But Apple screwed up and the iCloud Backup it claimed completed was not available when I went to restore from iCloud. So I made sure to successfully complete an iCloud backup before erasing and rebuilding the iPad. But enough times, my suggestions were dismissed or at least indefinitely postponed.īut the real sinker came when my iPad ran out of storage (see my other thread :-) ). I made detailed petitions and requests in the forum to the dev for all these and a number of other areas. But that means I’d have to go scrolling through dozens of places to find such “orphans” and fix them, which, of course, would only be after the damage of deletion was done. To its credit, iGB will show “Orphaned Song Entry” where it used to be in a set list or collection after the PDF has been yanked out. Have I used this song before? If so, where? This is particularly important when I’m trying to decide whether to remove a PDF completely. No easy way to find where a song has been used - Remember, I have lots of versions of lots of songs, and I spend a lot of time curating which ones to use when I prep various gigs.The result is all kinds of stray files that don’t belong in my library, and lots of extra steps to get songs properly “replaced”. Importing a PDF of the same title is SUPPOSED to replace an existing one but it doesn’t work right, and the developer insists it’s the fault of Dropbox or iPadOS, even when I described how the app should be able to work around it. But once a PDF is loaded into iGB, added into multiple song collections, such updates are not easy. So, I make a lot of these custom PDF scores, and these are always a work in progress, frequently getting updated as needed. In such cases, there is no underlying “index” the app will simply search on the filename of the PDF. Since iGigBook is essentially a PDF manager, any PDF can be imported and used. Or I have to make one from scratch that is better than anything out there. Why? Sometimes there is no chart that is ideal, and I want to combine details from multiple charts. But I also make a lot of custom scores (using MuseScore… worthy of a separate review). Clumsy process to update PDFs - Fake Book PDFs don’t change.But this doesn’t always work right (more on this below). No backup options - There is no easy way to backup your data.There is even an iPhone app, but remarkably, no way to get your songs and charts and set lists to sync between that and your iPad. There is no support for sharing your library via iCloud, Dropbox, or anything of the sort. No sync options - All your iGigBook data is stuck on your iPad.But I accumulated a bunch of problems that finally caught up with me. I used iGigBook Pro for about 6 years quite successfully. And most importantly, no more fumbling to find songs: they’re a few taps away. No more duffel bags full of books, or binders with sleeves to haul around. You can then compare the charts, pick the one that you like best, and create Set Lists for gigs, or just rehearse. Once you load the PDF, you can now search for a given song name and it will show you every match of that song across every PDF book you have loaded into the app. You can then repeat the process with all your other PDF books, many of which will overlap by presenting different charts of the same songs but each book will always bring a bunch of distinct songs as well. These indexes include at least Song Name and Page # data. What you have to bring is a PDF scan of each book you’re interested in and load it into one of the built-in indexes. Built into the app are dozens of indexes of all kinds of Fake Books for jazz, blues, even classical, Christmas music, Bossa Nova, etc. All of it at your fingertips, in real time, on any gig.Īvailable for both iPad and Android tablets, this app quite beautifully solves these problems. IGigBook ties it all together real books, fake books, tranposing chord charts, and single sheets. iGigBook Sheet Music Manager For Android/iOS iGigBook Sheet Music Manager For Android/iOS Plus, you probably have them in alphabetical order, which is useless once a Set List is prepared for a gig.Įnter iGigBook Pro. Per the number of songs, this is even bulkier, and it’s also limited to only those songs you already have collected, likely from having done them before. Other friends make giant 3-ring binders with plastic sleeves to house the charts they have collected from all kinds of random places over the years. By that time, the rest of the players are probably half done the tune. So you have to fetch the book, look in its index, then go turn to that page and plop this giant book on your music stand. And both are clumsy because even after you find the book, neither one tells you the page number. Of course, you need a live internet connection for the latter.
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