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Adding songs (and why short names matter)

The fields on a song, and the print-friendly short name.

A song is the atom of Setcraft. From the Songs page, add a title, then fill in as much or as little as you want: key, capo, tuning, energy level, length, lyrics, and a chart file. Only the title is required. Everything else is there when you need it and out of the way when you do not. The length feeds the builder's set-time totals; see Song lengths and set times.

Short names

A printed setlist is read from across a dark stage, at a glance, mid-song. Long titles do not survive that trip. So if a title runs past 15 characters, Setcraft asks for a short name to print instead. "The Ballad of the Last Soundcheck" becomes "Last Soundcheck" on the page, and your bandmate stops squinting.

The full title still lives everywhere else. The short name is purely what lands on the printed sheet.

Energy level

A one-to-five gut feeling for how hard the song hits. It is for you, when you are staring at a set order at 1am trying to work out where the room sags.

Add Multiple

Moving a whole repertoire in one song at a time is nobody's idea of an evening. Add Multiple, on the Songs page, opens a grid where you type a batch of songs at once (title, short name, key, capo, length) or paste them straight from a spreadsheet. The grid grows as you go, and the whole batch lands in one step. Lyrics, charts, and tech notes can come later, song by song, in the editor.


Setcraft is a Mac app for working musicians: build setlists, print them big enough to read from the kit, and keep every song your band plays in one place. Download it free for 30 days.

Setcraft

The setlist app for working musicians. Built for the stage.

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