[Cerio]

I've searched the manual and also some old threads, but that is still not clear to me. 

I'm particularry interested in knowing if this field has any relevance when synchronising devices. My use case: I'm having all kind of problems after updating songs with more than one version on the DB (same song name, but different key, or artist, for example) and synchronizing. Would Song ID be helpful in this case? Is it best practice to assign different Song IDs to different versions of the same song or should (hopefully not) just use different names to avoid sync conflicts?

Thanks

[Swiss1000]

The file name is the only way to avoid creating a "hell machine"... Simply add "V1, V2, etc." systematically and you'll avoid problems...

[Cerio]

To clarify, PDF files have all an unique name, that's not the question.

[Geoff Bacon]

Just checking - are you using custom formatting when displaying the songs on the library screens?
i.e. although the files might look different on these screens, they could have identical physical names.

Geoff
PS: I don't use sync but as I understand it, unique names shouldn't cause an issue.

[Cerio]

Just checking - are you using custom formatting when displaying the songs on the library screens?
i.e. although the files might look different on these screens, they could have identical physical names.

Geoff
PS: I don't use sync but as I understand it, unique names shouldn't cause an issue.

All my pdfs are in the same folder in all my devices, so that's definitely not the problem (I don't use the Create subdirectories for songs option anymore) 

In any case, I was referring to identical  Song Names (Title field on the database), not to PDF filenames. I would expect that the program is smart enough to handle database syncs without conflicts when two or more songs share the same title (but different other metadata, as key, collection, type, artist, etc), but maybe I'm just wrong. Wondering if Song Id field can be used for this purpose.

[Geoff Bacon]

As I understand it, the matching is on the physical filename and not any metadata
As your phyical names should be unique (they are all in the same folder), I would expect what you are doing to work. 

Guess you will have to wait for Mike to respond

Geoff

[Lester]

I remember Mike advising us to not use the Song ID field but cannot remember why as I believe him and so have simply not gone there. It is a bit odd that the Song ID field is editable for us users if we should not be using it. Maybe Mike can explain.

[BRX]

It's more or less a sync ID only. See

https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...12301.html
https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...12844.html