Save Songs as Customized in a Special Folder
I have used Media Shout for years. When I customize a song with the font, background, verses, etc. It is saved that way permanently UNLESS I change it again. With Proclaim, when I add a song that is in My Songs, I have to re-edit the background, font, verses, etc every single time. I know that I can create a SAVED SONGS and add all saved songs to that, but that can be a hassle too.
Please make it to where when we edit a song, our song is saved permanently in a folder the way we edited it, until or unless we change it again.
‘Re-use items’ menu allows for reuse of items that are already formatted.
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Jamie Booker Cody commented
I realize that it does that, but when someone formats a song from last week and messes it up, you click "add song" and get several different versions of song edits of that same song, you don't know which one is the correct one with the correct verses, background, etc. It would be nice to be able to just have a dedicated folder for your songs like on media shout and once you edit a song, it is edited permanently in the folder that the song pulls from when you add it to your presentation. Not a guess which one is the correct edit each time.
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Jamie Booker Cody commented
I still would like to see this work like it does in Media Shout. I can save a song to the SAVED SONGS presentation, but then if something changes in the way our praise team sings the lyrics, I have to resave it to the SAVED SONGS folder every single time. Or, if I find a new background to use for it. I just think (know) that it would be easier if once we input and edit a song to our liking, that song will always be saved no matter what, and we don't have to look through hundreds of presentations to find the one we edited and loved. I don't want to have to resave it in the SAVED SONGS folder with every edit, we do lots of songs each week, so this is tedious to do.
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Jamie Booker Cody commented
Thanks Dave. The only thing is, if you delete a service that had a song in it, then the song is also deleted so it won't be in the reuse items any longer.
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free2worship commented
Hi Jamie.
REUSE ITEMS
I had the same issue until I learned about the "Reuse Items" option.
Once you have created a song with font and background etc. you can use it again by going to
Add Item... then Reuse Item (don't pick song or you will start from scratch).
Proclaim remembers all accounts of the song from the past with it's formatting so you may see the song multiple times when reusing it, I find this very helpful.Another hint is that you can reuse a song into a new presentation, and then change the title to a new song. When you enter the title you can pick from My Songs, CCLI, etc. When you choose the new song it will import into the reused song with all of the reused songs formatting. This is awesome! Saves lots of time.
Hope that helps.
Dave