Potential bugs since recent update

peter

That's not a bug, it is a feature 😉. The new version has support for the nashville numbering system. That means that the numbers 1-7 are also recognized as chords. If this bothers you, you can add a character to the line that is not recognized as a chord causing the line to be rendered as a plain lyrics line.

1 2 3 4 in Nashville Numbering system would be the chords (assuming the song is in C): C D E F

Lishy

peter yes I did think afterwards that it might be that new numbering system. Might leave it as it is as I really don’t want to go through all my songs to change it all on 3 iPads.

Is the midi@play syntax on the slave iPad a bug and is there any reason why that particular song song is freezing?

peter

Lishy The @play command on slave iPads does not work as the play command is not sent to the slaves. Only the status "Playing" or "Stopped" is sent and that does not trigger the play midi command. I don't consider this a bug and it has always worked that way.

Lishy

Damir I don’t have any colour/chord settings selected as I use the brightness option and it has only done it since the update like I said but see Peters reply as it looks like it due to this new Nashville chord thing he’s added. I’m also on the latest versions like I said.

Lishy

peter ok thanks. I’ll revert back to it just sending when the song is loaded. Could you see any issue with that that song that keeps freezing the iPad?

peter

There is nothing unusual in the logs. Can you export the song and send it to me with instructions how to reproduce the problem?

Lishy

peter I have just emailed you the file.

peter

I can reproduce the freeze/hang. It does eventually recover, but it will then freeze again. The issue is caused by the bass tabs in the lyrics. They cause the chord detector to freak out. Detecting chords usually takes a couple of milliseconds. With these bass tabs it needs multiple seconds to parse a single tab line (particularly those with a "5" in it). I guess it is a bug in Apples Regular Expression engine as the same code with the same input works fine in a Javascript Regex engine.

This is a serious bug caused by the nashville number system change and I will have to release a bugfix or remove the nashville feature as soon as possible.

Lishy

peter thanks Peter. It’s odd though as all my other songs with tabs in seem fine and it’s just that one that freezes.

peter

I have found a workaround for this issue. Version 3.8.17 is in review by Apple and will hopefully be available by tomorrow.

peter

Version 3.8.17 is now available in the App Store.

Lishy

peter thanks so much Peter. Just checked it and all seems to be fine again now.