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Moving Selected Songs

The four action buttons labeled 'Copy', 'Clone', 'Cut', and 'Paste' on the Select Song Screen are used for copying and moving songs to other song buttons.

Copy vs. Clone

You can have a song on more than one Song Button. There are two ways to do this. You can record the song twice. Then the system has two song files and two sets of song information (the information which appears on the Song Settings Screen). This might be done if you want the song to appear on one button with settings which are not to be changed (e.g., strict tempo, and individual fade at a particular time), and also want it to appear on another button but maintain the flexibility to change settings here (e.g., for teaching students, starting slow then speeding it up later). This is called 'Clone'.

The other way it to have just one song file and one set of song information. That song can still be linked to more than one Song Button. This is called 'Copy'. The four action buttons labeled 'Copy', 'Clone', 'Cut', and 'Paste' on the Select Song Screen are used for copying and moving songs to other song buttons.

Pick Songs at the Source Location

Set the Action to 'Copy', 'Clone', or 'Cut', then press a song button. You may select more than one Song Button. You may then go to another screen of Song Buttons and select some more.

Paste Songs at the Destination Location

Nothing will happen until you navigate to the desired Song Button (which may be on the Select Song Screen for any Dance Button or Instructor Button or the Playlist Songs Screen for any Playlist), select the action 'Paste', then press a Song Button.

That destination button may be either one which already has a song on it, or an empty one. If the destination button has a song on it, the pasted songs will be inserted. Existing song will not be overwritten

What happens next depends upon which Action was originally selected for the song.

•If the song was Copied, it is put on the destination button.

•If the song was Cloned, the song file is copied and a second record for song data is created in the database. The cloned song is put on the destination button. This is equivalent to having recorded the song twice, as described above.

•If the song was Cut, it is put on the destination button and removed from the source button.

Cloned songs are always written to the Music folder, even those which are clones of songs originally imported with the 'Leave in Place' option set.

Moving All Songs on a Button

The three action buttons labeled 'Copy', 'Cut', and 'Paste' on the Maintain Dances Screen, the Playlist Songs Screen, the Maintain Instructors Screen, and the Maintain Students Screen are used for copying and moving songs from one button (the source button) to another (the destination button).

Pick Songs at the Source Location

Set the Action to 'Copy Songs' or 'Cut Songs', then press the source button.

Paste Songs at the Destination Location

Nothing will happen until you navigate to the desired destination button, select the action 'Paste Dances', then press the destination button. The destination button may be either one which already has dances on it, or an empty one.

If the destination button has songs on it, the EZ Play DJ will check to see what songs are there, and will not add copies of songs which are already there (duplicates).

What happens next depends upon which Action was originally selected for the song.

•If the song was Copied, songs from the source button (excluding duplicates) are put on the destination button.

•If the song was Cut,songs from the source button (excluding duplicates) are put on the destination button and all songs are removed from the source button.

Note that songs can be copied or moved from a Dance Button to an Instructor Button or a Playlist Button, and vice versa.