Open Beta Version 3.5.0

peter

This is not a setting. It is an action that reorders your playlist and that's it.

Damir

peter yes i understand that but you have no idea what action is in use a tick on the action in use would help if its possible.

DickyDutch

Hi Peter I know I have raised this topic before but after using beta now for over a week I still feel that being able to get to the to the pdf editor should be easier. If say you are working with the iPad in the portrait mode with a pdf single page filling the screen (i.e. playlist hidden thus maximising view of pdf) in order to get to the pdf editor you have to 1) unhide playlist 2) find song on playlist 3) open song details 4) tap on pdf to open editor. Wouldn’t it be possible to have a shortcut somewhere on the pdf lyrics page to take you straight to editor? Perhaps there is already quicker way than the one I described? Many thanks.

peter

DickyDutch Hi Peter I know I have raised this topic before but after using beta now for over a week I still feel that being able to get to the to the pdf editor should be easier.

I will think about this. Maybe a button like the crossfade button?

peter

New beta build 7500

I think this is the final beta version. Release 3.5 is so far stable and there are only minor bugs found. I will now finish updating the manual and once done, the final version will be released.

Thanks a lot for testing!

Added

Mute now available as a assignable button command

Changed

Full page scrolling of PDF files now takes PDF margins into account
Autoscrolling in PDF documents will try to keep the horizontal position as selected by the user

Fixed

Keyboard in duration field does not hide when pressing enter
Reset menu in lyrics editor stays open when pressing Cancel button

peter

The button approach feels good. Will be available in the final version or maybe next beta if there are more bugs found in build 7500.

DickyDutch

peter Thank you that looks perfect! After editing and saving the mark ups will the screen return back to where it was - the pdf lyrics view?

peter

DickyDutch Yes, but it will scroll back to top.

peter

Damir yes i understand that but you have no idea what action is in use a tick on the action in use would help if its possible.

I don't think you understand. You perform an action and then it is done. A tick makes absolutely no sense. You can perform that action 5 times in a row if you like.

Damir If you play a standard stero backing track and select AUTO PLAY button then choose the NEXT song to be a LYRICS ONLY song with a TIME SETTING in place, when the stereo backing track finishes it does not obey the auto play request, it basically cues up the next song and stops.

Will fix that.

Damir Select a playlist, then choose the COLOUR option, change the colour of the playlist, you will notice the playlist name on top of screen does not immediately change to this new colour but will be correct if you EXIT playlist then ENTER it again

That was working in 3.4.10. Will fix that.

Damir Play a stereo backing track and open SONG PROPERTIES as its playing you will notice if you make any changes like VOLUME, PITCH, SPEED etc, the impact is immediate, but the visual feedback in the interface does not change immediately unless you exit this window, it would be really great if this was immediate as well.If possible.

Don't think that is possible. Background elements refresh when they become active (meaning the edit window is closed). Will not try to fix.

Damir

If you play a standard stero backing track and select AUTO PLAY button then choose the NEXT song to be a LYRICS ONLY song with a TIME SETTING in place, when the stereo backing track finishes it does not obey the auto play request, it basically cues up the next song and stops.
It should choose the next song and auto play as requested.
This is not consistent behaviour.

Damir

Select a playlist, then choose the COLOUR option, change the colour of the playlist, you will notice the playlist name on top of screen does not immediately change to this new colour but will be correct if you EXIT playlist then ENTER it again, i know its a small find which hopefully means we dont have other major problems.
I really like the new PLAYLIST EDIT its now a lot more useful.

Damir

Play a stereo backing track and open SONG PROPERTIES as its playing you will notice if you make any changes like VOLUME, PITCH, SPEED etc, the impact is immediate, but the visual feedback in the interface does not change immediately unless you exit this window, it would be really great if this was immediate as well.If possible.

It seems like exiting SONG PROPERTIES actually executes the change to the screen yet it is an immediate command to the actual functions.

Damir

Observation and suggestion.

DickyDutch

Hello Peter I’d like to raise the subject of pdf page numbering. At the moment from the lyrics view there is no indication as to whether a pdf is single or multi page and if the latter, which page you are on. I find this important myself but get over it by putting page numbering on the pdf itself (e.g. page 2 of 6) - then I know where I am! However for some other users this may not be as simple. If say they are reading charts prepared by someone else containing no page info, this might be an issue to them. What do you think? I do know that apps like UnrealBook and Unrealbook mobile provide this paging information and if this feature is easy to implement I suggest STAGETRAXX follows suit. Many thanks for listening.

peter

DickyDutch Sorry, can't do that as the app does not know where the text could be added to the document without overwriting something important. But that is exactly one of the uses for the annotation editor. If you miss page numbers, just scribble them into the PDF. Pro tip: Zoom into the document to add really small annotations.

Personally I really don't care for page numbers but I need bar numbers in the sheets. So that in rehearsals I can say for example: let's repeat from bar 32. So all my sheets contain bar numbers at the beginning of each staff.

DickyDutch

peter Ok that’s fine as I said this is not a problem for me personally. I was thinking more of those users migrating from the ‘paper world’ used to performing with paper manuscript/lead sheets where the total number of sheets and the current sheet are easy to visualise . In my opinion this is not quite as easy using pdfs in STAGETRAXX - but I guess those users will soon adapt! Anyway I’m very happy with how the pdf feature has turned out - it suits me fine. Many thanks.

Damir

Just pointing out , when loading songs, FROM ITUNES MUSIC LIBRARY, isnt that no longer itunes?or is it still something that some users can use on the new ST3?i thought itunes has gone forever available for ST2 users only.

Create Lyrics Only File, perhaps PDF should be included to guide those first time users that want pdf only use and need to know where to go without reading instructions.

peter

Damir Just pointing out , when loading songs, FROM ITUNES MUSIC LIBRARY, isnt that no longer itunes?

Of course it is still possible although not recommended as it will degrade audio quality. This is explained in the manual.

Damir Create Lyrics Only File, perhaps PDF should be included to guide those first time users that want pdf only use and need to know where to go without reading instructions.

PDF is not a song type. You can attach PDF documents to any existing song type and you don't need to decide whether a song should have a PDF or not when creating the song.

Damir

peter sorry i thought itunes is no longer available that it has been renamed to MUSIC.

PDF might not be a song type but its a way a person can run his show and perhaps needs better guidance of how to get there.
Not all logic has to be exact to the letter of how it works, the point is to make it easy for pdf users to get to the spot they need so they can create pdf songs without reading the instruction manual.

peter

Damir sorry i thought itunes is no longer available that it has been renamed to MUSIC.

Still available on Windows and all users are still familiar with the name. Apple Music on the other hand is mostly used for the streaming service which does not work with Stage Traxx. Therefore I stick to the name iTunes for the time being.

Damir

SONG SEARCH, i found when i create a search criteria and end up with my search results i can only play one choice of my results and the search criteria is auto canceled, this is very frustrating, what is the point of the cancle button next to search if it auto cancels every time.
I expect my search results to remain while i play various choices then when i am happy with the song version i want i then press cancle to clear the search results and get back to full library.
At the moment you are assuming i will find my search in one go and want to play it immediately.This is very limiting and frustrating most times i just want to, find a group of results, listen to them, make a final choice, without having to enter a search criteria every time.

Perhaps a single tap on the song just plays it without opening the lyrics window so you can easily sample your search results, and a double tap on the song actually plays the song and lyrics window pops up and you continue the show.
This then allows us to easily browse the SONG library yet still gives us an easy way to grab one particular song immediately in to our performance.

peter

Damir Just make sure you don't open / close the full screen player when starting / stopping playback. Open the full screen player and search there or play the songs through the mini player and stay in the full screen song list. It will work as expected.

If you have auto open full screen player active, there is nothing I can do about this issue.

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