Version 3.6.7 has been released and is available for Android, Windows and iOS. One of the major focuses of this updates was to address issues with the metronome that were brought to my attention, including synchronization issues between the visual indicators and the audio, as well as slight deviations that occurred over long periods of time when listening to the MobileSheets metronome next to a physical metronome. I also added some new settings to the metronome including:
1) An audio offset to address issues on devices such as the Kindle Fire tablets where the audio has a significant delay before starting. The audio offset allows the audio to be offset the same amount as that delay to ensure that the metronome can be started on a specific beat.
2) A setting to prevent delays in starting the metronome in exchange for higher energy consumption. This setting defaults to on in the iOS version as very little power consumption was observed, but it prevents significant delays that can occur when starting the metronome.
3) A setting to keep the metronome playing when switching between songs. This prevents the need to turn on the "Auto-play" switch for every individual song if that is the desired behavior.
I wanted to get these changes in place before switching back to finishing the half page turn positioning feature, as there are also some important fixes for crashes. I'm also going to be dedicating time to updating the website which may delay the next update a bit. I had to release a few different builds for Google Play in order to fix some crashes that were observed on very old Android versions (below 4.2), so users on those devices should ensure they have the latest update available on Google Play if they see any crashes.
The full list of changes can be found below:
Android
Windows
iPadOS
Update:
After seeing several crashes from older Android devices, and a few crashes accessing Dropbox on other devices, I pushed out a version 3.6.8 on Android to address these issues.
Mike
1) An audio offset to address issues on devices such as the Kindle Fire tablets where the audio has a significant delay before starting. The audio offset allows the audio to be offset the same amount as that delay to ensure that the metronome can be started on a specific beat.
2) A setting to prevent delays in starting the metronome in exchange for higher energy consumption. This setting defaults to on in the iOS version as very little power consumption was observed, but it prevents significant delays that can occur when starting the metronome.
3) A setting to keep the metronome playing when switching between songs. This prevents the need to turn on the "Auto-play" switch for every individual song if that is the desired behavior.
I wanted to get these changes in place before switching back to finishing the half page turn positioning feature, as there are also some important fixes for crashes. I'm also going to be dedicating time to updating the website which may delay the next update a bit. I had to release a few different builds for Google Play in order to fix some crashes that were observed on very old Android versions (below 4.2), so users on those devices should ensure they have the latest update available on Google Play if they see any crashes.
The full list of changes can be found below:
Android
- Fixed synchronization issues between metronome visual indicators and the audio
- Fixed issues with metronome accuracy over time.
- Added metronome setting to keep the metronome playing when switching songs without having to set auto-start for each song
- Added metronome setting to prevent delays when starting the metronome at the expense of battery consumption
- Added metronome setting to offset the starting audio position to account for devices with delays when playing audio
- Fixed issue with text annotations not rendering on devices below Android 6.0
- Fixed issue where annotation layer visibility would not be saved correctly in some situations
- Fixed crash on some devices due to missing permission for AirTurn Direct Mode
- Adjusted recent tab to show the remove and delete options next to each other to reduce confusion
- Added popup to show current value when changing volume in audio player and metronome
- Fixed AirTurn Direct Mode connection issues when first connecting to a device
- Fixed issue with snippets that could cause files to be copied instead of referencing the original
- Fixed issue where new folders couldn't be created on Android 11 or higher devices in the file browser
- Fixed issue where a pinch zoom gesture would stop working when zooming caused the number of pages to change in a text/chord pro file
- Added storage type selection for the Import->CSV or PDF Bookmark option
- Added action bar back arrow on several screens
- Added support for Google Drive shortcuts
Windows
- Fixed synchronization issues between metronome visual indicators and the audio
- Fixed issues with metronome accuracy over time.
- Added metronome setting to keep the metronome playing when switching songs without having to set auto-start for each song
- Added metronome setting to prevent delays when starting the metronome at the expense of battery consumption
- Added metronome setting to offset the starting audio position to account for devices with delays when playing audio
- Fixed issue where annotation layer visibility would not be saved correctly in some situations
- Adjusted recent tab to show the remove and delete options next to each other to reduce confusion
- Added indicator to show current value when changing volume in audio player and metronome
- Fixed issue with AirTurn Direct Mode not recognizing new AirTurn pedals
- Fixed issue with snippets that could cause files to be copied instead of referencing the original
- Fixed issue where a pinch zoom gesture would stop working when zooming caused the number of pages to change in a text/chord pro file
- Fixed issue where annotations from the iPadOS version were not being read out of the database correctly
- Fixed issue where stamp annotations could be positioned incorrectly when using the full screen page scaling
iPadOS
- Fixed synchronization issues between metronome visual indicators and the audio
- Fixed issues with metronome accuracy over time.
- Added metronome setting to keep the metronome playing when switching songs without having to set auto-start for each song
- Added metronome setting to prevent delays when starting the metronome at the expense of battery consumption
- Added metronome setting to offset the starting audio position to account for devices with delays when playing audio
- Fixed issue where annotation layer visibility would not be saved correctly in some situations
- Adjusted recent tab to show the remove and delete options next to each other to reduce confusion
- Added popup to show current value when changing volume in audio player and metronome
- Fixed issue with snippets that could cause files to be copied instead of referencing the original
- Fixed issue where a pinch zoom gesture would stop working when zooming caused the number of pages to change in a text/chord pro file
- Fixed issue where multiple values were not recognized correctly in CSV files
- Fixed issue where Windows style line breaks were not being handled correctly when reading CSV files
- Fixed several issues with the layers window where it would show incorrect status and potentially cause crashes
- Fixed reported crashes
Update:
After seeing several crashes from older Android devices, and a few crashes accessing Dropbox on other devices, I pushed out a version 3.6.8 on Android to address these issues.
Mike