10-29-2024, 10:20 AM
While I'm a little late, I want to finally post the release notes for all of the version 3.9.X updates that have been released over the last month. I have also created a webpage detailing some of the highlights of version 3.9 here: https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/news/version3-9/
My plan is to create pages for each major release to detail some of the bigger changes so that users can see examples in an easier fashion. The release notes can be seen below. I have not included the release notes for the major companion app redesign, but I can also post those if anyone needs them. The latest companion app update as of this posting is 4.0.10.
Android v3.9.4
I still have some 3.9.X updates I will release before starting work on 3.10.0, as I still have some chord pro changes to deliver, improvements to the ABC support to make and I need to finish the Linux and MacOS versions of the companion app.
Mike
My plan is to create pages for each major release to detail some of the bigger changes so that users can see examples in an easier fashion. The release notes can be seen below. I have not included the release notes for the major companion app redesign, but I can also post those if anyone needs them. The latest companion app update as of this posting is 4.0.10.
Android v3.9.4
- Fixed issues with fixed page sizes not scaling correctly across devices
- Added library backup reminder feature. The interval between reminders can be configured on the main settings screen.
- MobileSheets will now automatically reload the last viewed song or setlist if the app is reloaded due to a device configuration change
- Added significant optimizations for printing PDFs. The print preview should now render considerably faster.
- Fixed bug with overlay being shown with performance mode enabled when accessing the audio player
- Fixed issue with repeat mode not working if the last song in a setlist only had a single page
- Fixed issue with incorrect handling of window decor on the switch library screen
- Fixed issue with last used color filter not being correctly saved and applied when using the camera feature
- Updated msf format to include missing chord pro fields
- Fixed issue with annotations not being updated after changing a fixed page size
- Added missing rest symbols in the Jazz stamp section. Users must tap a stamp twice and select "Reset all lists" to access these.
- Fixed issue when using the automatic scrolling feature in combination with a fixed duration scroll and vertical scrolling that could lead to slower scrolling on the last page
- Window decor is now hidden by default. This can be changed under the Display Settings.
- Updated to latest AirTurn library to fix crashes when accessing the AirTurn Direct Mode screen
- Fixed issue with importing .msf.txt files that contain an underscore and number after the .msf
- Modified conditional song title formatting with duration so that durations with 0 seconds are considered as an empty value
- Fixed issue with exporting a very large file to an SD card that could cause an "application not responding" warning
- Audio files in the song editor can now be long pressed to show the file path like on the Files tab
- The Goto Next Bookmark pedal action can now turn between bookmarks of each song in a setlist
- Fixed issue with using the clear library feature where song files would be incorrectly deleted if "Let MobileSheets Manage my Files" was unchecked
- Fixed issues with fixed page sizes not scaling correctly across devices
- Fixed issue with metronome being offset incorrectly on some devices
- Added library backup reminder feature. The interval between reminders can be configured on the main settings screen.
- Fixed bug with overlay being shown with performance mode enabled when accessing the audio player
- Fixed issue with repeat mode not working if the last song in a setlist only had a single page
- Fixed issue with incorrect handling of window decor on the switch library screen
- Updated msf format to include missing chord pro fields
- Fixed issue with annotations not being updated after changing a fixed page size
- Added code to handle scenario with synchronizing to a shared OneDrive folder that maps to a different drive ID and item ID for different accounts
- Added missing rest symbols in the Jazz stamp section. Users must tap a stamp twice and select "Reset all lists" to access these.
- Fixed issue when using the automatic scrolling feature in combination with a fixed duration scroll and vertical scrolling that could lead to slower scrolling on the last page
- Fixed issue with importing .msf.txt files that contain an underscore and number after the .msf
- Modified conditional song title formatting with duration so that durations with 0 seconds are considered as an empty value
- The Goto Next Bookmark pedal action can now turn between bookmarks of each song in a setlist
- Added correct handling of the future access list if many files are linked to using smart buttons. If the list is full, a previous file link must be removed.
- Fixed issues with fixed page sizes not scaling correctly across devices
- Fixed connection issues with the companion application
- Added library backup reminder feature. The interval between reminders can be configured on the main settings screen.
- Fixed bug with overlay being shown with performance mode enabled when accessing the audio player
- Fixed issue with repeat mode not working if the last song in a setlist only had a single page
- Fixed issue with last used color filter not being correctly saved and applied when using the camera feature
- Updated msf format to include missing chord pro fields
- Fixed issue with creating smart buttons linked to external files on macOS
- Fixed crash that could occur when changing the start slider on the audio tab or when skipping to a position in a track while it is stopped or paused
- Fixed issue with annotations not being updated after changing a fixed page size
- Added missing rest symbols in the Jazz stamp section. Users must tap a stamp twice and select "Reset all lists" to access these.
- Fixed issue when using the automatic scrolling feature in combination with a fixed duration scroll and vertical scrolling that could lead to slower scrolling on the last page
- Fixed issue with importing .msf.txt files that contain an underscore and number after the .msf
- Modified conditional song title formatting with duration so that durations with 0 seconds are considered as an empty value
- Audio files in the song editor can now be long pressed to show the file path like on the Files tab
- The Goto Next Bookmark pedal action can now turn between bookmarks of each song in a setlist
- Fixed annotation toolbar highlight issue that could occur when using an Apple Pencil that supports hovering
- Fixed issue with incorrect text coloring on the library screen when captions are hidden and the dark theme is enabled
- Added new display setting to control whether window decor is hidden allowing MobileSheets to expand over system bars
- The new setting fixes issues with an undesired bar at the top of the screen on some devices like the Lenovo P12
- Fixed issue with pedal actions triggering link points offscreen when using the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed handling of character encodings with abc files
- Fixed bug with exporting setlists into a joined file with a forward slash in the name
- Song metadata is now updated when "Extract PDF Metadata" is enabled and an existing song is updated while importing a PDF
- Custom sort title can now be extracted from PDF Metadata using SortTitle or sortTitle
- Fixed potential issue with the "Scroll Down or Turn Page if at Bottom" pedal action not working when using with the half page display mode
- Fixed issue with pedal actions triggering link points offscreen when using the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed handling of character encodings with abc files
- Fixed bug with exporting setlists into a joined file with a forward or backward slash in the name
- Song metadata is now updated when "Extract PDF Metadata" is enabled and an existing song is updated while importing a PDF
- Custom sort title can now be extracted from PDF Metadata using SortTitle or sortTitle
- Fixed potential issue with the "Scroll Down or Turn Page if at Bottom" pedal action not working when using with the half page display mode
- Added additional code to handle OneDrive tokens expiring after 60 minutes
- Fixed issue with the additional filters dialog not working properly
- The MIDI tab will now display input and output ports with their display friendly name
- Fixed issue with text display settings dialog be accessible with .abc files
- Fixed issue that occurs with future print jobs if a print job is canceled before the connection to a network printer has finished
- Fixed rendering issues with some PDFs
- Fixed issues with chord pro files not loading correctly in some situations
- Significantly improved handling of large imports with the companion app
- Fixed issue with Genos/SX600/700/900 linking functionality not working properly in some situations
- Fixed issue with pedal actions triggering link points offscreen when using the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed bug with exporting setlists into a joined file with a forward slash in the name
- Song metadata is now updated when "Extract PDF Metadata" is enabled and an existing song is updated while importing a PDF
- Custom sort title can now be extracted from PDF Metadata using SortTitle or sortTitle
- Fixed potential issue with the "Scroll Down or Turn Page if at Bottom" pedal action not working when using with the half page display mode
- Fixed character encoding issues with abc files
- Fixed potential issue with constant cpu usage when "Use advanced audio player" was unchecked even without audio playing
- Fixed issues with the page size dialog. Additional changes are coming to fix scaling issues across devices when using fixed page sizes
- Fixed crash that occured when audio files finished playing
- Fixed issue with library window not collapsing or closing (if configured to do so) when loading songs in setlists
- Fixed issue with physical keyboards not working
- Fixed issue with face gestures not working properly
- Fixed crashes with some chord pro files
- Fixed issue with using the dark theme in combination with the option to skip viewing groups with one song
- Fixed reported crashes
- Fixed issue with the app not loading properly for some users
- Fixed audio playback issues that occurred with iOS 18
- Added support for ABC files to dynamically generate sheet music
- Added support for chord grids in ChordPro files along with new settings for their size and colors
- Added support for ABC sections in ChordPro files
- Added new setting to control whether lowercase chords are allowed in ChordPro files
- Updated camera and image processing library to get latest fixes and enhancements.
- The camera and image correction user interface now supports an automatic color filter which calculates the correct filter based on the image properties.
- Added support for fixed page sizes with text, ChordPro and abc files. This will solve issues with ensuring consistent layouts across devices.
- Note that current annotation positions and scaling will be impacted if switching to a fixed page size
- Updates to support version 4.0.0 of the companion app which has an entirely new user interface and updated features
- Added text size option for the text editor in the overflow menu
- Fixed issue with keyboard handling on MacOS
- Fixed issues with using volume buttons to trigger actions
- Fixed issue with importing msf files where files could fail to load under certain conditions until MobileSheets is closed and restarted
- Fixed issue with personal OneDrive account errors with synchronizing and exporting
- Fixed issue with synchronizing and backing up to OneDrive where the connection could fail if it took a large amount of time
- Fixed bug with OneDrive where failures could occur when querying for files under a folder in some situations
- The page slider now shows up with a border and text with the overlay. If the page slider is always shown, the text and border will fade out when the overlay is dismissed
- Fixed issue with pedal actions being incorrectly sent when using book mode with the connect tablets feature, which could impact proper page turning
- Fixed issue where filter dialogs could be incorrectly triggered by a pedal while viewing a score
- Added new setting to control whether titles are extracted from PDF metadata while importing
- Tabs in song titles are now replaced with a single space to avoid errors
- Fixed crescendo and decrescendo touch action processing so that they don't flip incorrectly when tapping or making small movements
- The edit bar is now correctly hidden if all annotations are cleared in the annotations editor
- Fixed bugs with creating and renaming layers with existing layers on other pages with identical names
- Fixed bug with the action to turn two pages forward or backward with the vertical scrolling display mode
- The setting to prevent song changes with a pedal now works properly with the vertical scrolling display mode
- The audio player previous track button now operates like most other audio players where it first skips to the start, then to the previous track if pressed again
- The * and # characters are no longer ignored and considered punctuation when sorting. Song titles starting with those characters will be placed in the # section.
- Fixed handling of # character in the filter dialogs alphabet lists
- Fixed layout issues with the audio player settings dialog which prevented access to the bottom most setting
- MobileSheets now ignores last modified timestamps while synchronizing in order to determine differences and just uses the saved file hashes
- Automatic scrolling is now properly stopped when entering the annotations editor
- Fixed issue with automatic scrolling where the scrolling would not work correctly if triggering a link point while the scrolling is waiting to start
- Scrolling now correctly skips the pause if triggering a link point in the middle of scrolling
- Fixed issue where PDF hyperlinks would not work correctly with rotated pages
- Fixed potential issue with the Genos linking command in certain situations
- Fixed dropdown height when selecting touch actions
- The audio tab now correctly respects the audio player setting to show artists with titles
- Improved handling of Google Drive files with multiple versions
- Fixed bug with the overlay popup menu for the bottom left second icon not working properly for non-pdf files
- Fixed bug with identifying the equality of Genos system exclusive commands
- Fixed handling of alphabet list letters with certain languages. The first character of a title is now correctly ignored in some situations.
- The text editor now correctly ignores -, | and terms like x4 when transposing chords
- The radial menu will now correctly show the selected stamp type color
- The eraser tool now respects the "snap to grid" setting
- Added option to the MIDI settings to reset the network session
- Fixed issue with some stylus hover events while annotating
- Fixed synchronize library layouts to correctly use the available screen space
- Mouse button presses are no longer treated as pedal presses in the annotation editor when stylus mode is disabled
- Fixed bug with renaming groups in the group editor user interface
- Fixed bug with incorrect handling of night mode with stamps
- Fixed bugs with display locale handling with ChordPro files
- Fixed potential issues with library window alphabet list when using night mode or the dark theme
- Fixed bug when using the same page from a PDF multiple times with different rotation for each instance of that page
- Fixes for various potential crashes
- Added support for ABC files to dynamically generate sheet music
- Added support for chord grids in ChordPro files along with new settings for their size and colors
- Added support for ABC sections in ChordPro files
- Added new setting to control whether lowercase chords are allowed in ChordPro files
- Updated camera and image processing library to get latest fixes and enhancements.
- The camera and image correction user interface now supports an automatic color filter which calculates the correct filter based on the image properties.
- Added support for fixed page sizes with text, ChordPro and abc files. This will solve issues with ensuring consistent layouts across devices.
- Note that current annotation positions and scaling will be impacted if switching to a fixed page size
- Updates to support version 4.0.0 of the companion app which has an entirely new user interface and updated features
- Added text size option for the text editor in the overflow menu
- Fixed issue with personal OneDrive account errors with synchronizing and exporting
- Fixed issue with synchronizing and backing up to OneDrive where the connection could fail if it took a large amount of time
- Fixed bug with OneDrive where failures could occur when querying for files under a folder in some situations
- Fixed bug with fullscreen mode handling
- The page slider now shows up with a border and text with the overlay. If the page slider is always shown, the text and border will fade out when the overlay is dismissed
- Fixed issue with pedal actions being incorrectly sent when using book mode with the connect tablets feature, which could impact proper page turning
- Fixed issue where filter dialogs could be incorrectly triggered by a pedal while viewing a score
- Fixed dark theme/night mode handling that caused performance issues on Chromebook devices
- Added new setting to control whether titles are extracted from PDF metadata while importing
- Tabs in song titles are now replaced with a single space to avoid errors
- Improved handling of two finger panning
- Fixed crescendo and decrescendo touch action processing so that they don't flip incorrectly when tapping or making small movements
- The edit bar is now correctly hidden if all annotations are cleared in the annotations editor
- Fixed bugs with creating and renaming layers with existing layers on other pages with identical names
- Improved stylus button handling in the annotations editor
- Fixed bug with the action to turn two pages forward or backward with the vertical scrolling display mode
- The setting to prevent song changes with a pedal now works properly with the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed issues with the switch library user interface which now correctly uses the available screen space
- The audio player previous track button now operates like most other audio players where it first skips to the start, then to the previous track if pressed again
- The * and # characters are no longer ignored and considered punctuation when sorting. Song titles starting with those characters will be placed in the # section.
- Fixed handling of # character in the filter dialogs alphabet lists
- Fixed issue with the action bar dropdown positioning if the device is rotated while it is shown
- Fixed issue with the email dialog to contact support on some devices
- MobileSheets now ignores last modified timestamps while synchronizing in order to determine differences and just uses the saved file hashes
- Socket timeout has been increased to 30 seconds when using the "Connect Tablets" feature to prevent dropouts on some devices such as E-Ink tablets.
- The longer socket timeout means MobileSheets will be slower to recognize a broken connection in certain situations
- Fixed with changing smart button size where the size wouldn't be correctly saved
- Fixed a few bugs with the face gesture feature where the preview wouldn't work if gestures were disabled and not initialized
- Automatic scrolling is now properly stopped when entering the annotations editor
- Fixed issue with automatic scrolling where the scrolling would not work correctly if triggering a link point while the scrolling is waiting to start
- Scrolling now correctly skips the pause if triggering a link point in the middle of scrolling
- Fixed issue where PDF hyperlinks would not work correctly with rotated pages
- Fixed potential issue with the Genos linking command in certain situations
- The audio tab now correctly respects the audio player setting to show artists with titles
- Updated license check code. License information will be reauthenticated when first running the app
- Improved handling of Google Drive files with multiple versions
- Fixed bug with the overlay popup menu for the bottom left second icon not working properly for non-pdf files
- Fixed issue with the "My Files" storage in ChromeOS. It will no longer show up when selecting a destination to save files, as it is read-only
- The sort dialog in the file browser now uses tinting to show current sort order selection
- Fixed bug with identifying the equality of Genos system exclusive commands
- Fixed handling of alphabet list letters with certain languages. The first character of a title is now correctly ignored in some situations.
- The text editor now correctly ignores -, | and terms like x4 when transposing chords
- The radial menu will now correctly show the selected stamp type color
- The eraser tool now respects the "snap to grid" setting
- Fixed bug with renaming groups in the group editor user interface
- Fixed bug with incorrect handling of night mode with stamps
- Fixed bugs with display locale handling with ChordPro files
- Improved font/typeface handling across different OS versions
- Fixed some dialogs such as the page scaling dialog to allow canceling by tapping outside of it
- Fixes for various potential crashes
- Added support for ABC files to dynamically generate sheet music
- Added support for chord grids in ChordPro files along with new settings for their size and colors
- Added support for ABC sections in ChordPro files
- Added new setting to control whether lowercase chords are allowed in ChordPro files
- Added support for fixed page sizes with text, ChordPro and abc files. This will solve issues with ensuring consistent layouts across devices.
- Note that current annotation positions and scaling will be impacted if switching to a fixed page size
- Updates to support version 4.0.0 of the companion app which has an entirely new user interface and updated features
- Added text size option for the text editor in the overflow menu
- Fixed issue with personal OneDrive account errors with synchronizing and exporting
- Fixed issue with synchronizing and backing up to OneDrive where the connection could fail if it took a large amount of time
- Fixed bug with OneDrive where failures could occur when querying for files under a folder in some situations
- The page slider now shows up with a border and text with the overlay. If the page slider is always shown, the text and border will fade out when the overlay is dismissed
- Fixed issue with pedal actions being incorrectly sent when using book mode with the connect tablets feature, which could impact proper page turning
- Fixed issue where filter dialogs could be incorrectly triggered by a pedal while viewing a score
- Added new setting to control whether titles are extracted from PDF metadata while importing
- Tabs in song titles are now replaced with a single space to avoid errors
- Fixed crescendo and decrescendo touch action processing so that they don't flip incorrectly when tapping or making small movements
- The edit bar is now correctly hidden if all annotations are cleared in the annotations editor
- Fixed bugs with creating and renaming layers with existing layers on other pages with identical names
- Fixed bug with the action to turn two pages forward or backward with the vertical scrolling display mode
- The setting to prevent song changes with a pedal now works properly with the vertical scrolling display mode
- The audio player previous track button now operates like most other audio players where it first skips to the start, then to the previous track if pressed again
- The * and # characters are no longer ignored and considered punctuation when sorting. Song titles starting with those characters will be placed in the # section.
- Fixed handling of # character in the filter dialogs alphabet lists
- Updated OneDrive libraries to get latest fixes and improvements
- MobileSheets now ignores last modified timestamps while synchronizing in order to determine differences and just uses the saved file hashes
- Automatic scrolling is now properly stopped when entering the annotations editor
- Fixed issue with automatic scrolling where the scrolling would not work correctly if triggering a link point while the scrolling is waiting to start
- Scrolling now correctly skips the pause if triggering a link point in the middle of scrolling
- Fixed issue where PDF hyperlinks would not work correctly with rotated pages
- Fixed potential issue with the Genos linking command in certain situations
- Updated PDF library which will now handle line thickness better in some PDFs
- The audio tab now correctly respects the audio player setting to show artists with titles
- Improved handling of Google Drive files with multiple versions
- Fixed bug with the overlay popup menu for the bottom left second icon not working properly for non-pdf files
- Fixed bug with identifying the equality of Genos system exclusive commands
- Fixed handling of alphabet list letters with certain languages. The first character of a title is now correctly ignored in some situations.
- The text editor now correctly ignores -, | and terms like x4 when transposing chords
- The radial menu will now correctly show the selected stamp type color
- The eraser tool now respects the "snap to grid" setting
- Fixed issue with some stylus hover events while annotating
- Fixed synchronize library layouts to correctly use the available screen space
- Mouse button presses are no longer treated as pedal presses in the annotation editor when stylus mode is disabled
- Fixed bug with rating control not working properly in the batch edit screen
- Fixed bug with renaming groups in the group editor user interface
- Fixed bug with incorrect handling of night mode with stamps
- Fixed bugs with display locale handling with ChordPro files
- Added support for passing command line arguments to MobileSheets
- Fixed potential crash while initializing audio resources
- Fixed bug when using the same page from a PDF multiple times with different rotation for each instance of that page
- Fixed potential memory leaks with the library lists
- Changed default backup file name to be consistent with Android
- Fixes for various potential crashes
I still have some 3.9.X updates I will release before starting work on 3.10.0, as I still have some chord pro changes to deliver, improvements to the ABC support to make and I need to finish the Linux and MacOS versions of the companion app.
Mike