New in gigBuddy: offline setlists, personal charts, fee splits and more

This update covers what was added to gigBuddy from September 28 to October 9: offline setlists, personal charts and audio per member, custom live-mode keys, music link discovery, fee splits, the Dutch gage declaration, a setup guide and self-service account deletion. For each feature below you’ll find what it does and how to use it.

Setlists and live mode

Offline setlists

Setlists can be downloaded to your device and opened without an internet connection. A downloaded copy includes the running order, pauses, your personal notes, chord charts and uploaded documents, and you can use performance mode with it.

How to use it:

• Open a setlist and use the Download for offline use button, or open the offline setlist settings and choose a download mode: Selection (only the setlists you pick) or All (every setlist of the band, kept up to date automatically).
• Each setlist shows its status. Available offline includes the time of the last sync. Sync now updates the copies on demand.
• While offline, open Downloaded setlists to find your copies, grouped by band, and start performance mode from there.
• To include audio, switch on Download audio recordings. Audio files are larger than charts and documents, so gigBuddy asks for confirmation first. Only the recording each song uses is downloaded. Switching the option off removes the downloaded recordings.

Good to know:

• Downloads and preferences are stored per device and per band.
• Open gigBuddy once while online first, so the app can start without a connection.
• Song links (Spotify, YouTube and so on) and charts hosted on other websites need an internet connection.
• Offline copies are read-only, and they are removed when you log out.

Personal charts and audio per song

Each member can set their own default chart or document and their own default recording or link for every song. For a single item in a setlist you can override that choice. The band default stays available as the fallback.

How to use it: open a song and choose Setlist defaults. The Band default and My default are shown side by side. Pick a default document and a default audio link for yourself. Band defaults can be changed by band admins; every member can change their own.

Audio playback inside the app

Uploaded audio files and many streaming links can be played inside gigBuddy. Uploaded files have a play button on the song page, and in performance mode you can start or stop a song’s audio with a button or a key.

Custom keys for live mode

The keys that control a setlist in live mode can be set per user, for a keyboard or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal. Go to Settings → Preferences and find Setlist live mode. For each action (next, previous, back to the first song, leave live mode, start or stop the count-in, show or hide notes, play or stop audio) choose Add key and press the key or pedal. gigBuddy warns you if a key is already assigned to another action, and Restore defaults resets all keys.

Live mode also keeps the screen awake while a setlist is open, and has buttons for the count-in and audio.

Songs and albums

Find links to other music services

From a Spotify link, gigBuddy can look up the same song or album on other services. On a song or album, open the links section and choose Find links. Enter the Spotify link, optionally add a UPC or ISRC code to improve matching, and choose Find matches. The matches found on services such as Apple Music, Deezer and Tidal are shown as a preview, and nothing is saved until you select the links to add. Results are best effort, so check them before adding. Links that already exist are kept.

Album pages

Albums now have a detail page with the artist, links and an ordered track list, and songs can have a track number. On the songs page, songs can be grouped by album. Existing setlist breaks have been converted into pauses.

Gigs and finance

Fee splits per participant

For each participant of a gig you can set a share of the amount due to the artist, either as a Fixed amount or as a Percentage. Open a gig, go to its participants and choose Split the fee next to a name. A preview shows the resulting amount, and gigBuddy warns you if the splits don’t add up to the amount due to the artist. Remember this split for the next gigs stores the share for that participant, and Apply this split to all participants sets it for everyone at once, overwriting existing splits for that gig.

Gage declaration (Netherlands)

For gigs in the Netherlands, gigBuddy can create the Belastingdienst gage declaration as a PDF, prefilled with the group name, lineup, performance, total gross fee and each member’s share.

How to use it: in the gig list, select 1 or more gigs with the same lineup (each with at least one participant) and choose Gage declaration (Belastingdienst). Names are printed as stored, so check that they are legal names rather than stage names. BSN, birth dates and addresses are filled in in the PDF itself. You can apply the kleinevergoedingsregeling in the dialog. gigBuddy shows a warning when a gig was invoiced with VAT, or when artist costs exceed the allowance per member.

Artist fees, CSV import and invoice links

A gig can record an artist’s own fee, and an artist invoice can name the band gig it bills. Issued invoices lock those terms until the invoice is voided. Gigs can also be imported from a CSV file in planning. A Bandsintown export is recognized automatically; for any other file you choose which column holds what. AI then suggests which of your saved venues and bands the file refers to, and which gigs may already be in your calendar. You confirm each suggestion before anything is imported.

Finance overview

The financial overview and dashboard now include fees of past gigs that haven’t been invoiced. gigBuddy shows a warning when a customer’s details are incomplete before an invoice is sent. Reimbursements have a new detail page with the outstanding amount and its history. GBP is supported for accounting outside the existing country packs.

Getting started and account

Setup guide

The navigation has a Setup your band button. It lists the setup steps (profile, repertoire import, an integration, a first event, email templates and finance setup), and each step is ticked off automatically once the content exists. The guide can be hidden, and brought back under Settings › Accessibility. New bands start with default band images and invoice templates.

Delete your account

You can delete your own account under Settings → My account → Delete account. If you own a band or are its only admin, you first choose a successor from the band’s approved members. Billing is wound down, including a refund where the withdrawal period applies, and you confirm with a typed confirmation. Band data stays with the band; your personal data is removed. More details are on the delete account page.

linkBuddy

linkBuddy is the public band profile. These changes were made to its release pages and statistics.

Release pages for albums

A release page is a landing page for a launch, with one button per streaming platform plus anything else you add. Release pages can now be created for an album as well as for a song. In the editor, choose New release page, pick a song or album, and set the Page address, then choose Create. Platforms widgets can also reference an album instead of a song.

Delete a release page

A release page can be deleted from the editor. A confirmation asks first: the page goes offline and its statistics are deleted too. This can’t be undone.

Statistics: streaming platforms and accolade links

The statistics panel has a new Streaming platforms block that breaks the platform button clicks down per platform, with the number of clicks and each platform’s share. Clicks on links in the accolades widget are now counted per website (for example, the hostname of the linked page) in Links and actions.