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Post by Otherchuck on Aug 10, 2023 23:07:18 GMT
Greetings all,
Total newbie here. I want to use this app to prompt me during public guitar performances (I have always been rotten at remembering lyrics and chords of songs I have written myself!). My plan is to type the lyrics and chords from songs into files on my laptop, and have Liveprompter draw on those laptop files and scroll them. I imagine I can set up a playlist so I don't have to search for the next song in a setlist, but I will learn more about that kind of thing as I do some hands-on playing around with the app.
But I saw some references at the Liveprompter site about downloading songs stored in Dropbox. I can see why using Dropbox has some advantages, partic if one is inclined to use multiple devices. But can I use Liveprompter as a "stand alone" app on my laptop, drawing songs files off my laptop as opposed to getting the song files from Dropbox?
Hope that question makes sense! Thanks in advance for any guidance!
Otherchuck
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Post by Torsten on Aug 11, 2023 7:34:49 GMT
Hi there,
to clarify: only the mobile versions (Android and iOS) of LivePrompter require your files to sit in a Dropbox folder. The fundamental idea is that it is a pain to create and edit text files on a smart phone or a tablet, so for these versions you create your files on a PC or mac and put them in a Dropbox folder. That's why the Android and iOS versions have a mechanism to pull your files from Dropbox.
The desktop (Windows and iOS) version don't need you to have your files in Dropbox, since they can access the local file system directly. For Windows and macOS, you can use any folder in your file system to store your song files. Simply tell LivePrompter the folder where your files are when creating a "source" (see the manual).
Note: The desktop version still requires you to "synchronize" - not to download files from Dropbox, but to update its internal database from the metadata in the songs. So you will not see any new songs in your songs folder or changes to their metadata until you "Sync". The process is like this: you first create your Source to tell LivePrompter where your songs live, then you explicitly "Sync" to make LivePrompter scan that folder and read all the relevant metadata from the song files. After that, sync on a regular basis to update the database from any changes you've made to your files.
So it's a good idea to activate "always sync on startup" for the desktop version.
Cheers,
Torsten
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