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Is there a way to use the song length per default in the scroll settings? To me it would actually be best if the scrolling starts like 15 seconds after the song starts (to read from the top to the middle of the page) and reaches the bottom like 15 seconds before the song ends.
I can set this up but it takes me ages - song by song.
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05-21-2025, 04:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2025, 04:11 AM by Zubersoft.)
When you say "song length" what do you mean by that? You can certainly change the scroll settings, tap the "Set as Default" button and that will be used for all new songs. If you are setting a fixed scroll duration, that would be have to be modified per song though. If you are saying you want MobileSheets to try to match a scrolling "pattern" dependent on the total number of pages, then no, you can't set that up at the moment as that's not supported. You can have scrolling start after 15 seconds, but if you are saying you want that amount of time to change depending on some aspects of the song (number of pages, page heights, etc), then that's not supported. If by "song" you are talking about an audio track, and you are wanting scrolling tied to the audio track playback, then that's not supported either.
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In the song settings there is a field for the duration (don’t know if the translation is 100% correct). It would be perfect to use this field as setting for the scrolling as well. Today I have to maintain the time twice.
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Sure, I can look into adding an option in the scroll settings to use the song duration instead of having the user enter it on that dialog.
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YES ! it is a great option. I think, of song length is empty, you could suggest to pick it up from the audio file.
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Mike, the 100% solution to me would be to also calculate the waiting time before scrolling starts and reduce scrolling time, assuming that the you always want to keep the line you want to read in the middle of the screen.
Example:
Song has 4 pages and takes 4 minutes.
Start scrolling after 0.5 minutes (then you have reached the middle of page 1)
and scroll for 3 minutes (then you should be in the middle of page 4).
Start time: 0.5*song duration /#pages
Scroll time: (#pages-1)/#pages*song duration
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This change is included with the next update which I'm trying to finish ASAP.
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Hi Mike,
I think we have discussed 2 different feature request in this threat.
My initial idea as to take the song duration from the song data (last field on the edit screen) and use it for the scrolling duration.
Or ideally even as description in #7 with the target to always read in the middle of the screen.
As far as I have seen, this ha’s not set been considered, or?
Thx and have a great weekend
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Hi Marc,
If you specify a duration for the song, then go to the scroll settings and switch it to "Scroll entire song in fixed time", it will use the song's duration by default. So this is already in the app (and has been since that last post). If you change the song duration, it's not going to change the scroll settings though. The two are not linked - it's just the initial value that is set.
Mike
