This is a request that came up from the user community: when editing songs on your desktop device during a songwriting or rehearsal session, it can be useful to synchronize just the changes to one song to your mobile device – keep the creative juices flowing without having to go back to the main menu, sync, and go back to the song.
Starting with version 1.5.3, you can do this on the mobile platforms (Android, iOS). How to do this? Simply do a long-press on the song title until a little pop-up menu appears:
Tap “Sync this file”, and LivePrompter will try to sync the current song with Dropbox. It will then re-load the song and reset scrolling to the top. If something goes wrong, you will also be notified with a red popup.
Note 1: I have made this function a bit difficult to get to for a reason – since this can block operations for a while, you don’t want to trigger it accidentally during a gig. And it is mostly for advanced users – see next note.
Note 2: a word of caution – to keep the time required for this function short, LivePrompter will NOT re-build the database with the single-file sync. So any changes you make to metadata (e.g. artist, title, color, energy, book) will not be reflected in lists – for this to actually be shown, you’ll need to do a full sync (which will completely re-build the LivePrompter database). So use this feature with caution and be sure to do a full sync on a regular basis!
Note 3: on Windows / macOS, this function isn’t needed – all you need to do for a re-load of the current song is hit the “reset” button – there is no Dropbox sync on the desktop. That’s why LivePrompter won’t react to click-and-hold of the song title on desktop platforms…