Hi. I find the "my song" stuff very hard to use/control. I would like to be able to control arrangements rather than simply have latest edit stored somewhere in the system. There are two negatives here: (1) I can't actually save variations of a song (e.g. preferred variations at particular services) and (2) if a music leader at service makes an edit on the day the "my song" version is changed which means I've lost the baseline.
Here are the work arounds I am exploring and just want to check implications or if there are better ways to manage songs:
(1) link with elvanto. This is great because I can use elvanto's ability to manage arrangements (using elvanto to manage songs). However this is not a sync. So it works once ("import") but if there are any changes to songs from there... I can't add them from elvanto without creating a new presentation from import. This is bad. There's no "add song from elvanto" option which means I can't reasonably use elvanto to manage songs.
(2). import from CCLI. I haven't toyed with this yet. Can this be used to manage preferred variations?
(3) re use slides. I was thinking of creating a service called "master song lyrics" then putting all songs in this. then I can add songs from this. However when I would search "Nothing but the blood of Jesus" I can filter songs but that's all... eventually the number of "Nothing but the blood of Jesus" could be substantial and I have to manually find "master song lyrics" service.
Surely this is a super common concern. How are people managing it? I'm pretty new to proclaim. Am I missing something obvious?
