BandHelper

* Added the ability to pin documents, recordings or MIDI presets to breaks or pauses using the Pinned to All Breaks and Pinned to All Pauses settings on the respective edit pages. To see buttons for the pinned items on the break or pause pages, you can turn on Settings > Advanced > Show Song Buttons on Breaks and Pauses. You can also call the pinned items from app control actions. When you pin documents to a break or pause, the break or pause name and details will appear initially, but you can use the document button or the next/previous document hot spots to view the documents. You can also display the break or pause name and details on the main screen and the pinned document on an external screen using Settings > General > External Display > Content > Doc +1. The Pinned filter on the Documents, Recordings and MIDI Presets lists will show items pinned to songs, breaks or pauses.

* Added a count off function to automatically start a recording or trigger other functions after some tempo clicks or flashes. This functionality was previously only available by creating an automation track for each song. To use this new approach, you can set Settings > App Control > Actions > Count Off to a trigger like Layout Actions > Song Selection, then set the actions you want to trigger to Layout Actions > Count Off Completion. Then set Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Tempo Options > Count Off Bars to the desired length, and make sure you have entered tempos for your songs. If you are starting recordings from a count off and a recording doesn't start on the downbeat, you can edit the recording and set the Pickup Length so the recording starts at the correct time before the downbeat.

• Fixed a problem where sliders on the Settings pages didn't save unless something else on the page was changed.

• Removed an extra row of labels from the first page of a shared set list.

• Fixed a problem where the Copy To Clipboard button on the Share Set List page became inactive after changing the output settings.

• Fixed a crash when sharing a smart list that is sorted by anything other than the Tags field.

• Fixed the transposing function when Settings > Appearance > Hide Parentheses In Chord Lines is on.

• Stopped reloading the current song when syncing after editing document annotations, to avoid scrolling the document to the top.

• Updated the View Document, Start Recording and Send MIDI functions to ignore the last selected item if it was a pinned item.

• When paging through lyrics with markers in a 2-column presentation, stopped when the last page is in the right column when there are an even number of pages.

• When playing the same video on the main screen and an external screen, muted the audio of the video playing on the main screen to avoid an out-of-phase sound effect.

• Updated the set list share function so that when column labels are on and a set spans multiple pages, the labels are repeated at the top of each page.

• Displayed the MIDI preset colors on the song edit page, the layout MIDI buttons and the automation track edit page.

• Added the recording controls to the More Buttons layout template and renamed the More Controls layout template to Expanded Buttons.

• Fixed problems when moving or changing the parent of a checklist item that has child items.

• Disabled the external display settings when the external display content is set to Mirror, to indicate that those settings aren't available when mirroring, and disabled the audio channel settings when multi-route audio is off.

• Improved the app responsiveness when opening an account or downloading missing files.

• Fixed the following of page positions set by an automation track on the lead device.

• Updated the Send Pinned MIDI 1-10 layout actions to run before the Send MIDI and Send MIDI 1-10 layout actions.

• Added Song Completion as a trigger for the Send Pinned MIDI 1-10 layout actions.

• Added Song Second Selection as a trigger for the Stop Recording and Stop Tempo layout actions.

• Fixed the sorting of songs by tag on the set list share pages.

• Stopped allowing accented characters in accountnames and usernames, since those are not supported on the website.

• Updated the pricing page with the current prices.

• Fixed the automation track paste function.

• Fixed a problem that hid the top toolbar when clicking the Sync button from the set list view.

• Fixed a problem that generated database errors after skipping some app version updates. If this already happened to you, you can click Help > Utilities > Update Database Version to apply the missing updates.

• Restored the Inter-App Audio functionality.

• Changed the Add Documents and Add Recordings buttons to initially open a New Document or New Recording window, but then you can click Add Existing Documents or Add Existing Recordings to add an item that is already in your account.

• Added a Color field to the MIDI preset edit page.

• Stopped broadcasting Live Sharing page positions while auto-scrolling unless Settings > Advanced > Broadcast Auto-Scroll Positions is turned on. Instead of using this setting, we recommend following remote control actions or layout gestures and using those to start auto-scrolling on the lead and following devices. Then auto-scrolling will run natively on each device, which is smoother and requires far less network traffic.

• Added error messages when using Live Sharing if it seems like the Local Network permission is turned off (apps cannot check this permission directly).

• Fixed a problem that caused the first bit of a recording to be skipped when leaving and returning to the app from the set list view and then playing a recording.

• Removed unwanted top toolbar buttons that appeared in the Accounts list when leaving and returning to the app.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes created an empty entry in the Accounts list. If you see an entry with no account name, just an Update Database button and a Settings button, you can click Settings > General and click the trash button to remove it.

• Added the list of currently configured app control triggers to the App Control Status window (formerly the Remote Control Status window).

• Added help tips about in-app help.

• Updated document buttons in the layout song list to access personal lyrics added by an Added Data user when the song has no shared lyrics.

• Updated some setting names and moved some complicated settings to the Settings > Advanced page.

• Tweaked the sync icon to make the up/down arrows more clear.

• When selecting a song linked to the next song in the set list, highlighted the link icon between the two songs.

• Stopped capitalizing the contents of the Lyrics field when previewing lyrics from the song edit page.

• Stopped aligning chords within bar lines in the Lyrics field.

• Disabled the annotations button for Added Data users who don't have personal annotations turned on.

• Fixed incorrect scroll positions when scrolling from remote control when the document viewer is displayed on an external screen but not the main screen.

• Updated the app control trigger picker to allow removing settings that were added in an earlier app version but are no longer available in the current app version.

• Removed an inconsequential keychain error that appears the first time you log into the app.

• Fixed the Help > Utilities > Update Stage Plots function.

• Moved Auto-Scroll Song List to the Settings > Advanced page.

• Turned off Settings > Advanced > Use Old Full-Screen Toggle. You can turn this on for a little longer, but if you are still opening full-screen documents over a split view layout, we recommend switching to a different layout before this option is finally removed.

• Fixed a too-large bounding box on the Notes and Contacts lists on stage plots.

• Fixed a problem that prevented updating your saved password in the app.

• Added a Color field to the smart list edit page.

• Added a Capitalize Lyrics setting to the Document Viewer layout item.

• Added Settings > Advanced > Skip Song Change Animation.

• Updated layout fields to show an additional partial word with ellipses instead of only showing the last whole word if the whole text doesn't fit.

• Fixed a problem that created gaps in the formatting or visible fragments of formatting tags when applying formatting to multiple paragraphs of text.

• Fixed a problem with the Send Tempo To BeatBuddy function that caused it to send before a program change to select a song, which would then load a different tempo.

• Displayed the Finance > Totals page as a one-column list on tablets when the window isn't wide enough to show a table.

• Fixed positioning issues when moving or rotating a group of stage plot items.

• Improved the behavior if you view a document or recording that is set to Copy To Devices Manually and has not been copied to the device.

• Fixed a problem where the wrong user was updated if you changed the users assigned to an event and then changed one of the user's responses without saving the event first.

• Updated the file syncing to try downloading a file again on the next sync if you add it to the website and then immediately sync the app before the file is available to download.

• Updated the encryption used to save your account password.

• Fixed a problem that stopped auto-scrolling on an external display.

• Stopped toggling the layout layers when tapping quickly on the document toolbar.

• Stopped trimming whitespace from the start of the Chords field when displaying it.

• Fixed the Select and Cancel buttons on a phone if you open a picker, then open another without selecting or canceling the first one.

• Fixed the incorrect positioning of the document tools button on a phone without a home button in landscape orientation.

• Fixed a crash with the month shortcut menu on the calendar page in accounts that upgraded from Basic to Plus or Pro.

• Added a requirement to set a start date if using the time or contact fields for a set list in Basic accounts.

• Fixed the option to clear an automation track from the automation button on iOS 17.

• Updated the automation functionality to do nothing, instead of viewing the first document or playing the first recording attached to a song, if the automation track requests a document or recording that is no longer attached to the song.

• Stopped disabling auto-scrolling if the document viewer's Hide Other Lyrics Sections is on but the current lyrics have no markers.

• Stopped starting auto-scrolling from an app control action if it should be disabled.

• Stopped triggering song selection actions after editing a layout.

• Fixed an incorrect layout size displayed in the email body when emailing a layout.

• Updated the layout export/import functions to include the Layering and Scalable settings.

• Reduced power usage to improve battery life if you lock your device from the set list view after playing a recording.

• Hid the Cover Top Toolbar option for the document viewer in layouts where the document viewer is not layered on top.

• Updated the Reset Text Size button in the document toolbar to immediately revert to the shared text size rather than the default text size if you are using personal text sizes.

• Updated the document annotation function to save automatically if you edit annotations and then leave the app without saving.

• Stopped a long press on a document toolbar button from triggering the lyrics highlighting function.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes disabled layout buttons that weren't overlapped by the document toolbar or didn't disable layout buttons that were overlapped by the document toolbar.

• Stopped triggering the chord divider line when clicking the area of the document toolbar that overlaps it.

• Stopped hiding the song list on song selection on Song List On Top layouts when song second selection actions are defined. In that case, the song list will hide on song second selection instead.

• Stopped triggering a double-tap gesture to close a full-screen document viewer while annotating the document.

• Stopped triggering a swipe gesture while pinch-zooming lyrics or chords.

• Fixed the incorrect placement of the marker if adding a marker to a document while the document is zoomed.

• Fixed a layout sizing issue on phones with a home button in landscape orientation.

• Fixed overlapping top toolbar buttons on smaller phones after rotating.

• Restored the ability to close the document viewer with a double-tap when opened from an edit page.

• Stopped labeling layouts as scaled in the Layouts list if they match the current device size but in the other orientation.

• Fixed a problem with the Select Next Song On Song Completion function when the song completion is determined by the song duration and no app control actions are set to Song Completion.

• Fixed a problem when clicking the "got it" button in a help tip.

! Added a Layering setting on the layout Edit Details page, with options to show the song list on top of the layout, the document viewer on top of the layout, both on top or neither on top (split view). This setting replaces the Show Initially setting for the song list and document viewer layout items and the Hide On Song Selection setting for the song list layout item. The song list is now always shown initially, and the document viewer is shown initially unless Layering is set to Document Viewer On Top or Both On Top. The song list now always hides on song selection when Layering is set to Song List On Top. This should make the layout layering options easier to understand and eliminate undesirable combinations of settings. The Layering setting will be set automatically based on the settings that it is replacing, but we recommend checking the behavior of your layouts after this update to make sure they have updated correctly.

• Added the Song Selection option for the Show Document Viewer and Hide Document Viewer app control actions, which replaces the Show On Song Selection and Hide On Song Selection settings for the document viewer layout item.

• Updated the Show/Hide Document Viewer app control actions to only work in layouts with the document viewer layered on top and updated the Show/Hide Song List app control actions to only work in layouts with the song list layered on top. This allows you to use those functions in layouts where they are useful, without affecting layouts where they wouldn't make sense.

! Changed the double-tap gesture in the set list view to toggle either the document viewer in Document Viewer On Top layouts or the song list in Song List On Top layouts. For Both On Top layouts, a double-tap will close the document viewer if it is open, or toggle the song list if it is not. (For Split View layouts, a double-tap will still switch the document viewer between the split view size and the full-screen size, although that capability will be removed in the future.) Also, the double-tap gesture is now recognized anywhere in the layout, not just in the middle of the document viewer. This change provides a simple and reliable way to navigate a layered layout, regardless of how the layout buttons or app control settings have been customized.

! Changed the lyrics highlighting function in the set list view to be triggered by a long-press anywhere on the document viewer instead of a double-tap on the left third of the document viewer.

* Updated the layout scaling functionality to scale layouts to both the screen width and height, to avoid letterboxing and pillarboxing when viewing on a device with a different aspect ratio.

• Stopped showing scalable tablet layouts as options on phones and vice-versa.

* Since the previous two changes make it much easier for everyone in your band to share one or a small set of layouts (minor differences in screeen sizes will no longer be noticeable), the Scalable setting is now on by default for new layouts. More significantly, the apps no longer create a set of standard layouts for each new user. Instead, no additional layouts will be created if an existing layout is already available for the user's device type (phone or tablet) and orientation (portrait or landscape), and just one layout for each orientation will be created if not. This will reduce the clutter the Layouts list and will reduce confusion about which layout to use. Note that layouts are still only assigned to the current user by default, so if you want to set up a layout for your bandmates, you will need to assign it to all users.

• Added a selection of layout templates when adding a new layout. These templates match the standard layouts that used to be all added automatically. You can also select None at the bottom of the list to start with an empty template as before.

* Replaced the document tools menu with a document toolbar that includes the same functions, plus some functions that are triggered by invisible hotspots, to make those functions easier to find. The new toolbar will remain open until you close it, so you can more easily access the same functions repeatedly if needed. It also incorporates the annotation tools, with a more streamlined design than the old annotation toolbar.

• Changed the help tips that appear for some functions to display repeatedly until you click the "got it" button. This gives new users more chance to read these before dismissing them. You can make all the help tips appear again by clicking Help > Utilities > Reset Help Tips.

• Updated the chord recognition function to evaluate the content in parentheses if a line consists only of content in parentheses.

• Updated the chord recognition function to use square brackets if they are included in the Chords field. (Square brackets are typically only used in the Lyrics field.)

• Eliminated a visual flash and the interruption of audio playback when rotating a phone.

• Stopped reloading the song when editing a song from the set list view when a recording loop position or speed is set.

• Stopped forcing a document to Fit To Height when viewing full-screen when the device orientation matches the document orientation. This allows you to see the current page and part of the next page on long displays. You can still turn on Fit To Height manually from the document toolbar to see only one complete page at a time. When you use Fit To Height, the up/down hotspots and the Previous/Next Screen app control actions will move a whole page at a time, like the Previous/Next Page actions. When you use Fit To Width, the up/down hotspots and the Previous/Next Screen app control actions may move more or less than a whole page at a time depending on how much of the page fits on the screen.

• Updated the document viewer to preserve the scroll position when hiding and showing.

• Updated the document viewer to pause video playback when hiding.

• Fixed a problem where the document viewer would become hidden if switching from a layout with a full-screen viewer to a layout with an embedded viewer.

• Fixed a spacing issue when pinch-zooming lyrics when the lyrics end with a bracketed chord.

• Closed the Notes popup when changing songs to avoid problems showing it on subsequent songs.

• Eliminated a double flash of the tempo button when sending MIDI beat clock messages when another device on the network is also sending beat clock messages.

• Fixed an inescapable name validation error when a Read Only user leaves a song edit page for a smart copy.

• Sped up the loading of songs in the set list view.

• Sped up the loading of the Quick Add popup in the set list view.

• Added song colors to the Quick Add popup in the set list view.

• Applied BandHelper's custom font to the bottom toolbar fields in the set list view. This font is slightly narrower and will allow more text to fit in these fields.

• BandHelper now requires iOS 12 or newer.

• Fixed a crash on launch on iOS 12.

• Updated the Settings > Appearance > Hide Parentheses Within Unbracketed Chords function to not interfere with chord transposing.

• Fixed a problem where updates might not download if you navigate back to the Accounts list while a sync is running.

• Added Settings > Appearance > Hide Brackets When Inline. When Settings > Appearance > Bracketed Chords is set to Inline, this hides the brackets themselves while still displaying the chords.

• Added Settings > Appearance > Hide Parentheses Within Unbracketed Chords. When placing non-chord text among unbracketed chords in the Lyrics or Chords field, this hides the parentheses themselves while still displaying the text. If you want parentheses to still appear around some text, you can add two sets of parentheses around it.

• Added Settings > Advanced > Use Old Chord Recognition to restore the functionality that allows unbracketed chords and unparenthesized non-chord text on the same lines. However, that functionality is still no longer supported, meaning bugs with it will not be fixed.

• Fixed a crash when rotating the device while viewing the main menu.

• Fixed a problem where the sync status didn't refresh if you changed the sync settings while a sync was running.

• Eliminated a small bit of incorrect background color when opening some popup windows on iOS 17.

• Updated the chord coloring and transposing functions to ignore text in parentheses when identifying lines of chords. You can use this to place directives like "(x2)" into a line of chords without interfering with these functions.

• Fixed the Sort Songs In Set function, which didn't show the sort options in the last version.

* Added Move After Song and Swap With Song functions to the song options button on the set list Edit Songs page.

* Added a popup menu to the tempo button in the set list view containing options to increase or decrease the current tempo by one bpm, set a new tempo by tapping the button five times, save the new tempo or reset the button to the saved tempo. You can increase, decrease or tap a new tempo while the existing tempo is playing, but the playback might not transition smoothly to the new tempo, so these functions aren't meant to be used while performing.

* Added a Tap Tempo app control action that you can trigger from a screen gesture or a remote control button. If you trigger this action five times in a row, the tempo button will start playing at the corresponding tempo. You do not need to select the Tap Tempo function from the button options first, but if you want to save the new tempo you can do that from the button options.

* Added Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Follow MIDI Beat Clock. If you turn this on, and send MIDI Beat Clock messages from another device, the tempo button will flash or play click sounds as it would if you were playing the local tempo. This function will ignore the saved tempo for the current song, and will work with songs that don't have any saved tempo. This function will also ignore subdivision settings for the current song. The external device must send a Start message at the beginning of the Beat Clock messages and a Stop message at the end.

• Improved the synchronization between outgoing MIDI messages, the tempo button flash and the click sound when using Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Send MIDI Beat Clock with Settings > Advanced > Use New MIDI Beat Clock.

* Added some default event settings to the event category edit pages. If you populate these, then set a new event to that category, the default settings will load onto that event page. The Current User setting means the event will be assigned only to the user who is creating the event, which is useful for "unavailable" events. You can override the category defaults after they load, and loading category defaults will not override event settings you have already entered.

* Added a Share page to the checklist menu to print or email a checklist.

* Added a Show As Roman Numerals option to the document tools menu. If you turn this on, chords you have entered into the Chords and Lyrics fields will be converted to Roman numerals when displayed. For this setting to work, you must have filled in the Key field on the song edit page. Major and minor keys are supported, but not other modes. The transpose buttons will be disabled while showing Roman numerals. This setting will remain on for all songs, until you turn it off by selecting Show Chord Names in the document tools menu.

! Changed the chord coloring and transposing functions to stop recognizing chords that are placed on the same line as lyrics text and not bracketed. This avoids problems with misidentifying chords. If you want to display chords within lyrics lines, you can put square brackets around them and set Settings > Appearance > Bracketed Chords to Inline.

! Added Settings > General > Defaults > Second Recording, which appears when Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Play Two Recordings Together is on. You can use this to specify any two recording positions to play together, instead of only playing the current and next recording together. When you play a recording other than the default recording, a second recording will not play.

• Split Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Delay Audio into separate settings for Delay Recording 1, Delay Recording 2 and Delay Tempo. You can now set these individually to synchronize multiple audio outputs or synchronize audio with outgoing MIDI data.

• Fixed a problem where empty lines in the Lyrics or Chords field would display instead of an attached document.

• Correctly showed unused Shares fields on the event edit page as empty instead of 0.

• Restored the sending of pinned MIDI presets before song MIDI presets when sending both from the same app control action.

• In the Settings > App Control > Actions > Common list, added Start Auto-Scroll and replaced Start/Stop Automation with Start Automation.

• Fixed a problem that prevented songs from loading in the set list view on older devices when Settings > Account Sync > Personal Sync > Notes is turned on.

• Fixed a problem that prevented the Notes button from appearing in the song list.

! Updated the notes display to include the shared notes followed by your personal notes if you are using the Personal Notes field. Previously, your personal notes displayed instead of the shared notes if both were entered. This change should reduce the need to add personal custom fields and add them to your layouts to view them. You can turn on Settings > Advanced > Don't Combine Personal and Shared to return to the previous functionality.

! Updated the annotations display to include the shared annotations along with your personal annotations if you are using the Personal Annotations field. Previously, your personal annotations displayed instead of the shared annotations if both were entered. Also, added separate Annotate (Shared) and Annotate (Personal) buttons to the document tools menu when you have permission to add both. These changes allow you to add annotations that everyone including you sees and annotations that only you see. You can turn on Settings > Advanced > Don't Combine Personal and Shared to return to the previous functionality.

• Fixed a problem where a user with Added Data access who added personal lyrics to a song with no shared lyrics wouldn't see the lyrics displayed. Now the lyrics will display as if they are first in the Documents list in this situation. To place the lyrics at a different position in the list, a user with full editing access must add some lyrics and then position them in the list.

• Fixed the web search buttons on the song edit page for users with Added Data access.

• Updated the back button in the set list view to show the song list if it was hidden from the layout or hide the document viewer if it was shown in a layer above the layout instead of navigating out of the set list view. To restore the previous functionality, you can turn on Settings > Advanced > Use Strict Back Button.

• Updated the Jump To Section button in the set list view to stop selecting the first song in the section it jumps to.

• Updated the recording player to reload the current recording if a song is reselected, unless the Continue Audio setting is on and the recording is playing.

• Added a request for microphone access the first time you use the in-app recording function.

• Updated the recording player to hide the audio waveform while making an in-app recording.

• Added a check to prevent saving an in-app recording without entering a name.

• Updated the new MIDI beat clock function to use output ports that you connect after navigating to the set list view.

• Fixed a problem that shifted the annotation positions when reloading a song with an attached photo.

• Cleared the display of shared annotations when editing personal annotations and restored the display of shared annotations when deleting personal annotations.

• Fixed formatting issues if you apply a color or background color to text that already has a color or background color.

• Fixed the live sharing Follow Actions function when connected to another device without a wi-fi router.

• Added error messages for additional Live Sharing network issues.

• Fixed a problem where the Song Completion actions would run prematurely after auto-selecting a song when Song Second Selection actions are set.

• Updated the automation button and automation controls to only allow recording or editing for users with Add Data editing access, Added Data editing access for songs they added, or Added Data editing access plus personal syncing of automation tracks.

• Updated the user shares field on the event edit page to remain empty by default (previously they would default to equal shares). If you don't want to use user shares for events, you can leave them empty. If you do enter user shares, even if you enter equal shares, users will see their share in event notifications (previously they would not see their share when using equal shares).