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s.mart Lyrics Pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists, and songwriters. It allows you to keep track of your ideas and provides a Word-Finder to help you find the right words. Whether you’re looking for a rhyme, synonym, antonym, or a word with a specific meaning, beginning, or end, the Word Finder has you covered. It supports English and Spanish and has databases with millions of words for these languages. You can also use keywords to organize your text.

• For your effective work the search results are sorted by their rating and the number of syllables sorted.
• Unfortunately, the Word Finder supports only English and Spanish. However, word databases with several million words are available for these languages.
• You can use keywords to better structure the text.
• Adjectives
• Antonyms
• Consonant match
• Homophones
• Kind of
• Part of
• Meanings
• Near rhymes
• Nons
• Synonyms
• Similar sounds
• Words by pattern
• Rhymes

BTW – The Word-Finder is also available in the Songbook and Notepad of smartChord: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.smartchord.droid

✔ Fretboard trainer: New option with which you have to specify chords for any fingering

✔ Tables of contents: New option to sort the items by the part of the name after the ‘-‘. This can be useful if you build your items e. g. according to the scheme ‘title – artist’ and want to sort by artist

✔ Songbook YouTube player: Changing the playback speed also affects the scrolling speed

? Lyrics pad: Word-finding result was sometimes not visible

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to David Sansó, Jens Martin, Manfredo Leitner, Philip A Edyvean, Richard Riley and Roland Schippmann for their contribution to this version

✔ Songbook:
▫ Possibility to import songs from an arbitrary folder on Android 11 and newer
▫ IP address for online tools is also visible when using large system fonts
▫ IP address also listed in the help

? Songbook editor: monospaced font

❀ Special thanks to Henk Oostrom, Max Welte and Tomasz Cichawa for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ Lyrics pad ⭐⭐⭐
▫ The new Lyrics pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists and songwriters. With it you’ll easily keep all your ideas and the Word-Finder will help you with the right words. No matter if you are looking for a rhyme, a synonym, an antonym or even a word with a certain meaning or beginning or end.
▫ Unfortunately, the Word Finder supports only English and Spanish. However, word databases with several million words are available for these languages.
▫ In a pre-release version for subscribers and UNLIMITED users
▫ For your effective work the search results are sorted by their rating and the number of syllables sorted
▫ You can use keywords to better structure the text
▫ You can easily print or share your lyrics
▫ The Word-Finder allows to search for:
◾ Adjectives
◾ Antonyms
◾ Consonant match
◾ Homophones
◾ Kind of
◾ Near rhymes
◾ Nons
◾ Part of
◾ Rhymes
◾ Similar sounds
◾ Synonyms
◾ Words by pattern

✔ Songbook: The Word-Finder can be used in the song edit screen too

✔ Notepad: The Word-Finder can also be used in the notepad edit screen

✔ Translations for all languages

? Songbook: transposition of slash chords

? Improved media search with just one character

? Problems to share files via GoogleDrive when changing the folder

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrea Bazzani, Michael Taube, Rudy Gamberini and Werner Albert-Schneider for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook:
▫ New option to transpose a song using the capo and keep the fingerings

▫ New option to enable swipe gesture left and right to switch to the next or previous song

▫ Directives to repeat blocks:
▫ ‘Block’ directives can be used to select a special block by naming it (e.g. {verse:Verse 1})
▫ Please see https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook/#Repeating_blocks
▫ Song editor menu with new items to repeat blocks

▫ Dependent on the ‘Songbook ‘mode’, relevant options are disabled (e.g. ‘Show chords’ in mode ‘Just chords’)
? Updated categories were not visible in the table of contents
? Open ‘Song analyzer’ didn’t select the current song of the songbook
? To change the metronome setting it was necessary to open the songbook again

✔ 22 new light and dark themes with the following colors:
◾ Alien
◾ Coral
◾ Cornflower
◾ Gold
◾ Grey
◾ Laurel
◾ Lavender
◾ Meteorite
◾ Mushroom
◾ Mustard
◾ Royal

▫ Dedicated screen for switching between the 36 themes – including a preview

? Some buttons did not show that they were disabled

✔ Other minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Gerrit Horeis, Luiz Fernando Laux, Luiz Marcos, Pete Koschnick and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

✔ Scale fretboard screen: The fretboard range can be changed if none of the ‘Pattern’ modes is selected

? Songbook: The ‘Printout’ color scheme is used again for printing

? Missing E in C Dominant 7th scale

? With some themes, the text of slide switches was hardly or not at all readable

✔ Other minor fixes

❀ Special thanks to Christ Deva, Harry V. Boggan, Henk Oostrom, Paji Can, Paul Schoonderwoerd and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook:
▫ Predefined color variants for the blocks (‘Verse’, ‘Chorus’,…)
▫ Preview screen for the color variants
▫ 21 predefined color variants for the dark mode
▫ 20 predefined color variants for the light mode
▫ 2 predefined color variants for the printout
▶ Our video shows how to make your songs more beautiful and clearer: https://youtu.be/okp1BFHFs0w

✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier:
▫ Option to show also the scales/keys which are not complete

✔ Song analyzer:
▫ Ability to enter a song text or edit it in the text editor
▫ Option to paste the song text from the clipboard
▫ New plugin app released: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.smartchord.droid.plus.songanalyzer

✔ Chord: Now you can also enter “add” and “dim” chords in the text field

? Create or edit an existing note in the notepad with a link to your item from each ‘Folder’ menu. Use it for instance to document your ideas about certain items.
▫ Chord progression
▫ Fretboard Trainer
▫ Metronome
▫ Pattern
▫ Playground
▫ Practice
▫ Set list
▫ Songbook
▫ Tone generator
? Chord progression: Adding a special fingering was not possible under certain conditions
? Songbook: Marking text did not work on some Android versions

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

▶ You can reach us on YouTube via the new YouTube alias @smartChord: https://www.youtube.com/@smartChord

❀ Special thanks to Charles Boehnlein, John Glass, Jod R. Leio, Lena Schütten, Roan Vandermeer and Tiemo Norman for their contribution to this version

✔ Circle Of Fifths and Scale Circle:
▫ Option to show the piano to visualize the chords
▫ Optimized sound: the chords are played as long as you tap the chord
▫ Option to enable playing chords
▫ Chord gallery, piano, staff and the circle are synchronized and the selection is visible

✔ New sound options for all instruments
▫ Acoustic Grand Piano
▫ Bright Acoustic Piano
▫ Electric Grand Piano
▫ Church Organ
▫ Reed Organ
▫ Rock Organ

✔ A further set of chord notations mainly used in South America

✔ Table of contents: Possibility to add categories

✔ Possibility to add single chords or chords from chord progressions and songs:
▫ Chord Progression
▫ Fretboard Trainer
▫ Key Identifier
▫ Scale Name

✔ Home screen: Instruments icon shows the currently selected instrument

? Drum Machine: Workaround for an Android bug on older devices

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Gerd Altmann, Joachim Grams, Louis Poels, Luiz Fernando Laux, Manuel Almonacid and Stefan Heinze for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer is released ⭐⭐⭐
⭐ New ‘Song analyzer’ detects the chord progressions and keys of every song
⭐ Write your songs based on the chord progressions of successful songs
▫ It analyzes the songs in your songbook or any other song found by the internet search
▫ It shows the set of chords and the key of a song
▫ It shows the chord progressions and also their keys
▫ It lets you create your chord progressions based on the ones detected
▶ Our video shows the use of the ‘Song analyzer’

⭐ A further set of chord notations mainly used in South America
▫ (#4), (11/b5), (11/b9), (13/#11), (13/b9), (4/7), (b13/b5), (b9/#5)
▫ 7(#11), 7(#9/#5), 7(11), 7(4), 7(9/#11), 7(9/#11/13), 7(9/#5), 7(9/11), 7(9/b5)
▫ 7(b5/#9), 7(b5/b13), 7(b5/b9), 7(b9/#5), 7(b9/13), 7+(#11), 7+(#11/13)
▫ 7+(#5), 7+(#9), 7+(11), 7+(13), 7+(13/#11), 7+(2), 7+(2/4), 7+(4), 7+(6), 7+(6/9)
▫ 7+(9/#11), 7+(9/#11/13), 7+(9/13), 7+(9/4), 7+(b5), 7+(b5), 7+(b9), 7+(b9), 7+(sus), 9(#11), 9(4)
▫ m(#11), m(#13), m(#4), m(#6), m(#9), m(11), m(13), m(2), m(2/4), m(4), m(6), m(6/11), m(6/9)
▫ m(7), m(7+), m(9), m(9/11), m(9/b5), m(b11), m(b11/b9), m(b13), m(b4), m(b5), m(b6), m(b7), m(b9)
▫ m(sus), m7(11), m7(4), m7(6), m7(9/#5), m7(9/11), m7(9/b5), m7(add4)
▫ m7(b5/b9), m7(b9/b5), m7+(#9), m7+(9), m7+(b9)
▫ They improve, among other things, the chord recognition in the songbook

✔ Songbook: Improved parsing of chord lines with brackets

✔ Synchronisation screens with uniform operation in terms of the cloud:
▫ Click on the ‘Folder’ button or the folder name to switch the folder
▫ Click on the cloud provider logo to switch between the cloud providers

? Cloud: Handling of invalid folder names

? Edit screen: Use of the floating action button crashed the app

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Alexey Molchanov, Emil Sinclair, Jonathan Olson, Luiz Fernando Laux, Martin P. Daniels, Nuno Moura and Steve Battig for their contribution to this version

⭐ A new set of chord notations mainly used in South America
▫ (#11), (#13), (#5), (#9), (b11), (b13), (b5), (b7), (b9)
▫ 11(b5), 11(b9), 4(7), 6(11), 6(9), 6(add9)
▫ 7(#5), 7(#9), 7(6), 7(9), 7(b13), 7(b5), 7(b9), 7+(9), 7/#9, 7/b9, 7M, 7sus(13), 7sus(9), 7sus(b9)
▫ 9(#5), 9(b5)
▫ augmented, b9(#5), dimb9, diminished
▫ j#9, j7, j7b5, j7sus, j7sus2, j7sus24, j7sus4, j9, jb9
▫ m#7#9, m#7b9, m(maj11), m(maj13), m(maj7), m(maj9), m6(9), m7(#9), m7(9), m7(b5), m7(b9), m7/b9/b5, m7M, mM7
▫ maj6, major, min, min11, min7, minor, sus24, sus42
▫ M, M(9), M11, M13, M6, M7, M7#5, M7#9, M7b5, M7b9, M7sus, M7sus2, M7sus24, M7sus4, M9, Mb9
▫ °#7, °11, °13, °9, Ø7
▫ They improve, among other things, the chord recognition in the songbook

✔ Improved synchronization:
▫ Synchronization can now be done in one step
▫ Comparison is done automatically
▫ The upload can be defined by an option
▫ The comparison result is shown as an overview view
▫ The detailed list with the items to be synchronized can be shown optionally
▫ The cloud provider can be selected in the general settings and in the settings of the synchronization
▫ The login and logout are also possible in these settings

✔ Songbook:
▫ Open ‘Song analyzer’ for the current song
▫ Menu restructured

▶ Our video shows the use of the Song Analyzer

✔ Table of contents: Timestamps are now hidden by default, but can be displayed using the new option

? Song synchronization: We accidentally changed the extension of the song file in the last update. It is now ‘sccrd’ again

? Chords: Link ‘Change filter’ was broken

✔ Minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andrew Mitterholzer, Bruce Reirden, Luiz Fernando Laux and Henk Oostrom for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer ⭐⭐⭐

The Song Analyzer detects the chord progressions and keys of any song.

It inspires songwriters and composers to write their own songs based on the chord progressions of successful songs.

▫ It analyzes the songs in the s.mart Songbook or any other song found in the internet search

▫ It shows the set of chords and the key of a song

▫ It shows the chord progressions and also their keys

▫ It let you create your chord progressions based on the ones detected

⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer ⭐⭐⭐
⭐ New ‘Song analyzer’ detects the chord progressions and keys of any song
⭐ Write your songs based on the chord progressions of successful songs
❗❗ It is a pre-release version that is limited to subscribers and UNLIMITED customers for the time being
▫ It analyzes the songs in your songbook or any other song found by the internet search
▫ It shows the set of chords and the key of a song
▫ It shows the chord progressions and also their keys
▫ It lets you create your chord progressions based on the ones detected

✔ Backup: Option to additionally store the backup in the cloud

✔ Choose chord: Allows to enter the complete chord name including slash chords

✔ General settings ‘Names’: New option to hide or show the octaves for the notes in the tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E or E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4)

✔ Table of contents: Pre assignment of the category dialog with the values of the selected items

✔ Set list: A changed duration of a break is deposited in the set list

✔ Songbook: internet search optimized

? Workaround for an Android bug: Popup menus do not appear for the first items in some lists e.g. in the Key Identifier

✔ A lot of other minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Chris Drexler, David Carv, Luiz Marcos, Martin P. Daniels and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version

? Workaround for incompatibilities on devices with Android 4.x
✔ Circle of fifths: Alignment to the traditional one
✔ Other minor improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Brigitte Laskowski, Cristian Navarrete, Glenn Weaver, Juan Tafur and Luiz Marcos for their contribution to this version

? Chord diagrams without chord names

❀ Special thanks to Christ Deva, David Morales and Harry V. Boggan for their contribution to this version

✔ Scale Name with context menu to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist

✔ Key Identifier with context menu to:
▫ investigate a key in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the key
▫ show the key in the Fretboard Explorer

✔ Circle of fifths:
▫ Menu item to show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen
▫ Menu item to add the chords to the current chord progression

✔ Optimized chord diagram size

✔ Songbook: Optimized TAB detection

✔ Corrected scale D Dorian b9: Contains A instead of Ab

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Christ Deva, Luiz Marcos, Michael Fischer, Scott Noroozi, Tobi Gelz and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version