Suggestion for MTU, or advice for me.

[Roy Dennis]

This is just an idea, may suit you may not. When someone gives you say 6 songs enter them all in the play list but after the first song click skip, then enter the next singers say 4 songs but after his 1st song click skip, do this for all the singers with multiple songs. Now it will jump to the next singer and not the next song. After all have had their 1st song either go back to the top of the list and un skip all their next songs and play again from the top or drag them down one at a time to below the last singer.

There is someone Else's idea in this forum if you search that uses a blackboard and chalk. As a singer signs up he enters his own name on the chalkboard for all to see and the next singer signs in after him, at the end of the list it starts again from the top. Doesn't show his song just rotation. Seems very fair way until someone wants to sing with someone else as well.
I myself prefer to just show the next 3 singers on my next singers list which gives me a chance to juggle them as I see fit.

Roy.

[stublack]

Hey there - This is my suggestion I hope I can make this simple.

1. First of all I don't use slips at all, I've even taken Book ID numbers out
of my song books.

2. I open up a blank Note Pad Or Word Pad and there I keep my rotation.

3. I've imported a song (It doesn't matter what song) and I titled it
PLEASE SELECT A SONG. IE: reinstall the song HELP by the Beatles only
give it the above title.

4. For every singer in the rotation who has not put in a song yet I add the
above track so it shows on the monitor that they need to select a
song.

5. I will take more than 2 requests at a time but always suggest to the
singer 1 or 2 is enough. Once the singers realize that your paperless
(no more little papers to blow around or keep organized) they
know they don't have to even look up the song if they know you
have it and will get the idea.

I hope this helps, I feel the whole idea of becoming computerized is to also to become paperless. I know there are many ways to do this but this works for me.

[ginamon]

Wow, that was quick, thanks for the great suggestions, I think I will combine the two, use the skip button with the "please choose a song" idea... if it gets too messy, I will use a word doc, as suggested...

How did you get rid of slips? I hate the things... Does everyone just come up to you? or do you go table to table? I was thinking of putting a pad of paper up at the front and letting people just write down what they want there, but was unsure how it would work...

Thanks so much for your quick and helpful suggestions.

[Roy Dennis]

What I do myself is ask the singers to only give me one song at a time, then when they come up to sing their song give me their next selection. This way the rotation almost looks after itself.

Roy.

[billyo]

i do same thing as Roy, i only take 1 song slip at a time, when i call their name, that is the time they give me the next song they wanted to sing, and i have 2 separate pile, one for the songs thats been sang and one for the next rotation, and i put them in order as they come.

[ddouglass]

We changed from using slips to using full pages that we print up their songs that sing all the time from the Singer's Database. When they come in they pick up their sheet and mark it with what they want to sing and in what order.
To make sure we stick to the rotation we use the Notepad idea to list it.

Now there is an idea that MTU put forward a while back to add a Rotation Control within Hoster. I am sure it is still in the specs to be done sometime in the future. The reason it hasn't been done is because other things needed to be done before this could happen plus some items that had to be address because of priority.

I moved this thread to New Feature Requests as this is where it should be.

[admin]

Read in the Manual about the Singers Database (Singers button). When you select a Singer name (or add a new one) in the Main Play screen, then select the song they request, click the "S" button to the right of the Add Track button. This adds that song under that Singer in the Singers DB.

You can also grab a singer while someone else sings and use the Singers button and dialog to add ALL songs they currently sing. Then, when they arrive at your show, you can select and add ALL their songs into the Playlist (appends at the bottom). As mentioned above, cick each below their topmost and click the Skip button. If they don't like their "first" song, they can tell you which one they want, and you simply Skip the first and unskip the requested one.

NEW FEATURE CONSIDERATION: We could add a checkbox in the Singer's Dialog that when clicked, automatically sets the SKIP flag on ALL the added songs when more than one is selected and added. Click it off and all songs add as un-skipped.

[ginamon]

You guys seriously rock, even if the program was mediocre, I would continue to buy it for this forum, which I have been reading all day (bloody brilliant way to spend a day). Thanks so much . And I promise to give the manual another read... but I can't promise my brain won't just seep out my ears like it does whenever I have to read a manual...

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by admin;100127
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NEW FEATURE CONSIDERATION:[/b] We could add a checkbox in the Singer's Dialog that when clicked, automatically sets the SKIP flag on ALL the added songs when more than one is selected and added. Click it off and all songs add as un-skipped.

I have always thought that It would be a good idea if when the play list loads all the list was highlighted as skip. Perhaps a tick box from the tools tab to allow this feature for those of us that would prefer this.

Roy.