Song Workflow

Finding your songs

Choose your artist, then Songs. An unfinished vote opens Suggestions first, including results awaiting a decision. Otherwise Songs opens the first populated view in this order: In rehearsal, Preparing, Gig-ready, Suggestions. When all four are empty, it opens Preparing. Selecting a stage directly opens that stage.

The three main tabs are Preparing, In rehearsal, and Gig-ready. Every song list links to Suggestions, Archive, All repertoire, and Progress. Use Add song to suggest a cover or, as a leader, add it directly to Preparing, In rehearsal, or Gig-ready. Leaders can also import repertoire from that menu. Originals go through Add from My Songs.

Search is available in every list, alongside its named order. Preparing, In rehearsal, and Gig-ready also offer My practice list and Songs with my role; select both to show their overlap. My practice list includes Learning songs and your private Keep on my practice list choices. Songs without an active role for you are dimmed and still open normally. Suggestions focuses on choosing material before assigning parts.

Use the question mark beside the page title for Quick help about that view, its order, and its place in the song stages. On phones, the title and question mark are in the top header; Add song sits to the left of Calendar; Calendar and the notification bell stay together. Search and ordering share one row. The three stage views label their default order Readiness on mobile; the menu shows the descriptive order and every alternative.

Barry explains an empty stage and offers a next step, such as suggesting a song. If a search or filter hides all matches, use Clear filters to see the list again.

Keep every candidate in one place.

Covers and pitched originals share one candidate pool until the artist deliberately promotes or archives them.

A private Composition stays in its personal workspace. Pitching it creates an artist-owned original candidate beside covers in the same Suggestions pool; origin is a filter, not a separate lane.

Let the band weigh in when a decision benefits from it.

Run a vote over Suggestions candidates, reveal the result, and explicitly commit the songs the artist wants to learn.

During submissions, members can nominate songs and already rank them. Once submissions close, the candidates are fixed and ranking continues until results are shown. Rank the songs you care about: Add to ranking places a song last, and Unrank removes it only from your personal ranking. Drag songs or choose a position to put favourites first. Search unranked songs by title or artist, and sort them by title or artist then title. Rankings save automatically and stay private; once you rank at least one song, unranked songs share the remaining points equally. Published results guide the choice. A leader explicitly adds the chosen songs to Repertoire and finishes the vote, or finishes without adding any. The target count does not select songs automatically.

Feedback alongside ranking

Ranking shows priorities. Shared feedback explains support, concerns and obstacles to choosing a song.

Positive expresses support. Worry raises a concern. Block identifies an obstacle. Leaders see a warning when adding a song with Blocks to Repertoire and can still proceed. The categories are independent: a member can support a song and also flag a problem.

Feedback is shared; personal rankings are private. Positive and Worry do not alter ranking points. A standing Block gives that song zero points on the blocking member’s ballot. Results use feedback active when ranking closes, including feedback given before nomination. Later feedback changes do not rewrite the result. Support alone does not confirm that every required part is ready: it can also come from someone who has no part in the song. Use the messages and discussion to clarify unresolved concerns.

For a gig, Positive choices might mean “I can have my part ready” or “I am not involved in this song, but support choosing it”. A Block can mean that a required part cannot be ready, while Worry can express reservations about the choice. Review these alongside the ranking before deciding which songs to take on.

Suggestion feedback

Leaders open Feedback settings from Suggestions or Band Settings. They can add, edit, reorder, disable or remove preset messages, and separately allow custom feedback text or feedback without a message for each category. Only enabled presets and permitted response methods are offered. These settings apply to all the band’s suggestions, not to one vote.

The band shares one feedback message language, independently of each member’s interface language. Changing it selects that language’s saved messages, or shipped defaults if the band has not saved it before. Edit the selected language and save everything together. Switching back restores its saved bank. Reset previews the current defaults and changes only the selected draft bank; Save publishes it.

Submitted feedback keeps its original wording when settings, messages or language change. Authors can still withdraw their feedback, and leaders can still resolve worries and blocks. Turning off custom feedback does not restrict ordinary chat or leaders’ resolution notes.

If every preset and both response methods are off for a category, no new feedback of that kind can be submitted. If all categories are off and a song has no active feedback, its feedback section is hidden. Active feedback remains visible and manageable.

Leaders do not need a vote for every song.

When the band chooses a suggestion, a leader adds it to Repertoire in Preparing. A vote is optional.

Songs move from consideration to performance through explicit stages.

A chosen song enters Repertoire in Preparing, directly or from Suggestions. It moves through In rehearsal to Gig-ready. Archive preserves its history and origin.

1. 1

   Suggestions

   A song proposed for consideration, awaiting the artist’s decision.

2. 2

   Repertoire · Preparing

   Promotion commits the song; members prepare their parts.

3. 3

   Repertoire · In rehearsal

   The band actively rehearses the song inside the Focus limit.

4. 4

   Repertoire · Gig-ready

   An explicit graduation marks the performable subset.

Separate what members should prepare from what the band is actively rehearsing.

Preparing holds chosen songs before shared rehearsal. In rehearsal stays focused on the songs currently receiving band time. Gig-ready contains songs you can perform now.

Preparing is uncapped; the Focus limit applies only to In rehearsal. Members assess their own readiness in every active stage. To run and record a band session, choose Rehearse from the artist menu.

See every song the artist has committed to learning and keeping.

Repertoire includes Preparing, In rehearsal, and Gig-ready. Each stage has its own screen; All repertoire finds songs across the committed set and provides whole-repertoire planning and statistics on demand.

Drop a song without erasing its history.

Archive preserves the song’s history and origin. A leader restores suggestions to Suggestions, preparation or rehearsal songs to Preparing, and gig-ready songs to Gig-ready.