Using the settings

Settings are accessed through the hamburger menu in the app.

From here, the settings used for display mode can be changed and adjusted.

Number of columns: This changes the number of columns a song is split into. It has no effect on very short songs and is limited on small-screen devices.
Display Chords: Set whether the chords are displayed above the lyrics, or in line.
(Android) Use Chord Diagrams? Set whether chord diagrams are displayed with the playlist. Can affect available screen space and number of columns available.
Text Size: Change the size of the text for chords and lyrics
Tab Size: Set the size of font used for TABs
(Windows Phone) Use Vibration? Set whether the phone vibrates when dragging and dropping songs to the playlist from the main menu
Custom Colour/Chord colour: Set the colour used throughout the app and for highlighting chords and sections
Use custom/alternate lyric colours? Set whether lyric sections will be displayed with a different colour to help distinguish them.
Verse/Chorus/Bridge Colour: Set the lyric colour for the different sections
(Windows) JAM/TAB previews: Shows how JAM and TAB songs will look using the selected settings

Comments

Create a setlist

This is the menu you're greeted with when you first open the app. Songs can be added to the playlist in two ways: 1) Drag & Drop the desired song from the top panel to the grey playlist panel 2) Tap the desired song, and press the "To List" button Songs can be removed by: Android: Tap the "x" button beside the song name in the playlist Windows Phone: Tap the song in the playlist and press the "From List" button Windows PC: Drag the song to the red bin icon, or tap the song then press the red bin icon. Saving & Loading Currently unavailable on Windows 10 devices Simply tap the "Load/Save" button to save, overwrite, load or delete a playlist. The layout changes based on the device and screen size, so may not look exactly as the sample images.

Adding & Editing a song

The same layout is used for adding and editing songs. Windows 1 0 devices: The screen feature three panes: song info, JAM/TAB and preview*. The panes can be shrunk and expanded by pressing the "<" and ">" buttons if necessary. On small-screen devices, switch between the song info and JAM/TAB panes by pressing these buttons. *Large-screen Windows 10 devices feature a "preview" pane on the right hand side which shows how the song will be displayed. Due to available space and resources, this is unavailable on small-screen devices like phones Android devices: Small-screen Android devices currently feature the input fields in a vertical scrollview (this will be changed in a future update to match the Windows version) Differing layouts aside, the manner of inserting the information is the same for both platforms. Put in the title, artist, chords & lyrics or tabs, and any performance notes. You can also show the time signature and sa...

Transposing

I've been making different types of music apps ever since I first learned JavaScript all those years ago. Chords, scales, and more. One thing I always struggled with was transposing though. It's difficult enough, there are so many different scales: Major, minor, chromatic, pentatonic to name a few. My music theory is good, but when it comes to transposing, there's a lot more to be learned. Then things come into play like transposing up or down. General rule of thumb for me is transposing up sharpens, transposing down flattens. Then that throws a few (potential) problems in. Some chords have two names (A#/Bb for example). Personally, I never use an 'A#' chord, it's always called 'Bb' to me. So do I take that into account in the transposing, or do I just leave it as 'A#' if it's up, or 'Bb' if it's down? Much ado about nothing, in reality. Just some perfectionism shining through. For the app, I've sort of generalised the...

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