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#51
Repertoire Help / Identify Songs, that are no in...
Last post by ChrisMikolaj - August 31, 2025, 07:11:58 AMHi Arlo
Is there a smart way to find songs that are not included in any setlist – ideally even across different projects?
Here's my situation:
I play in several projects and created a "master project" where I keep track of all songs, set names, breaks, contacts, etc., so I have one complete overview. The problem is: Currently only the song list can pull in content from "all projects." Things like set names don't work this way. Maybe there is a plan to have that "Include all projects" button for contacts, set names, breaks, etc. as well? That'd be great to avoid the "master project"
I know that each song shows at the bottom which setlists it's part of. I also tried creating a smart list with the condition "Part of = "nothing"," but that didn't return the correct result at all.
What I'd really like is:
Would it additionally be possible within a smart list to see in which setlists a specific song was already included? I was thinking about sorting the list by setlists. That would obviously require a song to appear multiple times I think. That's probably not easily possible, but maybe there's a workaround available for that as well?
Last but not least: How is BandHelper identifying if and when a song was played? I saw on the smart lists there is an option to count how often a song was played. But do I need to tick off the songs during the shows or is it recognizing a song on a setlist with an event and date assigned to it and if it's in the past it was played? Then we could probably use the smart list to sort by when the song has been played last and that would already solve the above issues?
Any hint on how to approach that would be awesome.
Many thanks,
Chris
Is there a smart way to find songs that are not included in any setlist – ideally even across different projects?
Here's my situation:
I play in several projects and created a "master project" where I keep track of all songs, set names, breaks, contacts, etc., so I have one complete overview. The problem is: Currently only the song list can pull in content from "all projects." Things like set names don't work this way. Maybe there is a plan to have that "Include all projects" button for contacts, set names, breaks, etc. as well? That'd be great to avoid the "master project"
I know that each song shows at the bottom which setlists it's part of. I also tried creating a smart list with the condition "Part of = "nothing"," but that didn't return the correct result at all.
What I'd really like is:
- to identify songs in the database that have never been added to any setlist in any project.
- if that's not possible, at least to see within a project which songs have never been used in a setlist (and I can figure out the overlaps between projects myself)
Would it additionally be possible within a smart list to see in which setlists a specific song was already included? I was thinking about sorting the list by setlists. That would obviously require a song to appear multiple times I think. That's probably not easily possible, but maybe there's a workaround available for that as well?
Last but not least: How is BandHelper identifying if and when a song was played? I saw on the smart lists there is an option to count how often a song was played. But do I need to tick off the songs during the shows or is it recognizing a song on a setlist with an event and date assigned to it and if it's in the past it was played? Then we could probably use the smart list to sort by when the song has been played last and that would already solve the above issues?
Any hint on how to approach that would be awesome.
Many thanks,
Chris
#52
Repertoire Help / Adding new songs is problemati...
Last post by sbp66 - August 30, 2025, 02:10:03 PMAdding new songs in other setlist apps is streamlined. Other apps better integrate looking for an appropriate version on the web, and, once a version is found that looks good, you can just click a button to import it. No copy-pasting is necessary. This is to me the biggest drawback of BandHelper. AFAICT the only way to import a song is to copy and paste from some search result (not easy to do especially on a tablet or phone). And in my case at least the chord-over-lyrics style doesn't get converted to ChordPro when using the [C] ChordPro Tools button. Further, the ChordPro button should also convert curly braces to "starting with #" ({abc} --> #abc), since a leading # is (apparently) the only way to make a heading in BandHelper.
#53
Repertoire Help / ultimate-guitar copy-paste doe...
Last post by sbp66 - August 30, 2025, 01:58:57 PMIf I copy-paste from ultimate-guitar it is chord-over-lyrics style.
I saw in a post from last year that the [C] button is supposed to change chords-over-lyrics to chordpro. However this doesn't work for me. All is seems to do is remove brackets from non-chords.
I saw in a post from last year that the [C] button is supposed to change chords-over-lyrics to chordpro. However this doesn't work for me. All is seems to do is remove brackets from non-chords.
#54
Repertoire Help / Re: Hide set duration when Sha...
Last post by dragovic.vlada - August 28, 2025, 07:37:38 AMFair enough, I was also thinking of trying the same.
Thanks!
Thanks!
#55
Repertoire Help / Re: Hide set duration when Sha...
Last post by arlo - August 27, 2025, 01:03:14 AMAnother option is to use a PDF editing program to remove the duration from a PDF after you export it.
#56
Repertoire Help / Re: Hide set duration when Sha...
Last post by dragovic.vlada - August 26, 2025, 05:33:09 PMThanks for the reply, Arlo.
Not the most elegant solution, but I guess I'll just delete a song's duration each time I need to share a PDF and then re-enter it afterwards...
Not the most elegant solution, but I guess I'll just delete a song's duration each time I need to share a PDF and then re-enter it afterwards...
#57
Repertoire Help / Re: Hide set duration when Sha...
Last post by arlo - August 24, 2025, 09:04:19 AMNo, if BandHelper can calculate the set durations, it will show them.
If you add at least one song that doesn't have a duration defined, and you don't have a default song duration entered for the set list, then BandHelper can't calculate the set duration and won't show it.
If you add at least one song that doesn't have a duration defined, and you don't have a default song duration entered for the set list, then BandHelper can't calculate the set duration and won't show it.
#58
Repertoire Help / Hide set duration when Sharing...
Last post by dragovic.vlada - August 23, 2025, 04:01:52 PMHello there, Arlo and BandHelper community!
Is there a way to hide the duration of the sets when Sharing the set list? I'd like the PDF to only contain Set List Titles, Song Titles and Artists. The duration is not something I want shared.
Thanks in advance!
Is there a way to hide the duration of the sets when Sharing the set list? I'd like the PDF to only contain Set List Titles, Song Titles and Artists. The duration is not something I want shared.
Thanks in advance!
#59
Other Help / Re: iPad suggestions
Last post by arlo - August 21, 2025, 09:50:18 PM #60
Other Help / iPad suggestions
Last post by Dennis Key - August 21, 2025, 10:16:03 AMI need to upgrade my tablet from an Andriod one to an Apple version to better use the Setlist maker app. Do readers have any best, or economic suggestions? Thanks folks, Den.