How to avoid song start when pressing "next"

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Hi guys!

I tried to find a solution in the documentation and forum, but might have missed it.

My question: I sometimes press “next” when the song is still running, but would want the setlist to jump to the next song, without it immediately starting.
When I press “next” when the previous song is finished, it doesn’t start.

Is there a way to force songs to not start immediately?

I read that +PAUSE might be able to do this, but when adding it to the the song name marker, that doesn’t seem to do the trick?

All help is welcome!

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Hey @Joris_Van_Regemortel, welcome to the forum!

If you’d like AbleSet to not automatically start the next song, setting the jump mode to “End of Song” and adding a +PAUSE flag to the start locator of each song should do the job.

Does this work on your end? :slight_smile:

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I’m specifically asking for the scenario where I click “next” while the current song is still running (so before we get to the end of the song) (I have some songs that have longer clicks, since we have variable duration). If I do that, the next song will still start immediately, even if there’s a +PAUSE in the locator of that song.
So no, I don’t think this is working

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Oh and thanks for welcoming me, I absolutely love your tool!

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If you’re working with AbleSet’s web app, you could set the jump mode to “End of Song” or “Manual” which would then allow you to cue the next song without AbleSet immediately jumping there. Then, once you’re ready to jump, you can pause playback which makes AbleSet jump to the cued song without starting playback.

If you’re using a MIDI controller, you could set up a mapping with Custom OSC that stops playback and jumps to the next song, like this:

/global/stop; /setlist/jumpBySongs 1

I hope this helps :slight_smile: