◾ Scrolling PDF and images: ▫ Auto-scroll works for PDF and images, for which a duration has been specified ▫ Option to activate auto-scroll for PDF and images ▫ ‘Start’ button to start the auto-scroller if the option is not active ▫ Documentation
◾ Improved image viewer: ▫ Images are zoomable and movable ▫ Scrolling by fingers, Bluetooth or MIDI devices ▫ Double tap to fit into screen
◾❗ Behaviour change: The toolbar of the Songbook remains displayed if it is pinned and no full screen mode is active
🐞 Set List PDF viewer scrolling pages for some PDFs
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Frits Boogaarts, Gerrit Horeis, Manuel Almonacid, Marcos Perico Lospalotes, Michelle Croissant and Steve Clerckx for their contribution to this version
⭐ Set List PDF viewer: ◾ We have significantly improved the display of PDF files. The new version also fully supports multi-page PDF files. ◾ ❗ Unfortunately, the zoom factor of the new version is not compatible with the old version. ◾ ❗ If you have zoomed PDF files, they will no longer be displayed identically with the new version and you will have to correct the zoom factor in each case. ◾ ❗ We will support both versions for a transitional period and you can switch between them in the settings
⭐ Set List supports the online song viewer: ◾ Sing with your audience and show them the song or just the lyrics in any browser ◾ Present the songs of the Set List in any browser at http://www.smartchord.de/song (e.g. the one of your smart TV) ◾ Shows automatically the current song ◾ Different themes for daylight or in the dark pub ◾ Optimized text size by one to four columns ◾ Documentation
⭐ Set List supports automatic lookup for audio files if their location has been changed
🐞 Chords: Enter ‘aug’ chords
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Blaise Ardouin, Frank Dreibrodt, Josh Bezaire, Manuel Almonacid and Raz Kandel for their contribution to this version
✔ Piano: Note name and degrees according to the ‘Names’ setting Fretboard info ◾ Notes (Settings): Note names according to your settings ◾ Notes (Theory): Note names according to the music theory ◾ Intervals ◾ Relative notes
✔ Home-screen: Menu item to sort the tools by name
🐞 Set List, Songbook: Title bar was visible in full-screen mode
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Adriano Maria Elena, Brian Witowski, Eugene W. Maxwell, Frank Dreibrodt, Jim Winery, Mario Ravlić, Mark Heathcote, Simone Denaro, Viorel Postica and Wolfgang Göttler for their contribution to this version
✔ Chord Pad ◾ Transpose the pad ◾ Sort the pad ◾ Remove duplicate chords ◾ Piano shows the notes of chords ◾ Available in the shop ◾ s.mart Chord Pad released
✔ Tap BPM ◾ Tap tempo dialog is now available as tool for the home screen ◾ A quick way to calculate tempo by tapping along with the rhythm
✔ Song Analyser: Complete support for Solfege and Nashville Number System
🐞 Songbook: Problems to replace a chord if the song was in Solfege
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Adriano Maria Elena, Dave Schneider, Ernst Wolf and Tommy Illgner for their contribution to this version
🐞 Capo: The fingerings were not updated in every case when the capo was changed
🐞 Key Identifier: Problems removing a chord
🐞 Chords: Note buttons shows also Solfege and Nashville Number System again
🐞 Simplify chords: Shows also chords according to Solfege and Nashville Number System
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Adriano Maria Elena, Ken Cowie, Lena Schütten, Manfred Leitner, Marcos Galletero Romero and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version
⭐ Customizable toolbar: ◾ Customise a toolbar to have quick access to your favorite functions ◾ Available on nearly every screen like Songbook, Song-Writer, Chords, Editor or even the home screen ◾ Available on Android 7 or later ◾ Toolbar customizing screen: ▫ Reachable on every screen via menu ‘⁝ -> Toolbar’ ▫ Add, move or remove the tools via drag’n’drop ▫ Activate-/deactivate the toolbar ◾ Toolbar documentation
✔ Android 14 compatibility
🐞 Chord Progression: Change capo
🐞 Circle of Fifths: music sheet wasn’t always updated correctly with naming method ‘Solfege’
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Björn Wilde, Hagler Ducley Brito, Henk Oostrom, Scott Noroozi, Tonio Ene, Vittorio Bernardini and William Liu for their contribution to this version
◾ Bookmarks for your inspiration ▫ Predefined list of song pages with the top-rated songs and artists ▫ Screen to maintain your own bookmarks with your favorite song pages
◾ Progress bar shows when song recognition is complete
◾ ‘Reload’ button, in case the song recognition does not work the first time
◾ Quick switch to search for ‘Chords’ or ‘TAB’ (tablature)
🐞 Songbook internet search: Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on cifra
🐞 Songbook: Scrolling on rare conditions
🐞 Chord name: Not all note names were visible without a selected chord
🐞 Play chord sounds in some screens
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Andreas Arbeit, Daniel Ruíz Mojica, Marcos Giovane, Martin Wiesenhofer, Peter Fresser and Yves Sancho Oliver for their contribution to this version
✔ Settings are searchable. The keyword search provides a quick overview of the available settings
✔ Chord name: ◾ Fingering colors follow the color scheme binding for the selected chord ◾ Optional notes of a chord are marked in red
✔ Chord in mode ‘Scale’: Click on the scale name to change the scale. Click on the scale icon to open the scale in the scale tool
✔ Songbook: Chord gallery new long-click option to add or to remove the fingering from favorites
✔ Set list: Layout optimizations
✔ New documentation:
◾ General appearance: https://smartchord.de/docs/general/appearance/ ◾ Piano: https://smartchord.de/docs/piano/piano-overview/
🐞 Songbook: Automatic scroll speed after editing a songtext
🐞 Songbook: Key Identifier and Scale Name called with the wrong chord order
🐞 Songbook internet search: Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on chords-and-tabs.net
🐞 Categories have been lost when you save a song that is running the set list
🐞 Rootless chords didn’t enforce to have the bass note in slash chords
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Marcel Brouillet, Rob D. Schaefer, Stefan Manns, Thomas Fiebich and William G. Jordan for their contribution to this version
✔ Chord diagrams: Option to mark open strings with a rectangle
✔ Fretboard Trainer: ◾ Possibility to select single scales with tonic ◾ More scale selection possibilities (https://smartchord.de/docs/scales/scale-selection/) ◾ Optimized layout for large answer lists
✔ Set list: ◾ Import is possible from an arbitrary folder on the device ◾ Larger font
✔ Piano: ◾ Possibility to show the note names on all keys belonging to a chord or scale ◾ Possibility to change the base note of a chord or the tonic of a scale
✔ Notepad: More scale selection possibilities (https://smartchord.de/docs/scales/scale-selection/)
✔ File importer: Menu entry to set smartChords app specific folders for import
🐞 Set list: Export and print showed a blank page when ‘No content’ was selected
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Anshela Sanabria, Monkey Do, Patrick Senac, Rob D. Schaefer, Ron Rijnenberg and Somsavath Norindr for their contribution to this version
🐞 Major fixes in chord diagrams for lefties 🐞 Songbook: Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on Ultimate-Guitar 🐞 Songbook: Transposing failed in some cases after transposing several times 🐞 Set list import listed the contents multiple times 🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Training mode ‘Lab after Lab’ asked correct answered notes too often ✔ Other minor fixes ❀ Special thanks to Jon Hoekstra, Laurent Haricot, Victor Rodt and Vittorio Bernardini for their contribution to this version
✔ Songbook: ◾ Optimized print and share ◾ Possibility to print and share a song with one of the Songbook color schemes: Light, Dark, Printout ◾ Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on Ultimate-Guitar ◾ Workaround to handle duplicate song texts on Ultimate-Guitar
✔ Set List: ◾ Add Notes as set list entries. Use a note entry to make a joke or address the audience, or indicate a change of instrument, tuning adjustments, equipment requirements, or other specific details ◾ Optimized set list export and print ◾ Export ‘Internal’ does include now the images and PDF files beneath the songs ◾ Menu item to print a set list ◾ Possibility to export and print a set list with the Songbook color schemes: Light, Dark, Printout
🐞 Notepad: Link to songs opened Chords screen instead of Songbook. Link to Chords screen uses now protocol ‘scrd’: Chord: F5
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Burkhard Brodda, Jon Hoekstra, Jürgen Schulz-Ohlberg, Keith Layton, Konstantin Paus and Roy Sanchez for their contribution to this version
✔ Notepad: ◾ Add Images ◾ Add YouTube videos ◾ Menu items to collapse or expand all notes ◾ New editor menu items to add links to chords, scales, picking patterns
✔ Scale: ◾ New button to define scale favorite ◾ More scale favorites visible on large screens
✔ Songbook: internet search optimized
🐞 Editor made problems on some devices (song editor, lyrics pad, song writer, notepad)
🐞 Scale favorites: Drag’n’drop works again
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Anthony Steele-Perkins, Arjen Westdijk, Glenn Holmes, Jonathan Olson, Konstantin Paus, Lynne Whitehorn, Marcello Casali, Nick Gassman, Paul Schoonderwoerd and Victor Osaka for their contribution to this version
✔ Chord and Chord details: Option to display a resizable piano, which shows either the respective chord or fingering
✔ Chord dictionary: Add and remove chord types from favorites
✔ Chord name: Selecting a chord name will change the note names and intervals accordingly
✔ Songbook: ◾ Easily add songs from not supported web pages: Select the song text and use the context menu ‘Create song’ ◾ The elapsed scroll time is now the time taken to reach the current line
✔ Cloud folders are sorted by name
✔ Cloud- and File-explorer: Switch to the parent folder with the back key
? Cloud- and File-Explorer: Icons visible also on bright themes
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Ginger Hawkins, Henk Oostrom, Luiz Marcos, Marcel Brouillet, Martin P. Daniels and Paolo Ventafridda for their contribution to this version
✔ Songbook: ◾ The scrolling time is displayed in the upper right corner. By tapping it you can change the duration of the song ◾ By tapping on the seconds of the scroll delay you can change it ◾ Possibility to import songs from an arbitrary folder on Android 13 and newer ? Corrections for manual scrolling and optimization for auto-scrolling
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Abel Castilhos, Alberto Torres Gutiérrez, Dave Schneider, Davy Houpert, Henk Oostrom, Jesse Cabell, Sergio Jover, Stefan Heinze and Volker Kratschmann for their contribution to this version
