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I've a fair number of folders with music. Pain in the backside looking through them at a gig so I'm planning scanning them all into the pc then onto sd card for safekeeping. Any problems taking stuff from a windows 10 pc to an android tablet ?
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I frequently copy mp3s from my Win10 PC to my android phone via USB cable. No issues there. Windows just had to install the drivers for the phone the first time I connected. No issues since.
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I'm with Steve. It's REALLY easy to do, and I haven't had issues. This is coming from a guy who has MANY of them because my kids all have them and have had them over the years.
Chad (Hope that makes it easier)
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Thanks guys, will get one next month probably
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Graham,
I am in the process of moving to a 2 in 1 Lenovo Laptop/tablet as soon as I see how that works out I will either post it here or PM you my friend. But remember I use BIAB live on gigs not mp3's so our mileage may vary.
Later,
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I'm in the process of deciding exactly how I want to handle this too. Are you looking to use these charts on a gig or is this just for extra storage? If you're not looking to take a tablet to a gig you can use android emulators to run pretty much any android app you want on a PC. <edit> Looking at your post again you said you want to use this on a gig. That means there's tons of android apps for this. Here's just a few: IRealPro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.massimobiolcati.irealb&hl=enIGigBook https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.igigbook.app.igigbook&hl=enOffice Lens: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officelens&hl=enThis one from MS has great reviews from players wanting to scan sheet music or music books into PDF so they can put them into their setlists on stage. Note the example on the page where the image on the right is skewed and low contrast and see the finished scan on the left. The app squares it up and cleans it up. Perfect for taking pics of music with your phone's camera. There are other apps I've read about but these three always seem to float to the top. I'm also interested in the app called StaffPad which is a very cool music notation software that only runs on a Win 10 touch screen system using their stylus. With that in mind I'm thinking I'll get a used Surface Pro 3. They're in the $700 range on Amazon. I'd love to get a Pro 4 but I'm not spending $1,500 right now. With the emulator I can run IReal Pro and other setlist and PDF organizer apps. I'm also thinking that with the Surface Dock I can use that to replace my desktop system. There are lots of articles and YT vids about using the Pro 3 for music production. It has plenty of power if you get 8 gigs of RAM to run Biab and DAW's including large VST sound libraries. Everybody's needs and budgets are different. For me I would rather have one new thing cover all the bases. Upgrading my desktop to an SSD, adding more ram with Win10 then buying an android tablet for all of my gigging charts costs the same as getting a Pro 3. And I still can't use StaffPad because that's strictly a Win10 touch app which brings me back to getting a Pro 3 and be done with it. Bob
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I use my desktop as my main work computer to generate song sheets with lyrics and chords, chords with hash marks, and musical scores. I save all this work on my desktop as my main repository (backed up as well). I then move this information into folders on my tablet. Here is a problem I encountered. Every time I copied the lyric sheets into the tablet I would get some lyrics that when I opened them the lines would be disjointed. After trial and error I realized my tablet must not be recognizing some of the fonts that were used in my original documents (from Chordie, Guitar Guy, etc). In my particular situation, through trial and error I discovered that "Lucidia Console" was a compatible font. So I just re-saved all my orignal work in that font before copying in to my tablet. I must say I love this part of new technology. Like a lot of you I had multiple binders of songs that I did with different performers. They took up space, cumbersome to edit, and a big footprint on stage. Hopefully this info may help someone, DennisD
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