The Picture & Video Dump

The visual media library displays images and videos available imported into your OnSong library. From this screen you can import images and video. You can also manage those assets, or use it to pick media for lyrics projection backgrounds.

So basically, it's where all your pretty pictures & videos live. You can throw more stuff in here, organize it (if you're feeling ambitious), or steal a background for your lyrics to sit on top of.

Throw Stuff In Here

Tap on the + button on the bottom right to import images or videos from Dropbox, Google Drive, File Sharing or Files. You can also browse your photo library, browse the web, or use one of OnSong's motion graphics. Newly imported assets appear with a banner in the upper right corner of the graphic. In addition, motion backgrounds appear with a small white triangle in the lower right to indicate that the asset is playable.

ZOMG so many ways to cram media in here. Dropbox? Check. Your phone's photo roll? Yep. The internet? Why not. & those fancy animated backgrounds? They show up with a little triangle so you know they're, like, actually moving & stuff.

Let's Organize This Mess

You can tap in the lower-left corner to open a menu of sorting options. Default sorting is alphabetic by title.

Tap the corner & pick how you wanna sort. Alphabetically by default, because apparently chaos isn't an option yet.

Pick Your Poison

If you have opened this screen from the External Video Menu, you can display the background image or video by tapping on it in the grid of preview images. This will place a border around the image that is currently active. Tap again to turn off the selected background.

Came from the video menu? Cool. Tap a pic & it'll get a fancy border around it so you know it's the one. Tap again if you changed your mind (we won't judge).

Wanna Mess With It?

If you've opened this screen from the Editors Menu, you can tap on the thumbnail to open the Media Details screen. If you've opened the screen to pick an image or video, you can tap and hold on the thumbnail to display a context menu where you can choose Edit to view and edit the media.

Different doors lead to different places. Editor route? Tap to go deep. Just picking a background? Long-press & get a menu with options like Edit so you can tweak it.

The Secret Menu

You can edit background media items, or perform others actions using the context menu. To do so, tap and hold on the item (iOS/iPadOS) or right click (macOS) to view the context menu and choose from various actions.

Long-press (or right-click if you're fancy) & boom—secret menu appears with all the stuff you can do. It's like magic, except it's just buttons.

Bye Felicia

To delete the background media, use the context menu and choose the delete option.

Hate it? Context menu + delete = gone forever. You're welcome.

Uh Oh, Storage

The amount of space consumed by background media items will display at the bottom of the screen. You can manage the storage used by OnSong by tapping on the Manage Storage link.

Your pics & vids are eating up phone space (surprise!). See the damage at the bottom. Wanna clean house? Hit Manage Storage & start deletin'.

Motion backgrounds are video files that typically repeat continuously at 100% playback speed and omit audio. You can change the parameters for playback to include the audio using the context menu and choosing Edit.

Those loopy video backgrounds? They play forever on repeat & usually have NO sound (tragic, we know). But if you're feelin' it, go Edit 'em via the context menu & turn the audio back on. You're welcome.