ST4 1905 | New Song workflow - audio file import overwrites Song Information

AnthonyB

ST4 Build: 1905
Device & iOS Version: iPad 9th Gen, iOS 26.0.1

Issue Description:
This relates to the workflow of creating a New Song.

On the New Song screen, if you fill in some of the Song Information fields, i.e. Title, Artist, and Notes, and then you select to Import Audio files, when you open the newly created song all of the Song Information you have entered is gone and the song title is set to the filename of the first audio track.

Steps to Reproduce:

At bottom of Song List, click + to open the new Song window
Fill in any of the following fields - Title, Artist, Notes
Click Import Audio Files
Select some audio files to add to your new song
Click Done
The window will close and you will be dropped back to the main screen.
Find your new song in the Song List (difficult as it does not have the title you gave it, it seems to either extract a song title from the audio file (if it exists) or it reverts to using the filename of the audio file.
Go into Song Details and you will find that the Song Title, Artist, and Notes that you entered in Step 2. above are gone.

Expected Behavior:
Song Title, Artist, and Notes entered on the New Song screen should be retained and not blanked out.

Actual Behavior:
Song Title, Artist, and Notes entered on the New Song screen are overwritten.

I'm guessing the Audio file import process which has the ability to extract Song TItle and Artist tag metadata is not checking to see if those fields already contain data, and then overwriting them. If there is no tag metadata in the audio files, it is just blanking the fields out.

If the intended workflow is to always do the audio file import FIRST, and then manually fill in any song info, we shouldn't provide the ability to fill in those fields on the New Song screen. But I doubt this is the intention and this issue iscaused by bringing Multitrack and Lyric only songs together into a single song type, and thus single song creation workflow.

Just for reference, I've raised another different bug relating to the New Song workflow here - https://support.stagetraxx.com/d/3679-st4-1905-new-song-workflow-import-multiple-files-creates-multiple-songs

peter

Maybe the naming is wrong. What the import option in the "New Song" dialog does is create new songs from imported files. Each selected file will create a new song with all fields setup to the respective values of the id3 tags in the files.

So I guess maybe I should do the following renaming:

Import Options -> New Song from Audio

And add a footer to the section:

Use one of the options above to create songs based on existing audio files.

Damir

peter Maybe the naming is wrong. What the import option in the "New Song" dialog does is create new songs from imported files. Each selected file will create a new song with all fields setup to the respective values of the id3 tags in the files.

So I guess maybe I should do the following renaming:

Import Options -> New Song from Audio

And add a footer to the section:

Peter can you simply explain the method of importing
1 a single stereo song.
2 multiple stereo songs.
3 single multitrack song.
4 multiple multitrack songs.
5 creating a new empty song from scratch ready to import whatever is needed in to it.
6 creating a lyrics /pdf only song without import
7 importing multiple lyrics/pdf songs
8 any other scenarios I missed.

So we can grasp the logic behind your ST4 design.

peter

1 and 2 are equal: Tap on + and then select the import option and select as many audio files as you want to import.

2 - 8 are also equal: Tap on + and setup the basic info for the song. Do this as many times as you like and then go to the edit song dialog of the newly created songs and do whatever you want.