• Beta

  • Open Beta Version 3.1.0

New beta build 4697

This is the final release candidate. I decided to add some of the requests made in this thread to this release.

I have also finished the updated manual. You can find a preview here: https://stagetraxx.com/v31-guide/

I nothing unexpected happens, I will release this build next week.

Changes

  • Addes setting to send midi commands when pressing play/stop. This applies to all songs
  • Songs are added to the history list whenever you play at least 50% of that song
  • Current song title will now scroll in player views if it is very long
  • Fixed text fields in song details view do not dismiss the keyboard

Peter, I. Knocked out, thank you.

No no one can say you don’t listen and respond to your customers.

I did worry when you announced the end of development on ST2 and that there was to be a full re-write. I had this happen with software in the past where it was unrecognisable as the original and no longer useable. This has certainly not been the case with ST3 which I now consider by far the best piece of software for solo artists and small combos who use any form of backing.

I push it to its limits as a solo artist and a member of a duo and a band. It does not let me down. But there have always been a couple of “if only” wishes. I can honestly say that apart from being able to do a find and replace across all song lyrics in the database (which would be wonderful but I’m not realistically asking for it nor expecting it) I am struggling to think of anything to make it better.

The addition of my request for midi actions on the start stop button has probably saver me weeks of editing each song in my database.

I’ll be testing this version tonight on stage.

Cant wait for next week to come along for the release version.

Once again, many thanks.

    Hi Peter have just loaded the latest beta and find that the edit playlists and edit lyrics functions don’t appear work in the song details screen. Have rebooted the iPad but still the same. Can you please check.

      Oh and another thing - the history function no longer seem to function

        DickyDutch yes, I’m getting the same thing too for the editing lyrics. History is working fine for me if the song is played from the start.

        ipad air 1 - iOS 12.4.5
        ipad 6th edition - iOS 13.3.1

          Beejaywh Thanks, I appreciate it.

          DickyDutch Damn, that's the code that fixed the keyboard staying open when editing start and stop times. I might need to remove it or think about something else.

          What exactly does not work with the history? The change was that a song will be added to the history tab if you play at least 50%. And that works for me. If less than 50% has been played, it is not added to the history tab.

          EDIT: A quick workaround to open lyrics editor is to do a long touch on that field. But I will come up with a fix.

              Just checked the history again, as Peter says as long as >50% played even if starting part way into the song it works on both my machines.

              Sorry Peter,

              We’re close but not quite there on the midi stop start for what I’m after (sorry, I know I’m a pain)

              how I have been operating is by putting lines at the top of the lyrics file like this:

              [midi: PC1@2, CC28.120@2, CC114.127@2]
              [midi@00:00.01: CC114.0@2]
              [00:23.68]Wake
              From your sleep

              This has the effect that when the previous song finishes the new song will load the top, none timestamped line and send the code out. This switches my reverb off and my lighting to a set pattern etc. The second line switches them on and flashing etc.

              If I had no midi commands in a song the play button will now send any assigned commands in the settings play field thus taking care of my current second line but there is nothing to send the first line commands at the natural end of a song. Thus there is no way for a default set of strings for all songs without editing the lyrics of each

              although I have not tested it yet, I’m presuming the song start commands would not be sent if auto play was used.

              in effect what I’m saying is that to make it work properly it should be the song coming to a start or stop either at the beginning/end of a song or anywhere between (via any method) rather than the action of the press button itself.

              hope that makes sense to you

              and you thought you were going to have a nice relaxed Saturday with your feet up lol

              regards Brian

                For me the history seems to work @ 50% on some songs but not others. I’ll do more testing to see if I can provide more details. I confirm that a long touch on the playlists, lyrics and key words editing files works as a temp work around.

                Have just taken three songs at random - the longest 4.22 mins, the shortest 2.54 mins, the other 4.06 mins. I’ve just played them as normal from start to finish uninterrupted and they all show in the history as being played. I’ve cleared the history and played them each again but stopping them manually just after their midway point. None of them show in the history. I’ve done this in both the advanced queue on and off modes with no difference. The test was done on my iPad 6th gen running the very latest official ios. Regards Richard.

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                  DickyDutch Might be a rounding issue, or do you maybe trim your songs? I guess the current code does not account trimmed starts or endings, I will take a look.

                  Beejaywh Currently the commands are for pressing the start stop button. So they are only triggered when you actually touch that button.

                  So if I understand correctly you would like to have global midi commands for start of playback and end of playback, right? But what is start and end of playback? Is it for each song, or if you have autoplay start will only fire at the beginning of the first track and end at the end of the last track with autoplay? And how about crossfades? If you crossfade, the start of a song is triggered before the end of the previous song!

                  I'm not sure this can be accounted for with global midi settings. With timecoded midi you can omit the song end commands when you know that another song will follow with autoplay (and possibly crossfade). On other songs, you can send reverb off right before the end.

                  Having a global song start playback and end playback midi command could lead to some nasty unwanted situations.

                        New beta build 4706

                        Small bugfix release for last update.

                        Changes

                        • Fixed song details dialog to allow lyrics editor, keyword view and playlist view to be opened again
                        • Fixed history add trigger to use the trimmed song length

                          peter hi Peter,

                          can I suggest I come back to this at a later time as I don’t want to hold up the 3.1 release. The changes already made are more important to get into the field.

                          Again, thanks for the efforts

                              Hi Peter have just loaded build 4706 and still have problem with the history. I’ve just played a song that is 2.54 mins long (with no trimming at either the start or end) and let it run to almost the end ( about a couple of seconds before) then pressed stop. It didn’t show in the history. I therefore seem to have an issue if I press the stop button.

                                Beejaywh Agreed, let's discuss this in a separate thread in detail.

                                DickyDutch Hm, that's really strange, I absolutely can not reproduce this problem. I tried all button stop modes with or without fade and also double tap to stop and it always works as expected. So what is different on your devices?

                                    peter OK I have the lyric editing back!
                                    When I use the iOS multitasking and float StageTraxx over AUM, I can indeed see the song name scrolling back-and-forth. However when in full screen mode I would also need this as well in the Queue/Playlist screen so we pick the correct version for the Queue etc.

                                        TimN-MK Oh, you mean in the list view on the left side? I'm afraid the scrolling of these entries would take up too much cpu. Maybe a setting to enable dynamic text sizes is really needed in this place. I will think about it.

                                          TimN-MK I tried it on one screen and reducing the font size for long titles is working ok if a minimum size is set. But I'm not sure you win that much more information that way. See this example:

                                          A smaller font is not readable enough and with this font you gain maybe 8 additional characters.

                                          Question: Any other opinions? Should the font size be constant or dynamic as in the above screenshot?

                                            I used latest beta last night without any major problems. One thing that seemed strange. With automatic scrolling enabled the lyrics pane would occassionally "jump" a line... hard to explain but whild doing smooth scroll scrolling as it normally does it would have a line jump about every 6 or seven lines. I was running on latest version of an iPad and doing a Hosted session where another iPad running ios 12.5.4 and an iPhone 6 running ios 12.54. Later today I will set them up and try it and video the screen with my newest iPhone.

                                              JDSMUSIC Did it jump on the host or on the clients? Jumping on the clients might happen if clocks run out of sync which most certainly happens if the playback speed is altered. The host sends his current timestamp every 5 seconds to the clients and if they run out of sync, lyrics might jump.