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  1. Please keep the Last Played date for My Songs that the old Mac app had. It helps me know which songs I haven't practiced in a while.

    6 votes

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  2. In the old Mac app, the "Full Song Practice" always kept your highest score, but the "Full Song Performance" always kept your LAST score, even it if was lower than your record. That could be frustrating if you were just having a bad day -- your previous high score would be lost. It would be nice to have the "Full Song Performance" score always be your highest score like all the other segments.

    5 votes

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  3. Offline Mode

    MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
    2.4 Ghz 8-Core
    32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 memory
    MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.6

    In Playground Sessions for the MAC Version 2.5.582 if you do not have internet you can play Bootcamp, Course and Song lessons that are already downloaded in your computer:

    https://pasteboard.co/3tvQPfSTTyjI.png

    In the MAC beta app Version 3.0.0-beta.6 when you try to open the app offline nothing happens.

    Having access to Bootcamp, Course and Song and lessons while offline is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. I sometimes travel and bring a keyboard with me and do not have internet access on my laptop. Without the…

    5 votes

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  4. ERROR SAVING PRACTICE

    After 2 hours of practice today I received this ERROR notice while it was trying to save my score:

    https://pasteboard.co/rippfyKF8aYO.png

    I had never had this happen before.

    After closing, the application hung up, with the "loading" graphic on the screen:

    https://pasteboard.co/bOWVw7cGLBgw.png

    I had to close the application and reopen again

    3 votes

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  5. I realise the sustain pedal don't sustain the note played on the new app. The Mac app does. As a piano player, the sustain pedal helps to sustain the note without pressing on the keys. This is important.

    4 votes

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  6. It would be great if clicking keys on the computer keyboard such as "C" for repeat, "D" for next, "B" to close a pop-up, and "E" to play/pause.

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  7. A key on the Piano to play/pause. Currently at the end of a lesson play through there is a dialog box where the "C" key is repeat, "D" is next, and "B" closes the window. Please add a key to play/pause such as "E" or "A".

    1 vote

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  8. Please add "Play/Pause" to the File, Edit, or Go To menu so that computer keyboard shortcuts can be assigned. Then I could use the built in Mac System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts app to assign a keyboard shortcut.

    1 vote

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  9. When playing a lesson at a 16:9-ish aspect ration the piano at the bottom of the screen has the number and note overlapping each other making them unreadable. When the window is narrow and tall the keys become very tall and skinny.

    MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
    Apple M1 Max
    OS 12.2.1
    LG UltraFine Display (3840x2160)
    Novation 61SL MkIII
    Arturia Keystep 37

    3 votes

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  10. When I first installed and launched the Playground Sessions for Piano application the bottom of the window is cut off, it is not visible, and no scrollbars are available.

    On the initial Keyboard Setup screen there is a scrollbar and there is a LARGE amount of whitespace between the login fields and the Start Keyboard Setup button.

    Changing the window to be closer to a 4:3 aspect ratio on the Intro screens, there was not a height or width where the horizontal and vertical scrollbars were displayed. The vertical scrollbar covers up the close button in the top right of…

    2 votes

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  11. With Playground Sessions YouTube link to the app content will be great too.

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  12. Don't find printing option for purchased songs?

    4 votes

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  13. Cannot find songs to purchase on iPhone/iPad app.

    3 votes

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  14. In the current version the loop button loops the entire lesson/section but the beta method means you have to mark the section to loop - This is OK for small parts but a pain if it's in a longer piece so can we have a "loop all" function to save having to do this?

    2 votes

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  15. Option for "HIGHLIGHT" function in addition to loop function.

    In the previous MAC Version 2.5.582 you can highlight a section to work on.
    When you PLAY it provides feedback on the notes you got right, close or wrong. At the end it stops and does NOT loop. So you can view how you played and what notes need work. You can then hit the lowest and highest notes for it to start again.

    In the new BETA version, if you highlight a section it turns LOOP on AUTOMATICALLY. It provides feedback on how you played, except it loops immediately so…

    3 votes

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  16. I have to remember to disable my Mac's screen saver each time I start PGS. If ever I forget, as I often use the piano keyboard to navigate, my screen saver kicks in (usually in the middle of a song).
    I know that other apps (like MainStage) allow me the option to disable my screen saver. I would like to see that option in PGS.

    6 votes

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  17. I think the different physical lengths of the bars makes it harder to read the music. I find the statistics provided by the previous version valuable to track one’s progress. It would be better if the zoom control was as before rather than being increments of 10%. Why no dashboard.

    7 votes

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  18. I really hope the team can work on improving the current Mac App instead of changing to the iPad/iPhone App on Mac.

    Really love the Mac App and wish to carry on using it with improvement on it.

    11 votes

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  19. Hopefully can improve on this. Learner would find it unachieveable and not want to practice it. The untimate goal is to make people want to learn and achieve being able to play the song and feel good.

    1 vote

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  20. Somehow I feel the view of the Interactive Sheet Music on the older Mac App looks better. The zooming function also better than the New App.

    7 votes

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