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But I'm still not clear what the song picker did when I asked it to create a song list. I dont have any user created songs - so what did it make the list from?



BiaB comes with at least one demo song for every style, MIDI or RealTracks. The SongPicker window is a database that needs to be indexed whenever new songs are added to it or the first time it is run. You have a LOT of songs in your bb folder, take a look in there inside the Styles folders etc. to see them. Not to worry, BiaB song files are rather small in size and do not take up much disk space at all. The Demo songs are great not only for auditioning styles, but I like to open the folders one at a time in the jukebox and let it run thru the entire folder, sometimes in the background while I'm doing other tasks on the puter and when I hear something that really strikes me I will go back to the BiaB window and investigate, jot it down, etc. for future use.

Also, one can learn quite a lot about how to lay out BiaB songs, what different commands look like on the chord grid and what they do, etc. by studying those pgmusic-supplied demo songs that have been created by the pros at pgmusic.

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As I write this I'm slowly making sense of it - I think the default folder was real Tracks Demos - so it looks like a list of the same demo songs which can be created in the style picker area.



The difference is that the Stylepicker list is a list of Styles. The Songpicker list is a list of SONGS. The Songpicker is the place to go for finding a given song in a folder and playing it. Songpicker works on one folder at a time, making it easy to create a folder of songs that you might want to use for practice sessions, another folder for performances, another for new songs you are working on, etc.

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If I create a list in the folder one level up ie BB, it creates a list of everything. Right so now I just have to figure out what all the other folders are for - and why I'm being offered the option to make song lists in those too.




Each folder is treated as a new instance of listing. As for the Demo folders, you should only ever have to Build that list once, if you don't add any of your own songs to any of the Demo folders, something which I don't recommend doing in the interest of sanity - make your own song folders for songs that you create and leave the Demo folders as they are, to be used as outlined above.


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