Attach a recording to a song, and hear how the set flows.
Attach a recording to a song with the Audio button on its library row. MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF all work, up to 100 MB per file, and a built-in player lets you check what you attached.
Attaching audio also measures the recording and fills in the song's length. If the length field was empty, it fills in quietly. If you had already set one and the recording disagrees, Setcraft asks once which to keep, then leaves it alone. Your live arrangement is allowed to run longer than the record, and editing the length by hand never triggers a nag. Removing the audio keeps the length.
Preview Transitions, in the builder's setlist action bar, opens a window showing one set at a time. Between two adjacent songs that both have audio sits a play button: it plays the last ten seconds of one straight into the first ten seconds of the next, so you hear whether the segue works before the audience does. A song without audio carries an Attach audio control right in its row, so the window doubles as the place to fill the gaps in the set you are building.
There are no previews across a set break or the encore divider, because the band leaves the stage and no segue survives that. Transitions inside the encore itself still play.
Recordings are not included in portable backups, which keeps the backup file a size you can actually carry. After moving to a new Mac, re-attach the audio. Everything else about the song, its length included, comes across.
Audio and transition previews are part of the paid version. Pro and Road Warrior have them, and so does the trial.
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.