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The future

It has been a while since any updates/progress on the app. But I'm still working, in between college work.

Firstly, I've been working on the ability to save different playlists, with names. Really only beneficial on the full paid version, when you've got 60 songs and a few different playlists.

Next up there's the holy grail: chords AND lyrics on the same screen. You know the way you generally see chord sheets, with the chords on a line above the lyrics? Have that pretty much nailed. There is a little bit of tinkering to be done by you, the user. Just add a couple empty lines at the start of the lyrics to make it line up with the chords. When it works, it works beautifully. When it doesn't quite work, you still get the gist of it.
Just have to add a check to see if there are lyrics AND chords for the song. If the mode is selected and both are there, then display both. Otherwise we just display whatever you have for the song.

Pretty major update, that last one. Finishing up the last phase of testing and then should be grand.

Also a few minor adjustments to coding that should reduce the memory usage. Gotta keep on top of things that could be a problem!

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