August 2026

• The screen no longer sleeps while a score is open. Both the PDF and score viewers now hold the display awake for as long as a score is up, and release it the moment you close one. This is what you want on a music stand, and it replaces setting Auto-Lock → Never across the whole device — which stayed on afterwards and cost battery in every other app. It resumes correctly after you switch away and come back. On any browser too old to support it (Safari before 16.4) nothing changes.
• A page-turner pedal now works in the score viewer. Page Down and Page Up turn a page; the arrow keys nudge or turn. The PDF viewer has always done this — the score viewer did nothing at all, so a pedal was useless there. Space is still play/pause in the score viewer, deliberately: it is the more useful action for a score that plays back, and a pedal that sends Space can be set to send Page Down instead.
• The tablet limit on open scores is now a setting. Tablets were capped at 3 open scores while the desktop allowed up to 5, and nothing said so — the fourth score simply refused to open. Settings → Maximum open scores on a tablet now shows and controls it (1–10). The default stays 3 on purpose: an iPad has far less memory than a laptop, and iOS closes a page that overruns, which would lose your score mid-performance. Raise it only as far as your own device proves reliable.
• The home screen icon is a real icon. Adding the app to an iPad or iPhone home screen produced a blurry screenshot of the page, because the icon was only supplied in a format iOS ignores. It now installs the proper artwork.

August 2026

• When a score will not open, the viewer now explains why and what to do. It used to show a single line such as “could not find the Soundfont”, which named neither the file it wanted nor any way to fix it. It now tells you which file was missing, what the server said about it, and gives numbered steps to try.
• It checks the sound library rather than guessing. If the sound library is actually fine, the viewer says so and points you elsewhere — so you do not go hunting through soundfont settings that were never the problem. In particular it will tell you when the fault has nothing to do with MuseScore's own soundfonts, which are entirely separate from the viewer's.
• Technical details are one click away and copyable, for when you want to report a fault rather than fix it.

August 2026

• The score can now be played louder. The volume slider in the score viewer goes up to 200%, the same as the metronome already did — enough to hear the playback over your own guitar. Anything above 100% is a genuine boost and shows in amber.
• The volume slider now does something the moment you open a score. It previously showed 70% while playback actually ran at full volume, and only took effect once you dragged it.
• Your volume is remembered on that device, instead of resetting every time you open a score.

August 2026

• The count-in clicks are audible. Every metronome click was failing before it made a sound, so the count-in kept its timing but stayed silent. This also affected the metronome elsewhere in the app.
• Selecting measures tolerates a pause. Dragging across measures to select a range no longer resets if your hand hesitates part-way — a brief stumble on a trackpad is now treated as part of the same drag rather than the start of a new one.
• The System Log Viewer shows what actually went wrong. Errors were being recorded without their message or stack, so the log filled with entries that named a problem but not its cause.
• Fixed a link in this manual that pointed at a section that does not exist.

August 2026

• You can hear the count-in again. With looping and count-in both switched on in the score viewer, the count-in beats before each repeat were silent — the pause was the right length, but no clicks came with it. This happened whether the metronome was on or off. See the score viewer section.

August 2026

• The needle no longer flicks flat when you pluck. Even on a string that was already in tune, the needle would swing briefly to the left before settling in the middle. The tuner was reading the moment before the string was struck along with the note itself; it now waits the extra fraction of a second for the note to fill its ear, and starts each new pluck fresh instead of carrying over the last one.

August 2026

• The tuner now hears the bass strings. The low E and the dropped D often registered as nothing at all — the tuner listened to too short a slice of sound to make sense of a note that low. It now listens to twice as much, and reads the two lowest strings as reliably as the top four.
• Readings are far more accurate. A second measurement was being mixed into the first that was too coarse to help; on the low E it could pull the answer as much as a sixth of a semitone off, which is wider than the "in tune" window itself. It has been removed.
• The needle now points where it says. It sat slightly sharp of the true reading at every position, and disappeared off the edge of the scale when a string was very sharp. It also turns green, along with the note name, when the string is in tune — that colour change had never actually worked.
• The note is shown with its octave (E2 rather than E), the needle settles about four times faster, and a single stray reading no longer makes it lurch.

August 2026

• Three items that could not be saved can be edited again. One piece and two practice-diary entries were created before the app recorded a creation date, and the database was quietly refusing every change to them — edits appeared to do nothing. Their creation dates have been restored from their own records.
• A file of exactly 10 MB now uploads. The upload screen accepted it and the server then refused it, with an unhelpful error. The two limits now agree.
• Behind the scenes, the database and file-storage permission rules were audited end to end and several gaps closed. Nothing you do in the app changes.

August 2026

• Your files are stored under their real names. Early versions of the app saved every upload as sheet-music.pdf, score.musicxml or audio.mid behind the scenes, even though the app showed you the correct name. 54 files have been renamed to match what you actually uploaded, so a download gives you the file you expect rather than sheet-music.pdf.
• Nothing you see in the app changed, and every score, part and recording still opens as before.
• The storage figure in Settings was recalculated from what is really stored, rather than from a running total that had drifted.

August 2026

• Deleting a piece now deletes its files too. Previously the piece disappeared from your library but its PDF, MIDI, MusicXML and MuseScore uploads stayed in cloud storage, counted against nothing and reachable by no one. The same was true of removing a single ad-hoc item from your session.
• Your storage figure is accurate again. Space is now credited back when files are deleted, so the number in Settings matches what is actually stored.
• Eight leftover files were found and removed by a new audit that compares every file in cloud storage against every score your pieces refer to. Nothing in use was touched.
• Deleted files stay recoverable for seven days before they are permanently removed.

August 2026

• The Arpeggios tab now plays the study you chose, all the way through. Studies past the first few played the wrong music — a fragment of an earlier study, ending on a chord — and the cursor sat in the wrong bar. Both came from one mistake about where a bar sits in time once its repeats are counted.
• Repeats are heard, and Loop works. The repeat sign is now played rather than passed over, and the Loop switch, which reads on from the moment the tab opens, is now actually on.
• Study 13 plays in full. The engraving omits its opening repeat sign, which sent the repeat back into study 12; the app supplies the missing barline.
• The tools window no longer closes when you click beside it. Esc and the × still close it. See section 13.

August 2026

• The Arpeggios tab now plays Giuliani’s actual 120 studies. It shows the engraved notation, three bars at a time, with his own plucking fingers marked — on the staff, under the transport, and on the fretboard as each note sounds. See section 13.
• The 120 generated patterns introduced in v0.0.300 have been removed. They followed Giuliani’s method but were not his studies, and a note at the foot of the panel was not a good enough way to say so.
• The edition misprints one number — two studies are both labelled “No 82”. All 120 are present and correctly numbered, and the app tells you where the page disagrees.

August 2026

• New: a shift trainer, in a new Shifts tab under Practice Tools. Set two positions, the fingers leaving and arriving, and the guide finger; the exercise gives you a measured silence to move in and a metronome to measure it against. It shows how many seconds your hand actually has, which is the number worth shrinking. See section 13.
• The neck keeps both ends of the shift visible and draws the guide finger's path as a green arrow — which is often not the distance either note moves.

August 2026

• New: a slur trainer for hammer-ons and pull-offs, in a new Slurs tab under Practice Tools. Choose a finger pair, a direction, and how many notes you want from one pluck — two for a single slur, four for a trill. The neck shows one string at a time with both frets of the slur and the curve between them. See section 13.
• Includes stretched slurs, pull-offs to an open string, and ready-made exercises for all six finger pairs in both directions.

August 2026

• New: an arpeggio trainer — 120 right-hand studies in the manner of Giuliani's Op. 1, in a new Arpeggios tab under Practice Tools. Pick a study, or press Random, or turn on Shuffle and let it hand you a new one every couple of repeats. The fretboard shows the chord you are holding with the plucked strings lit, and the pattern is printed above with the current stroke highlighted. See section 13.
• The studies work over any chord, not just Giuliani's C and G7 — Am/E7, D/A7, and F/C7, the last of which holds a barre through the whole study.
• Note on the numbering: these follow Giuliani's system and cover the same ground, but the order is this app's own rather than a facsimile of the original edition.

August 2026

• Hinge barres are now recognized. Write h10 over the staff and the fretboard shows it as a dashed outline rather than a solid bar, since the finger is pivoted onto one string rather than laid across the fret. Add a count — h10 (2) — if the hinge stops more than the first string. The h10 in bar 4 of Villa-Lobos's Prelude No. 5 was previously being ignored.

August 2026

• The fretboard now shows barres. A barre is drawn as a solid bar across the strings it covers, as on a classical fretboard diagram. It is read from the staff text you already write in MuseScore — B7 (3), C2 (5), or the bare B7 for a full barre — so nothing needs to change in your scores. The opening chord of Villa-Lobos's Prelude No. 5 shows its B7 (3) straight away.
• The barre stays drawn until the next barre marking, or until a note appears that could not be played while barring — an open string or a lower fret on a covered string. Your other staff text (poco rall., same as m. 6, fingering reminders) is left alone.

August 2026

• New: a fretboard under the score. Select a passage in the MXL Viewer — the same way you select one for looping — and click the guitar button in the toolbar. The neck appears beneath the score and animates as the music plays, or you can step through it one note at a time with the arrow keys. Notes you are still holding stay lit, so on chordal writing you see the whole shape under your hand rather than just the note sounding. Where the arranger wrote left-hand fingerings, they can be shown on the dots. See section 7.
• The fretboard reads the tablature stave your MuseScore exports already contain, so it shows the arranger's actual string and fret choices. A score with no tablature gets a worked-out fingering instead, clearly marked Estimated. Alternate tunings such as drop D are respected.
• The Practice Tools fretboard was rebuilt. The neck is now drawn with true fret spacing, and the scale practice patterns finally do something — "In 3rds" and "Speed Bursts" previously played an ordinary scale. Pattern and Rhythm are now separate choices you can combine freely. See section 13.
• In the scale tool, the playing note now always lights up (it used to be a switch that was off by default), tempo and looping can be changed while it plays, and clicking any note on the neck sounds it.

August 2026

• Left-hand fingerings written as letters are now left as they are. A few scores mark the left thumb with a letter rather than a number. The viewer's fingering correction only applies to numbered fingerings, so those scores are no longer altered.
• The fingering correction now checks whether it is still needed. It exists to work around a fault in the notation library, which the library's author has since confirmed and intends to fix. Once that fix arrives the viewer will detect it and step aside automatically, so fingerings cannot end up corrected twice.

August 2026

• New: the MXL Viewer now lays scores out the way they were engraved. A new pair of buttons in the toolbar chooses between line breaks as written — matching the bars-per-line you see in MuseScore — and automatic, which reflows the music to fit the window. As written is the default. Previously the viewer always reflowed, which on some scores left a single measure stranded alone on a line; on the Romero arrangement of the BWV 1004 Sarabande that meant 13 lines with two near-empty ones, where the score is engraved in 8 full lines of four bars.
• Pick automatic when reading on a narrow screen or a phone, where the written layout cannot reflow and will stay wide.
• Note on spacing: in the alphaTab renderer, the tight spacing option does squeeze the notes closer together, but it will not fit more measures onto a line — the line breaks come out the same whichever of the tighter settings you choose. If you were reaching for tight to get more music on screen, the new line-break control is what you want. Tight behaves as you would expect in the OpenSheetMusicDisplay renderer.

August 2026

• Fixed: left-hand fingerings in the MXL Viewer were shown one finger too low. A score marked 4 3 4 1 3 1 in MuseScore was displayed as 3 2 3 t 2 t, so every fingering was wrong and 1 appeared as a thumb. The viewer now shows the fingerings exactly as the arranger wrote them. Open strings continue to show as 0.
• Right-hand (plucking) fingerings are no longer shown in the MXL Viewer. They were being printed joined onto the left-hand fingering as a single unreadable mark, such as 3i or tm. Left-hand fingerings are shown on their own instead.
• Bar numbers and staff lines are now black in the MXL Viewer, instead of red and grey, matching MuseScore and the PDF viewer.

August 2026

• Fixed: jumping to a rehearsal mark now scrolls the score to it. Picking a mark from the Marks menu moved the playback position correctly, but the view stayed put, so on anything longer than one screen it looked as though nothing had happened. Clicking the position bar had the same fault and is fixed too. (Two earlier attempts, in 0.0.273 and 0.0.274, did not work — the scroll was being requested a fraction of a second before the score engine was ready for it.)

August 2026

• MuseScore watcher explains a permission problem instead of reporting your scores as missing: If macOS blocks the watcher from reading your scores folder, the log now says so and how to fix it, rather than listing every piece as "missing".

August 2026

• New: note spacing control: Three new toolbar buttons set how tightly measures are packed — Tight, Normal or Roomy. Tight fits noticeably more music on screen when a score spreads itself out more than it needs to; Roomy is easier to read from a music stand. Your choice is remembered and works in both score engines. See section 8.
• Interface text moved into the translation system: The MusicXML viewer, PDF viewer, SRS panel and Add Excerpt dialog now draw their labels and tooltips from the language files, so they can be translated. No visible change in English.
• American spellings throughout: A few stray British spellings in tooltips and labels (for example "Colour") are now American, matching the rest of the app.

August 2026

• New: jump to a rehearsal mark: Scores containing rehearsal marks now show a Marks button in the MusicXML viewer toolbar. It lists every mark with its bar number, and clicking one jumps straight there — far quicker than aiming at a spot on the position bar in a long score. Works in both score engines, and the score scrolls to follow. The button is hidden for scores with no marks. Note that marks must be MuseScore Rehearsal Mark elements (Ctrl+M); framed staff text looks the same but is not recognized. See section 8.

August 2026

• Fixed: some scores played silently: A score could load and show a moving playback cursor while producing no sound at all. This affected any score with a string indication — the circled number telling you which string to play — written on the standard notation stave, which is common in classical guitar editions. A single such marking was enough to silence an entire piece. Reported on Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 5; the marking in bar 6 silenced all 42 bars.

August 2026

• Smaller, movable playback controls in Performance Mode: In the score viewer's Performance Mode, the floating playback panel covered part of the tablature. It is now roughly a third of its former size, and you can drag it anywhere using the grip handle on its left edge. Where you leave it is remembered for next time, and it is kept on-screen if you rotate a tablet. The separate Rewind button has been removed — it did exactly the same thing as Stop.

July 2026

• Attach MuseScore files directly: A new MuseScore File field in Edit Piece Details accepts .mscz documents. They are converted for viewing in your browser each time the score is opened, so you keep your original MuseScore file rather than a separate export. MuseScore files appear as an amber icon in the same column as the purple MusicXML icon. See section 7.
• Clear error for newer MuseScore files: Files saved by MuseScore 4.2 or newer cannot be converted, and attaching one now shows an explanation with two ways to proceed, instead of silently importing an empty score.
• Score titles no longer run into the composer: Some scores displayed their title and composer joined together with no space, such as "SaltarelloVincenzo Galilei". The title is now shown correctly.
• All voices are now the same color: In a score with two or more voices, the second voice was drawn in light gray, which looked like a rendering fault. Every voice now uses the same color as the first.
• MuseScore files now open in the OSMD engine too: If you had chosen OSMD rather than AlphaTab in the Admin settings, clicking a MuseScore file left the viewer spinning forever. Both engines now open .mscz files.
• An open score refreshes itself after a sync: If the MuseScore watcher uploads a new version while you have the score open, the viewer reloads it for you — but never while music is playing. A reload during a practice loop would stop playback, so it waits until you stop, then picks up the change.
• New: keep MuseScore files in sync with your Mac: Attaching a MuseScore file now turns on Keep in sync with my Mac automatically (Edit Piece Details, below the file), so saving that score in MuseScore re-uploads it, so the app always shows your latest version. Choose which folders are searched under Admin → Settings → MuseScore Auto-Sync. Requires a small helper program running on your Mac — see tools/musescore-watcher/README.md. Files saved by MuseScore 4.2 or newer are refused rather than uploaded, since the app cannot read them; your existing copy is left untouched and you get a Telegram message.
• New: show or hide note values on the tablature staff: A toolbar button toggles the stems and beams drawn under the tab numbers — the same option MuseScore offers. Works in both score engines. Note values start hidden, since tablature conventionally omits them and the rhythm is already shown on the notation staff above; click the button to bring them back for a score.
• Rests no longer clutter the tablature staff: Tablature conventionally omits rests, and AlphaTab was drawing them — sometimes directly on top of another voice's fret number, hiding it. Rests are now hidden on the tablature staff only; the notation staff is unchanged.
• New: color each voice separately: A toolbar button in the MusicXML viewer (AlphaTab engine) switches between standard black noteheads and a color per voice — 1st blue, 2nd green, 3rd orange, 4th violet. Useful for following voice-leading in dense passages. Off by default.
• Telegram bot — capitalized commands now work: Typing Help (which phones autocapitalize for you) was treated as a search for a piece called "/Help" instead of showing the command list. Commands now work in any capitalization, with or without the leading slash.
• Telegram bot — no more duplicate replies: The bot sometimes answered the same message twice. Telegram resends a message if the server is slow to respond, and both copies were being acted on; repeats are now ignored.
• Scores open much faster: PDFs and MIDI files stored in the app are now fetched directly rather than being relayed through the server. Previously, if you had not used the app for a while, opening a score could take around ten seconds while the server woke up; that wait is gone. The app also keeps the server awake while a tab is open, so the first click after a practice break is no longer slow.
• Notation / tablature toggle: The MusicXML viewer toolbar has four new icon buttons (AlphaTab engine only) to switch between automatic, standard notation only, notation with guitar tablature, and tablature only. Hover any icon for a description.

July 2026

• Escape now closes every dialog: Previously only a handful of dialogs responded to the Escape key and it was hard to predict which. All of them now do. When one dialog is open on top of another — for example Edit Excerpt inside the SRS panel — Escape dismisses only the top one and leaves the panel behind it open.
• Confirmation messages no longer hide behind the score viewer: When a confirmation was raised from inside the PDF viewer — closing a score tab, for example — it could appear underneath the viewer's own toolbar and close button. Confirmations now always appear on top.
• Consistent dimmed background behind dialogs: Some dialogs dimmed the page behind them and some did not. All of them now do.
• Dialogs no longer close when you click inside them: A few dialogs would dismiss themselves if you clicked certain areas within the dialog itself. Clicking inside a dialog now never closes it; only the area outside does, and only where that is safe — dialogs containing a form you might be filling in, such as the practice timer or excerpt upload, still require the close button.

July 2026

• The OSMD score engine now plays a guitar: If you have chosen OSMD rather than the default AlphaTab engine in the Admin settings, playback used to sound like whichever instrument the score file happened to name — usually a piano. It now correctly uses a nylon-string classical guitar, as AlphaTab already did.
• Looping in OSMD now returns to the right measure on the first repeat: Previously the very first repeat of a loop could jump back to the beginning of the piece instead of to the start of your selected range. Later repeats were correct. This is fixed.
• Correct tempo for 6/8 and cut-common pieces in OSMD: Scores whose tempo is written against a beat other than the quarter note — "eighth note = 120" in 6/8, or "half note = 60" in alla breve — played at twice or half the intended speed. OSMD now reads these correctly, matching the fix already made for AlphaTab.
• Smoother long practice sessions in the OSMD viewer: A timing leak meant each stop-and-restart left a stray background timer running for as long as the viewer stayed open, gradually using more of your device. Fixed, along with a second timer that ran continuously even when nothing was playing.

July 2026

• AlphaTab is now the default score engine: The MusicXML score viewer can use either of two engines, AlphaTab or OSMD. AlphaTab is the one that receives ongoing fixes — including the recent 6/8 tempo correction and the looping and count-in improvements — so it is now the default for anyone who has not deliberately chosen otherwise. If you previously selected OSMD in the Admin settings, your choice is preserved.
• Internal tidying: Groundwork so that dialogs behave consistently — a shared dialog frame now handles the dimmed background and closing with the Escape key, which until now only some dialogs did. The "Add to list" dialog is the first to use it; others will follow.

July 2026

• Faster startup again — the score engines no longer load until you need them: The two music-notation engines that draw and play scores account for roughly half of everything the app used to download at launch, even if you never opened a score. They are now loaded only when you first open a score. Together with the compression added in v0.0.235, the app now downloads about an eighth of what it did before. The one trade-off: opening your first score after launching the app takes a moment longer while its engine loads. Every score you open after that is immediate.

July 2026

• The app starts up much faster: The app's program files were being sent from the server without any compression — about 8.8 MB on a fresh load. They are now compressed in transit, which cuts that to roughly 1.9 MB, about a fifth of the previous amount. This should noticeably shorten the wait before the Repertoire and Practice grids appear, particularly on the installed (PWA) version and on slower connections.
• Removed an unnecessary third-party script: The page was waiting on a script from an external CDN before it could finish loading. It turned out the app never used it, so it has been deleted.

July 2026

• Pause and Stop now work properly during a count-in: If you pressed Pause or Stop while the count-in clicks were playing between loop repeats, the remaining clicks carried on sounding anyway, and a moment later the playback position would jump on its own. Both now stop immediately. Pausing during a count-in leaves you at the start of your loop, so pressing Play gives you a fresh count-in followed by the passage from its first note.

July 2026

• Scores in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 now play at the right speed: A piece whose tempo is marked in eighth notes (for example "♪ = 120", normal in compound time) was playing about four times too fast. This came from a bug in AlphaTab, the score-playback engine — it was reading the marking as though it referred to quarter notes. The bug has been reported to its authors; in the meantime the app detects the mistake and corrects it automatically. Pieces marked in half notes (alla breve) were affected in the opposite direction, playing too slowly, and are fixed too.
• The tempo control now shows the actual tempo: The score player displays the current speed as beats per minute alongside a percentage of the piece's own written tempo — for example ♩= 60  100% — in the style of MuseScore. The percentage turns amber whenever you are playing at something other than the written tempo, so it is obvious at a glance. Previously there was only a small unlabelled number that was easy to miss.

July 2026

Fixes to the MusicXML score player (AlphaTab engine), around looping and the count-in.

• Count-in now matches your metronome volume: If you turned the metronome up (it goes to 200%), the count-in clicks before each loop repeat stayed at their original volume — noticeably quieter than the metronome they were leading into. They now follow the same slider. With the metronome switched off entirely, the count-in stays at its normal volume as before.
• An invalid loop range no longer loops the wrong bars: If you typed a loop range that didn't make sense — an end measure before the start, or a measure past the end of the score — the player silently kept looping whatever range you had set previously, while the boxes showed the new numbers. It now clears the loop instead and plays the whole piece, so what you hear always matches what's on screen.
• Speed Training is steadier: Under rare conditions the player could report a single loop pass twice, which made the automatic tempo increase jump by double the amount you configured. Duplicate reports are now ignored.

July 2026

A reliability release. No new features — these are fixes to problems that could silently lose or misreport your data.

• Practice sessions can no longer be lost when the app is open twice: Finishing a session on two devices on the same day (say a tablet and a laptop) could silently discard one device's pieces. Saving a practice day, moving a session to a different date, and saving a practice list are now atomic, so both devices' work is kept.
• "Last Practiced" now updates for imported pieces: Pieces brought in from a backup file were not having their Last Practiced date, tempo or measure range written back after a session. This made the Spaced Repetition and Practice Coverage tools believe those pieces had never been played. They now update correctly.
• Importing a backup no longer fails on large libraries: Restoring a backup with a few hundred pieces or a long practice history could fail outright with an unhelpful error. Imports are now processed in batches, and individual malformed records are skipped and reported instead of aborting the whole restore.
• Settings no longer revert right after you change them: Toggling a setting during app startup (before your saved settings finished loading) could snap back to the old value a moment later. Your change now wins.
• Score viewer uses less memory: Opening and closing scores — especially with the Score Switcher — was leaving each PDF resident in memory. Closing a score now releases it. This should noticeably reduce slowdowns on tablets during long practice sessions.
• Drag-to-reorder in the practice session reverts cleanly on failure: If saving a reorder failed, the list previously kept showing the new order until something else refreshed it. It now returns to the last saved order and tells you.
• Telegram bot — commands no longer fail on certain piece titles: /repertoire, /list and /history silently did nothing if any piece title contained an underscore, asterisk or bracket. Also: pieces added by the bot now appear at the end of your session in the right order rather than jumping to the top; /list shows each ad-hoc item separately instead of collapsing them into one; /random is now genuinely random; and long-running commands like /score are no longer re-run by Telegram's retry, which could send the same PDF twice.
• Sharing a list by link now says so honestly: The "share list" action previously reported success and produced a link that never worked. Public share links are not implemented, and the app now says that rather than pretending otherwise. Sharing a list with another user of the app is unaffected and still works.
• App updates clean up after themselves: The offline cache was never being cleared between releases, so old versions' files accumulated on your device indefinitely. Each release now replaces the previous cache.

July 2026

• Repertoire — Secondary sort by Composition: When sorting by Composer or Last Practiced, pieces that tie on that field are now automatically alphabetized by Composition, so all of a composer's pieces appear in title order within their group.

July 2026

• Saved Lists — Drag-to-reorder ("Custom Order"): While viewing a saved list, drag any piece to a new position — the list remembers exactly where you dropped it. This is specific to that one list and never affects the main Library or any other list. Clicking a column header (Composer, Composition, Last Practiced) while in a saved list sorts and permanently saves that new order, replacing any custom drag order. The main Library continues to use plain Composer/Composition/Last Practiced sorting with no custom order of its own.

July 2026

• Repertoire — "Search Library" now works while building a new list: Previously, after clicking "New List," the Search Library box only searched pieces you'd already added to the new list — since a brand-new list starts empty, search always came back with nothing. It now searches your full library as soon as you start typing, so you can find and check off pieces to add. When the search box is empty, it still shows just the pieces you've added so far, as a preview of your draft list.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Library update: Updated the underlying AlphaTab engine to its latest release, which includes upstream fixes for audio playback efficiency and rendering. No visible changes — just runs on a more current, more robust version of the library.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Count-in cursor fix: Fixed a small visual glitch where, with count-in enabled, the playback cursor could briefly appear a few notes into the phrase right before a loop repeat started, instead of landing exactly at the beginning of the selection.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Performance improvement: The AlphaTab engine now processes rendering and audio in a background thread instead of the main UI thread, which should mean a smoother experience (less potential stutter) when working with longer scores. No visible changes — just runs more efficiently under the hood.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Rebuilt count-in-per-loop from a different foundation: The count-in-before-each-loop feature was rebuilt to avoid an underlying AlphaTab library behavior (recreating its entire audio engine on every resume) that was the real source of the repeated glitching. Please test again — loop a short passage with count-in enabled through several repeats.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Still investigating a count-in/looping edge case: A new, narrower symptom surfaced after v0.0.220's fix — the count-in click sequence itself can occasionally stick on the 2nd+ loop repeat. Added safeguards and diagnostics — see v0.0.222 for the actual fix.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Fixed erratic/double-speed playback after a loop restart with count-in: With count-in enabled, the 2nd+ loop repeat could sound erratic, with the first few notes playing at roughly double tempo. Root-caused and fixed — this was a deeper issue than the previous two release's attempts addressed.
• Metronome volume can now go up to 200%: The metronome volume slider (Guitar Tab / AlphaTab engine) previously topped out at what alphaTab considers "100%" — which some users found too quiet against the music. It can now be pushed up to 200% for a louder click.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Attempted fix for looping-with-count-in reliability: This attempt introduced a different bug — see v0.0.220 for the actual fix.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Attempted fix for looping getting stuck after the first repeat: This attempt was insufficient — see v0.0.219 for the actual fix.

July 2026

• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Fixed selection highlight color: Dragging to select measures could make the highlight over the first (anchor) measure drift toward a muddy, off-color shade the longer you dragged. Fixed — the selection now stays a consistent color throughout the drag.
• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Loop measure boxes now update from a drag-selection: Dragging to select a measure range while looping is enabled now correctly updates the Loop Start/End measure boxes to match.
• Loop Start/End measure boxes — Fixed a backspace bug: Editing the loop measure number boxes could make it look like a digit "wouldn't delete" (e.g. trying to fix "15" back down to "5"). Fixed — editing these boxes now behaves like a normal text field.
• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — Count-in now works before every loop repeat: Previously, count-in only played before the very first time you pressed Play, not before each subsequent loop restart. It now plays before every loop repeat, matching how count-in already worked in the OpenSheetMusicDisplay engine.

July 2026

• Brighter text for faded/muted UI states: Text was too dim to read in several places, especially in dark themes: completed pieces in the practice session table, repertoire pieces already in your session, notification status labels, and inactive tabs in the PDF Viewer's Score Switcher. The faded/muted look is still there in each case, but the text itself is now noticeably brighter and easier to read across all themes.

July 2026

• Score Switcher — "Close Other Tabs" context menu: Right-click any tab in the Score Switcher to close every other open score at once, keeping only the one you right-clicked.

July 2026

• PDF Viewer — Fit to width / Fit to height: Two new toolbar buttons next to the existing "Fit to page" (⤢) button let you fill the viewer along just one axis — Fit to width or Fit to height — instead of always fitting the whole page.

July 2026

• SRS Panel — Clearable search filter: The search box now shows a small "x" button whenever there's text in it — click it to instantly clear the filter instead of selecting and deleting the text manually.
• Guitar Tab (AlphaTab) engine — "Try Again" after a load error now actually retries: Previously, if a score failed to load under the AlphaTab engine, clicking "Try Again" did nothing. It now correctly re-fetches and reloads the piece.
• Removed the "Reset Cursor" button: It duplicated what "Rewind to Start" already did and had no effect at all under the AlphaTab engine. One less redundant button in the toolbar.

July 2026

• SRS Export — Fixed square/"tofu" notation glyphs (AlphaTab / Guitar Tab engine): Exported Anki card images showed notes and accidentals as small black-bordered squares instead of real musical symbols. Fixed by carrying over the font styling that alphaTab scopes to the score container.
• Measure Selection (AlphaTab / Guitar Tab engine): Hold Cmd (Mac) and drag across measures to select a range — release to finish. Selected measures are highlighted the same way, and the "To SRS" export button appears whenever a selection is active, just like the OpenSheetMusicDisplay engine. To clear a selection (e.g. after an accidental drag), press Escape or click anywhere on the score outside the highlighted area.

July 2026

• SRS Export — Fixed blank images for measures later in a piece (AlphaTab / Guitar Tab engine): Selecting measures further into a longer piece and exporting to SRS still produced a blank or near-empty image. Fixed — export now correctly captures the selected measures no matter where they fall in the piece.

July 2026

• SRS Export — Fixed blank images from the AlphaTab (Guitar Tab) engine, for real this time: The previous fix wasn't enough — the exported image was still blank because the font needed to draw the notation couldn't be loaded at all in that context. Fixed by embedding the font data directly into the exported image.
• SRS/Anki Cards — Delete now asks for confirmation: Clicking the trash icon on a card no longer deletes it immediately; a confirmation prompt appears first.

July 2026

• SRS Export — Fixed blank images from the AlphaTab (Guitar Tab) engine: Exporting a selected measure range to an Anki card produced a blank image. Fixed.

July 2026

• Measure Selection & SRS Export — Now available in the AlphaTab (Guitar Tab) engine: Click and drag across measures to select a range, then use the "To SRS" button to export it — previously this only worked with the OpenSheetMusicDisplay engine.

July 2026

• Speed Training — Fixed for the AlphaTab (Guitar Tab) engine: Automatic tempo increase during looping now works correctly when using the AlphaTab playback engine — previously it only worked with the OpenSheetMusicDisplay engine.
• Looping — More accurate loop boundaries on pieces with a pickup measure: Loop start/end points near a pickup (anacrusis) measure are now calculated correctly in the AlphaTab engine.

July 2026

• SRS — Single-card practice always starts, even if not due: Double-clicking a card to practice it now always starts the timer for that card, instead of sometimes immediately showing "Session Complete" if the card wasn't yet due for review.
• SRS — Confirms before exiting a practice session early: The exit (✕) button in the practice view now asks for confirmation before closing, and never shows the "Session Complete" screen unless you actually finished grading.

July 2026

• SRS — Double-click auto-opens the PDF: Double-clicking a PDF-backed Anki card now opens the PDF viewer immediately, instead of requiring a separate "Open PDF" click.
• SRS — Fixed wrong PDF shown for Anki cards: Opening an Anki card's PDF while the Score Switcher had other scores pre-loaded could display the wrong piece's PDF (correct title, wrong content). Fixed.
• SRS — Added an exit button to the single-card practice view: A close (✕) button next to the progress dots lets you return to the Library at any time without grading the card.

June 2026

• PDF Viewer — Auto fit-to-page on Performance Mode: Entering Performance Mode now automatically fits the page to the full viewer area, taking advantage of the extra height gained when the toolbar is hidden.

June 2026

• PDF Viewer — Fit to Page fix: The ⤢ button now correctly shrinks the view when zoomed in past the fit level. Previously, a CSS max-width constraint on the canvas caused the measured page size to appear smaller than it was at high zoom, so the computed fit scale was nearly identical to the current scale. The fix reads the canvas's intrinsic pixel dimensions instead, which are unaffected by CSS.

June 2026

• PDF Viewer — Fit to Page button: The ⤢ button in the PDF toolbar now fits the entire page into the visible area — whichever dimension (width or height) would clip first determines the zoom level. The page is always fully visible and as large as the viewer allows. The tooltip was updated from "Fit to width" to "Fit to page".

June 2026

• Full Page PDF Viewer Mode: A new setting (Settings → Workflow Preferences → PDF Viewer — Full Page Mode) opens scores in a dedicated full-page view instead of the modal panel. The browser navigates to /viewer; click ← Back to App in the top-left corner (or the browser back button) to return. All annotation, zoom, Score Switcher, and MIDI features work identically in this mode.
• Toolbar tooltip translations: All toolbar icon tooltips are now translated into all five supported languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian).
• Toolbar icon legibility: Resting opacity of toolbar icons raised from 40% to 65% for better readability on dark backgrounds.

June 2026

• Score Switcher — Toolbar Context Menu: Right-click the Score Switcher (Layers) icon in the toolbar to open a context menu with an Add Session Scores option. If the PDF viewer is not open, it opens automatically to the first session score.
• Score Switcher — Smart Deduplication: "Add Session Scores" now uses smart rules. If all currently-open scores already belong to the session, only the missing ones are added with no confirmation prompt. Only if non-session scores are open does a prompt appear (mentioning how many non-session scores would be removed).

June 2026

• Score Switcher — Add Session Scores: A new Add session button appears in the PDF viewer tab bar (to the left of Clear all) when your current practice session has items. Click it to bulk-load all session pieces that have PDFs into the Score Switcher.

June 2026

• Fix: Settings now persist correctly for all users. Firestore security rules were being deployed only to the default database, but the app uses a named database. All new settings fields (Score Switcher, PDF options, etc.) written by non-admin users were silently rejected by the named database's stale rules. Rules are now deployed to both databases on every deploy.

June 2026

• Score Switcher — Toolbar Icon Fixed for All Users: The Layers icon (Score Switcher quick-toggle) in the main toolbar was still hidden for non-administrator users due to a missed guard. It now appears for all logged-in users. The setting persists correctly to Firebase — no rule changes were needed.

June 2026

• Score Switcher — Available to All Users: The Score Switcher (multi-score tab view in the PDF viewer) is no longer restricted to administrator accounts. Any logged-in user can enable it via Settings → Score Switcher → Enable Score Switcher. The enable/disable toggle is now the first item in the Score Switcher settings section.

June 2026

• PDF Viewer — Excerpt Region Selection Tool (✂): A new Scissors button in the annotation toolbar lets you drag a rectangle directly over the score. The selected area is captured as a PNG and sent to the Add New Excerpt modal pre-loaded. Much faster than the full-page "To SRS" button for segmenting a piece into many excerpts. After capture, the tool resets to pen automatically.

June 2026

• PDF Viewer — Default to drag/select mode: The PDF viewer now opens in arrow/drag (select) mode by default instead of pen/drawing mode. Your last-used tool is still remembered across sessions.
• PDF Viewer — Return to score after SRS excerpt save: After saving an excerpt via the SRS button in the PDF viewer, you are now returned to the PDF instead of the library. This makes it faster to segment a whole piece into multiple excerpts in one session. Closing the excerpt dialog without saving also returns you to the PDF.

June 2026

• Score Switcher — Auto-reopen: Saved scores now reopen automatically when you open the PDF viewer — no prompt. Matches MuseScore behavior. Close individual tabs you don't need.
• Score Switcher — Clear All button: A Clear all button appears on the right of the tab bar when 2+ scores are open. Removes all scores from the switcher and closes the viewer in one click.
• Annotation toolbar — clearer icons: The "clear page annotations" button now uses a ↺ reset icon instead of a trash can, making it visually distinct from "delete score" actions.
• Palm rejection — desktop hidden: The palm rejection toggle is no longer shown on MacBook and desktop computers (where it has no effect). It remains visible on iPad and other touch/stylus devices.

May 2026

• Settings Open to All Users: The Settings tab is now accessible to every user, not just the administrator. Theme, table density, workflow preferences, PDF viewer options, exercise highlighting, timer sound, string reminders, score switcher settings, data export, and account deletion are all available to any logged-in user.
• PDF Toolbar Visibility Fix: The PDF viewer toolbar is now always a solid dark background, ensuring all controls are clearly visible on light themes (Solarized Light, Paper).
• Eye Button More Prominent: The Performance Mode button in the PDF toolbar now has a visible border at rest, making it easier to tap on a tablet.
• Green PDF Icon: The PDF icon in the repertoire and practice rows turns green when that score has been downloaded for offline use, keeping the existing green WifiOff dot.
• Manual Updated: Section 17 (Settings & Preferences) fully rewritten to document all user-accessible settings.

May 2026

• PDF Viewer — Full Screen Mode: A new "PDF Viewer — Full Screen" toggle in Settings makes the PDF viewer fill the entire screen — no borders, rounded corners, or padding. Ideal for tablets during performance or practice.
• PDF Viewer — Fit to Page: The ⤢ button in the PDF toolbar snaps the zoom so the entire page is visible. It uses whichever constraint — width or height — would clip first, ensuring the full page is shown as large as the viewer allows.
• PDF Viewer — Remember Zoom: A "PDF Viewer — Remember Zoom" toggle in Settings saves your zoom level to the cloud. Next time you open any PDF, zoom restores automatically.
• Count-in on First Play: Count-in beats now fire immediately when you press Play for the first time, not only on loop restarts. Count-in is also always audible even when the metronome toggle is off.

May 2026

• Count-in on First Play: The count-in beats now fire immediately when you press Play, not only on subsequent loop restarts. Press Play with count-in enabled and you'll hear the clicks before the very first bar.
• Count-in Always Audible: Count-in clicks now sound even when the metronome toggle is off. The beats use the selected metronome sound regardless of the metronome's on/off state.
• Speed Training Popup Fixed: The Speed Training settings panel was being clipped at the top of the MusicXML viewer window. It now opens downward below the Speed button.

May 2026

• Speed Training: New automatic tempo increase feature for the MusicXML viewer. When looping is active, an orange Speed button appears in the toolbar. Enable it to have the app increase the tempo by a configurable number of BPM every N loops — the classic speed-building practice technique, fully automated.
• Count-in Before Loop Restart: A purple Count-in button appears in the MusicXML toolbar when looping is on. When enabled, the app plays N metronome clicks (1–8, default 2) before each loop restarts, giving you time to reset your hand position. Works independently of the visual metronome.
• Offline PDF Storage: Download PDF scores to your device for offline use — essential for rehearsals and performances with no internet. The download button appears in the Edit Piece panel next to the PDF section. An Offline tab in the Settings panel lists all downloaded files with size, date, and a delete button. Annotations made while offline are automatically backed up locally and restored if connectivity is lost before syncing.
• MusicXML Viewer Improvements: Cursor height calculation fixed to correctly span all staves on single and multi-instrument scores. Decorative icon removed from toolbar. Tempo slider now has ±1 BPM fine-adjustment buttons.

May 2026

• Change Session Date: You can now correct the date of any logged practice session directly from the Practice Diary. Hover over a session to reveal the pencil icon next to the date, click it, choose the correct date, and press Enter. Useful for entering sessions from handwritten notes after the fact. If the target date already has a session, the two are merged automatically.

May 2026

• Score Switcher: Keep multiple PDF scores open simultaneously in a tab bar at the bottom of the PDF viewer. Switch instantly between scores, drag tabs to reorder, and save your tab set between sessions. Keyboard shortcuts: Option+1-5 to jump to a tab, Ctrl+W to close.
• Resizable Panel Splitter: The divider between the Repertoire Library and Today's Session panels is now draggable. Resize the panels to suit your workflow. Works both horizontally (wide screens) and vertically (tablets/narrow screens). Split position is persisted per user.
• PDF Viewer Improvements: Close button moved to top-left for easier access on tablets. Metronome toggle button added directly to the PDF viewer toolbar.
• MusicXML Viewer Improvements: Close button updated to match the PDF viewer style — top-left, prominent, with red hover effect.
• Difficulty Rating: Pieces can now be assigned a difficulty rating from 1 to 10 using a dropdown selector in the Edit Piece panel.
• Tuner Improvements: YIN pitch detection algorithm tuned for better guitar noise tolerance. Smoother needle animation (critically damped spring). Frequency smoothing applied to reduce display jitter. In-tune threshold widened to ±5 cents for more stable indication.
• Configurable Server Port: The development server port is now configurable via the PORT environment variable or --port command line argument (default: 3000).

April 26, 2026

• Google Drive Integration: Added optional support for linking PDF scores, MIDI files, and MusicXML files directly from Google Drive.
• Storage Efficiency: Linked Drive files do not consume application cloud storage, helping you stay within free tier limits.
• SRS Metadata Fix: Improved handling of piece metadata in the SRS dashboard, ensuring composers are correctly displayed and edited.
• Documentation Update: Updated manual and tutorial with Google Drive integration instructions.

April 24, 2026

• SRS UI Overhaul: Added a toggle between Tile and List view in the SRS Library for better management.
• Expanded Editing: Users can now edit excerpt Titles, Composers, and Descriptions directly from the SRS Dashboard.
• UX Refinement: Persisted SRS view mode preferences across sessions.
• Bug Fix: Resolved a critical "Cannot read properties of undefined" error when starting SRS sessions with certain repertoire configurations.
• Documentation: Updated User Manual and Tutorial with current screenshots and functionality details.

April 21, 2026

• Advanced SRS Grading: Implemented a 4-tier grading system (Again, Hard, Good, Easy) for more nuanced scheduling logic.
• Library Efficiency: Added live search and tuning filters (Standard/Drop-D) to the SRS library management view.
• Keyboard Control: New hotkeys for everything: Grading (1-4), Pause (Space), and Reset (R).
• Smart Integration: SRS practices are now automatically summed and logged into the Daily Practice Diary with full piece metadata support.
• Metadata Flexibility: Repertoire piece linking and titles can now be updated for existing SRS excerpts.

April 20, 2026

• New System: Launched the Spaced Repetition System (SRS). Master difficult excerpts through optimized scheduling and review cycles.
• Extraction Tools: Added "To SRS" buttons to both PDF and MusicXML viewers, allowing you to instantly capture pages or selected measures as flashcards.
• Flexible Import: Support for image and PDF excerpts with associated metadata (title, composer, tuning).
• Integrated Practice: Review due cards with a dedicated timer, tuning transition handling, and automated logging to the Daily Practice Diary.
• Repertoire Integration: Easily add excerpts directly from existing repertoire piece details.
• UX Enhancement: Redesigned the Practice Session table with dedicated file icons columns and stylized "Done" indicators (from v1.44.0).

April 20, 2026

• UX Enhancement: Redesigned the Practice Session table layout. File icons (PDF, MXL, MIDI) now reside in dedicated columns to prevent truncation of composition names.
• UI Transformation: Replaced the standard "Done" checkbox in the practice session with a stylized, circular green indicator for a more polished feel.
• Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where dragging pieces in the practice session would cause them to snap back to their original positions; custom ordering is now correctly persisted to the database.

April 15, 2026

• New Feature: Added Bluetooth Foot Pedal support for the PDF Viewer. Standard pedals (AirTurn, PageFlip, etc.) can now be used to scroll or turn pages hands-free.
• Manual Update: Added Section 19 with detailed setup instructions for Bluetooth foot pedals.

April 15, 2026

• UI Refinement: Redesigned the PDF Viewer header to remove the "Annotator" label and center the piece title and composer with a larger, more elegant font, matching the MusicXML viewer style.
• Manual Update: Updated Section 11 visual reference to reflect the new PDF Viewer header design.

April 14, 2026

• MusicXML Enhancements: Fixed a coordinate system mismatch that prevented accurate measure selection. Clicking on the score now reliably detects the correct measure.
• Looping Stability: Improved the metronome watchdog and playback synchronization to ensure looping remains stable during long practice sessions.
• Measure Selection: Refined the visual highlighting for selected measures and ranges.
• UI Refinement: Updated the MusicXML viewer icon to a purple file-music icon for better visual consistency with the PDF viewer.
• UI Refinement: Redesigned the MusicXML viewer header to remove the "Score Viewer" label and center the piece title with a larger font.
• UX Enhancement: Integrated looping controls (toggle and measure inputs) directly into the main playback toolbar for better accessibility.
• New Feature: Added mouse-based measure selection. Users can now click to select measures and use Shift+Click for range selection, which automatically populates loop settings.

April 13, 2026

• MusicXML Looping: Initial implementation of measure-based looping.
• Playback Stability: Resolved issues with the green cursor height and synchronization during replays.
• Manual Update: Added Section 17 for Interactive MusicXML Playback and Looping instructions.

April 12, 2026

• New Feature: Implemented Measure Practice Summary in the Practice Diary.
• Smart Merging: Added logic to automatically merge overlapping and adjacent measure ranges for a concise overview.
• Manual Update: Documented the new measure summary feature.

April 12, 2026

• UX Enhancement: Implemented Favorite Lists with a dedicated tabbed interface in the Repertoire section.
• UX Enhancement: Added drag-and-drop reordering for favorite tabs with persistent state.
• Internationalization: Added full support for French, Spanish, German, and Russian languages.
• UI Refinement: Reduced font size for tab headers for a cleaner aesthetic.
• Manual Update: Comprehensive update to document new features and multi-language support.

April 10, 2026

• UI Refinement: Changed the Saved Lists icon to a List icon for better visual clarity.
• Manual Update: Updated documentation to reflect the new Saved Lists icon.

April 10, 2026

• UI Refinement: Changed the Practice Sessions icon to a Calendar for better visual distinction from the Timer.
• Saved Lists Enhancement: Implemented accordion behavior for the Saved Lists modal.
• Saved Lists Enhancement: Pieces within saved lists are now displayed in a structured, sorted table showing Composer and Title.
• Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where PDF icons would not update in real-time after a successful upload.
• Manual Update: Updated documentation to reflect the latest UI changes and features.

April 8, 2026

• Historical Tracking: Enhanced the practice history retrieval system, allowing users to view their progress for any specific day.
• Manual Update: Documented the new history tracking features.

April 8, 2026

• Robust Session Tracking: Improved the session tracking system to be more accurate and include all relevant practice items.
• Manual Update: Documented the enhanced session tracking.

April 7, 2026

• Session Management: Improved the session management system to ensure all practiced pieces are correctly logged.
• Manual Update: Documented the improved session management behavior.

April 7, 2026

• Command Processing: Optimized the internal command processing engine for better performance.
• Manual Update: Documented the performance improvements.

April 7, 2026

• Search Precision: Improved the search precision to handle multi-word queries across different fields more effectively.
• Manual Update: Documented the search precision improvements.

April 7, 2026

• History Search: Implemented fuzzy search in the Practice Diary, allowing users to quickly find all practice sessions for a specific piece or composer.
• Manual Update: Documented the new history search feature.

April 6, 2026

• UI Optimization: Moved the "Export History" button from the main header to the Practice Diary (History) panel for better grouping of related functions.
• Toast Notifications: Replaced several modal confirmation dialogs with non-modal toast notifications for a smoother, less intrusive user experience.
• Manual Update: Updated documentation to reflect the new export button location and notification system.

April 6, 2026

• String Tracker: Added a new tool to log and track string changes, including date, brand, and notes.
• Maintenance Reminders: Implemented a smart reminder system that alerts you when it's time to change your strings based on a customizable frequency.
• PDF Viewer Fix: Resolved a bug where the page indicator incorrectly displayed the last page upon opening a new document.
• Performance Mode Shortcuts: Added keyboard shortcuts for Performance Mode (ESC to exit, CMD/CTRL + UP/DOWN to zoom).
• Manual Update: Documented the String Tracker and Maintenance Reminders.

April 4, 2026

• Session Completion: Added the ability to mark pieces as complete in the practice session.
• Multi-Match Selection: The system now handles multiple fuzzy matches by presenting a numbered list for user selection.
• Manual Update: Documented the new selection behavior.

April 4, 2026

• Repertoire Search: Enhanced the repertoire search capabilities for better library management.
• Manual Update: Documented the search improvements.

April 3, 2026

• Mobile Integration: Improved the mobile experience for adding pieces to the practice session.
• Fuzzy Search: Implemented fuzzy search for repertoire matching across the application.
• Session Controls: Added new controls for managing the daily practice session.
• Manual Update: Updated the user manual with the latest feature additions.

April 3, 2026

• Performance Mode: Added a new distraction-free mode to the PDF viewer for practice and performance.
• Alternate Tunings: Implemented tuning presets in the Tuner (Standard, Drop D, Renaissance G, DADGAD, Open D).
• Manual Update: Documented Performance Mode and Tuning Presets.

April 1, 2026

• UX Improvement: Moved the Practice Timer sound settings from the Tools panel to the main Settings (Admin) panel for better organization.
• Manual Update: Updated documentation to reflect the new location of timer preferences.

April 1, 2026

• Session Consolidation: Reverted to daily session grouping. All pieces practiced on the same day are now saved to a single session automatically.
• Simple Timer: Added a settable countdown timer in the session header with selectable alert sounds (Chime/Bell).
• Data Export: Implemented export functionality for practice history. Users can export to Text, PDF, or CSV within a selected date range.
• UI Refinement: Consolidated PDF and MIDI icons in the Repertoire table to single clickable buttons in the Action column for a cleaner look.

March 31, 2026

• Firebase Cloud Sync: Replaced Google Drive sync with a more robust Firebase Firestore implementation.
• Session Refactor: Practice history is now organized into "Sessions" with custom names and dates.
• UI Cleanup: Removed redundant "Cloud Access" and "Sync" buttons from the header.
• Manual Update: Completely refactored the manual to reflect the new cloud architecture and session management.

March 30, 2026

• Integrated MIDI Player: Added a compact MIDI player to the PDF Viewer, allowing for simultaneous score reading and reference listening.
• Manual Update: Documented the integrated MIDI player in Section 12 and updated Version History.

March 29, 2026

• Sound Preference: Added a user preference to enable or disable the completion chime.
• Manual Update: Added Section 15 (Settings & Preferences) and updated Version History.

March 29, 2026

• Completion Chime: Added a subtle, positive sound effect when marking a piece as "Done" in the practice session.
• Manual Update: Documented the new completion feedback in Section 5.

March 29, 2026

• PDF Viewer Safety: Added a static "Unsaved" indicator to the PDF viewer to track pending edits (replaced pulsing animation for better performance).
• Exit Confirmation: Implemented a confirmation prompt when closing the PDF viewer with unsaved work.
• Manual Update: Updated Section 12 and Version History.

March 28, 2026

• Inter-App Drag-and-Drop: Implemented the ability to drag PDF and MIDI files directly from the OS file explorer (Finder/Explorer) onto repertoire items.
• Visual Feedback: Added row highlighting and notifications for external file drops.
• Manual Update: Documented the new drag-and-drop capabilities in Sections 4 and 13.

March 28, 2026

• Tool Simplification: Removed the Chord Dictionary and Circle of Fifths from the active practice tools to focus on core technical development.
• Manual Update: Synchronized the user manual to reflect the current toolset (Tuner and Fretboard Visualizer).

March 28, 2026

• Integrated Scale Generator: Merged the Scale Generator tool into the Fretboard Visualizer for a unified technical practice experience.
• Scale Challenges: Added "New Challenge" randomization to the Fretboard Visualizer.
• Manual Maintenance: Added this Version History section to track all future application updates.

March 28, 2026

• PDF Annotation Suite: Added Pen, Highlighter, and Text tools with full color/size customization.
• Selection Mode: Introduced the ability to move, resize, and recolor text annotations.
• Undo/Redo History: Implemented a robust history system for all score annotations.
• Cloud Manager: New admin tool for monitoring resource usage and managing document storage.
• Active Session Timers: Real-time tracking of practice duration for each piece in the session.

March 2026

• MIDI Playback: Added support for attaching and playing MIDI reference files.
• PDF Score Viewer: Integrated immersive score reading directly in the app.
• Metronome Enhancements: Added subdivisions, presets, and sound customization.

February 2026

• Initial Release: Core practice planner with repertoire management, session planning, and practice diary.
• Cloud Sync: Google Drive integration for data persistence.
• Theming System: Midnight, Nord, Solarized, and Paper themes.