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⭐ 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

⭐ s.mart Ear Trainer ⭐

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

▫ Teaches you to recognize intervals, notes, chords and scales in a playful and effective way

▫ Different input modules: Fretboard, Piano or Text

▫ Statistics to check your training progress or to identify the chords or notes you have to focus on

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

▫ Menu item to link your quizzes within the notepad

▫ Synchronize Ear Trainer quizzes

▫ Option for full-screen mode

📖 Documentation: https://smartchord.de/docs/ear-trainer/ear-trainer-overview/

✔ Fretboard Trainer:

▫ Option for full-screen mode

▫ Possibility to answer quizzes ‘Identify chord’ and ‘Identify scale’ by piano

▫ Possibility to answer quizzes ‘Identify note’ with a notes list

📖 Diverse forms of song presentation

🐞 Click on toolbar caused crash on some devices

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrés López, Austin Geraci, Dirk Brundelius, Jackson Fernando, John W Farquhar, Julian Haas, Laura Grammegna, Nico Rieske, Renato A. Trujillo Quiroz, Ulco Kleinhout and Vito Piscitelli for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook

◾ The songbook editor lets you merge chords, lyrics, and TAB lines into longer lines, which can then be adjusted to break at a specified line width

◾ Ideal for optimizing screen space usage

◾ Especially useful in columns mode

📖 Documentation: https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/edit-songs/#optimize-line-length

✔ Set list/Songbook: Option to change the scroll duration. It’s the time to scroll up or down when using your pedal or MIDI device

✔ Option to export to a folder of your choice, allowing you to easily access it using your preferred method

📖 Documentation: https://smartchord.de/docs/general/save-and-organize/#export

✔ Chord details: Chord inversion overview

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Benno Schoppel, Burkhard Brodda, Derek Lichter and Thomas Just for their contribution to this version

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⭐ Chord inversion overview:

◾ Provides a quick reference to all chord inversions for each chord type

◾ Chord inversions allow you to add tonal variety, create smoother transitions and unlock new textures

📖 Documentation

🐞 Timer didn’t stop

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Alpesh Gondaliya and Shaun Campbell for their contribution to this version

✔ GoogleDrive: automatic login if the user has not logged out

🐞 Songbook: Replace chord (enter fingering)

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Dylan Pendrigh, Gerardo Rinaldi, Scott Belcher and John Syke for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ GoogleDrive ⭐⭐⭐

◾ Access is significantly faster, only takes place via a restricted scope (‘drive.file’) and takes place according to current specifications. This results in:

▫ Restricted and granular access to files and folders

▫ Improved data protection and security

▫ User-friendliness and compatibility

▫ Reduced risk of access to sensitive data

▫ No need to use a browser for login, also on Chromebook

▫ Also works smoothly on Chromebook

📖 Documentation

✔ A lot of improvements in embedding the cloud

✔ Android 15 compatibility

✔ Option to save the latest backup also in a folder of your choice, allowing you to easily back it up using your preferred method
📖 Documentation

🐞 Chord name: Usage in landscape mode
🐞 Not all checkboxes were clearly visible for every theme

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Axel Klag, Matt Busikool, Scott Noroozi, Sergei Nikiforov, Simon Brotherton, Uwe Gieseke and Victoria Dunfee for their contribution to this version