Total Time of a Set not appears if the time of a song is not indicated

[zgildasz]

Hi Arlo,

All is in the title, it could be great to get the option to calculate the total time of a Set even if a song is on nothing in the time field. It could be then considered as "0".

[arlo]

Songs with no duration will use the Default Song Duration from the set list Edit Details page. So you can set that to cover any songs where you haven't entered a duration.

Do you have songs that are supposed to have a duration of 0? If so, you could set them to a duration of 1 second and that would be close enough since set durations are rounded to the nearest minute.

[zgildasz]

Ok perfect !

Yes, I have sometimes one song divided in 2 or 3 parts to manage the audio player controlled by midi. Sometimes because it's divided in 2 parts, sometimes because there's a middle part with an audio loop. And because I want to use just one physical midi button to control play / play next or other, I need to assign different midi command to the same midi line , so I do it with the same song divided.

Hope to be clear...

In the past I was using two midi buttons, but I don't like to think "which button should I press to exit the loop" for example when I go to the next part after an improvisation. I need to have something instinctive.

[arlo]

I don't understand how your description of song loops and MIDI buttons relates to your original question about calculating the set duration. Did I answer your question?

[zgildasz]

Yes and no. Because the result is the same if I enter 0.1s in a song or in the setlist details : the song with this little timing , in the case of chained songs, change rapidly to the next song. But I need this song wait for my midi signal to start the automation and then go to the next song.

Anyway, that's not so important, I just need to calculate the total time of a Set but for that I enter 0.1s in the details of the set to know it and then remove it.

[arlo]

You can't enter 0.1 seconds as a song duration. Do you mean 1 second?

In your last message, I think you're talking about using the Select Next Song On Song Completion function. If you don't want that to run after the song duration, you can turn off Settings > Advanced > General > Trigger Song Completion From Duration.

[zgildasz]

1) Yes 1 second.

2) Great, that's exactly what I need. Thanks a lot