⭐ Songbook with Spotify player (pre release)

◾ Embedded Spotify player to stream audio tracks from Spotify

◾ Well integrated with the other players (Drum Machine, Metronome, Audio-, Video and YouTube-player)

◾ Comfortable search to find the audio tracks for your songs on Spotify

◾ ‘A-B repeat’ to practice a special section in a loop

◾ Option to adjust the position of the song lyrics when you change the position of the audio track

◾ The duration of a song is automatically set by the duration of the audio track (if not set already)

◾ New directive to link the audio track with the Spotify track id {x_sccrd_spyid:}

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/players/#spotify
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/players/#automatic-player-selection
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/players/#control-songtext-position-via-player

✔ Songbook with two new color schemes for those who don’t want to use colors
◾ ‘Black on white’ for the ‘Light’ mode
◾ ‘White on black’ for the ‘Dark’ mode

✔ NextCloud: support also for older versions and older Android versions

✔ Chord Progression: Enter chords textual

🎧 Help: Contains links to the corresponding smartChord podcasts

🐞 Sort order in the Table of Contents was not retained

🐞 Playground: Diatonic chords mode made trouble

🐞 A lot of improved messages in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Basque

✔ Other minor fixes

❀ Special thanks to Christian Ceulemans, David Murgatroyd, Henk Oostrom, Mike Ellis, Paul Schoonderwoerd, Remco Bekkema, Steffen Heckmann, Stephen Getson, Tony Bifolchi and William Jordan for their contribution to this version

smartChord V11.25.2

🐞 Set List: Problems when set a different key for a song in the Set List

🐞 Synchronization: Creation of new items failed, if option ‘Backup before synchronization’ was active

🐞 Russian translation

✔ Other minor fixes

❀ Special thanks to Chris Drexler, Emory Keller, Laura Grammegna, Reinhold Habeck and Sergei Nikiforov for their contribution to this version

smartChord V11.25.1

🐞 YouTube player did not work on some devices

❀ Special thanks to Christian Ceulemans and Mike Ellis for their contribution to this version

We have started a podcast series. Here you can get to know the smartChord tools and their functions in an entertaining way – ideal if you don’t have time to read the documentation.

The podcasts are available on our website and on Spotify in German and English.

This podcast was produced using Artificial Intelligence (AI). While we strive to provide accurate and informative content, we would like to point out that AI-generated content may contain errors, inaccuracies or incomplete information. We recommend that you always check important information against our documentation.

⭐ NextCloud support

▫ Nextcloud allows users to synchronize their smartChord data on their own private server, giving them full control over privacy and data security

▫ Sync your data, songs, and set-lists across your devices

▫ Sync your songs with Nextcloud and easily manage and edit your songs on your PC. Then sync content between multiple Android devices

▫ No need to upload your data to the cloud — keep everything local and secure

📖 Choosing the right cloud

⭐ Synchronize without cloud

▫ Cloud sync is the easiest and therefore the recommended option. However, it is also possible to sync data without using the cloud. This method is more complex and only recommended for technically experienced users.

📖 Check our documentation for step-by-step instructions on how to set it up:

✔ File synchronization: Refresh button to read the current and possibly changed content of your cloud folder

🐞 Set List: Online song viewer

🐞 MIDI support

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Blaise Ardouin, Bruce Reirden, Chris Drexler, Harry Fehlemann, Ján Hovančík, Patrick Sénac and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version

⭐ Dropbox: new faster interface to your cloud which works smoothly with each browser, also on Chromebook

✔ Backup: When a backup is saved, it is also uploaded to the cloud—provided a cloud backup folder has been defined

✔ New menu item to show the tips for the screen

🐞 MIDI commands were not sent with incorrect settings

🐞 Songbook: Directive {new_page} had no effect

✔ Minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Bruce Reirden, Chris Drexler, Jürgen Schulz-Ohlberg, Michael Prodey, Martin P. Daniels, Patrick Sénac and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook

▫ Support for www.boiteachansons.net
▫ Comprehensive French music resource specializing in traditional French chansons, regional European songs, and detailed lyric-focused content with cultural context notes
📖 Documentation

▫ Translate the lyrics into your language
◾ Translate the whole song using the ‘⁝ menu -> Translate’
◾ Translate the selected text using the contextual menu
📖 Documentation

▫ Create and edit comments directly in the Songbook
◾ Click on a comment to edit the comment
◾ Click on a comment and delete the text in the dialog to delete the comment
◾ Select a text and use the contextual menu to add a comment above the selection
◾ The option to show comments is automatically activated

🎨 New option to define the text and background color of TABs for the color schemes: Light, Dark, Printout

▫ The Songbook temporarily switches to full-screen when adjusting line height

▫ MIDI commands can be given a meaningful name
◾ The name is visible in the Songbook
◾ Sample: {x_sccrd_midi: Meaningful name; 90 30 6F, 91 3A 6F}

📖 How the automatic player selection works

⭐ Set List

▫ You can set a different key for a song in the Set List. If the key differs from the song’s original key, the song will be automatically transposed when used in the Set List

▫ Possibility to define MIDI commands which are sent to a MIDI receiver
◾ When an entry is opened or closed
◾ For all kinds of entries: songs, PDFs, images and also breaks
📖 Documentation

▫ Sort function

▫ Repeat indicator to indicate when a song is included multiple times

🐞 Songbook: The directive to send MIDI commands when opening a song had no effect

✔ Minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Bostjan Jadrat, Christophe Cavard, Gérard Boutruche, Martin Porubsky, Thomas Just and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook

▫ Contextual menu improved and enhanced:

◾ Colorize parts of the song text with any color

◾ Mark blocks like chorus or bridge to highlight them with the color of your choice

◾ Insert ‘Scroll-breaks’ and ‘Scroll-times’

◾ Select a chord that is not recognized and create a custom chord

◾ Translate the selected text into your language

◾ Copy the selected text to the clipboard

◾ ‘Long press’ on the song text to get the contextual menu

📖 Documentation

▫ Possibility to colorize parts of the song text with any color

◾ Use the contextual menu to colorize the selected text or remove the colors

◾ Add color format lines below to the text

📖 Documentation

✔ ‘Scroll-break’ and ‘Scroll-time’ dialogs with reset button. A duration or time stamp of 0 deletes the ‘Scroll-break’ or ‘Scroll-time’

✔ Color dialog:

◾ Offers you commonly used colors

◾ Offers you your recently selected colors as pre-selection options

✔ Refactored codebase to reduce technical debt and improve maintainability

🐞 Toolbar configuration crashed on some devices

✔ A lot of other minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andreas Eggenberger, Jimmy Rogers, Julian Haas. Laura Grammegna, Michael Schlicht, Michal Půža, Thomas Just and Thorsten Mittag for their contribution to this version

The review of the new version V11.21 by Google was completed after two weeks and the new version is available online. Normally the check only takes a few hours. We apologize for the delay.

✔ Songbook: The line-height to adjust the distance between the lines of a songtext
▫ Use the whole screen space: Increasing the line-height spreads out the text, making it easier to read, especially on larger screens
▫ Fit a song on one screen: Decreasing the line-height reduces vertical spacing, allowing more lines to fit on the screen, which is useful for avoiding scrolling during performance.
▫ Possibility to define a default setting for your device
▫ Possibility to define song-specific line-height
▫ The option is reachable in the ‘Appearance’ settings and in the toolbar
📖 Documentation

✔ Songbook: Songtext position follows the player position set by the user or A-B positions
▫ The audio and video player offers an option to adjust the position of the song lyrics when you change the position of the audio or video track
📖 Documentation

✔ Songbook: Emphasize words
▫ The styling characters to emphasize words are removed in the ChordPro and Lyrics mode
📖 Documentation

✔ Add songs to a set list in the table of contents

✔ Improved simplify chords algorithm

✔ 7-string bass tuning ‘Drop G’ added

✔ Lyrics Pad can be tested

🐞 Set List: Sometimes saving was necessary even though nothing had changed

🐞 Chord Name: The result could contain inappropriate dim7 chord

🐞 7-string bass tuning corrected

🐞 Songbook: Intelligent line break was disabled at startup when the proportional font in lyrics mode’ option was enabled

✔ Other minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Claudio Grecchi, Frits Boogaarts, Karl Hilton, Manyatik Rözenans, Marc Barten, Milan Urban, Paul Aussem, Robert Sutherland, Stefano Tranchini and Vittorio Bernardini for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook: Support for SongSelect by CCLI with more than 100,000 worship songs:

▫ Seamlessly integrated into the internet search

▫ Get all the songs your licence entitles you to

▫ Get the songs in the public domain with the free licence

▫ If available, you will get the ChordPro song including the song information, otherwise the plain song

▫ If you prefer, download it as PDF and use it in the Set List

▫ You have to log into SongSelect to get the songs

▫ Bookmark added to reach their site: https://songselect.ccli.com/

📖 Documentation

✔ Songbook:

▫ When the option ‘Show lyrics’ is disabled, the chords are displayed in columns like in the ‘Just chords’ mode

▫ Improved search for audio and video files, if they have been moved

✔ Songbook: New directives:

▫ Directive {textcolor} changes the color of the text that follows

▫ Directive {background} changes the background color of the text that follows

▫ Songbook editor menu supports these directives in the menu ‘Add format’

📖 Documentation

✔ Set-list:

▫ The song key (information) will be displayed in the color of your color scheme

▫ Larger font for information

🐞 Song synchronisation: A song with changed location of a audio or video file, forced a new synchronization

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Eugene Manko, Robert S. Sutherland and Silent Angel for their contribution to this version

✔ Songbook: The ‘Swipe gesture’ option allows you to swipe to the next or previous song. Which song this is, is determined by the sorting and filtering in the table of contents

✔ Songbook Song Search: Ultimate-Guitar changed their behavior again and do not break lines on small screens anymore. We have removed the logic to combine lines again

✔ Table of contents: Restore the last search filter

✔ File search improved (e.g. used for import)

✔ Set-list-link: Can be activated even if the set list is empty

✔ Instruments:
▫ Buttons for settings and to add more instruments
▫ More visible instruments on larger screens

🐞 Chord Name: ‘Play’ button did not work

🐞 Chord Name: Change instrument and change tuning needs a restart of the screen

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Hans Walfridsson, Jo Ottenheim, Nolan Gomez, Paco Vela, Randy Bey and Robert Aigner for their contribution to this version

⭐ Categories to classify and filter your items like songs or exercises

▫ Assign the categories to your items
◾ Enrich them with additional information
◾ Quickly find your items with the category filter
◾ Get an overview of your items

▫ Filter your items by one or more categories

▫ Possibility to assign multiple entries of a category

▫ Possibility for NOT logic to select items that do not meet the specified categories

▫ Each item type may have different categories with multiple entries

▫ A category can be used in multiple item types

▫ Predefined (but changeable) categories: ‘Decade’, ‘Difficulty’, ‘Genre’, ‘Mood’, ‘Occasion’, ‘Popularity’, ‘Rating’

▫ Create and maintain your own categories

▶ Our new video shows how to use categories:

▶ Watch our video with a brief introduction to the s.mart Ear Trainer

✔ Songbook: Piano mode now available for the toolbar

✔ Open the tempo dialog by a long press on the plus or minus buttons beneath the seekbars

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Bernd Breitinger, Jo Ottenheim, Paco Vela, Peter Fresser, Scott Noroozi and Sergei Nikiforov for their contribution to this version

Please see our documentation

⭐⭐⭐ s.mart Ear Trainer released ⭐⭐⭐

▫ Helps you to develop your musical ear in a playful and effective way
◾ Intervals: Learn the intervals from perfect unison (P1) to double octave (P15)
◾ Notes: Learn to distinguish all notes
◾ Chords: Learn to recognize and distinguish chords
◾ Scales: Learn to recognize and distinguish scales
◾ Scale degrees: Learn to differentiate between the scale degrees

▫ Answer the questions on a
◾ Fretboard: Use the instrument, tuning and range of your choice
◾ Piano
◾ Textual list

▫ Most effective training mode

▫ Shows correct answer on mistake or timeout

▫ Freely selectable octave range

▫ Choose from 100 instruments for the sound

▫ Option to play chords harmonically, melodically or randomly

▫ Option to play scales ascending, descending, in both orders or randomly

▫ Option to play chord and scales slow medium or fast

▫ Option to define a reference note to guide you

▫ Option for acoustical feedback to indicate whether the answer was right or wrong

▫ Full-screen mode to use the entire screen to play your games

▫ Possibility to cheat (however, is visible in the statistics)

▫ Comfortable chord selection possibility e.g. from your songs or chord progressions

▫ Comfortable scale selection possibility

▫ Statistics to check your training progress or to identify the chords or notes you have to focus on (tables, charts and distributions)

▫ Share your quizzes with your friends, other musicians or students

▫ Synchronize Ear Trainer quizzes between your devices

▫ Keep notes in the notepad for each quiz

▫ Supports all other relevant smartChord features (e.g. color scheme, left handed fretboard or Solfège)

📖 Documentation

✔ Fretboard Trainer:
▫ Option to play chords harmonically, melodically or randomly
▫ Option to play scales ascending, descending, in both orders or randomly
▫ Option to play chord and scales slow medium or fast
▫ Option to define a reference note to guide you

🐞 Chord pad could be empty and that was irritating

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Colin Coutts, Dave Murray, Erasmus Hossenphepher, Fabian Hidalgo, Javi Rivas, Laura Grammegna and Scott Schiffer for their contribution to this version

⭐ s.mart Ear Trainer ⭐

▫ Still a pre-release version for subscribers and UNLIMITED customers

▫ Teaches you to recognize intervals with the input modules ‘Fretboard’ or ‘Text’

▫ From perfect unison (P1) to double octave (P15)

▫ Other improvements for notes, chords and scales

✔ Scale Name, Fretboard Trainer, Ear-Trainer, Chord Pad, Chord Progression:
▫ Add multiple chords at once by entering the chord names

✔ General sound settings: Possibility to select the instrument sound for counting in

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrés López, Asaf Schurr, Austin Geraci, David Grivette, Dirk Brundelius, Hans Sta, Jackson Fernando, Jeffrey C. Pina, Jeremy Sherlock, Lothar Roh, Nico Rieske, Renato A. Trujillo Quiroz, Ulco Kleinhout and Vito Piscitelli for their contribution to this version