We’re setting up some backing tracks for our setlist, and I’m just looking for experiences.
I use a single rackspace with a few variations for all our songs, and I assume I’m not alone in this.
So how do I best set up a streaming audio player for this scenario? I have a setlist with a number of songs, and each song should load a different track in the audio player. But I don’t see a straightforward way to do this without duplicating my rackspace for every song (which I definitely don’t want to do - it would be a maintenance nightmare).
Is there a way to link setlist songs to different audio files that I’m missing? Or do I just skip the setlist view entirely and set up the streaming audio player in my global rackspace, with a widget for selecting every audio file?
You can use that widget to select the corresponding audio file in your local rackspace (and its variations). I assume that you have more songs than variations… so you should try to use the “capture variation” functionality for songparts (in setlist mode).
This will override the actual widget setting of the rackspace/variation for just this specified song part. Have a look at what the manual says:
I think this might the solution for what you want to achieve..
I was really hoping there would be a way to treat songs or parts as variations, so this looks like it might fit that bill indeed. I’ll be playing around with this function for sure
Use the SAFP Select Track function in the song part actions to select the track in the Streaming Audio File Player. Just define a handle (right click on player in wiring view → OSC/GPScript handle) and you’re good to go.
Ohh, that’s even better. Looks like I can just trigger the action on the intro of every song, so that the correct file is always loaded when the song changes. Then just hit play when I’m ready and off we go.
I tried the “Capture variation” trick above, but it wasn’t behaving. It would work the first time I changed songs, but when I moved between variations while the song played, it would just skip back to the stored rackspace selection whenever I jumped back to the first variation again.
I also managed to script it pretty decently as an alternative solution - Catching the On Song() event and then loading the audio file that had the same name as the selected song.
I’ll play around with all of these options a bit and see what works for me. Thanks for the replies.
