musicadi About marking played songs: could you also add “last played” info (date, time) to that and maybe number of times played

Yes, it will be a history. So you will see all songs played in the order you played them and grouped by day. You will also see the time at which a song has been added to the history which is the time the song stopped playing. It will also be possible to store the history as a playlist.

JDSMUSIC Yes of course. The limit is 8 devices. But make sure you have a stable network. I would recommend running on 5Ghz.

Johnr Peter, could you please add a button on the main screen to pop up the sliders for pitch and tempo during playback? Navigating to the the menus for this during a performance is not practical.

I added this to my todo list for version 3.1.

JDSMUSIC The queue is not transfered, only the current song. Maybe I will add back the option to view the title of the next song in the queue, but not the whole queue.

I can't reproduce your problem. When the host is closed, the clients show a message after a couple of seconds that the connection has been lost.

musicadi That's a side effect of the battery saving feature of Stage Traxx. When no audio is playing and you switch to the background, iOS might terminate the app (depending on how many other apps you have running). Once terminated, clients will loose the connection. The only way to prevent this is to keep audio running (even though nothing is playing). ST2 does this. But this leads to serious battery drain if you forget to force quit the app as ST3 would have no way of knowing whether it needs to keep the audio engine running or not.

So I guess having to reconnect after the break is the lesser of the two evils in this case. Especially as you don't have to acknowledge the conntection request as a host.

Another way around this for you would be to use iOS multitasking to open the music app in parallel to ST3. Or keep ST3 floating above the music app. To do this, slide the app out of the dock to the left or right side of your sceen.

Hm, I just have an idea regarding the background problem. I can detect in the app whether a network session is hosted. So I could keep the audio engine running while a session is hosted and that would keep the app from closing even if running in the background. Only thing you would need to remember is to disable the network session at the end of the evening or ST3 would keep on running indefinitely.

musicadi An organising/sorting idea: in all windows where songs are listed, you could add different columns for Artist, Key (very important imo), Year, Genre, Last Played, Play Count and then, when tapping on a column header, the list would instantly be ordered by that column. Tap once, it is order A-Z, tap once again, it is ordered Z-A.

Library organisation will be a big topic for the 3.1 update. This is not something I will tackle in 3.0.

musicadi I’m sure I would forget to turn it off... haha. How about closing the connection when the client goes in the background?

Well, I can also detect if a client is connected. So when the app is switched to the background and a network session is being hosted with at least 1 client connected, the audio engine will keep running to prevent iOS from killing the app. I guess that could work.

musicadi I have sony lyrice with lines like “Ah ah ah” ST3 thinks these are A chords and colors them.

Well, in Germany many people use "H" instead of "B" that's why that line is detected as chords. Coloring only bracketed chords would leave everyone unsatisfied who uses the notation where chords are written above the lyrics. So that's not an option.