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Pass It On (If You're Feeling Generous)

The sharin' menu settings figures out what info to blast around when you're showin' off your songs & sets. Srsly.

Beam Me Up, Scotty

When you beam a song to your team usin' either OnSong Connect or OnCue, your entire song & set get yeeted over there & can totally wreck all the cool changes you made to your charts. Toggle these options to keep certain parts of your songs from gettin' obliterated.

  • Update Annotations lets you keep your sticky notes, doodles, & other random scribbles you drew while thinkin' nobody was lookin'.
  • Update Formatting lets you hang onto the fancy style preferences you sweated over.
  • Update Song Content decides if the actual song guts or file gets updated. (Spoiler: they probably will.)

Export? More Like "Goodbye, My Beautiful Files"

This section decides how filenames get generated when you're shippin' your content out into the void.

  • Filename Template
  • Include Sortable Prefix will auto-slap a sortable string onto your filename when exportin' files from a set so you don't lose track of the order. You're welcome.

CCLI License

This is your church's CCLI license number that absolutely must show up on all lyrics projectin' & any songs you spit out. No pressure.

Expire Shared Sets

When you export a song or set in OnSong usin' either wireless sharin' or an archive file, OnSong will let that set get imported BUT will ghostin' it after a certain amount of time. This makes sure your content doesn't live forever on someone else's device. (Imagine that.) You can tweak the expiration timer. Options range from 1 day to 1 month. You can also pick Never & let those sets roam free permanently.

Note: pickin' Never turns off the whole expiration thing. Make absolutely sure you got the legal right to hand out those chord charts to your team peeps before you enable this, amirite?

Loan Shared Songs

When this bad boy is on, songs sent via wireless sharin' or archive files can be peeped at, but won't actually get added to the recipient's OnSong library. It's like readin' someone's diary without stealin' it. The default is on. You can turn it off, but you better have the actual right to distribute potentially copyrighted stuff in that set, or else.

Organization

Type the name of your organization that's doin' all this sharin'. It'll pop up on the custom web page that hosts your set list for randos to eyeball on Facebook or Twitter.

Website

Throw your organization's web address in here. It'll show up on the custom web page hostin' your set list, lettin' folks click through to your website. How thoughtful.

Use My Songs in OnCue

While OnSong Connect is the fancy way to do wireless networkin', the OnCue method is still kickin' around for people who can't let go of the past. When you're usin' OnCue, you can pick whether to use the song version the master device made available, or like, your version.

If you flip this on, OnSong will hunt down a chord chart in your library that matches the master device's version. It does this by matchy-matchin' on song title, CCLI # or whatever. If it can't find a match, it just gives up & uses the master device's version instead. Sad trombone.

By default, this is off.

If you're rockin' OnSong Connect, you can style how chord charts look usin' the way more powerful Profile screen.

OnCue Version

OnSong throws two different OnCue flavors at you so old devices don't cry & new ones can still party. OnSong defaults to the original OnCue which works with literally every iOS version ever.

  • Off kills OnCue completely. Use this if you're like "nah, I'm good" on OnCue sessions.
  • Original works with crusty old devices usin' the original OnCue (built on that ancient iOS GameKit framework that Apple basically threw in the trash). This framework is officially deprecated & might vanish from future iOS versions. Seriously, don't use this unless you're stuck with dinosaur hardware or your WiFi is bleepin' up.
  • New works with shinier devices runnin' iOS 7 & higher. This OnCue version rocks the new Multipeer Connectivity Framework.

Note: You should totes use OnSong Connect when you can for wireless stuff. It handles like a bazillion connected devices (not just 5-6), runs on proper web-based services & standards, & you can customize it for each band member.

OnSong 1.999 — Last Refreshed January 21, 2020