Bring Back The Beat

After several years helping recipients to appreciate music the Bring Back the Beat™ app has been retired and will be removed from all app stores. You can find alternate music rehabilitation resources here:
*North America: https://www.cochlear.com/us/en/campaign/bring-back-the-beat
*Australia & New Zealand: https://www.cochlear.com/au/en/home/ongoing-care-and-support/rehabilitation-resources/bring-back-the-beat

Overall:
- Update to navigation: Sign now clickable as well as activities clickable in the activity section.
- Reset Progress Account functionality in settings: Allow the user to reset their overall progress.
- Download assets functionality in settings
- Sound Mute Detection: Alert notifying users their mobile device sound is muted

Octavia:
- Minor bug fixes around scoring system

Our team has laid the groundwork for localisation to other regions and languages, so we can speak to people right across your world and bring them into ours. Music is a universal language we can all learn to appreciate.

Hi! It’s Maestro here with news and updates from the world of Harmony.
 
COMMUNITY CHALLENGES
We’ve added Community Challenges to help you earn extra stars and bring music back to our world. Challenges are available every day, across every activity in Harmony. Whether you want to play instruments from the Euphony tree or explore levels in Octavia, we’ll reward you at every milestone. Look for the trophy icons to track your progress. Challenges get tougher the more you complete, so keep challenging yourself and climb the leaderboard!

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
You might start to see survey questions as you explore. We want to know if Bring Back the Beat is helping you, so we can improve it and bring more people to the world of Harmony. We’re always listening.

GOING GLOBAL
Our team has laid the groundwork for localization to other regions and languages, so we can speak to people right across your world and bring them into ours. Music is a universal language we can all learn to appreciate.

ENCOURAGING WORDS
I (that’s me, your friend Maestro) will be sending Notifications now and then to your device. Because I want to see more of you! I’ll bring tips and reminders from the world of Harmony, so you can see how far you’ve come and decide the next steps on your hearing journey. Sometimes we all need a bit of encouragement, right?

SPOTIFY UPDATES
We’ve improved Repertoire with the help of Richard Reed, professional musician and CI recipient. He’s refined our Spotify recommendations and even created a custom playlist designed for recipients. Listen to a range of artists from Mozart all the way to Johnny Cash. Definitely worth checking out.

G'DAY AND KIA ORA
Bring Back the Beat will soon officially launch in Australia and New Zealand. Nice!
 
That’s all for now. I have to get down to the concert hall, there’s a great band playing tonight. Come back to Harmony soon! - Maestro

Overall:
* Updates to the way content is delivered to a user to overcome a bug where by the content download was freezing
* Update to the treatment of the feedback button in Help items
* Fix for Nucleus®7 Sound Processor streaming issue

Quizzical
* Removal of the reporting button
* Update to quiz questions in the Music Mastery category

Repertoire
* Update to the day label where it was displaying upside down

OVERALL
* New tutorial videos across all activities.
* Tutorial videos added to Help Items.
* New Checklist Feature.
* Updated Music Appreciation Survey.
* Updated UI for Registration.

EUPHONY
* Update to progression. Completion of an instrument requires 7 unique tracks to be listened to.

General
* Authentication Bug Fix
* Updated Login Design

General
* New world items: Signpost to show swipe directions to activities
* Updated Terms & Conditions

Repertoire
* Users can now disconnect their Spotify accounts
* Some visual changes

Help
* Feedback form added to help section
* Link to learn about Cochlear and Music
* New help item about mute buttons

- Updated Quizzical trivia and question content to improve user experience
- Octavia now has a lives system and longer levels, with new level designs
- Concerteer tracks remixed to improve user experience
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements

New in this update:
•New Activity: Octavia
•New Activity: Repertoire
•New "help" feature: Drop down contextual help within activities
•Leaderboards
•Euphony now has a report button to flag any unusual sounds
•Quizzical now has a report button to flag questions
•Updates quiz questions in Quizzical
•Updated Concerteer progression linked to Level

* Euphony sound optimisation - addressed issues with n7 streaming and overlapping sounds.
* New animations within the world.
* Increased track list for the Concerteer including new genres.
* Removed ambient sounds of the world.

In this version of Bring Back the Beat there are a number of important changes and additions:

OVERALL
New voice over and updated instructions
Stars now count towards levels
New star and level up animations
A number of small improvements based on user feedback - thank you!
Bug fixes and performance improvements

EUPHONY
Play any melody with any instrument
Switch instruments and melodies quickly and easily
Collect Stars as you 'complete instruments'

QUIZZICAL
Updates to design
Bug fixes and performance improvements

CONCERTEER
A completely new set of music, with more to follow soon
A new audition process, you get to see the bands play
Clearer difficulty progression, with fewer bands to audition at the start
Clearer purpose
Collect stars as concerts are performed
More and better feedback

However, because there have been so many changes and additions, all user progress will be reset. Sorry about that.