Setup Piece Settings

After you have added a piece your can customize it to you needs.

In tis section we will show you what can be changed.

Piece Information

For every piece inside MusicReader information like title, composer, genre, ... can be specific.

This information is used to identify the piece in for example the library.

There are three ways you can change piece information, two inside Library and one for active piece.

Image XX - Steps to get to Piece Information in Library.

Inside Library

Inside library you can edit the piece information in two ways.

The first way is in the main library screen:

1. First you go to Library screen which is shown in Image xx.
2. In Library you press the arrow icon on the left as shown with (1) in Image.
3. Now you will see a dropdown as shown with (2).
4. Now press the "Info & Playlist" button as shown with (3).
5. This makes screen like Image YY appear.
6. Edit the Piece Information here under first tab. In the other tabs you can edit the associated playlists and folders.

Image - Piece Information screen for loaded piece

Image XX - Piece Information for loaded piece

Loaded Piece

After you have loaded a piece you can edit the piece info in this way:

1. Press the Full Menu icon in the top menu.
2. Then choose Piece Info as shown in Image XX.
3. Then you see the screen of Image YY.
4. Edit the Piece Information here under first tab. In the other tabs you can edit the associated playlists and folders.

Image XX - Get to Full Menu in Page Settings

Page Settings

Inside MusicReader you can change the page settings of a piece.

This includes:

• Order of pages
• Way pages are turned (half/whole)
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  Image XX - Page Settings Screen - Available Settings
  Page breaks for half pages.
• Delays of automatic page turning.

Image XX - Page Settings - Half Page Display

You can change Page Settings in this way:

1. Go to the "Page Settings" item as shown in image XX.
2. Then you get screen as shown in Image XX.
3. Here you can change order of pages by using the handle in page order list which is indicated with (1). You can simply drag and drop this handle.
4. The plus-sign icon indicated with (2) clones that page. This allows you to repeat a page in the page order.
5. You can remove/hide pages with the X-icon indicated with (3). Cloned pages are removed, the original pages only hidden.
6. With the edit-icon indicated with (4) you can edit the settings of a piece. The settings area as shown with (5) is shown.

The settings shown in the settings area depend on the display mode:

1. For One Page Display the options are shown in Image XX.
   1. Indicated with (6) is the standard page turn which is either half or whole page.
   2. When choosing half then page break can be customized woth either setting indicated with (7) or by clicking the music like shown with (8).
2. For Half Page Display the options are shown in Image XX.
   1. Half page break can be customized woth either setting indicated with (8) or by clicking the music like shown with (9).
3. For Two Page Display the options are shown in Image XX.
   1. With Standard Page Turn setting indicated with (10) you can determine how pages are turned. When you want both pages to change then choose 12 -> 34 . If you want one page to change then you can choose either 12 -> 32 or 12->23 .
4. In Automatic you can defined the delays for page turning with timer. See Image XX.
   1. Half page turn timer can be determined autmatically (see (11) ), then it will be half of the whole page turn. or you can detemine delay woth setting indicated with (12). The delay is in seconds.
   2. Whole page turn timer can be specified as shown with (13). The delay is in seconds.
      

Image XX - Page Settings - Automatic

Image XX - Page Settings - Two Pages

Cropping

Sheet music has white areas around it which you might want to remove to make notes larger.

Or certain parts of music you want to remove.

This can be done by cropping the music.

This can be done in two ways:

Save zoom as Crop

Image XX - Zoomed sheet music with zoom/crop menu.

With zooming you can alter the cropping of the piece:

1. First pinch-to-zoom on your touchscreen or use the scrollwheel of you mouse. Pinch-to-zoom is touching two fingers on the touch screen, and move them apart to zoom in, or together to zoom out. With scrolwheel of mouse you rotate forward to zoom in and backward to zoom out.
2. Then you see the screen shown in Image XX. With "Save as Crop" button (see (1) ) you can save current zoom as crop. With "Edit Crop" button you can go to screen describe in next section. With "Revert Zoom" (see (3) ) you can go back to normal view.

Cropping Screen

There is also a screen where the cropping can be detected and set in more detail.

Image XX - Crop Screen

For this screen follow these steps:

1. Go to "Full Menu" in top menu of MusicReader.
2. Then in the "Crop" option under "Piece Functions".
3. Now you see the crop screen as shown in Image XX.
4. With buttons under (1) you can browse through the pages of the piece. With (2) you can autodetect the cropping of the current page and (4) does this for all pages. (3) sets the cropping of current page to the full page, so actually no crop. With handles like (5) and (6) you can manually detemine the crop. Simply drag the handles.