⭐ Songbook, Set List:

▫ Option to set the default number of characters per line for the Intelligent Line Break
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/songbook-user-interface/#intelligent-line-break

▫ Separate scale factors for use with Intelligent Line Break (ILB) enabled and disabled.
◾ These settings are intended to ensure that a song is displayed with maximum clarity and readability across different devices
◾ When synchronizing your songs between your devices
◾ When you get shared songs from your bandmate via Set-List-Link
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/use-a-song-on-different-devices/

▫ Familiar shorthand notation to define MIDI Commands
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/use-external-devices/#defining-midi-commands

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Henk Oostrom, Jens Martin, Rob Sektor and Robert Hilverth for their contribution to this version

⭐ Pattern Editor to create exercises

▫ Create exercises from custom scale patterns

▫ Create exercises from custom arpeggio patterns

▫ Edit scale patterns before creating exercises

▫ Edit arpeggio patterns before creating exercises

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/pattern-editor/pattern-editor-overview/

⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer

▫ New Quiz types:
◾ Identify Scale Degree
◾ Locate Scale Degree

▫ More qualified quiz name suggestion

❗ Fix for quizzes in low tone range

✔ Sync: Workaround for Android problems

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Craig Jackson, David Lingerak, Felipe Nobrega, John B. and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer

▫ New Quiz types:
◾ Identify Interval
◾ Locate Interval

▫ Quizzes allow more different output and answer components

▫ The piano input takes into account the instrument setting ‘Force root note’ when entering chords

▫ A lot of improvements and fixes

⭐ Ear Trainer: A lot of improvements and fixes

🎧 New podcast: https://smartchord.de/docs/getting-started/podcasts
◾ E57: smartChord – Ear Training Tutorial

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Claus Backhaus and John Rees for their contribution to this version

✔ Open at random:
◾ New item in the ‘Folder’ menu opens an item like a song or exercise at random
◾ Use it to break ingrained habits. It challenges you with unexpected exercises or songs
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/practice/open-at-random/

✔ Tuner:
◾ Cent added in the ‘Detailed’ mode
◾ Microphone gain adjustment (settings)
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/tuner/tuner-overview/#microphone-gain-adjustment

✔ Tuning Favorites:
◾ Possibility to add a capo to a favorite tuning
◾ Possibility to add a tuning multiple times with different capos

✔ Tuning List:
◾ Custom tunings are also listed
◾ The current tuning is pre-selected
◾ Button to select the standard tuning
◾ The current tuning is the template for a new custom tuning

✔ File explorer: Button to view the selected file

✔ Songbook: Improved chord detection

✔ New documentation
📖 How to run smartChord on Windows, Linux, Mac and Chromebook
📖 File Explorer

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Mike Ellis, Lanticina Emiliano, Olivier Pince, Sadicus and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

⭐ Set List

◾ Advanced algorithm for finding your PDF and image files

◾ Option to define a folder of your choice for your PDF and image files. This can greatly simplify the file handling and synchronization

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/using-pdf-and-image-files-in-set-lists/

◾ Set-List-Link: Improved stability

✔ New scales:
◾ Major sixth diminished
◾ Minor sixth diminished
◾ Dominant seventh diminished
◾ Dominant seventh flat fifth diminished

❗ Tuner behaviour change: The tuner now vibrates only when a tuning note is hit exactly

🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Changed accidentals in the settings were ignored in the notes input view

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Anke Kellermann, Craig Jackson, Christian Sylvoz, David Lingerak, Franky Ka, Henk Oostrom, Hubertus Gawinski and Lindsay Debb for their contribution to this version

⭐ Set List

◾ Play button to start or stop each Set List entry
▫ Available for Song, Image, PDF or Break
▫ Option to show or hide

◾ Possibility to specify a duration for a note. This can be useful when the note represents an activity — for example, giving a speech.

◾ The songbooks toolbar is fully accessible

◾ The first line of the notes is always visible

◾ The title bar shows the elapsed time since the Set List started

◾ Other improvements and fixes

🐞 PDF is scalable again

✔ Circle of Fifths: Piano is now fully playable

✔ Logbook:

◾ When calculating time, only periods during which the tool was actually active are taken into account

◾ A new logbook entry is created whenever you switch exercises

✔ Bouzouki tunings added:
◾ Tetrachordo: C3C4 F3F4 A3A3 D4D4
◾ Trichordo: D3D4 A3A3 D4D4

🐞 Table of contents: When assigning and filtering categories, the category values of all elements were preselected instead of only the values of the selected elements

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Barth Harrington, Franky Ka, Henk Oostrom, Nikos Karavasilis, Pr. Prom, Scott Noroozi and Tim Rice for their contribution to this version

⭐ Recycle Bin – Safety net for your data

◾ The Recycle Bin temporarily stores deleted items (songs, exercises, …), preventing accidental loss

◾ Restore one or more items

◾ Delete the items permanently

◾ Search deleted items by name

◾ Select multiple items for bulk actions

📖 Documentation

⭐ Support for 9-string custom tunings

✔ Piano:
◾ Option for standard-size piano with 88 keys

◾ Optimized range selection

✔ Songbook: The metronome and drum machine stop automatically after the song has been scrolled through

✔ If a tool has a mode, it is named in the title

✔ New predefined category ‘Status’: ‘◯ Not started’, ‘❌ Abandoned’, ‘🌱 Started’, ‘🔨 Basic’, ‘👍 Solid’, ‘✅ Mastered’, ‘⭐ Stage ready’

🎧 New podcasts:
◾ E55: smartChord – Logbook
◾ E56: smartChord – Tutorials

🐞 Utilizing the entire screen, especially in full-screen mode

🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Invisible notes and accidentals in the staff output view

🐞 Piano: The ‘C4’ was placed on ‘C3’

🐞 Playground: Full range of playground wasn’t possible on small displays

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Dave Clews, Diallo Mudd, Eugene, Heiko Sommer, Martin Schumacher, Matteo Tognin, Paul Schoonderwoerd, Pepe Moscosos and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

⭐ Logbook ⭐

◾ Button to jump from a Logbook entry directly back to the associated tool with its used item

◾ Filter for name and tool allows multiple selection

◾ Filter for the last day, week, four weeks, three months or year

◾ Jump forward or backward on the timeline

◾ Logbook can be opened from the navigation menu of a tool when the tool is configured to create logbook entries

◾ Statistics for the filtered Logbook entries

▫ Summary table

▫ Stacked chart to get the practice time per tool

▫ Stacked chart to get the practice time per exercise

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/logbook/logbook-overview/

🐞 Songbook: Last song could be unintentionally deleted, if an audio file was added right before a new song from the internet search was saved

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Gabry Ponte, Jens Strohman, Michele Gili and Stepan Heleste for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ Logbook ⭐⭐⭐

◾ The Logbook allows automatic and manual tracking of your practice, sessions, gigs or ideas

◾ You can choose which tools should use the logbook

◾ A new logbook entry is created automatically every time you start a tool

◾ Option to edit, augment or discard each entry before saving

◾ A Logbook entry records: date, duration, tool used, exercise name. You can optionally add notes, status, energy level and mood

◾ Create entries manually that are not tied to any smartChord tool e.g. for rehearsals or gigs

◾ Filter your entries by tool, name and time range

◾ Sync & cross-device support: Logbook entries are included in smartChord’s synchronization

◾ Statistics & charts will come soon

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/logbook/logbook-overview/

🐞 Set List: Some PDF files were not displayed on devices with large screens

🐞 Fretboard Trainer could freeze if a very small octave range was selected

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrea Petrone, Bruce Reirden, Henk Oostrom, Hubertus Gawinski, John Engelberd, Martin Heissenberger and Vanessa Wong for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ s.mart Tutorial Series ⭐⭐⭐

◾ Deeper Musical Understanding: This series moves beyond playing, ensuring you to truly understand the underlying structure and theory of music

◾ Maximize smartChord Tools: Learn to effectively use smartChord’s powerful features, such as the Ear Trainer and Fretboard Trainer, through practical exercises

◾ Structured Skill Development: The tutorials offer a step-by-step path to progressively build essential abilities like ear training and fretboard mastery

◾ Practical and Measurable Improvement: Benefit from targeted drills that directly sharpen your technique and expand your theoretical knowledge

⭐ The Ear Trainer Tutorial is the first in the series: It provides a structured, step-by-step path, ensuring you to achieve absolute fluency in recognizing every musical interval, which is the cornerstone for improved improvisation, composition, and transcription by ear

📖 https://smartchord.de/s-mart-tutorial-series/

⭐ Android Home Screen Widgets: You can add a widget for any tool directly to your home screen for instant access and even faster navigation

✔ Picking Pattern Trainer: Menu item ‘Show in Songbook’ opens the song with the same name

✔ Songbook: Improved chord detection

⌂ Home: Sort the home screen either ascending ‘A-Z’ or descending ‘Z-A’

🎧 Help: Listen to our podcasts in your browser if you don’t have the Spotify app installed (https://smartchord.de/docs/getting-started/podcasts)

✔ New Documentation:
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/arpeggio/arpeggio-overview/
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/metronome/metronome-overview/
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/picking-patterns/picking-patterns-overview/
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/playground/playground-overview/
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/practice/practice-overview
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/tone-generator/tone-generator-overview/

🐞 Chord Name: Optional notes of a chord were not marked in red

🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Determine the correct octave with the microphone

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Adam Brewer, Austin Geraci, Derek D. Lichter, Scott Noroozi and Vito Piscitelli for their contribution to this version

⭐ AI Assistant

◾ A brand-new AI Assistant is now available on smartChord.de! With the AI Assistant, you can:

▫ Get instant answers to your questions about smartChord and its tools

▫ Receive tips and explanations tailored to your musical needs

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/getting-started/ai-assistant/

⭐ Fretboard Trainer + Ear Trainer

◾ Option to determine the note within the correct octave

◾ Get the latest score of each quiz in the table of contents

◾ The answers to a quiz can be evaluated even before it has started

◾ Option to play intervals melodic, harmonic or random

◾ Option to enable octave transposition

🐞 Fretboard Trainer + Ear Trainer: A new quiz may have been created with invalid settings

🐞 Songbook: Import shared songs

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Daniel Murillo, Dmitry Prokopenko, Gerhard Ungersbaeck, Ulrich Biebel and Yasmin Weiß for their contribution to this version

⭐ Set List

◾ Attractive and well-organized printing and exporting of the set list

◾ New properties for clearer storage of information
▫ Band name
▫ Contact
▫ Equipment
▫ Preparation

◾ Improved editor for multi-line set list information

◾ Set List: Capo can be configured as information for an entry (https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/create-a-set-list/#configure-information)

✔ Android 16 compatibility

🐞 YouTube player fix: This video is unavailable (error code: 15)

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Dennis Xaine, Gerard Ross, Henk Oostrom, Michael Mazza and Sergei Nikiforov for their contribution to this version

YouTube recently made changes that affect the YouTube player we use in our app. The player is currently being updated to ensure compatibility. Once this is complete, we will prepare a new version and publish it in the Play Store.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

✔ Set List with ‘Stage Mode’:

◾ Activate the new ‘Stage Mode’ when using the Set List at a gig. This prevents you from being prompted to save changes to songs

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/use-a-set-list/#stage-mode

✔ Set List with improved printout and export

◾ Information are printed and exported as configured in the settings (https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/create-a-set-list/#configure-information)

◾ Option to print and export each entry on a separate page

◾ Images are now part of the printout

◾ Note entries can be part of the table of contents

◾ Optimized use of space

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/set-list/export-set-lists/

✔ Tone Generator

◾ Option to visualize the frequency

◾ Buttons to switch between the signal types: sine, sawtooth, square, triangle

◾ If a frequency exactly matches that of a note, the note name including its octave is displayed

◾ Menu item to show the frequencies of the current tuning

◾ Menu item to show the frequencies for the notes C4 – B4

📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/tone-generator/tone-generator-overview/

✔ A star (⭐) is added before the item name if you have marked the item as a favorite

🐞 Songbook maintenance: automatic maintenance for audio and video was cancelled without permission
📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/songbook/songbook-data-maintenance/#automatic-maintenance

🎧 Help: Contains links to the corresponding smartChord podcasts (https://smartchord.de/docs/getting-started/podcasts) in English and German
◾ E01: smartChord Overview
◾ E02: Getting started with smartChord
◾ E03: smartChord – Tools for Musicians
◾ E04: smartChord – Instrument variety and individual customization
◾ E05: smartChord – Tunings
◾ E06: smartChord – Musical naming
◾ E07: smartChord – Customizable look and design
◾ E08: smartChord – Toolbar
◾ E09: smartChord – Settings
◾ E10: smartChord – Save and organize
◾ E11: smartChord – Sharing content
◾ E12: smartChord – Synchronization
◾ E13: smartChord – Cloud
◾ E14: smartChord – Backing up and restoring
◾ E15: Getting started with the s.mart Songbook
◾ E16: Introduction to the s.mart Song Writer
◾ E17: smartChord – Chords
◾ E18: smartChord – Fingerings
◾ E19: smartChord – Chord inversions
◾ E20: smartChord – Chord name a reverse chord finder
◾ E21: smartChord – Simplify chords
◾ E22: smartChord – CAGED system
◾ E23: smartChord – Diatonic chords
◾ E24: smartChord – Chord Pad
◾ E25: smartChord – Circle Of Fifths
◾ E26: smartChord – Scale-Circle
◾ E27: smartChord – Drum Machine
◾ E28: smartChord – Ear Trainer
◾ E29: smartChord – Fretboard Explorer
◾ E30: smartChord – Fretboard Trainer
◾ E31: smartChord – Instrument Translator
◾ E32: smartChord – Key Identifier
◾ E33: smartChord – Lyrics Pad
◾ E34: smartChord – Notepad
◾ E35: smartChord – Piano
◾ E36: smartChord – Scales
◾ E37: smartChord – Song Analyzer
◾ E38: smartChord – Triads
◾ E39: smartChord – Tuner
◾ E40: smartChord Songbook – Functional overview
◾ E41: smartChord Songbook – Get new songs
◾ E42: smartChord Songbook – Chords and fingerings
◾ E43: smartChord Songbook – Song presentation
◾ E44: smartChord Songbook – User interface and operation
◾ E45: smartChord Songbook – Edit songs
◾ E46: smartChord Songbook – Scrolling
◾ E47: smartChord Songbook – For singers
◾ E48: smartChord Songbook – Import songs
◾ E49: smartChord Songbook – Organize songs
◾ E50: smartChord Songbook – Appearance
◾ E51: smartChord Songbook – Present your songs to your audience
◾ E52: smartChord – Set List
◾ E53: smartChord Song Writer – How to use
◾ E54: smartChord Song Writer – How to write a song

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Artyom Donka, Barth Harrington, Bernie B., Bostjan Jadrat, Bruce Reirden, Gerrit Horeis, Henk Oostrom, Marcello Casali, Richard G. Riley and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

⭐ 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