Today marks my 100th code commit to the Chordious repository on GitHub, so I figure it’s a fine time for an update. It’s been five months since I announced the start of the Chordious 2 Preview; since then I’ve added some thousand lines of code and released some 14 updates to the preview.
What’s new since last time
- Import and export your configuration file for sharing or safe-keeping
- Double-click on things to edit them, right-click for more options
- Save your favorite Finder parameters as the defaults
- Export diagrams to images with a user customizable filename format
- Tons of new built-in chord qualities
- Horizontally-aligned diagrams render properly
- Plenty of bug fixes in the Chord Finder and Diagram Exporter
- Plenty of UI and usability fixes
- Plenty of miscellaneous bug fixes
What was already working
- Search for chords with the Chord Finder
- Search for scales with the Scale Finder
- Add your own custom instruments and tunings
- Add your own custom chord and scale types
- Save collections of diagrams in the Diagram Library
- Import your Chordious 1.0 ChordLine documents
- Export your diagrams as SVG, JPG, or PNG images
- Rich Diagram Editor (incomplete, see below)
- Quick and easy installer
- Built-in automatic updates
What still needs to be done
- Add an easier way of picking which collection to save Chord and Scale results into
- More ways to manipulate the diagram collections in the Diagram Library (import, export, copy, move, etc.)
- Expose an easy way to edit default styles: the overall default style, the style for a particular collection, or the style across just a few diagrams
- More windows in the Diagram Editor to edit the styles of marks, fret labels, and barres
- Help documentation and mouse-over tooltips on everything
- Bug fixes and usability updates as they’re found
Thanks to everyone who’ve sent in feedback – Chordious still has a way to go to hit 2.0, but all the emails have been very useful in helping me identify bugs and usability issues that I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise. Keep them coming!
So if you haven’t yet, download and try out the Chordious 2 Preview today!
Father. Engineer. Retro games. Ukuleles. Nerd.
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Hi, I’m brazilian, and I like to play guitar for fun. I would like to tell you that I liked chordious so much. It was hard to find a software easy that pleases me. I bought many before find yours. Hope you can update the version for MAC soon. Congratulations!
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