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  • Android Data Storage Location: Store large score, audio, and annotation files in internal storage or PagePilot's private area on an SD card.
  • Annotation Palette: Use pens, highlighters, stamps, text labels, erasers, and related annotation controls in the Score Viewer.
  • App Data Backup / Restore: Export all scores, audio, setlists, annotations, tags, and settings as a `.ppbk` file, then restore it when moving devices or protecting a major cleanup.
  • Bulk Add Review: Review and confirm song titles before adding multiple files to your setlist all at once.
  • Bulk Tag Editor: A sheet for adding or removing the same tag across multiple items at once.
  • Choose Existing Song Or Score: Search songs or library scores you've already prepared, then reuse them in a setlist or song setting.
  • Choose Where to Add From: Choose whether to add an item from outside the app, from the library, or by creating it from scratch.
  • ChordPro Layout: Switch the display preset for a ChordPro text page on the fly without changing global settings.
  • ChordPro Quick Reference: Look up ChordPro notation examples and basic operations without leaving the editor.
  • Conductor Setlist Mapping: Verify at a glance that Conductor song numbers match the correct songs in Viewer.
  • Conductor Sync Settings: Fine-tune follower timing, and configure Local Conductor start lead and display name when this device hosts sync. Usually no changes are needed.
  • Connect to Conductor: Scan for an external PagePilot Conductor, or start this Viewer as a Local Conductor.
  • Connection Status: Check the Conductor connection status, pause or resume sync, or disconnect.
  • Cue Details: A dialog for setting the position, page, and tempo information of a cue on the timeline.
  • Global Search: A sheet for searching across scores, audio, setlists, and songs to jump quickly to what you need.
  • Global Settings: Set app-wide defaults, and use backup or diagnostics when you need them.
  • Item Settings: Fine-tune the score range, audio, timeline, tempo, and display settings for each individual song.
  • MIDI Device Picker: A sheet for scanning, connecting, and disconnecting external MIDI devices.
  • Metronome Settings: A sheet for adjusting the metronome voice and accent settings while previewing the audio live.
  • Mixer Settings: Check and adjust where audio, metronome, Voice, and keyboard sound are played, and how loudly each source is mixed.
  • Output Device Latency: When audio reaches your ears later than the on-screen motion, save a correction per output device so visual timing matches what you hear.
  • PagePilot Viewer Help: Understand how scores, audio, songs, and timelines relate, then jump to the right help page for your goal.
  • Piano Keyboard: A simple piano keyboard overlay on the score viewer for quick pitch checks and chord verification on the spot.
  • Play with Audio: Choose the audio and timeline to use when you open a score directly from the library.
  • Receive Shared Data: Receive scores and setlists from another device via QR code or archive file, choose what to import, and save.
  • Score Import Setup: A dialog for setting the name and tags of an imported score before it is added to your library.
  • Score Viewer: The performance screen for reading scores, turning pages, running timelines, annotating, using the metronome, and following Conductor.
  • Score Viewer Display Menu: Change annotation visibility, timeline visibility, display pattern, scroll direction, and auto-follow while staying in the Score Viewer.
  • Scores, MusicXML & Audio Library: Find and reuse prepared songs, imported scores, registered MusicXML, and audio.
  • Send a Setlist: Choose which songs to include in a setlist share, decide whether to include annotations and tags, and send via QR code or archive file.
  • Send a Song: Choose what to include for a single song — score, audio, timeline, annotations — and share it via QR code or archive file.
  • Setlist Detail: Add songs and memos, arrange the running order, and prepare the setlist for sharing or Conductor sync.
  • Setlist List: Create a setlist for each performance, search and tag them for easy organization, and get ready for your next show.
  • Setlist Memos: Add short non-song cues, such as MC notes, breaks, instrument changes, or stage transitions, directly into the setlist order.
  • Text Page Editor: Edit Plain Text, ChordPro, Markdown, and Fumen pages with format-aware helpers and preview.
  • Text Page Settings: Fine-tune fonts, margins, and the ChordPro layout preset for text pages.
  • Timeline Settings: Adjust timeline display, stop behavior, aligning cues and playback position to beats, and the default bar-number correction. The defaults are fine for most users.
  • Transpose: Choose a target key and notation style to transpose all ChordPro chords at once.
  • Trash for Scores, MusicXML, Audio, and More: A screen for deciding whether to restore or permanently delete scores, registered MusicXML/MXL, audio, songs, and timelines you have removed.

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