Send a Song

Use this screen when you want to share a single song with someone. You can choose exactly what to include — not just the score itself, but also audio, timeline data, annotations, song context, and per-song display settings. Start by deciding whether you are sending only a readable score or the song's full performance state.

What to Decide on This Screen

• Whether to include annotations
• Whether to include tags
• Whether to include audio
• Whether to include the timeline
• Whether to include song context (the setlist item settings for this song)
• Whether to include per-song display settings
  • This option is only available when "Include song context" is on. Turning off song context also turns this off automatically.

What to Include

Send Only the Score

If the recipient will add their own annotations, audio, or timeline, a minimal share is enough. You can leave out annotations, audio, timeline, song context, and per-song display settings.

Include Markings

Include annotations when the recipient should receive your fingerings, cuts, reminders, or other markings. Leave annotations out when they will mark up the score themselves.

Recreate Audio or Automatic Page Turns

For songs that rely on rehearsal audio, a click, synchronized playback, or automatic page turns, include audio and the timeline. The receiver can still remove audio or timeline in their import preview. If you want the song to behave the same way it did for you, include audio, timeline, and song context together.

Include Song Context

Song context sends the setlist-item settings for the song: page range, links to audio and timeline, tempo, offsets, and similar performance details. Include it when the recipient should get "this song as performed," not just the score file. Leave it out when the score file alone is enough.

Include Per-Song Display Settings

Include display settings when this song has a custom zoom, display pattern, timeline visibility, text-page font size, or similar exception. Leave them out when the recipient should use their own device settings. This choice depends on song context, so it is unavailable when song context is off.

Include Tags

Include tags when the recipient should inherit your organization. Leave them out when your tags are only meaningful to your own library.

Send via QR Code

Tap "Show QR and start sharing" to display a connection QR code. The recipient scans it from the Receive Shared Data screen in PagePilot Viewer, and the transfer begins immediately. Use this when both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network and the recipient is nearby.

Send via Archive

If you need to hand off the file later rather than in real time, export an archive. Convenient when you want to send it afterwards via messages or cloud storage. Song archives use the .ppva extension. They are shared-data files, not full app backups (.ppbk).

When to Use This

• Sharing just one song with another musician
• Sending the same song — with audio and timeline — to your own other device
• Replacing a specific song rather than sharing the whole setlist
• Sending a prepared song, including display settings, to a rehearsal device

If You Get Stuck

• If the recipient cannot connect after you display the QR code, check that both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network and that the app has been granted Local Network access.
• If an on-the-spot Wi-Fi transfer is not practical, use "Export Song Archive" to create a file and send it via AirDrop or cloud storage.
• If the recipient does not get the expected display or linked audio, check whether you included song context and whether they kept song context, audio, timeline, and display overrides in the receive preview.

Related Screens

• To share an entire setlist, use Send a Setlist.
• For instructions on the recipient's side, see Receive Shared Data.