Stage view overview

The stage view is the screen you're staring at during the gig. Open a setlist, hit Open on stage, the chord chart fills your screen, the wake-lock kicks in, and you're ready to play.

It's the thing Loadout is most opinionated about. Three regions, no chrome you don't need.

The three regions

Top: now/next strip (persistent)

Always visible, never fades. Shows:

• Title and a section pill (verse / chorus / bridge) for the current song
• Subtitle row: artist · key · BPM · your per-row notes
• A faint "next · {next song}" hint when there is one
• The Play button (autoscroll + line follow together)
• The Leader pill with member count and sync status
• The ⋯ Settings button
• The Close button
• A metronome strip below the title row

The leftmost left-edge is a thin invisible swipe strip — drag right from the edge to open the setlist drawer.

Middle: the chord chart

Renders the current song's ChordPro. Lyrics on bottom, chord names stacked above. Section markers show as colored pills inline. The active lyric line highlights in Follow mode.

Bottom: status row (always-on, always tiny)

Page count (1/12), line count (line 4/27 · follow), autoscroll badge (0.85× scroll or scroll paused). Pointer-events disabled — it never intercepts taps.

[screenshot: stage view full screen — strip, chart, status row]

What's "always on"

• Wake lock — your device won't sleep mid-gig.
• Offline cache — the setlist's songs cache to IndexedDB on mount, so a lost connection doesn't take down the chart.
• Leader-driven band sync — if anyone in the band is leader, their song-changes broadcast to everyone in real time.

Modes

The Follow mode setting (in the Settings sheet, Follow the song) has three values:

• Off — chart is static. The chord renderer doesn't show line highlighting.
• Tap — line highlights snap to wherever you tap. No play-head.
• Follow (default) — the play-head tracks LRCLib timing when the song has it, otherwise a BPM-derived cadence. Hit Play to anchor.

What's next

• Autoscroll — Play button, speed, the 3:30 fallback.
• Gestures and shortcuts — swipes, taps, keys, the long-press.
• Band sync — leader handoff, what gets broadcast.
• Metronome on stage — strip, edge pulse, in-ear broadcast.