Feature Request: Copy everything except Lyrics

ginacc

Hi - as previously mentioned, our band uses many devices, each with different lyrics for different users. Right now the "Backup" options are only Full and Database, but I would love to see an option for "everything BUT the lyrics." When I make major changes to our songs, my band has no option to update their devices except trying to make a lot of individual little changes (besides being labor intensive, it leaves a lot of room for human error), or just simply restoring from my main backup, which means losing all their custom lyrics and/or having to go back in and reload their custom lyrics on every song. Is there/could there be, any way to let them backup everything else EXCEPT the lyrics?

peter

So you want to just replace the audio files without changing the settings? Just Airdrop the audio files from the Files app to your bandmates. They should then store it in the Stage Traxx 3 folder and overwrite the existing files.

You can also export a bunch of songs in a single file and import that. But that includes the lyrics.

ginacc

peter It's not just the Audio Files, it's sometimes the volume of individual tracks, cuts made to tracks which change depending on where we want to song to start/stop for a specific show, etc etc. It's a lot of little changes that I'm constantly managing that I have to do on each device (I realize the Host device sends this to the other devices during playback but if they want to rehearse these things on their own then they have to make all these little individual updates to each device.) So it would be nice to send literally everything except the lyrics.

peter

Hm, I need to think about this. When you currently import song files that already exist on your devices, these songs are skipped and not imported. Maybe a possible solution would be to display a dialog where you can choose to either skip these songs, or import them anyway and overwrite the existing songs and then choose if lyrics should be preserved or not. I have to think this through in detail.