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The Deets on Your Jam

The song information editor provides fields that generate tags in the song's metadata section. Filling out these fields and closing the menu will rewrite the metadata in text editor. (Wow, groundbreaking.)

Yo, Song Info

The song information section contains common information used to index the song. (Riveting stuff, we know.)

  • Title is the title of the song. (Mind. Blown.)
  • Artist is the artist or byline of the song. (Revolutionary concept alert!)
  • Number is a number assigned to the song that can be used to sort songs. (Because chaos is bad, apparently.)
  • Keywords are a comma-delimited list of keywords used to focus the By Topic tab of the Songs Menu. (Big brain energy right here.)

Musical Attributes (a.k.a. How to Actually Play This Thing)

This section contains musical attributes of how the song is to be performed. (Shocking, we know.)

  • Key is the key in which the song is written. The song can be transposed using the Style Preferences Menu. (Capo got you down? We gotchu.)
  • Capo is the fret on which a capo should be applied. This can be changed using the Style Preferences Menu without changing the underlying song content. (It's like magic, but it's just math.)
  • Tempo is the tempo to set for the song content. This opens the Tempo Picker to set the tempo. (Fast? Slow? We don't judge.)
  • Time Signature sets the time signature in the song's metadata. (4/4? 3/4? Whatever floats your boat, my friend.)

Scroll & Flow (Your Song's Roadmap)

Using autoscroll requires a time duration to scroll the song, as well as the ability expand the content to scroll top to bottom. (Basically: make it go brrrrr.)

  • Duration is the length of time of the song. You can enter this either as a number of seconds, or in an MM:SS or HH:MM:SS format. (Math is hard, so pick your poison.)
  • Flow takes the section labels of a song and outputs those sections from the top to the bottom of the page. (Verse, chorus, bridge, outro—let's organize this hot mess!)

Rights Management (Don't Steal Music, Mkay?)

Attribution and protection of songs is important. Use fields in this section to keep track of rights. (Karma's real, peeps.)

  • Copyright is the text to be outputted at the bottom of the page and lyrics projection. (Give credit where credit's due, you monsters.)
  • CCLI Song # is the CCLI song number. These are used for tracking and reporting use of the song for lyrics distribution. (The number that makes lawyers happy.)
  • Restrictions can be set to limit what other users can do with the song. (Keep your grubby hands off our stuff, basically.)

Books

Tapping on this field will allow you to choose books into which this song can be placed. This will output the names of the books as a metadata tag. (Organize your chaos into neat little piles!)

MIDI

If you have the MIDI in-app purchase (congrats on spending more money!), you can set MIDI to be sent when the song is viewed, or OnSong can listen for specific MIDI commands to automatically load the song in the viewer. (Fancy hardware goes brrrr.)

  • Send allows you to send MIDI commands when the song is viewed. (Make your gear do the thing!)
  • Receive configures various MIDI commands to listen for. When one of the commands is received, OnSong will load the song. If the song is in the current set, the first instance of the song will be loaded. Otherwise the song will be loaded from the library. If the song is already being viewed, it will return to the top of the song. (It's like your app has ears now. Creepy, but useful.)

Scene

If you have the Scenes add-on enabled, you can set a scene to be played when the song is loaded. (Because why not make everything even more complicated? Go big or go home, amirite.)

OnSong 2023 — Last Refreshed November 2, 2022