We’ve made some improvements specifically around the theme of repeats:

Moved “Expand repeats” and “Hide empty staves”

Previously, the “Expand repeats” and “Hide empty staves” features lived in an Advanced section of the player settings.

Now, these options are in the Appearance section, which is consistent with all of the other ways of tweaking notation appearance:

This builds on the new “Advanced” appearance feature we released a few weeks ago and is a modest simplification of things.

In addition, these settings are now auto-saved on a per-slice basis. See Auto-saved player settings for details.

Improved “Expand repeats” to expand similes

Previously, this feature only expanded jumps (like D.S. al fine) and repeat bars. Now, it also expands similes.

So this...

...will be expanded into this:

As a reminder, you can use “Expand repeats” on any slice you view sitewide, not just the slices you’ve created yourself.

Smarter treatment of similes in focus mode

Let’s say you enter focus mode, for a subset of your music that starts with a simile marking. Previously that looked like this:

The problem here is: the simile marking means “repeat the previous bar,” but that previous bar’s notation isn’t actually visible!

We now detect that situation and magically replace simile markings with the appropriate notes. So the situation from the previous screenshot now looks like this: