You're correct, they are lists. Management lists to be exact.

Songs will be an auto-saved list of the last 150 Songs (SGU files) loaded into the program. Super easy way to recover that song you worked on two weeks ago. Unless, since it was last saved, you moved it or removed from that saved folder. See attachment one.

Favorites and Recently are not only for management but also powerful search tools for controlling the massive quantity of Styles in the StylePicker by breaking down the StylePicker into user designated and smaller search parameters of a maximum number of 150 styles. This functions to match releases of Tutorials, RealTrack sets, Midi sets, Bonus Styles, XPro sets, XStyles Sets, etc. which translates into manageable search segments that are often also focused on a particular artist, genre, or instrument.

Search segments can easily and quickly be found by using the "What add-ons do I have" selection and determine specific set or Pak titles. I usually use XPro Style sets. They seem to be more varied and universally applicable to many different genres. Restricting a search to 100 universal styles that will definitely have all of the RealTrack instruments is very useful to a search. For instance, to search using the latest Xpro8 2025 release, in the StylePicker, Type xpro8 in the filter search bar and the 100 new xpro8 styles will populate the StylePicker list.

As you double click to audition styles on the list, each style you audition will automatically populate the Recently Played list. Any Style you find that may make into your project, marking it as a Favorite will populate that style into the Favorites folder. Assume you auditioned 50 Styles, marked 7 as favorites, now from the Main Chord Sheet, typing s4 or s5 in any bar on the Chord Sheet will open the recently played or favorites list and instant access for loading one of styles from either list.

The lists can then be saved with the song project name or any name you choose so the list can be retrieved in the future if you open the SGU file again to work on. Using the 'S' shortcuts from the Chord Sheet is well worth learning and using on your projects. Users can save and load as many different Recently Played and Favorite lists as desired. Saving these lists on a per project basis or per search basis brilliantly harnesses searches into manageable bites for future reference. Also, the 'S' shortcuts can be typed into any measure regardless if that measure contains chords or is empty. The shortcuts do not overwrite any entries of a measure.

Saving a list and clearing the Favorites and Recent Play starts each new project with a clean slate to populate for that particular project.

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