Help with Auto-Scrolling

[sbattisti]

Hi all, brand new user of BandHelper. Trying to get some stuff set up for my band so I can encourage them to use this! Right now I'm trying to figure out the auto-scroll.

I have a song with a 3-minute duration, but the lyrics don't start until about 35 seconds in. I set the "auto-scroll pre-roll" setting to 35 seconds. But on the mobile app, when I tap the document to "start the song," it defaults to 30 seconds.

Am I setting something incorrectly? Is this setting not what controls how long before the lyrics start scrolling.

Also, I haven't gotten around to other bandmates yet, but if multiple people are using the app, and one person "starts the song," does it start for everyone?

Thanks!

[arlo]

I have a song with a 3-minute duration, but the lyrics don't start until about 35 seconds in. I set the "auto-scroll pre-roll" setting to 35 seconds. But on the mobile app, when I tap the document to "start the song," it defaults to 30 seconds.

Did you set the auto-scroll duration, too? If you want to override the automatic auto-scroll calculation, you'll have to set the auto-scroll duration. More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/autoscrolling.html

if multiple people are using the app, and one person "starts the song," does it start for everyone?

If you want to share an action like starting auto-scroll on multiple devices, you can use Live Sharing:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/live_sharing.html

[sbattisti]

Thank you! Just curious, how does the auto-scroll perform the automatic calculation if there isn't an auto-scroll pre-roll or auto-scroll duration?

Does it just guess at a percentage of the total duration before starting?

[arlo]

The automatic calculation divides the song duration by the lyrics length plus an extra half-page at the start for the intro and a half-page at the end for an outro.