Thanks Matt,

It is interesting. I have a BIAB song I added a melody to after I put the chords in and it does this (melody only the first time through) automatically. When I press F5 I get a page that has a lot of properties but nothing I can see to restrict it to once through. It also has "play it on all choruses" set. The other thing is to mute the melody I usually right click on the melody menu item that shows all the time then click mute at the very top. F5 gives me a totally different menu than this right click. Neither menu has any mention of playing the melody one time (the closest is that "chorus" drop down I mentioned. In total I have 2 songs that play the melody only once and one song that plays the melody all the time. It seems like a mystery.

I the end I think I should just forget it and mute the melody all the time and use the printout of the melody (the one created by BIAB) to play it. I am finding it better anyway since I find trying to read the melody and listen to it at the same time screws up my sight reading anyway (very recent realization).

So I guess I solved it by changing strategy. Still it is an interesting issue.

I wish there was a way to default this forum to always send an email when someone replies. I almost forget to check back and I would not have seen your second response. I am in the habit of going to email but not to all the forums I at times go to.

John


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