Walk-on music and stings for stand-up
Walk-on, walk-off, and the sting that rescues a dying bit — from a laptop at the side of the stage and a button in your pocket.
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The problem is timing, not playback
Anything can play an MP3. What goes wrong on a comedy night is the two seconds between the compere saying your name and the music starting — a phone waking up, an app deciding to show you an advert, the wrong track because the list scrolled. You want the track already loaded, already cued, and one button between you and it.
How a night actually runs
Park the cursor on your walk-on before you go up. One press starts it. When you are on, one press fades it out — and if the play key is set to stop and cue next, the same button then lines up your walk-off, so the whole set is one button pressed three times. Nothing auto-advances unless you ask it to, so a long chat with the room never runs into the next cue.
Stings you can hit without looking
Rimshot, sad trombone, applause, airhorn: one per pad, fired by the number keys or by clicking. A pad never advances the running order — it plays its own sound and stops. Set a pad to interrupt if it should kill the music, or overlay if it should land on top of it.
MCing a whole night
If you are running the room rather than doing ten, mark the pre-show playlist Continuous so the house music plays straight through, while your cue list still stops after every track. Print the running order with lengths and a total, hand it to whoever is on the desk, and the paper matches the screen.
What matters most here
Any Bluetooth remote
A clicker off a market stall works as well as a proper media remote. Press a button, the app shows you what it sent, you assign it.
Rename tracks to what you call them
“03_final_MASTER_v2.mp3” tells you nothing at ten feet in the dark. “WALK ON” does.
A held button counts once
Lean on the remote in your pocket and the track starts once, not thirty times.
No internet, no accounts
It cannot buffer, update itself mid-set, or show you a notification.
What it does not do. It will not stream from Spotify or Apple Music — those are locked to their own apps, and protected files simply will not open. You need the audio as files you own.
Questions
Do I need to buy a special remote?
No. If it pairs with your laptop and sends anything at all, it will work — presentation clickers, camera shutter fobs, page-turn pedals, media remotes, numeric keypads. Press a button and the app tells you what it received, then you assign it to whatever you want.
Can one button do the whole set?
Yes. Set the play key to “stop and cue next” and each press does exactly one thing: start a track, end it, start the next. At the end of the list it simply stops.
Can I use it on someone else’s laptop at a gig?
A single license covers one machine plus a spare you own. A show folder can be collected into one folder with every file inside it and carried on a USB stick, and it opens with nothing missing on either Mac or Windows.
Try it on your own show
30 days, every feature, nothing removed at the end — the app keeps opening, it simply stops starting audio until a licence is entered. Test it against your own remote, your own interface and your own files before you decide. Download it, read the full feature list, or see which remote to buy. Already bought? Get your licence.
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