Singer Name Display Finally Working

[dlessnau]

I finally got my SND to work. I had given up on it after trying everything mentioned in various posts. And the problem turned out to be my fault, as usual.

When you activate the SND, a little screen opens on the laptop, with the names of those in your playlist. I was told to drag the box off one side of the screen until it showed up on the TV.

When I tried that, it would stop at the edge of the laptop screen and would go no further. After installing 3.005 I decided to try again. Same thing. Stopped at the edge.

Then I discovered what I was doing wrong. When it stops, you keep holding the mouse button down, and take another bite on the mouse pad, and another sweep toward the edge. Then it goes off the edge. If it does not make it to the TV then, you take another bite and sweep, and low and behold it shows up on the TV. In my case, I went off the left side of the laptop. Others have to go off the right, I think.

I then took the mouse curser, grabbed a corner of the SND and stretched it out until it filled the entire TV screen, covering up the desktop.

When you play a song, it goes away, and when the song is over, it re-appears.

I set mine to display 8 names. If someone does not have a song in, but I want to hold their spot until they bring up a song, I just select the the 101 slot everytime, and put in the singers name like this JOHN (NO SONG SELECTED) When they bring up a song slip I enter that song, drag it up to where it is supposed to me in the rotation, and delete the (no song selected) slot.

If it is a video, I do the same but in the name I'll put JOHN (VIDEO) Just to keep the rotation in order and remind me that John is supposed to sing. I frequently forget to call someone with a Video, because it does not appear on the playlist. I probably will get rid of my video CDGs as I only have a few and they are more trouble then they are worth. I know Hoster will one day import them, but I bet they will take a lot of disc space.

I still use a white dry erase board too, because we have a lot more singers than 8. The SND, while not essential, makes for a very professional looking show. I could show more singers in the SND but it would be too small a type.

Thought I'd post this in case someone else was having the same problem as me.