Initial State after switching Set Lists and Songs

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While using Cantabile 4 (build 4338) I made the following two observations:

After switching to another set list, initially no song is selected. I expected that the first song is selected. You need to select a song manually. When you quit and restart Cantabile the first song is selected.

After switching between songs, no media player/ media file is selected. In the routing diagram at the bottom there is the (no selection) indication. I expected that the first media player / first media file is selected. You need to select the media player and media file manually. Even after quitting and restarting Cantabile no selection is made.

Is this behaviour by design? What are your expectations?

Paul

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Go to Tools/Options then this. Note that if you want to check the “Reload last setlist” you should first select another song load option, check it, then select Load first song in setlist. BTW this screenshot is from an older version of C4 but the menu is pretty similar.

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On the media player, check this

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There are some great videos on all of this on Cantabile’s Youtube channel, and also great guides… search the forum for guides and tutorials also.
Tom

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Thanks for responding. I do have the settings as you mention them. But as described in my initial post

  • the ‘Load first song in set list’ only works for the initial startup of Cantabile, but not when switching between set lists.
  • also ‘Selected File’ only works when switching song parts, but not when switching songs.

Paul

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Hi @brad

Could you please confirm that the observed behaviours are by design, and how I can force Cantabile to:

  • select the first song after changing setlists
  • select the first media player and first media file after switching songs

In the videos and guides I have read so far, I could not find the answers.

I also observed that after a setlist / song switch the song part indication in the ticker bar and the controller bar still indicates/highlights the song part from the previous song.

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Hi Paul,

Yes, there definitely some weirdness about the current song/state after switching set lists that I’ll look into.

Loading a set list only switches the set list - it doesn’t automatically load its first song but I’m open to adding this if it needed.

If you’re loading the set lists remotely via the network API you could just invoke a load first song binding after loading the set list.

Brad

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Hi Brad

Yes it would help if cantabile would follow the users ‘Startup’ settings (e.g. ‘Load first song in set list’) also when switching set lists.

It is currently not possible to load/switch set lists through the JS API. But I can select the first song programmatically when a set list ‘reload’ event is received. That’s sufficient for me.

Thanks
Paul

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The new loadSetList api will by default load the first song in the set list. (pass loadFirst param = false to disable).