Having Problems Switching to IPad from AppleLapBookPro??????

LeanneProMusic

Hello everyone, I made the decision to start working with an iPad after a year with StageTraxx on a LapBookPro. I have LOVED every minute of working with StageTrax, but the computer is really cumbersome.

I’ve tried following the instructions in the manual about CloudSyncing but haven’t had any results.

I added the Free Version onto the iPad. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I wouldn’t really mind purchasing a new version for my iPad, but have over 500 songs, lyrics, pdfs, tempo changes, key changes, etc. that would take me weeks to recreate.

Called Apple Support, but they can’t tell me anything that helps.

What is the best way to accomplish a seamless transfer or copy to the iPad??? 🇦

Thanks for any suggestions, and Happy 2025!

Lishy

LeanneProMusic just create a full back up, save to your iCloud and import it to the iPad from there.
If both MacBook and iPad have the same id’s then you can have full version on both. Just restore your purchases.

LeanneProMusic

Lishy
Thank you, I wondered if this might work. Fantastic!

Damir

LeanneProMusic airdrop is faster or usb stick and won’t hog up your iCloud space.

Lishy

Damir not sure that it is and she can move file wherever she wants after.

LeanneProMusic

Damir Thanks!!

LeanneProMusic

Damir
Hi Damir, thanks for your suggestion about airdrop. Yesterday I did buy the new iPad and the store personnel helped me get all the songs (600 of them) transferred. Only thing, by the time I got up the next morning (today in the US), there were only about 10 songs left. The other song titles were listed, but they were identified with a red MISSING… and they are indeed missing.

The old computer was wiped at the Apple Store for trade-in… and I have spoken to Apple Support who have tried, but they way the songs don’t ever enter into the cloud if they are not Apple songs (sheesh!).

The titles remain, the lyrics are there, and where I’ve altered keys and tempos, as well as the sound through equalization.

I took a thumb drive to the store yesterday, and thought we did a backup onto that, but it only has 7 songs on it, which is I so much les than 600 🙂. I have jobs coming up…

I’m wondering if there is another way to repair the missing songs short of going onto the websites where I bought them and remixing them, etc. I can’t even imaging how to then get them back into Stage Trax where the lyrics live at this time.

Do you think this would be a good time to upgrade to the latest version of StageTrax?

I really am so upset with this that I can’t imagine the best place to start… that’s why I thought of you? Any suggestions…. Do people ever hire you for consultation?

Down and Out in Texas!! 🙂

LeanneProMusic

Lishy Thank you for taking time… awesome 🙂

Lishy

LeanneProMusic how did they transfer them over?
Did you ever see them not missing/red on the new iPad?
Are the song files anywhere in your files app at all?
Do you have the full version on your new iPad? Even though you bought it on the old one, you will likely need to restore purchases on the new one.

Damir

LeanneProMusic have you made a full backup before starting anything and saved it to a safe spot?
Did they use airdrop ? If so all your files should be in the downloads folder on your new device .
Rule no 1
Never ever rely on iCloud unless you have a full backup of your data anywhere but iCloud , iCloud is a medium that syncs up your devices that is not 100% reliable, use it only as an aid to your work never as the the main tool of transfer.

LeanneProMusic

I haven’t repurchased a new version… I have so many lyrics, cues, key changes, tempo changes and PDFs on the old version, and wanted to try to salvage those things….

The way we were transferring the songs was your suggestion earlier about a thumb drive… but while we were all looking at that, the cloud connectivity came up, and we decided to do it that way.

I watched the transferring of the program and files from the old lap top onto the Thumb Drive, but today when I opened it up to look, there were only 7 songs (most of which were purchased at Apple).

I also watched as the Cloud Connect registered a complete job in transferring the songs off of the old computer to the iPad, but a lot of them were already red. I thought to myself I would just have to bite the bullet and rework those… then went to bed.

When I got up this morning, All but about 10 songs were red by then.

I do realize in hindsight, this was a pretty careless approach for me to let Apple wipe the old computer last night after… however, I can go onto the sites and restore them that way, but can’t even figure out how to go about that…

I really appreciate you taking time here.

Lishy

LeanneProMusic I would restore your purchase on the new iPad as a starting point as the free version only lets you have 6 songs on it. You won’t be charged again if both have the same Apple ID.
Iicloud sync can be tricky for this reason but t’s odd some were showing red as they were being transferred over though…

LeanneProMusic

Lishy Okay, thank you so much… I will try that … I was thinking about this earlier….

LeanneProMusic

Damir
For some reason, they couldn’t get Air Drop to work…. Not sure why…. There are only some files, less than 50, that I’ve found in my files on the new iPad. Just not sure how to bring them in to a new version so that they have all the key changes, tempos, pdfs and lyrics, etc. I can go to the maker of the mp3s and load them as original, then, I’ll start from scratch on all of the incidental information. Maybe that’s the only way now??? Thank you for this input, Damir…

Damir

LeanneProMusic make sure you save a full backup before, this saves everything and is the safest way to keep everything as it was, when updating devices or creating other backup devices, forget iCloud apart from device syncing.

LeanneProMusic

I should have checked the thumb drive where we were backing up originally. Then at that point, we abandoned the thumb drive for the cloud….
A lot of confusion with lots of apple staff making suggestions, etc. When we abandoned the idea for the thumb drive, I should have checked it anyway, then would have seen it was incomplete. Too bad to learn this at this time 🙂. Cheers!

Damir

LeanneProMusic we are all always learning 👍

peter

Wow, what a monumental fail of the Apple staff. Usually if you setup a new iPad you have the option to automatically restore everything from an old iPad. That would have included Stage Traxx and all its data. All that you would have needed to do afterwards is to restore your purchase. And that's it.

LeanneProMusic

I agree with you, Peter! Also a problem is that I Some (but not a Lot) of technical expertise when it comes to computers. I have operated for over a year with StageTraxx 3 on a Mac lap top very beautifully and seamlessly. I cannot imagine doing the work I do without this program.

In talking with Apple yesterday and this morning, I wanted to see what is in a backup file that I forgot about… I created it on ST3 (on Laptop before surrendering it to trade-in) for the iPad) while at the Apple Store. I wanted to see what is in t before running on the new iPad, but I am not able to look inside the file. I would have to just run it and trust that all I need there, and if not, creating all of it again would cost me a so much time — which, like all of us, I do not have the luxury of.

The scary part is that I have re-tempoed, changed keys and created lyrics (only some pdfs) but many, many songs have just lyrics.

Apple Support keeps reminding me that the laptop I traded in is in a particular language (of course I understand that part), and that iPad won’t successfully run that information. The backup of the laptop is 5.47Gig showing in a file on the new ipad, but Apple Support can’t find away for me to view the contents of the file before running it to install.

I am afraid to lose all the tempo/key/lyric/pdf in the INFO section of the songs.

Apple says reach out to you for further support 🙂. Will the backup I created 2 days ago appear in the iPad version? I will be most happy to purchase a new ST3 if that will streamline things…

Any ideas?

LeanneProMusic

I finally just held my breath, and ran the backup though it looked incomplete. But after it was finished installing everything is here! All contrary to Apple’s take on it about iPad not being able to import things from MacBookPro. Thank you, Peter!!! Good luck with your ventures! Your product is totally Elegant!
Leanne

Lishy

LeanneProMusic glad you managed to save/sort it.

Damir

LeanneProMusic you really should have made a full backup of what you already had before restoring the unknown backup file , so you didn’t have to hold your breath, but it’s good news you got it all back.

peter

LeanneProMusic So when you say "backup file" you mean the ST3 backup file? Those can be freely exchanged between MacBook, iPad and iPhone. You can restore these backups on any type of device.