Autoplay toggle in performance view

Feature Requests
1

Hi Leo,

as I’m controlling our setlist from the Performance View, I’d love to have the ability to toggle the autoplay status of the next queued song directly during a show.

Most of the time, I don’t want the next song to start automatically. However, there are situations where autoplay is exactly what I want. The challenge is that this isn’t tied to specific songs - it depends entirely on the current mood and situation at the event.

Being able to quickly enable or disable autoplay for the next queued song from within Performance View would make live set management much more flexible.

Do you think something like this would be possible? If not, I think something like this in a canvas would also be okay for me - but I still love the performance view :stuck_out_tongue:

Best,
Max

2

Hey @Basstor,

AbleSet has a command built exactly for this: /setlist/toggleStop.
It toggles whether playback stops at the end of the current song, so during the show you can decide on the fly whether it rolls straight into the next one or holds.
This requires that your songs end with a SONG END locator.

How to set it up with a MIDI controller:

  1. Go to Settings → MIDI Mapping, OSC & Scripting → Edit MIDI Mapping.
  2. Add a new mapping for the button/footswitch you want to use.
  3. Set its action to Custom OSC and enter:
    /setlist/toggleStop

Now a single press flips the stop state for the current song:

  • Stop on → playback stops at the end of the song; the next song won’t start automatically.
  • Stop off → playback continues straight into the next song.

You’ll also see the state reflected in the setlist (the song gets a “Stop After Song” marker), so you have visual confirmation of which way it’s set before the song ends.

Since it’s just an OSC command, it works no matter which view you’re in — so you can keep running everything from Performance View.

Also, Iif you want a dedicated button inside a Canvas instead, the same /setlist/toggleStop works on a Canvas OSC button.

You can also see OSC MIDI mappings in action in the official tutorial.

Would that work for your use case?

3

Hi Agustin,

I’m just on it. Looks very cool, but somehow it doesn’t work for me. I would like to see the feedback, if the next song will play automatically. And somehow it actually doesn’t play automatically. Has this something to do, that I use the setting “Always Stop at the End of Songs”? Does this overwrite the OSC?

Best,
Max

4

Ahhh, I’m still messing around with the settings. When I have the mentioned setting OFF and have entered the value “Stop After Song” active in the setlist view, I can see a small space after the song. And it disappears when I toggle the OSC //setlist/toggleStop

Is there any possibility, to not switch the status of that setting and just deactivate the value for “Stop After Song” only for specifically one time?