Audio Playback
Songs with uploaded audio files include a built-in music player with practice features:
Basic Controls
- Playback Controls: Play, pause, stop, restart, and scrub through audio
- Time Display: See current time and total duration
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Press Space to play/pause
- Available Everywhere: Audio player appears in the show's Sound & Music tab and a scene's Sound & Music tab
Practice Features
- Speed Control: Slow down to 0.5x or 0.75x to learn difficult sections, or speed up to 1.25x or 1.5x
- Volume Control: Adjust volume with the slider, or click the speaker icon to mute/unmute
- A-B Loop: Mark a start point (A) and end point (B) to loop a specific section repeatedly
- Position Memory: Your playback position is saved automatically—return later and resume where you left off
Using A-B Loop
- Click "A" to mark the loop start at the current playback position
- Click "B" to mark the loop end (must be after point A)
- Click the loop button to enable/disable looping
- Blue markers and highlighting show your loop region on the scrub bar
- Click the X button to clear loop points and start fresh
Tip: Slow the speed to 0.75x and set an A-B loop on a difficult passage to practice it until you master it!
More in Sound & Music Tab
- Sound & Music Tab: Adding Songs — Add songs manually or generate them with AI:
- Sound & Music Tab: Additional Tracks — A song can hold multiple audio versions beyond its primary file — perfect for the guide vocal and performance track pairs that come with licensed show kits:
- Sound & Music Tab: AI Song Generation — Use AI to automatically generate a song list for your show:
- Sound & Music Tab: Sound Effects — A doorbell, a gunshot, thunder, a phone ringing — the cued sounds a production needs live in this tab beside the musical numbers, because they are the same thing to organize: an audio file (or a link…
- Sound & Music Tab: Song Organization — Songs are automatically organized by scene:
- Sound & Music Tab: Merging Duplicate Songs — Licensed show kits ship several audio files per number — guide vocal, accompaniment, performance track — and uploading them creates one song per file, so the same number appears several times. Merge…
- Sound & Music Tab: Assigning Songs to Scenes — A song only shows up in scene, rehearsal and readiness views once it belongs to a scene. Assign to Scenes handles the whole list at once, whether the songs are new or were assigned to the wrong scene…
- Sound & Music Tab: Character Assignment — Assign characters to songs to track who performs each number:
- Sound & Music Tab: Sheet Music — Upload and view sheet music for each song:
- Sound & Music Tab: Song Notes — Add and share notes on individual songs:
Related features
- Production Files & Vision Boards — Production files with categories, scene links, versions, restricted audiences, in-app PDF and audio playback, and vision boards.
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