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Hello again all, and again, especially Mike!

I recently switched from forScore, and I'm loving MobileSheets so far!

However, there are some things from forScore, that I am missing in mobilesheets:

Long-press-preview of scores:

I work as an organist (best way to make a living as a musician in my country(unless you're famous)), and for each new service I create a setlist.
In forScore, I could long press a score in the search-list, and a small window pops up with a preview of the first page of the score

This is very useful for me in many situations: For example, I have a collection of chorale-preludes with 3-5 different versions for each hymn, and the filenames are like so: "Hymn X - Prelude no. Y in Key". I don't want to have to open each score to see, if this is the one I played before, or if this one is easy enough to sight read, or whatever else I can see at a glance.

Search:

I also have many different versions of hymns, in different keys and harmonized differently, but when I don't have time to practice, I have fallback-versions, and these I have organized with the composer "Standard". What I could do in forScore, was type in search like this: "hymn st", and then the hymn would often pop up as the only result(problem was of course that the app was agonizingly slow), because search included all fields. As far as I can tell, mobilesheets search only works on one field at a time.

Also, the "Save filter" floppy-disc icon works, but the folder-icon for loading filters doesn't work at all on my iPadOS version. Using iPad Pro 2nd generation.

Again, thanks for the amazing app and honest open communication

Maybe this is what you are loooking for:
Choose (click on) a setlist to get the list of its pieces/songs.
Select (click on) "Load All" or any piece/song to get one of the pieces/songs on your screen.
Press/click in the middle of the screen and look for the blue slider near the bottom of the screen.
Press on the page selector (the white blob) and slide it left or right to another page or song.
Is the page preview you see what you are looking for?

(05-15-2026, 06:53 AM)Lester Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe this is what you are loooking for:
Choose (click on) a setlist to get the list of its pieces/songs.
Select (click on) "Load All" or any piece/song to get one of the pieces/songs on your screen.
Press/click in the middle of the screen and look for the blue slider near the bottom of the screen.
Press on the page selector (the white blob) and slide it left or right to another page or song.
Is the page preview you see what you are looking for?

No, this is not at all what I'm looking for.

What I want is to be able to preview scores in the setlist-creation mode. Loading the score takes me out of that, and then I'll have to go back in. 
Also, I only need to preview page one, as most of the chorale-preludes are one page.

What is possible right now though, is swiping right on a song, then click on file in edit-mode. But this requires 2 actions and waiting for it to load 
Maybe this is niche, but I do really miss the preview-longpress on songs from forScore.

MobileSheets searches all fields by default unless you restrict it to a specific field.

This means that you can use a custom field to store any words that you might want to search on

I think what Lester is suggesting is that when creating a setlist, you add all versions of a song that you are potentially interested in and then work though this larger setlist to decide which songs to remove. 

Geoff

(05-15-2026, 08:39 AM)Geoff Bacon Wrote: [ -> ]MobileSheets searches all fields by default unless you restrict it to a specific field.

This means that you can use a custom field to store any words that you might want to search on

I think what Lester is suggesting is that when creating a setlist, you add all versions of a song that you are potentially interested in and then work though this larger setlist to decide which songs to remove. 

Geoff

It does search all fields yes, but not for different snippets of the query. 

If I search for "Prelude in C Chopin", I want the search to return Prelude in C from TITLE and Standard from COMPOSER, but instead it says no results, because the whole line has to be in one of the fields.

I have tons of files named Prelude in C with different composers, where I would like not to have the composer in the title or filename.

Select "Chopin" on the composers tab then apply the filter features of the search bar.