Ideas for future versions, comments appreciated...

Damir

DuskDave I rarely use a set-list because I can never know what the makeup of the audience will be in advance. What I would find extremely useful is an intelligent filter that shows suggestions for the next song based on the BPM and/or genre of the current or last song... so if, they are enjoying a 140bpm rock song I hit the 'genre' button and it shows me my other rock songs sorted by tempo with a cursor at or near 140bpm. I believe this would also be useful where a song bridges two genres as it would allow you to seamlessly move from say country to pop on a pivot song (e.g. '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton).

I agree with your ideas, you could use FILTER for your needs as it will do what you need but in a very clumsy way while on stage.
FILTER is a great idea but takes a lot of effort to setup your songs correctly, then it is not on stage user friendly, it has simple logic how it works but it’s not easy to use on stage while performing, yes you can make it do anything you want but don’t forget to disable it after use or you get nothing you want.
I agree we need smart logic to help us go on with a successful show , I wouldn’t mind a quick way of either keeping the energy or slowing it down or perhaps changing the style of the performance with a simple button push to give me song choices there and then and so be able to simply change the mood of the evening , perhaps a totally new mindset needs to be introduced to achieve this.

DuskDave

Damir
Thanks, Damir.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who can see some use in this. You are right that trying to do this mid-performance with current filtering options is almost possible but difficult and that it needs the user to structure and categorize songs meaningfully to work but if we are willing to put that effort in, I think it could be rewarding.

A simple implementation is maybe a single, big button that cycles between genre (a new field like 'keywords'), bpm, and off and every time a song loads (or the button is pressed) the filter is updated based on the new song's genre(s) or tempo (+/- X%). Cycling the button to 'Off' just disables the filter and shows all songs with the default sort option. Seems a lot to gain and you're no more than two taps from where you were without it.

DuskDave

peter
Yes, I already use keywords for genres but I also use it to distinguish between songs I play solo and in a duo: the 'keywords' and 'playlists' field do quite a lot of work already and I think adding a couple of extra fields (maybe just keyword 1, keyword 2 and keyword 3) that we can use (and maybe rename) as it suits us would help a lot... as long as they can also be filtered, of course.

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