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 Songs puts them back together after the fact:
- Where: The "Merge Songs" button at the top of the Sound & Music tab
- Grouping: Songs whose titles match once track labels are ignored are grouped for you — "Defying Gravity", "Defying Gravity (Guide Vocal)" and "Defying Gravity (Accompaniment)" land in one group
- Refine with AI: If your files use titles that don't match exactly, AI regroups them. A "Reprise" or "Part 2" is treated as a different number
- You decide: Choose which song is kept, rename it, set each folded-in song's track type, and untick anything you'd rather leave alone
- What happens: Each folded-in song's audio becomes a track on the song you keep — a song whose only audio is a link (such as a YouTube video) becomes a link track when the song you keep already has a link of its own. Its notes, cues, blocking, linked files, sheet music pages and characters come across too
- Conflicts: The song you keep wins — it only takes a scene, sheet music or link from a folded-in song where it had none
Note: Merging deletes the folded-in song rows and can't be undone, so review the groups before pressing Merge. Nothing is written until you do.
More in Sound & Music Tab
- Sound & Music Tab: Adding Songs — Add songs manually or generate them with AI:
- Sound & Music Tab: Audio Playback — Songs with uploaded audio files include a built-in music player with practice features:
- 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: 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:
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