Can’t open the same score twice
Once you open a score, I guess it copies it to the a different folder? because when you try to open the same one again it says it cannot copy it because a score with the same name already exists. Since I can’t otherwise get past the syncing home screen, I can’t open any scores I have opened before. Its a pretty big bug.
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Good, but buggy
I have purchased and really like StaffPad as a composition tool, and wanted to use the Reader as a practice app to rehearse the music I've written in StaffPad. Unfortunately, the experience wasn't that good - it's lacking tools and I found the reader extremely buggy.
Missing functions:
I'd like to be able to loop a section for practice, and I'd like to modify the playback tempo. Playback works only for the default Staffpad instruments - if the score uses a custom instrument, it's silent. I'd like to be able to ideally use all libraries installed in StaffPad, or at least switch a staff to one of the provided instruments.
Playback was very inconsistent. There are options to choose which parts get played (my voice, other voices, all voices), which is useful, but doesn't always work. Sometimes it will randomly play all voices even if only my voice is selected for playback.
Sometimes the volume would change wildly - I'm talking switching between extremely loud and very silent.
Sometimes the automatic page turn didn't work.
Maybe it's just my use case (personal practice) that isn't too well supported, but it's a pity - otherwise it's a beautiful and well-made app.
Missing functions:
I'd like to be able to loop a section for practice, and I'd like to modify the playback tempo. Playback works only for the default Staffpad instruments - if the score uses a custom instrument, it's silent. I'd like to be able to ideally use all libraries installed in StaffPad, or at least switch a staff to one of the provided instruments.
Playback was very inconsistent. There are options to choose which parts get played (my voice, other voices, all voices), which is useful, but doesn't always work. Sometimes it will randomly play all voices even if only my voice is selected for playback.
Sometimes the volume would change wildly - I'm talking switching between extremely loud and very silent.
Sometimes the automatic page turn didn't work.
Maybe it's just my use case (personal practice) that isn't too well supported, but it's a pity - otherwise it's a beautiful and well-made app.
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Cannot restore my purchase on Ventura
I want to view my Staffpad score from my iPad. I own the full version of Reader. However when I click restore I get this message "“icon.png” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access" I gave the app full disk access and still did not work.
Not Perfect
I love StaffPad, but this app is still in the development phase. I haven’t actually tried syncing with other devices because I mainly use this app to watch music that I wrote in a more “readable” format (or to play along with individual parts). The problem is, I haven’t been able to get the automatic page turning to work for a while. It worked on and off when I first got the app about a year ago, but it hasn’t worked ever since. I emailed the developers, and they responded saying they would address the issue, but it hasn’t changed as of yet.
Another thing I have found with this app (as well as StaffPad) is that when playing directly from the iPad speakers, it is unusually quiet (even with all of the audio settings set to full). It’s fine in headphones, but not the device speakers. Not sure why you can’t or haven’t made it louder, but that’s just a little annoying.
I can see the potential that this app could have, but it isn’t there yet.
Another thing I have found with this app (as well as StaffPad) is that when playing directly from the iPad speakers, it is unusually quiet (even with all of the audio settings set to full). It’s fine in headphones, but not the device speakers. Not sure why you can’t or haven’t made it louder, but that’s just a little annoying.
I can see the potential that this app could have, but it isn’t there yet.
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Annotations are a syncing mess
I know this is a free app, but it has a lot of potential with a lot of issues.. let me get straight to the list of issues:
1. Public annotation syncing (the grey annotation) only sometimes syncs back to Staffpad.. this is horrible. I’ve tested this several times, and i think you need to put a little more QA into this. The idea here is to ensure that things get synced, and there’s no way to really do that if it only half of the time works.
2. There’s an import function to import a Staffpad file, but no way to really save the annotations back to the main file.. you are stuck relying on this ScoreSync stuff, which only works (point #1).
3. If I’m in ScoreSync mode, i do not have a play button… Why is there a Play button that only works in import mode? I get that this is a feature, but this idea to have some central playback device is really limiting… can we not find a way to bypass this? S e.g. a menu option?
4. I strongly dislike this app’s reliance on a sync between devices… this seriously needs to be standalone - especially with the Import function and annotations… a performer is sometimes the composer, and therefore there needs to be a way to publically add annotations via the reader..
…but to be honest, a lot of what I’m looking for would simply be solved by adding a Page view to Staffpad…. This reader app is not really that useful for most, and I think the use case here is best solved in other simpler ways.
1. Public annotation syncing (the grey annotation) only sometimes syncs back to Staffpad.. this is horrible. I’ve tested this several times, and i think you need to put a little more QA into this. The idea here is to ensure that things get synced, and there’s no way to really do that if it only half of the time works.
2. There’s an import function to import a Staffpad file, but no way to really save the annotations back to the main file.. you are stuck relying on this ScoreSync stuff, which only works (point #1).
3. If I’m in ScoreSync mode, i do not have a play button… Why is there a Play button that only works in import mode? I get that this is a feature, but this idea to have some central playback device is really limiting… can we not find a way to bypass this? S e.g. a menu option?
4. I strongly dislike this app’s reliance on a sync between devices… this seriously needs to be standalone - especially with the Import function and annotations… a performer is sometimes the composer, and therefore there needs to be a way to publically add annotations via the reader..
…but to be honest, a lot of what I’m looking for would simply be solved by adding a Page view to Staffpad…. This reader app is not really that useful for most, and I think the use case here is best solved in other simpler ways.
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