Karaoke Song Book Arrangement

[Lonman]

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Lonman

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

Same here.
8 books by artist and 4 by title. The title books rarely get used.

One of these days I'm going to import all the vocal versions I have as well and create a separate book for those. So far I've done a good job of talking myself out of it.

Sam

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

The title books rarely get used.

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

Yeah, ppl around here seem to say more of "What's that song by so and so, can't think of the title". That spurred me into having all my books eventually(when they get too thick for both) to be just Artist. But I will always keep one master that contains both for that rare one who needs to look up a title.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Really? Now I grant you the artist is probably primary, but I get asked for title listing books probably just as much as artist books. Strange.

When I first split up my books I went from 15 combined to 10 & 10. After spending many nights watching the artist books get depleted while the titles barely get touch I cut the title books down to 5 and then 4 on the next reprints

I number all the books and keep them in numerical order to help determine how many of each are getting used (cuts down on cleaning too ). Most nights 4-6 artist books go out and between 0 and 2 title books go out. Most of my singers are regulars with their saved songslips so that could possibly skew my results and like Bryant most folks who ask about a song, know who sang it they just can't remember the (exact) song title.

Sam

[madjim- with the Lord]

I see I'm the only one who uses "Artist Only" in my books. I used to list Artist in the front and Title in the back of evey book but they got WAY to big and heavy (10,000 plus songs). The reason I decided not to have any books listed by Title is so all of them are the same, one less thing for folks to complain about. If they want to find a song by title they ask me and I do a quick search.

I print my books with a double column using Hoster's settings. Are any of you guys making changes to the setting in your word progam to get more songs per page? If so, what are they?

Thanks

Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by madjim

Are any of you guys making changes to the setting in your word progam to get more songs per page? If so, what are they?

Thanks

Jim

The lack of an answer to my question leads me to believe that you guys are using a different program to create your songbooks.

I looked at other songbook programs and it seems like alot of work creating and maintaining another database just to make my books lighter BUT THAT'S JUST ME.

I've been using Hoster's songbooks for years and my singers like them. The only thing I would like to be able to do is print them without BookID numbers, ARTIST AND TITLE ONLY (or visa-versa). I've hesitated to request this feature because it seems logical that Hoster will alow me to do it in the future.

It would be nice if Hoster let me to choose a different songbook format or modify the present format alowing me use fewer pages but it's no big deal.

I'm sorry if I stepped on "unholy ground" and took this post in a different direction.

Thanks Again!

Jim

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by madjim

The lack of an answer to my question leads me to believe that you guys are using a different program to create your songbooks. Jim

I just use MS Access. Yes I type everything in manually, which helps aide in possible spelling errors, if a disc changes a track listing, etc. It also helps me to know what I have in my library. Everything is double columned and font size 11 pt Narrow Arial Bold.
I've played with the Hoster book (actually really like the output) & I thought you could adjust the margins in Word, top & bottom to allow a few more per page.

[2shadow]

If they want to find a song by title they ask me and I do a quick search.

"Me Too" My singers hardly ever look up a song anyhow.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by 2shadow

If they want to find a song by title they ask me and I do a quick search.

"Me Too" My singers hardly ever look up a song anyhow.

That's pretty much how I do it shadow?

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by 2shadow

If they want to find a song by title they ask me and I do a quick search.

"Me Too" My singers hardly ever look up a song anyhow.

Same here.

Jim

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

You should of had a combined book as well in the poll. I used to have 1 book that had both title AND artist. Now it's separated into 2 separate books.

Yes, that was what was actually meant by that "third" category; artist and title in same book.

Apparently, it's being taken as "separate books, one for artist, and one for title"