BandHelper 2024-04-13

version 2024-04-13

Apr 14, 2024
Version 2024-04-13
* 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.

version 2024-03-15

Mar 17, 2024
Version 2024-03-15
• 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.

version 2024-02-18

Feb 19, 2024
Version 2024-02-18
• 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.

version 2024-02-12

Feb 12, 2024
Version 2024-02-12
• Restored the Inter-App Audio functionality.

version 2024-01-26

Feb 3, 2024
Version 2024-01-26
• 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.

version 2024-01-12

Jan 14, 2024
Version 2024-01-12
• 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.

version 2023-12-18

Dec 19, 2023
Version 2023-12-18
• Fixed a problem that prevented updating your saved password in the app.

version 2023-12-08

Dec 10, 2023
Version 2023-12-08
• 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.

version 2023-11-29

Nov 30, 2023
Version 2023-11-29
• Fixed a problem that stopped auto-scrolling on an external display.

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

version 2023-11-11

Nov 12, 2023
Version 2023-11-11
• 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.

version 2023-10-30

Oct 31, 2023
Version 2023-10-30
• Fixed a problem when clicking the "got it" button in a help tip.

version 2023-10-06

Oct 8, 2023
Version 2023-10-06
* 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.

version 2023-09-20

Sep 21, 2023
Version 2023-09-20
• Fixed a crash on launch on iOS 12.

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

version 2023-09-19

Sep 20, 2023
Version 2023-09-19
• 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.

version 2023-08-16

Aug 17, 2023
Version 2023-08-16
• 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.

version 2023-08-14

Aug 15, 2023
Version 2023-08-14
• 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.

version 2023-07-21

Jul 24, 2023
Version 2023-07-21
• Fixed a crash when launching the app when Settings > Advanced > Simplify List Loading is on and the app only has one account and one project added.

• Fixed a crash when sending pinned MIDI presets from a layout that contains the Multiple MIDI Buttons item and a song that contains enough MIDI presets to make that button scroll and no MIDI presets are pinned.

• Stopped MIDI buttons in song lists from showing pinned MIDI presets twice.

• Updated the document, recording and MIDI buttons in song lists to be active if only pinned items are available for a song.

• Updated the Settings > App Control page to correctly save the Speak Text field.

version 2023-07-14

Jul 17, 2023
Version 2023-07-14
• Stopped setting new documents, recordings and MIDI presets to Pinned by default.

version 2023-07-12

Jul 13, 2023
Version 2023-07-12
• Added missing layout actions for Start Auto-Scroll, Stop Auto-Scroll, Start Automation, Stop Automation, Start Video and Stop Video.

version 2023-06-16

Jun 19, 2023
Version 2023-06-16
○ Added a text background color button to the text formatting toolbar for the Lyrics, Chords and Notes fields. You can use this to highlight words or lines with a background color rather than changing the text color.

○ Rearranged the fields on the event edit page to make it more intuitive that users must be selected.

○ Added a Bass Drum tempo click sound.

○ Updated the display of bracketed chords to ignore bold, italic or underline applied to the surrounding text, but to use the color of the surrounding text if no chords color is set.

○ Updated the set list sort and shuffle functions to keep linked songs together (groups of linked songs will be sorted according to the first song in the group).

○ Updated the recording player to no longer trigger a Song Completion action for recordings shorter than one second.

○ Updated the Events list to show the end date of a two-day event with no end time set.

○ Updated the Copy to Devices Manually switch to trigger a file upload if you turn it off when the file exists on the local device but not on the server.

○ Fixed a problem that collapsed the preview height on the set list share pages when changing multiple options on iPhone models with home buttons.

○ Fixed a problem that prevented turning on the personal sync settings for font sizes without turning on the settings for their associated fields.

○ Turned on Follow Set List Selections and Follow Set List Changes on the Settings > Live Sharing page by default on new installations.

○ Reversed the display of the Rating popups to make it more intuitive that 5 is the best rating and 1 is the worst.

○ Fixed missing line endings from the email message text when emailing a set list from macOS.

○ Moved most of the items on the Help > Utilities page to a new Settings > Advanced page.

version 2023-05-19

May 22, 2023
Version 2023-05-19
* Added Shares fields after the Pay field on the event edit page. You can use these fields if different band members will earn different amounts for an event. The pay that band members see on the event pages and in email notifications depends on their settings: users with full finance access will see the contents of the Pay field, followed by the contents of their own Share field if you have entered different shares, while users with personal finance access will see only the contents of their own Share field if you have entered different shares, or nothing if you are using the default shares. This matches the previous functionality if you don't use the new Shares fields. If you later add a transaction and load its values from an event using the Defaults button on the transaction edit page, the Shares entries will copy from the event to the transaction.

• Limited the column resizing to keep a minimum width of each column, and removed the shortcuts to hide the left or right column.

• Fixed a problem that made screen sharing followers not auto-connect correctly on their first attempt.

• Increased the compression in transmitted screen images to make the screen sharing function more responsive.

• Cropped URLs in custom fields to their domain names when displayed in a song list.

• Fixed a crash when viewing the last song in a set list when the layout includes a +2 field.

• Fixed incorrectly placed checkmarks when adding a new song from the song picker, or when selecting existing songs and then changing the search values.

• If the same song is in a set list multiple times and you remove one of them, stopped changing the others to "Missing Song."

• Fixed a problem that caused tags in smart copies to not save or inherit correctly.

• Fixed a problem that prevented users with Added Data editing access from saving the Personal Transpose setting.

• Fixed a problem that added the wrong performer to a stage plot after selecting a performer from the list.

• Stopped showing sync conflict messages for the Date Updated field.

version 2023-05-05

May 8, 2023
Version 2023-05-05
- Added two Include Contacts checkboxes to the event edit page to send event confirmation or cancellation notifications to the event contacts as well as the users in your account. This option will send a simplified version of the notification messages to all the contacts attached to the event. The notifications will only be sent by email and will not include the Pay field, Notes field, custom fields or documents. Although BandHelper does not manage the client side of the booking process, you can use this option to provide an extra level of confirmation with your clients after you book a gig.

- Added an Invoices page to the Finance module. You can use this to generate invoices for clients and keep track of whether they have been paid. For more info, see the Sending and Tracking Invoices section in the Tracking Finances tutorial.

- Moved the contact info shown on stage plots from the account level to the project level. This allows you to use different contact info on stage plots for different projects. You can now edit the contact info on the website from the Account > Projects > Edit pages, or in the apps from the Stage Plots > Contact Info page as before. If you previously entered contact info at the account level, it has been copied to all your projects, but you can change it in each project now if needed. This contact info will also be used with the new Invoices functionality.

- When displaying a different document on the external display using the Doc +1 setting, stopped scrolling the external display to match the scroll position of the main display.

- Added an arrow symbol to the Title +1 and Title +2 fields in the set list view if the current song is linked to the next songs.

- Fixed a problem that caused the Move To Set buttons on the set list Edit Songs page to trigger the Move Multiple Items function.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the MIDI Program Number fields on the song edit page from saving.

- Fixed a crash when clicking the iTunes button on the recording edit page when Privacy & Security > Media & Apple Music > BandHelper is turned off in the iOS Settings app.

version 2023-04-24

Apr 25, 2023
Version 2023-04-24
- Fixed a problem that removed line breaks from multi-line fields.

version 2023-04-18

Apr 19, 2023
Version 2023-04-18
- Fixed a problem that prevented adding a new document or recording copied in from another app.

- Fixed a problem that added new documents or recordings twice when adding from phones.

- Removed an extraneous top toolbar from edit pages on phones.

version 2023-03-21

Mar 24, 2023
Version 2023-03-21
- Updated the Follow Song Selections live sharing action to work when the lead device isn't using the current app version.

- Fixed some problems with paging through lyrics markers.

version 2022-08-19

Aug 21, 2022 Version 2022-08-19
- Added a Repeat Edits setting to the event edit page for repeated events, to indicate whether you want to apply edits to the current event only, or all following events. This setting is not set by default and is required, to ensure you get the result you want when saving.

- Added a warning message when you turn on the Require Response function for a repeated event when Repeat Edits is not set to This Event Only. This helps avoid inadvertently sending lots of event notifications to your users at once. Instead, you can set up your repeated events without turning on this option, then go back and turn it on for one event at a time using the This Event Only option.

- Changed the default Users value for new layouts -- either created manually or automatically when logging in from a new device -- to the current user instead of all users. This should make it easier to see which layouts are needed and who is using them, and gives users with Added Data permission a set of layouts they own and can edit. You can still share layouts with mulitple users by changing the Users value.

- Added support for editing layouts with a different screen size than the current device. Layouts with a different size will be letterboxed or pillarboxed on the current screen, with a visible border showing the limits of where you can position items. This makes it easier for more tech-savvy band members to help their bandmates customize their layouts.

- Allowed all users to view documents that aren't assigned to them, unless the users are set to Personal Finance Only, Personal Schedule Only or Event Contacts Only and the documents are in the corresponding modules.

- Removed the ability for users with Added Data editing access to move the Lyrics placeholder within the list of documents attached to a song.

- Changed the default Users value for documents added to an event to empty, so that users must be explicitly selected, like with the event itself.

- Fixed the song completion action that's triggered at the end of a video.

- Updated automation tracks to stop a recording that's still playing from a previous song when it's time to play a recording for the current song.

version 2022-05-20

May 22, 2022 Version 2022-05-20
- Changed the app version numbering from semantic versioning (e.g., 4.3.9) to calendar versioning (e.g., 2022-05-12). With this system, it's easier to see how old a version is and easier to compare versions across platforms. This also allows more flexibility in releasing new features as soon as they're available rather than waiting to bundle them into large "feature releases."

- Restored the options for adding the Artist +1 and Artist +2 fields to the bottom toolbar of a layout.

- Added a Personal Fields setting to the set list share pages so you can decide whether to include your personal fields or revert to the shared fields when sharing songs. That includes the Personal Transpose fields, so this setting replaces the Personal Transpose setting that was added recently.

- Updated the set list view to not display layout items beyond the edges of the screen if they have been somehow saved that way.

- Fixed incorrectly aligned smart copies in the song list when showing the song numbers.

- Lightened the red and orange and darkened the yellow text colors for better contrast across all platforms and color themes.

- Lightened the green and added a dark green text color.

- Fixed a problem saving italic formatting.

- Fixed a problem displaying underline formatting nested inside of color formatting.

- Retained color formatting when copying and pasting text from within the app. (Text copied from outside the app will only retain its color formatting for colors that are available in the app's formatting tools.)

- Preserved markers when copying and pasting lyrics from within the app. However, custom marker names will be changed to generic names like Marker 1, Marker 2, etc. due to the limitations of copying custom formatting. You can rename the markers after pasting if needed.

- Turned on all the live sharing "Follow" settings by default when adding an account.

- Added a warning if you add a MIDI Song Number or MIDI Program Number to a song that is already used in another song.

- Reset the Copy to Account state when stopping with a validation error to avoid getting stuck on the edit page.

- Fixed an endless initial sync when adding a new account after viewing an existing account.

version 4.3.12

Apr 17, 2022 Version 4.3.12
- Fixed a problem that made events on the automation track edit page unclickable.

- Fixed the missing custom fields in the song list layout options.

- Fixed the filter by number of attachments options on smart lists when sorting by a different field.

- Fixed the sort by frequency performed option on smart lists.

- Fixed a problem that ignored the saved value when editing Settings > Audio & MIDI > MIDI Options > MIDI Preset Order.

- Fixed problems setting a field's text to bold when the iOS Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Bold Text is on.

- Sped up the lyrics highlighting function toward the bottom of a long lyrics text.

- Inverted the document marker color when Settings > Documents Are Inverted is on.

- Added the Public setting on the custom field edit page for songs and contacts.

version 4.3.10

Mar 31, 2022 Version 4.3.10
- Fixed a problem that prevented user settings changed on another device from syncing to an iOS or macOS device.

- Fixed the empty notifications window.

- Fixed the date filters on the list and shortcut pages to include the current day.

- Fixed the auto-complete function for custom fields.

- Fixed the set list sort and shuffle functions.

- Removed some unuseful options from the set list sort function.

- Restored the ability to add annotations to a song with no document or lyrics.

- Fixed a crash when double-tapping the left third of the document viewer for a song with no document or lyrics.

- Fixed a problem that left the tempo playing when starting a tempo and then selecting a song with no tempo while the Start/Stop Tempo layout action was set to Song Selection.

- Fixed the Defaults button for a new transaction, which drew from the oldest instead of the newest event.

- Removed an error message that incorrectly appeared when customizing the user shares of a transaction.

- Hid the Add an Event button on the Schedule > Calendar page for read-only users on phones.

- Stopped highlighting the search button in the History window when no search was entered.

version 4.3.9

Mar 25, 2022 Version 4.3.9
- Sped up the updating of old database files to the new format, and added a popup message every 30 seconds to confirm the progress when updating a large database.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes showed an extra account labeled as "(dev)" in the Accounts list. If you see this, you can click its Settings > General Settings button and click the trash icon to remove it. You can then go to Settings > Account Sync in your real account and click Reset Local Data to make sure everything has been saved correctly there.

- Fixed a problem where events on the first or last day of the calendar sometimes didn't appear on the calendar.

- Fixed an "account not found" error when adding an account whose display name contains a comma.

version 4.3.7

Jan 25, 2022
Version 4.3.7
- Added an Include All Projects filter to the set list Add Songs popup. If you select that filter, you will see songs from all the active projects you are assigned to. If you add a song from a different project, the song will be added to the current project when you save the set list.

- Added an Include All Projects filter to the Quick Add popup in the set list view. If you select that filter, you will see songs from all the active projects you are assigned to. If you add a song from a different project and Settings > General Settings > Save Quick Added Songs is on, the song will be added to the current project when you leave the set list.

- Fixed a problem that could crash the app on older devices when performing batch operations like loading default layouts or updating old document formatting.

- Fixed a problem that left the top toolbar buttons temporarily disabled after adding a new account on a phone.

- Fixed a potential doubling of the MIDI tempo when playing the tempo for a song without stopping the tempo from the previous song.

- Added a check to try avoiding a situation where a three-fingered tap triggers a pinch gesture and resizes the lyrics unintentionally.

- Renamed the Roll Back button on the Settings > Account Sync page to History to match the website.

version 4.3.6

Dec 19, 2021 Version 4.3.6
- Fixed a problem that prevented the pause name and details from appearing when swiping through songs in full-screen display.

- Fixed a problem that made the Next/Previous Screen remote control actions stop paging too soon in lyrics that contain markers.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes highlighted the wrong song in a smart list.

- Restored the automatic sizing of a document to one complete page when displayed full-screen in the same orientation as the device orientation.

- Updated song buttons that are stretched to an extreme aspect ratio and placed over the document viewer to use the semi-transparent background of other buttons placed over the document viewer rather than the opaque background of other stretched buttons.

- Fixed a problem that made the screen sharing image disappear when rotated 180 degrees.

- Updated the chord formatting on an external display to place bracketed chords above the lyrics by default if Settings > General Settings > External Display > Bracketed Chords isn't set.

- Stopped the new MIDI Beat Clock code from sending the beat clock to BandHelper's own input ports.

version 4.3.4

Dec 5, 2021 Version 4.3.4
- Updated the shortcuts pages on tablets to refresh after syncing or editing items.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the top toolbar title from updating when changing set lists with the title shortcut.

version 4.3.3

Nov 26, 2021 Version 4.3.3
- Fixed a problem that caused the two rows of the top toolbar to overlap on iPhone Pro Max models.

- Fixed a problem that made the top toolbar buttons cover the back button after closing a popup window in iOS 9.

- Updated the remote control function to support key repeat from remote control devices that send it.

- Fixed the Song Number and Set Number layout fields, and updated them to ignore sets that are excluded from the set list duration.

- Added Settings > Apperance > Documents Are Inverted for users who have created documents with light text on a dark background. With this setting on, some interface elements will be inverted to match the documents. (This setting does not change the display of the documents themselves.)

- Changed the first set heading in the set list view to not be selectable, since it doesn't represent a set break.

- Sped up the display of the MIDI preset edit page in some cases.

version 4.3.2

Nov 19, 2021 Version 4.3.2
- Fixed a problem that sent the wrong preset when selecting a layout MIDI preset from the multiple MIDI buttons or a remote control action.

- Fixed a problem that showed full-screen documents upon song selection when an external display was connected.

- Fixed a problem that made the right side of the screen unclickable on the set list share pages on some phones.

- Updated the automation track buttons in the song list to stop playing when changing songs.

- Added Settings > Appearance > Main Menu Shortcuts > Colors to show item and category colors on the shortcut items. This is off by default on tablets because the combination of module icon colors and item colors can be confusing.

- Added category colors to the Files module in the main menu shortcuts.

version 4.3

Nov 14, 2021 Version 4.3
Version 4.3 is a major release including layout improvements, other usability improvements, design improvements, new features and bug fixes. The complete release notes don't fit here! For a detailed list and a video walkthrough of the biggest changes, please visit bandhelper.com and go to Support > Release Notes.

version 4.2.18

Aug 29, 2021 Version 4.2.18
- Fixed the reading of MIDI messages other than program and control changes when using MIDI Learn.

- Sped up the selection of a project from the Accounts list.

- Updated the Previous Page remote control action to go to the start of the current page instead of the start of the previous page if you have manually to the middle of a page

- When viewing lyrics without markers, updated the Previous Page and Next Page remote control actions to go to the same positions in the lyrics even if you scroll to other positions between these actions.

- Fixed a crash when copying a smart list.

- Fixed problems recording and clearing automation tracks on iPhones or iPods running iOS 12 or older.

version 4.2.17

Aug 15, 2021 Version 4.2.17
- Eliminated a delay when selecting songs in the song picker.

- Updated the automation track copy/paste function to allow copying automation tracks between shared and personal automation or between accounts.

- Added Waze as an option for Settings > General Settings > Maps App.

- Made the MIDI Learn function more intuitive by ignoring the MIDI Input Port setting.

- Added the missing Song Select option from the MIDI Song Number remote control action on the Settings > Remote Control page.

- Added a slash (/) to the chord symbol toolbar that appears above the keyboard when editing the Lyrics and Chords fields.

- Fixed incorrect sizing of the date picker in the filters panel on phones with iOS 14.6 or later.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the song move shortcuts from working correctly the first time you use them on a set list's Edit Songs page.

- Updated the document viewer to allow a zoomed document to use the full height of the viewer when the original document is shorter than the viewer.

- Fixed a problem that displayed the Chords field in the Lyrics area after resizing and then transposing the chords.

- Added the break and pause timers to the full-screen document display when opened from a layout that doesn't have a document viewer.

- Fixed the Speak Lyrics function in the document viewer, and updated it to pause after each line.

- Hid instead of merely disabling custom fields from other projects on the set list share pages.

- Removed bottom toolbar fields 3 and 4 when editing a layout on a phone that was imported from a tablet.

version 4.2.16

Jul 18, 2021 Version 4.2.16
- Added a Table of Contents option to the set list Share Songs page. (Requires iOS 11.)

- Added support for JPEG documents in the set list Share Songs function.

- Correctly rotated annotations to match the document orientation when a landscape document is shared in portrait orientation or vice-versa.

- Updated the event repeat function so that if you change the date of a repeated event, the dates of the following events will be offset by the same amount. For example, you can select an event that repeats on Fridays and move it a week later and all the following events will be moved a week later. However, you should only select a new date that fits into the repeat sequence. For example, moving an event to Saturday when it is part of a series that repeats on Fridays is not supported.

- Updated the Previous Song and Next Song remote control actions, layout actions and layout buttons to stop wrapping from the first song to the list song or the last song to the first song, updated the Previous Song and Next Song layout buttons to appear faded when viewing the first or last song, and added a bounce animation when attempting to use the Previous Song and Next Song remote control actions or layout actions when viewing the first or last song.

- Renamed the Previous Page and Next Page remote control actions to Previous Page or Marker and Next Page or Marker to indicate that they will jump to the marker positions instead of the page positions when markers are present.

- Added a list of each band member's rating at the bottom of the song edit page. This is visible only to account administrators.

- Enabled the Save button in the song edit popup after adding or editing attachments. Even though a save is not actually needed in these situations, clicking Save is more intuitive than clicking Cancel to close the popup.

- Added a Clear button to the checklist view page to clear all the checklist progress.

- Updated the Settings > Appearance > Lyrics Font picker to display each option in that font.

- Restored the save validation when using the back button popup menu to navigate back multiple pages after editing a page.

- Fixed the sort by tag option on the song list and song picker.

- Removed the All and None buttons from the project and user pickers when only one selection is allowed.

- Fixed a crash when editing some layout options on a phone in landscape orientation.

- Fixed a problem during layout editing where previously selected layout items didn't correctly deselect when selecting a new layout item.

- Fixed the alignment of annotations when viewing a one-page document in a document viewer that's taller than the page.

- Fixed a problem that shifted the position of formatting when adding multi-byte characters like emojis to formatted text.

- Fixed a problem that created duplicate MIDI devices when using the Update MIDI Presets utility.

- Fixed a problem that navigated all the way back to the Accounts list after deleting some items on iOS 12 and older.

version 4.2.15

Jul 4, 2021 Version 4.2.15
- Updated layout and stage plot import buttons to allow multiple file selections on iOS 11+.

- Improved the transmission of screen sharing images from slow lead devices, and updated following devices to show whatever they receive of an incomplete image to indicate that the connection is still active.

- Updated the screen sharing function to resend the first screen image after an iOS device connects since it often skips the first image.

- Fixed a crash when opening a document containing annotations in full-screen.

- Fixed a problem where editing annotations shifted the positions of existing annotations on multi-page documents.

version 4.2.14

Jun 27, 2021 Version 4.2.14
- Added undo and redo buttons to the annotation toolbar.

- Enabled Ableton Link over a network on iOS 14.

- Added warnings when you open an account if the account uses old and potentially incompatible text formatting, MIDI presets, document annotations or stage plots, with instructions to update this data.

- Updated the MIDI Preset edit page to require adding MIDI Devices before adding MIDI Presets.

- Updated the toolbar items list when editing a layout to correctly sort the field names before their +1 and +2 versions.

- Restored the missing bottom toolbar on the Settings > General Settings page in iOS 12 and older.

- Fixed the incorrect heading colors on the Accounts list when using the light color theme.

version 4.2.13

Jun 8, 2021 Version 4.2.13
- Fixed a freeze on launch when the app only contains one database and that database uses the light color theme.

- Fixed a crash when selecting a MIDI preset from the MIDI button popup or from an automation track.

version 4.2.11

May 30, 2021 Version 4.2.11
- Updated the app to navigate automatically to the last-used set list or smart list and select the last-viewed song if the app is shut down while viewing a set list or smart list and restarted again within 30 minutes.

- Updated the list filters to include an explicit Ascending/Descending option. (Previously, you could reverse the sort direction by selecting the same sort field again.)

- Updated the Used By list on the MIDI Preset edit page to include other MIDI presets that link to this preset.

- Fixed a problem where triggering the Start/Stop Recording layout action from a song selection played the wrong recording when the song list contained Document Markers and the Recording Button or Multiple Recording Buttons.

- Fixed the multi-route audio channel assignment for speech synthesis, when only using headphone output. This is still broken in iOS 14 when using a USB audio interface.

- Restored the Send Tempo to BeatBuddy functionality when using the New MIDI Beat Clock setting.

- Restored the ability of the MIDI Thru function to pass Note Off and System Exclusive messages.

version 4.2.10

May 23, 2021 Version 4.2.10
- Fixed a problem saving Settings > Remote Control > Document Scroll Amount.

- Fixed an occcasional crash when toggling a document into or out of full-screen display.

- Updated the document annotations to auto-save if you select a different song without saving.

- Updated the recording position slider to correctly track its position if you move it after the recording finishes and then start the recording again.

- Added a default value for Settings > Audio & MIDI > MIDI Preset Order if it somehow becomes empty or incomplete.

- Updated stage plots to use the display name instead of the username when displaying a performer.

- Hid the Download Files Over Cellular Network setting on devices without cellular capabilities.

version 4.2.9

May 12, 2021 Version 4.2.9
- Fixed a problem that prevented the Marker Buttons layout item from loading.

- Fixed the sorting of new events added to an automation track.

- Fixed a problem that caused a list to sort in the wrong direction when toggling the sort direction.

- Fixed a crash when using a tempo downbeat sound with a tempo slower than 60 bpm. Now, the tempo downbeat sound setting will be ignored with tempos slower than 30 bpm (in 4/4 time), but no crash will occur.

- Fixed a crash when connecting to a lead device from the Settings > Live Sharing page on a phone.

- Fixed the Copy to Another Account option on the song and MIDI preset edit pages.

- Updated the Copy to Devices Manually option on the document and recording edit pages to require selecting a file, to set the name and format, but the file will not be uploaded.

- Added a Refresh Log button to the MIDI Status, Remote Control Status and Device Linking Status windows on iOS 9, since older devices aren't fast enough to auto-refresh.

- Stopped showing an alert for sync error -1004, like similar errors that occur when the device doesn't have an Internet connection.

version 4.2.7

Apr 28, 2021 Version 4.2.7
- Fixed a problem with some database queries in accounts that haven't been edited since the 4.2 release.

version 4.2.4

Apr 21, 2021 Version 4.2.4
- Fixed a crash when rotating a phone in the set list view.

- Fixed a problem that played tempo downbeat sounds at the wrong times.

- Fixed a problem that removed bold and italic formatting from lyrics until the lyrics are resized.

- Fixed a crash when removing bold, underline or italics from text that is also colored.

- Fixed a problem that hid the second column of lyrics in 2-column layouts on iOS 9.

- Fixed the field resize buttons on multi-line text fields.

- Restored the missing hint icons in the top toolbar.

- Fixed a problem that caused the Next Screen or Song and Next Page or Song remote control actions to fail when a document or lyrics is not displayed.

- Fixed an incorrect placement of the Add button after removing a Standard MIDI File or paired MIDI preset from a MIDI preset.

- Updated the sort functions to ignore diacritics.

- Updated the playlist import function to include song durations and tempos when available.

- Updated the remote control triggers to support any MIDI note number, from 0-127.

- Fixed a crash on the practice log totals page when only one session has been added and no time has been logged for the session.

version 4.2.3

Apr 12, 2021 Version 4.2.3
- Fixed a problem that opened the wrong item for editing after rearranging a list of attached items and then clicking one.

- Fixed a crash when playing two recordings at the same time.

- Fixed the Stop Recording automation event, which was doing nothing in recent versions.

- Fixed the Fade Out Recordings setting, which was doing nothing in recent versions.

- Fixed a crash when importing a recording from the iTunes Music Library that contained a slash in its title.

- Fixed the playlist import preview, which opened as an empty window.

- Started reloading the new MIDI Beat Clock code whenever opening the set list view, to reflect any changes to the port settings.

- Fixed a problem that reduced the font size of text annotations each time the annotations were edited and saved.

- Improved the coloring of the system file picker windows.

version 4.1.23

Oct 26, 2020 Version 4.1.23
- Added built-in support for second-generation Flic buttons. Instead of using the Flic app, you can now click Settings > Remote Control > Connect Second-Gen Flic Button, then click and hold the button until it connects. Then you can select an action, click Flic Button Messages and assign the action to the Click, Double-Click or Hold gesture. (Requires iOS 12 or later.)

- Reduced the latency of the new MIDI beat clock code when Low-Latency Tempos is turned on.

version 4.1.22

Oct 5, 2020 Version 4.1.22
- Added new MIDI Beat Clock code that should be more accurate than the previous code. If you experience a problem with the new code, you can turn off Help > Utilities > Use New MIDI Beat Clock, then contact us so we can address it.

- Fixed a crash when leaving the set list view when Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Send Tempo to Ableton Link is turned on.

- Updated Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Play First Two Recordings Together to play the selected and next recording together when Settings > General Settings > Defaults > Recording is set to any value above 1.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the document viewer from appearing on following devices with screen sharing unless the document viewer was rotated.

- Fixed a problem that prevented auto-scrolling from starting when opening a full-screen document and starting auto-scrolling from the same layout action.

- Hid custom fields that aren't assigned to the current user from layouts. This allows one layout to include several custom fields in the same location, and each custom field will only appear to the users it's assigned to.

- Removed a limitation that excluded color from copied and pasted text that contained color and bold or italic.

- Updated the text formatting buttons to update more quickly when moving the cursor in the text field.

- Fixed a problem where clicking a text formatting button before typing text, when the cursor is at the end of the text field, would reset the formatting buttons when you start typing.

- Fixed overlapping label text on custom fields in layouts.

version 4.1.21

Sep 28, 2020 Version 4.1.21
- Fixed the date and time pickers on iOS 14.

- Fixed a problem where a video didn't pause when selecting a different song or document in iOS 14.

- Fixed a problem that scrolled the wrong field into view when editing multi-line text fields on iOS 14.

- Fixed incorrect button colors in the Sync Status popover on iOS 14.

- Fixed the setting to hide bracketed chords on the Share Songs page.

- Fixed the Distsribute buttons on the Finance > Totals page to carry the amount to the transaction edit page.

- Fixed the currency display on the Finance > Totals page to show every number with two decimal places.

- Updated the list of layouts available from the Layout button in the bottom toolbar of the set list view after rotating the device or changing the window size.

- Updated the tempo and pitch buttons on the song edit page to update immediately after changing the values.

- Updated the horizontal swipe gesture on the Schedule > Calendar page to use the same speed and direction parameters as on the set list view.

- Disabled the Move a User button on the event edit page when the Require Response setting is off.

- Stopped fading items on the Files > Files list, because standalone files don't have an Active setting.

- BandHelper now requires iOS 9 or newer.

version 4.1.20

Sep 20, 2020 Version 4.1.20
- Fixed a problem that caused remote control input to stop after viewing a PDF with the new document viewer on iOS 13.6.

- Fixed a problem that prevented multiple bracketed slash chords on the same line from transposing correctly.

- Updated the recording button to correctly pause/resume instead of stop/start when placed inside the song list in the set list view.

- Stopped automatically scrolling the selected button within a set of multiple MIDI, document, recording, marker or app buttons to the top of the list while recording an automation track.

- Updated lyrics font sizes on an external display to match those on the main display after transposing chords, and updated the pause details text to scroll on an external display when scrolled on the main display.

- Fixed a crash when sharing songs if a URL in a shared field ends with spaces or line breaks.

- Fixed a problem that distorted performer photos on stage plots if a position and zoom level were never set.

- Updated the sync button in the top toolbar to blink a bit longer to make it more clear that a sync ran even when it finished quickly.

version 4.1.19

Aug 10, 2020 Version 4.1.19
- Fixed a problem that prevented adding markers to documents.

- Updated the full-screen toggle in the new document viewer to preserve on-the-fly transpose amounts.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes used the wrong enharmonic spelling for Bb/A# when transposing.

- Added a warning to the Settings > General Settings page if you edit the username there. You should only do that if you have updated your username on the website. If you are trying to log in as a different user, you will need to remove the account from the app, then add it again with the desired username.

version 4.1.18

Jul 13, 2020 Version 4.1.18
- Changed the title of the home screen from Projects to Accounts to make it more clear that the + button adds a new account.

- Shortened the set list share preview on phones to make it more clear that share settings are available below the preview.

- Fixed an empty date display on the main menu if a checklist is linked to multiple events.

- Fixed a sizing problem that made the last options in the Utilities menu inaccessible.

- Fixed a problem that showed dark text on a dark background in the date and time pickers on older iOS versions.

- Fixed a problem building the song usage cache with multiple projects.

version 4.1.17

Jun 22, 2020 Version 4.1.17
- Added a Mirror Image layout option to the document viewer for use with teleprompter devices.

- Started loading the correct document's zoom level on external displays when using the Doc+1 display option.

- Removed the endless progress indicator that appeared on external displays when using the Doc+1 display option without the Show Placeholder option and viewing a song with no document or lyrics.

- Fixed the unresponsive Paste and Clear options for automation tracks.

- Fixed a problem that selected the wrong songs when using the Quick Add button when Save Quick Added Songs was turned off.

- Fixed a crash when importing a recording from iTunes.

- Started updating the date updated field for songs when using the shortcut buttons in the Songs list.

version 4.1.16

May 27, 2020 Version 4.1.16
- Fixed a crash when closing a full-screen PDF document that was opened from the Big Set List layout.

- Fixed a problem that applied any formatting on the last character of the lyrics to the entire lyrics after pinch-zooming.

- Fixed a problem in iOS 13 that prevented dismissing a popover by tapping outside of it after changing a setting inside the popover.

version 4.1.15

May 22, 2020 Version 4.1.15
- Added a Maybe option to the event invitations. Selecting Maybe will let your band leader know that you're considering an event, but you will continue receiving reminders until you change that to Accept or Decline.

- Registered three actions with the Siri Shortcuts system on iOS 12+: View Next Set List, Navigate to Next Event and Add a Transaction. Based on your usage of these functions, Siri will try to predict when to show them as suggestions on your lock screen. If you wish, you can also set up custom voice commands to launch them any time, in the Shortcuts app.

- Improved the full-screen function when using the new document viewer to display more reliably and to continue auto-scrolling when moving into or out of full-screen display.

- Fixed inaccurate movements with the Next Page and Previous Page remote control actions in the new document viewer.

- Stopped disabling the auto-scroll function for lyrics containing markers unless you're using the 2-column display.

- Stopped updating the Date Updated field for songs and set lists if you save one of those pages without changing anything.

- Stopped showing the automation button as enabled in the set list view when no automation track is present.

- Returned to the name prompt after showing the alert that the name provided for an in-app recording is already used.

version 4.1.14

May 13, 2020 Version 4.1.14
- Fixed a rounding error that sometimes caused the page number to be off when paging through lyrics.

- Fixed the positions of annotations and markers in a one-page document in a two-column layout.

- Fixed the recording play button after arming and disarming the in-app recording function without making a recording.

- Stopped simplifying the flat symbol in chord names in some situations where it isn't needed to maintain consistent spacing.

- Restored the confirmation message after submitting troubleshooting info or a screen shot to the help desk.

version 4.1.13

May 3, 2020 Version 4.1.13
- Restored the ability to add annotations to a song that doesn't have a document or lyrics.

- Restored the automatic closing of the document tools menu after selecting an item.

- Fixed a problem where the Auto-Download Files Smaller Than option wasn't always used. If you want to make sure you don't have any downloaded files larger than the limit you set here, you can go to Settings > Account Sync and click Remove Downloaded Files, then click Download Missing Files.

- Updated the spacing of text annotations in the share songs file to more closely match what you see in the set list view.

version 4.1.12

Apr 27, 2020 Version 4.1.12
- Added text (stickie note) annotations to the Share Songs function.

- Stopped retaining files that are copied into the app from another app when no project is selected.

- Stopped logging live sharing actions when Broadcast Actions is turned off.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes triggered a one-fingered tap or pinch gesture when two- or three-fingered tapping in the set list view on iOS 13.

- Fixed misplaced headings above smart copies on the Repertoire > Songs list and Add Songs popup window when sorting by some fields.

version 4.1.10

Apr 18, 2020 Version 4.1.10
- Fixed a problem that showed the "replace file" confirmation message behind the document edit popup window when importing a document from the popup window.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the set list view from loading the first time you open the app in iOS 13.

- Fixed a crash when clicking a text field on iOS 8.

- Added an explanatory alert if you try importing a file into this app from another app when no project is selected.

- Fixed the transfer of new data to the Apple Watch app, a crash on the Events page of the Apple Watch app and the display of smart copies in the Apple Watch app.

version 4.1.9

Apr 9, 2020 Version 4.1.9
- Added automatic selection of the project on the initial Projects list if you only have access to one project.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented the home screen from loading correctly on macOS.

- Updated the macOS app to ignore a layout or stage plot file that is double-clicked when the app isn't running. The app must be running, with a project selected, to import a file.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the show view from loading the first time you open the app in iOS 13 or macOS.

- Fixed the pinch gesture to resize text annotations with the new document viewer, and eliminated the jumpiness when pinching or dragging with two fingers to scroll while annotating.

- Fixed a problem saving negative values with stepper controls in some languages.

- Started fading the rating field on smart copies if it's the same as the parent rating.

- Stopped saving filters in picker popups unless you close the filters while they are set.

- Restored the automatic closing of the document tools menu after selecting an item on iOS.

- Fixed the alignment between stage plot list text and icons on macOS.

- Hid the scroll indicators from the lists on macOS.

version 4.1.8

Mar 25, 2020 Version 4.1.8
- Turned off the Confirmed and Cancelled settings when copying an event.

- Fixed a problem that removed the color from text that was formatted with both color and underline.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes made the lyrics text disappear when transposing in a two-column presentation.

- Fixed a visual glitch with the Continue button on the login page and some edit pages in macOS.

version 4.1.7

Mar 11, 2020 Version 4.1.7
- Fixed a crash when playing recordings on iOS 8-9.

- Fixed the selection of SoundFont files on macOS.

version 4.1.6

Mar 8, 2020 Version 4.1.6
- Integrated with the iOS Control Center to pause, resume and skip around in recordings from there.

- Restored the title shortcuts on the Schedule > Calendar page for changing months.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the last title shortcut in the set list view from loading correctly.

- Fixed a problem that prevented the Next Song layout action from running on song completion if other actions were also set to run on song completion.

- Fixed some situations where settings access from the top toolbar buttons didn't save.

- Updated the Share Songs page to make URLs in custom fields and the Notes field clickable, like on the Share Set List page.

- Updated the duplicate name checks to only apply when adding or renaming an item. This means if you added an item with a duplicate name when that was allowed, you will still be able to update that item without being forced to rename it.

- Updated the remote control activity log to show incoming key names as well as key codes.

- Removed the Invert PDF Colors setting, because it was not compatible with the newly added Mac frameworks.

- Removed the document buttons, which overlapped the address buttons, from the schedule shortcuts on the main menu.

version 4.1.5

Feb 27, 2020 Version 4.1.5
- Fixed a problem that hid document annotations.

version 3.0.9

version 4.1.23

2020年10月26日 Version 4.1.23
- Added built-in support for second-generation Flic buttons. Instead of using the Flic app, you can now click Settings > Remote Control > Connect Second-Gen Flic Button, then click and hold the button until it connects. Then you can select an action, click Flic Button Messages and assign the action to the Click, Double-Click or Hold gesture. (Requires iOS 12 or later.)

- Reduced the latency of the new MIDI beat clock code when Low-Latency Tempos is turned on.

version 4.1.8

2020年3月25日 Version 4.1.8
- Turned off the Confirmed and Cancelled settings when copying an event.

- Fixed a problem that removed the color from text that was formatted with both color and underline.

- Fixed a problem that sometimes made the lyrics text disappear when transposing in a two-column presentation.

- Fixed a visual glitch with the Continue button on the login page and some edit pages in macOS.