Some great comments on here and a wealth of experience.

If I'm playing with the band, we do it from memory. We have a 2 hour set list with about 25 solid songs, rock covers.

If the audience is dancing and rocking along and we think we can get another few songs in, a couple of "requests" appear to play one or two that we've already done wink

If I'm playing solo and using backing tracks, I make a karaoke file for each song and then render the audio and lyrics into a movie file (one for each song) and play that on the iPad.

That way I know everything is in synch and in one place and guaranteed to work as it's only one app running and movies play pretty solidly.

The lyrics are there for occasional reference.

One thing though if you're using a tablet / iPad, it's worth putting it into airplane mode before the gig as I was in full swing once and an email came in and muted the audio whilst it informed the audience "you've got mail".

Happy gigging!

Cheers.
Mike.

Mike.

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