Prepare

Prepare is where you get ready before a rehearsal or a service. It has two pages: Setlists and Library.

Library

The library lists every song your band has.

• Search by title, author, lyrics or theme.
• Filter by key or energy with the same key and energy buttons a song shows, beside the search box on a tablet or computer. Nothing is filtered until you pick something: an unused button reads Any and stays dimmed. Tap one to pick from its wheel; hold its small dot to let it go.
• Star, select and archive, as in Mail: every song has a star; tap it to keep a song close, and starred songs are listed first. Swipe a song to the right to reveal Select; keep swiping and the song is picked at once. Round marks then appear: a tap picks another song, and a drag down the marks picks a run (start the drag on a picked song to let the run go). You can also drag two fingers down the list, or on a computer ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) a song and ⇧-click another for everything between; hovering a song shows its actions too. The header then stars or archives the picked songs, or adds them to the setlist you have open, at once; Done puts the marks away. Swipe a song to the left to archive it (swipe all the way to archive at once): it leaves the list but is kept. Archived, last in the sidebar (on a phone, the bar at the bottom), shows those songs; there a swipe to the left restores or deletes a song, and picked songs can be restored or deleted together (deleting asks first).
• Sort by tapping a column title: once for A to Z (or lowest first), again to reverse, a third time to stop sorting by it. Sorts add up in the order you tap them, and a small number shows each column’s place; tap the star above the stars to put starred songs first or last. On a phone, the sort button above the list does the same.
• Add a song with New Song. Start from scratch, or paste lyrics with chords, either chords written above the lyrics or ChordPro with [C] inline chords.
• Arrangements: a song can have several arrangements, for example a short version and a full one. Pick the one you want before you play it.

If your library is empty, you can Start from a preset, a ready-made set of songs to try the app with. The Folk Standards preset also brings a sample setlist, Folk Evening, so you can see what a setlist looks like straight away. Nothing is opened for you: open a single song or the setlist, whichever you want to play.

Setlists

A setlist is the running order for an event.

• New Setlist asks for a name and, if you like, a location and a time.
• Add songs from the library. Stagely Pro shows the setlist’s energy flow, so you can see where it builds and where it rests.
• Load to Stage opens the setlist so you can practise it or play it live.
• Sort the setlists like the library: tap a column title (setlist, last used, songs or length), and tap it again to reverse. Newest setlists come first until you pick another column. On a phone, the sort button at the top of the list does the same.