There it is, officially proposed. In addition to contests that necessitate re-jiggering the rotation and song lists, I can also see this being useful for parties where a certain group wants to commandeer the karaoke for several songs, like the birthday girl and her parents, or the wedding party that needs to hop in a limo and won't be waiting like the rest of the reception.I.
Is there a way that we can opt to have another playlist under each singer (named "Contest" or "Special" or something) that I could add their contest song to? I'm sure I can add the requisite xml files into each singer's kJams Library/Venues/[Venue]/Singers/[Singer] folder manually, but it would be nice to have at least new singers automagically have this list added.
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I would then want to be able to switch from the "Tonight" lists to the "Contest" lists, preferably from a top menu option, and have the Rotation screens change appropriately. We can perhaps test this with just having a secret pref that changes what kJams looks for as a Tonight list, but when changing a secret pref, I would probably need to restart kJams for it to register the change, and this wouldn't be ultimately desirable.
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This part can wait for a while, but if we could build the ability to select a Contest song into the web/iJams platform, so that singers can select their own contest song, this would be nice eventually. I only have a small handful of singers that manage their own lists, so it's not really necessary for now
For those of us that use this for live events, I see this being very useful, so please join me in persuading Dave to implement this feature (which he apparently has already developed the underpinnings for).
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