Bulk Refresh/Update imported lyric files

AnthonyB

Is it possible to bulk refresh imported lyric files?

Because I do all of my work on a desktop Windows PC, I'm using a OneDrive folder as an intermediatry for importing audio files (multitrack audio) and lyric files (text files) into ST3 running on an iPad. On my Windows desktop PC, I save all files into a 'StageTraxx import' folder on OneDrive, and then in ST3 I import from that OneDrive folder. I use Windows Notepad for editing lyric sheets on Windows 11 as it is nice a fast.

There are times where I have needed to update many lyric sheets in a batch as I'm also embedding MIDI controller and patch change data in them (e.g. guitarist changes an effect they use on 20 songs so I need to reflect that in 20 lyric sheets).

Currently, I'm:

Making the changes in the lyric sheets on my OneDrive folder, then
Going into each song, one-by-one in ST3 and Edit Lyrics -> Import -> select the relevant file folder -> Save -> Done

This is quite a tedious process for 10 songs, let alone if I have to do 50 or 60.

Am I missing something? Is there a better way I could do this?
I saw in this thread (https://support.stagetraxx.com/d/156-st3-song-refresh) @peter mentioned

when editing lyrics outside of ST3, open the lyrics editor for the song and tap on the refresh button in the navigation bar. This will reload the lyrics from the file.

but I don't see any refresh button so possibly it only applies in certain scenarios? or is outdated UI info?

If there is no way, then I'd love this to be considered as a feature request for ST4 if possible! 🙂

peter

No, once lyrics have been imported, they are stored in the database in ST3. You can basically get rid of the text files.

As there is no link to the text files used during the import, Stage Traxx would not know which file corresponds to which song.

So you will have to go the long way and update song by song.

AnthonyB

peter Thanks for confirming that @peter

It might be too late, or a lower priority, for ST4 feature wish list but I'd love to see the capability to bulk refresh audio files used in multitrack songs and lyric sheets (both 'standard lyric sheets and PDF).

In my scenario as a cover band with a repertoire of over 200 songs, I might update update10-20 songs every few weeks. In ST3 this involves going through the process of audio file and lyric sheet import for each song every time.

I appreciate that there is definitely some value having that manual process from a 'have I got the correct file loaded' perspective, which could be lost if there was, say, a capability to simply update audio/lyric sheet files in a ST3 source folder, and have ST3 simply 'scan for updates' (or just 'refresh all linked files [if there was a file to song link for ALL file types]?). But still... I think I'd appreciate a 'bulk update' type feature over time!

peter

Audio files can already be bulk refreshed. As well as PDF sheets. But not lyrics because of the reasons I explained above.