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Ceder Square Dance System (CSDS) ==> Music

Themes / Categories / Genres
Bill Heyman's program has a way to store what "theme" a record might belong to. For example, "Halloween" or "Christmas".

But the fact that Bill Heyman offers Category or Theme (I forget which term he uses) might make it interesting for you to either offer it, or to include a FAQ as to how to implement that feature.

How do I tell CSDS that certain songs have certain themes (such as Christmas, Halloween, Springtime, etc), and then select songs for a theme dance?

The CSDS Music Database has a 'genre flags' feature that allows you to mark each music entry with a set of attributes (a.k.a., 'themes')

You'll notice, that when you're within 'Edit Music Database' and you do 'Edit | Add New Music Files from Folder', it allows you to set flags for the newly added music. Up to 32 flags may currently be defined. For example, on my laptop, I have the following categories:

  Patter
  Singing Call
  Contra
  Round
  Line
  Sing-A-Long
  Singing calls to learn
  Exciter
  Piano
  Boogie Woogie
  Big Band
  Oldtime Called
  Popular
  Jazz
  New
  Show tune
  Special Events
  Holiday
Currently, each flag also has an associated letter or character. Future plans for CSDS include making this 'abbreviated' value for the flag to be more than one character.

To add or edit flags, go into 'Edit Music Database' and select 'Edit | Music Flags' or click the 12th toolbar button (the one that looks like a two criss-crossing flags, a red one, and a yellow one).


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