Songs

The songs tab is the place to organize your song library. Here you have an overview over all songs imported into Stage Traxx.

You can sort the song list by:

• song title
• artist name
• number of times a song has been played
• date a song has been added to Stage Traxx

All sort options can be selected either in ascending or descending order.

Additionally you can filter the list by keywords and song tempo. It is possible to show only songs that are in a certain BPM range, include certain keywords, do not have certain keywords or any combination of the above. To show all songs, tap on the Clear button. See this section on instructions how to define and assign keywords.

Song types

Stage Traxx distinguishes between 3 different types of songs. All song types support the following features:

• Add lyrics and chords
• Transpose chords
• Assign keywords and colors
• Add to playlists

Some song types support additional features described in the following sections.

Standard song

This is the most common type of song. It is based on a mono or stereo audio file. In addition to the above features you can:

• adjust start and stop points together with fade in and out times
• set song specific volume and pan
• change pitch and speed
• song specific 4-band equalizer
• automatic scrolling with time coded lyrics

Lyrics only song

Use lyrics only songs if only to want to display lyrics without running a playback.

Lyrics only songs usually don't have a duration and cannot be played. You can edit the song duration in Song Details. Once you set a song duration longer than 1 second, you will be able to play lyrics only songs. This will activate automatic scrolling for lyrics and PDF documents. Playback will be silent.

Multitrack song

Multitrack songs can play up to 6 mono or stereo tracks in sync. In addition to the above features you can:

• adjust start and stop points together with fade in and out times
• song specific volume and pan
• volume and pan for each track
• 4-band equalizer for each track
• automatic scrolling with time coded lyrics
• route tracks to 2 separate stereo outputs

Adding songs

Tap on in the navigation bar to open a menu where you can select whether you want to add songs from the iTunes Music Library, from a local or cloud file, create a lyrics only song or create a multitrack song.

From iTunes music library

Choosing this option will open a song picker with which you can browse the iTunes music library on your device. You can select multiple songs and tap on Done to start the import.

Stage Traxx will then copy the songs from the music library into the Stage Traxx folder.

From local & cloud files

This option will open a file browser where you can navigate to a folder on your device or any supported cloud service like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive. You can select one or multiple files to import. The browser will show you which files are located in the cloud with a icon. If you select a file located in the cloud, it first needs to be downloaded to the device. This is indicated by a download progress icon:

Please be patient while files are downloaded. The dialog will close automatically once the files have been downloaded.

Share from other app

You can copy files into Stage Traxx by selecting the "Share" option in other iOS apps. Stage Traxx will show up as a target for all supported audio file types. If you select Stage Traxx in the share menu, the app will open and display a message that the file has been stored in the app. Now you need to refresh the song list to make that file visible in the song list.

Update audio files

If you modify the audio file of an already imported song outside of the app, you just need to overwrite the existing file in the Stage Traxx folder and then refresh the song list. Now Stage Traxx will detect all changes in the tags of the song and rebuild the waveform.

If you imported a track from the media library, you can reimport the song and overwrite the existing to file to update changes made in iTunes.

From .stsa File

With this option you can import songs exported via the Share menu in Edit mode. You will be asked how to proceed when the stsa file contains songs that are already present in your library. You can either skip those, replace either the metadata (lyrics, pitch, speed, ...) or the audio file, or replace the whole song in your library. If you shared a whole playlist, the playlist will also be recreated when importing the stsa file.

Create lyrics only song

To create a lyrics only song just enter a title and artist. You can then edit lyrics the same way you would with standard songs.

If you load a lyrics only song into the player you will see a grey Next button instead of the play button. There is also no time displayed and the waveform view consists of a flat line:

Pressing the Next button will load the next song into the player.

Create Multitrack Song

To create a multitrack song just enter a title and artist. You then need to add your tracks in the Edit Song Screen.

Delete Songs

Similar to the other views, you can delete a song by swiping in to the left and tapping on the trashcan icon:

On macOS you can also use a right click context menu to delete a song.

A confirmation dialog will appear where you can either cancel the delete command or select whether audio and pdf files for this song should also be deleted or not.

If you want to delete multiple songs, see Edit mode.

Duplicate a Song

With the same swipe to the left action as in the delete command you can also duplicate a song:

On macOS you can also use a right click context menu to duplicate a song.

Duplicating a song means that Stage Traxx will create an alias copy of the song that shares the same audio file as the original song. This means that no additional storage is needed on your device for the duplicate song.

You can change any setting available on the song details page and its sub pages. This includes audio regions, lyrics / pdf, equalizer settings and multitrack configurations.

Search

A search box is located at the top of the song list. All songs that contain the search term in their title or artist tags will be displayed as matching songs. Searches are performed case insensitive.

As you start typing in the search field, a scope selector will be displayed below the search field. With this selector you can choose to search in the whole song list or only within songs that match the currently selected filter criteria. If you have no active filter then both options will show the same search results.

To exit the search, tap on Cancel.

Refresh song list

Refreshing the song list is done by pulling down the list until you see the refresh indicator spin up:

Refreshing the song list will have two effects:

1. Stage Traxx will search for new songs in its documents folder. If you have copied songs via iTunes file sharing or the Files app into the Stage Traxx folder you can make them visible in the song list. It is basically equivalent to importing them.

2. Stage Traxx will check if a file of one of the known songs has been modified. If this is the case, it will reload all tags and refresh waveform data. This is useful if you want to rename a song or if you edited the waveform.

So whenever you modify anything with the files in the Stage Traxx folder, refresh the song list and your changes will be loaded into Stage Traxx.

Edit mode

The edit mode is useful if you want to modify multiple songs. You can enter the edit mode by tapping on the Edit button in the navigation bar. Now a toolbar will be displayed below the song list:

If you select a couple of songs you can add them to the queue with the button, create a new playlist containing the selected songs with the button or delete the selected files with . You can change the color of multiples songs by tapping on the button or add/remove keywords with . Songs can be shared with other Stage Traxx users by selecting the icon. This will create a file containing all selected songs with corresponding audio and pdf files and all song specific settings.

On macOS you need to hold down the cmd key and click on songs to select multiple songs.

Tapping on the button will select all songs in your library or deselect all selected songs.

To exit edit mode tap on Done.

Edit song details

If playback is stopped, you can tap on to open the Edit Song Screen.