There are five possible players who can help you practice:
◾ Audio player
◾ Drum machine player
◾ Metronome
◾ Video player
◾ YouTube player

A player can be a valuable tool for you to practice songs. You can listen to the original recording, a cover or a tutorial. This can help you to understand the melody, rhythm, tempo, and overall feel of the song. Using a player alongside the songbook can enhance your learning experience, and can make it more interactive, engaging, and effective to practice and improve your musical skills.

Only one player can be used at a time. The selected player is placed above your songtext. You can show/hide a player with the ‘Player’ toggle button and switch between them by the ‘Select player’ button in the toolbar. We recommend the option to select the player automatically. Then it shows the player based on the linked player source. Either an audio file, a (YouTube) video id, or a drum pattern.

Each player has a ‘Play’ button to start and stop it. But the player can also be started and stopped by the ‘Play’ button of the songbook, which controls the player and the scrolling.

The players are playing even if they are hidden.

Audio Player

• A-B loop to repeat only a part of a song
• Accelerate or slow down the speed at which you’d like to practice a song (Android >= 6.0). It affects the audio play speed as well as the scroll speed
• Option to play the song in a loop
• There is an automatic lookup for audio files if the location has been changed (e.g. after synchronization).

Video Player

You can add a video that is stored on your device to every song. The embedded video player plays the video beneath your song text, so you can keep an eye on both. The video player supports the formats “3gp”, “mkv”, “mp4”, “ts” and “webm”.

• A-B loop to repeat only a part of a song
• Accelerate or slow down the speed at which you’d like to practice a song. It affects the audio play speed as well as the scroll speed
• Option to play the song in a loop

When you add a video to a song where the duration isn’t set, the duration of the song is automatically set to the duration of the video.

Below the video player is a handlebar to customize the size of the video player. There is an option in the songbook settings to hide the handlebar to save space on a small smartphone screen.

YouTube Player

• In every song, you can create a link to a YouTube video
• The embedded YouTube player plays the video in parallel to your songtext
• If you add a video to a song where the duration isn’t set, the duration of the song is automatically updated to the duration of a video
• Below the video player is a handlebar to customize the size of the video player. There is an option in the songbook settings to hide the handlebar to save space on a small smartphone screen
• The directive {x_sccrd_yt:} is used to define the YouTube video by its ID (e.g. {x_sccrd_yt:19JVc76ExkY}).

Drum machine

Integrated drum machine player to play the drum patterns for the musical accompaniment. When playing, it shows the minimized drum pattern view. Tap on it to stop the player.

You can choose between hundreds of shared drum patterns or create your own. The song gives the speed for the drum pattern.

Metronome

The song gives the speed for the metronome or can be entered by BPM dialog with tap tempo functionality. You can also select song-specific time signature from a list of predefined measures.

The player options allow:
◾ Optionally flash
◾ Optionally mute
◾ Optionally vibrate