyric and every gig might vary in requirement , so I don’t want this, I am running very basic.
Then to top it off if I go back to select my next song choice it does not allow me to if the now song is playing , this appears to be a bug and very limiting as I have to stop the now playing song first.
All I want is to select my song see the lyrics without any automation scroll manually through the lyrics see my next song and if I choose to change my next song get back to my now needed lyrics and hit XFade to go to my newly selected lyrics without pressing any more buttons.
This is the most basic way to run, ST3 does not allow me to do this SIMPLY.
Another issue is if I have longer lyrics and need to quickly finger scroll to the end I simply should be able to swipe up strongly and the lyrics should scroll up to the end of lyrics , this happens now except the end of lyrics shoot up to the top of page , this is useless as I loose all my other lyrics I need , this needs to be made so the end of lyrics always stop at the bottom of the screen so we can safely strong swipe having the confidence you won’t loose any lyrics as most songs can fit on two screen sizes so a simple finger gesture on the screen confidently gets you to the end of lyrics.

Another frustration is easily getting to song select page since there is not enough space in portrait mode to have both screens and this mode is best for lyrics display, when you are in text mode a simple swipe to left and right would be a more user friendly way of choosing next song changes or just quickly selecting a next song last moment decision. Having to think is it top or bottom of screen I need to tap is bad logic not only that it is difficult to hit the right spots under pressure to simply choose a different lyric.
Lyrics only should be very simple to use on iPhones especially because they are the most likely devices to be used for this as they are small enough to look good on stage yet big enough to do the job at a near distance.
I have mine mounted on my accordion top right side using glue tack which grips it nicely to the accordion and a simple finger operation on it , but I found ST3 software in this basic operation very frustrating only because of its small logic mistakes which I never picked up before as I was never a Lyrics Only fan for numerous reasons I won’t get in to now.
Hope this makes sense Peter I have probably forgotten some other little things but these ones are major frustrations I found when using ST3 in its very basic mode.
Cheers Damir
SORRY!
To add, how I would like to operate.
In song select mode , single touch of any song selects its lyrics, the play button is not needed as I don’t have a time selected , it actually becomes a next song select button so if I don’t want to have the next song in the list pressing this button allows me to enter song list and choose the next song selection pressing the same button again after a selection of next song gets me back to now needed text with the new next song ready to hit XFade to choose the next song, if in lyrics screen a swipe to the right on screen gets me to song select mode and allows me to hit any song choice and immediately jumps to that song lyrics screen , this allows us to immediately change to new song , while using the play button it allows us to setup a next song quickly and then use the XFade to select it immediately when needed, if you simply use XFade every time you are sequentially moving through the playlist as you programmed it.
If you select a time in the lyrics only song then the logic diverts back to as is now but it should give you an option to either automatically start play or not depending on you selection within this song.
This way you start of with absolute basic mode of operation to a more automated mode if needed.
The automated mode is not a good way to go as you haven’t got good control of when the text ends compared to your live playing, so I would prefer to run very basic when using lyrics only because I have full control of what I need to, but this is only possible if ST3 allows me to do that , at the moment it does not.
Also I would allow remotes to simply screen page up down so you can easily progress through all the lyrics.