looking over music display apps for android

[solarbird]

I’ve been looking over music display apps for Android, and right now, I’m really liking MobileSheetsPro. I’ve been testing using the Free version, which is fully-featured but sharply limited on number of songs and playlists and set lists. Does anyone have any other software they’d like to suggest before I dive in?

(BEFORE YOU SAY IT, iPad users: forScore is not available for Android. Which I don’t mind – I’m not thinking of anything I’d want that MobileSheets doesn’t do, it does a lot of things I wouldn’t’ve thought of, and the features list vs. forScore is pretty comparable.)

Anyway, as you can probably tell, I’m already feeling a lot of confirmation about having bought this thing – the ability to have my entire music sheet library around on any gig and the ability to pull it up at any time, even stuff I never play? That’s pretty damn awesome. I’ll be able to have stuff always that I normally just don’t bother hauling around.

That would be the tablet I mentioned earlier.

Does anybody have any suggestions for Bluetooth page-turning pedals? I’m looking at the AirTurn PED at the moment, even though it’s a really new device. It’s small, it has fantastic battery life, it’s silent, it’s listed as supporting MobileSheetsPro, and is a Bluetooth SMART READY device, which means you don’t lose bluetooth sync across power saving mode. I like that part a lot.

One big question is whether this tablet supports SMART READY. But it claims to be Bluetooth 4.0, which means it should support SMART READY intrinsically. I have a question in to support to make sure. The odds are good – SMART READY has been around for a few years now and is pretty core to the 4.0 spec, so I don’t even think you can claim Bluetooth 4 without it.

Anyway, if you have any insights, I’d love to hear ’em! Let me know in comments. Thanks!

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Comments

[mdlbear]

The PED looks interesting. I'm using a PageFlip Firefly, which is configurable to support just about any application -- basically, you can set which of about 5 different sets of events the pedals send.

[solarbird]

I've looked at that one too - I think some people have used it with this tablet in fact. But I was kind of afraid about what appears to be a pretty steep angle on the pedal. I play standing up, not sitting, and the lower angle of the PED is highly attractive for that reason.

[mdlbear]

You may be thinking of the cicada. The firefly is thinner and flatter. But nowhere near as flat as the PED, to be sure.

[solarbird]

No, I looked at both; I was worried in both cases. (More so with the cicada, of course. That thing is like a freaking Egyptian pyramid.)