I have attached a file - a chord chart for What a difference a day makes. When I drag and drop it onto the companion, it seems ok. It shows the preview and puts it in the database, but when I disconnect, then try to view the file on my tablet, strange things happen.
Mostly, it shows the last song that I looked at instead, but sometimes it sits there blank, and other times it gives a message about the file content has changed (I have deleted it and re-uploaded it a few times) and sits there with the circle going around forever.
I grabbed a different new song, made a new text file, and uploaded that to Mobilesheets - just to prove it was working for other files - and ues, no problems. It is just this one. Is it the complicated chords causing problems?
I'll download it later and try it on my tablets.
For the moment, I can't see how the chords matter. They're not particularly complicated and it's not as though MSP is trying to play them. They are simply text, as far as the program knows. I the problem is more likely to lie elsewhere.
(02-17-2016, 11:52 PM)GraemeJ Wrote: [ -> ]I'll download it later and try it on my tablets.
For the moment, I can't see how the chords matter. They're not particularly complicated and it's not as though MSP is trying to play them. They are simply text, as far as the program knows. I the problem is more likely to lie elsewhere.
Given that it has to recognise the chords so it can transpose them later if requested, I thought it might have got caught up trying to parse them, that's all.
But this is a text file. Are you renaming it with a Chordpro extension before putting it into MSP?
(02-18-2016, 10:11 AM)GraemeJ Wrote: [ -> ]But this is a text file. Are you renaming it with a Chordpro extension before putting it into MSP?
No, and I don't need to for the dozen or so new files I have added since then either. Mobilesheets just accepts them, displays them properly AND let's me transpose them.
I'll look into this very soon - thanks for providing the file. I'll make sure whatever problems I find are fixed for the next update.
Here's an interesting thing.
I downloaded this file and dragged it into Companion, which was linked to my P900 and everything worked just as expected. It loaded into the tablet and displays correctly (even did a key change to check. I was a bit surpised by that, as I was under the impression that a .txt extension wouldn't work).
I then did the same thing with my (new) backup tablet, a cheap 10.1" model -
http://www.tinydeal.com/-p-150639.html - and although this links to Companion fine (and I had previously used this combination it to transfer my backup to the tablet) I could not even drag this file into Companion.
Both tablets run 4.4.2 and I am using the current version of MSP on both - obviusly Companion is also the current version.
The only possible conclusion is that there is something different, based on the tablet, but I can't begin tothink what that difference is, or why?
If it turns out to matter, my tablet is a Nexus 7".
Also, I did a few basic things - like shorten the filename, also added/removed white space at the top of the file. When it still behaved the same way, that's when I started to think there was something in the actual content, maybe the chords, that it could not cope with.
I don't use companion, but copying the file to the sdcard and use "import local file" works without problems.
I cannot reproduce any problems with that file. I also tested on a Nexus 7, and everything seems to work fine for me. I'll have you check it after the next update is released to see if anything has changed.
Mike