The BIAB 2026 Manual (PDF) says this on page 74 (per the StylePicker): "You can also audition a style by actually playing it over the current chord progression of your song. The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
But this is not working. I select a style and it is highlighted but BIAB doesn't play the style that is highlighted when I press the green play button in StylePicker.
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This should be an easy fix. You need to configure it with the + button which is in the DEMO menu of the Style picker. Hit that + sign, then click "play your chords not the online demo" when you dbl click a style"./
by the say, this should have always been the default. So many folks are not even aware of this feature...
What I'm seeing when I do what you say is this: Allow Internet to play demos Double-click (or Spacebar) plays Chord Sheet (not premade demo)
The latter is checked.
So, I can double-click or press the Spacebar, but this loads the style I want to preview into my song. But I just want to preview and not load the highlighted style. This always loads the style into my song. How can I just play and preview?
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Yeah, you’re not the first to point this out. This is just the way they did it. I will tell you the developers got some pretty hard push back on this when it was introduced, but in the end it stayed as it is today.
Okay, thanks again for your response. But I want PG Music to fix this as it is not doing what the manual says it should do. Therefore a bug - again it is not doing what the manual says it is supposed to do.
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On page 74, the instruction manual says: "The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
This does not seem to be happening at the moment. That said, it could be me who is at fault, though. Just to be certain that the green arrow is working correctly, I'll pass the information on to the development team and reference this thread.
I have no objection at all regarding stirring the pot on this item and putting this back to the developers. Just want to confirm, I feel the green play button is behaving exactly as it has always since its last launch. I think the OP is pointing out that having to change the styles to audition a new style over his chords is poor design. That, I agree with. So this is more a quesion about defining what "currently highlighted style" means. When you use the green Play button it does play the style which is "identified/highlighted" in the header of the StylePicker.
But having said all that, carry on guys and good luck.
AurealiusB 1) Demo playing - is like playing your pre recorded MP3 song - that is essentially what BIAB is doing
2) to play chord sheet, BIAB has to load that style. There is no way "around" that. Period.
Technically, it could render or ghost load style in the background, but that would take a lot of time + extra steps and be limited to only a segment of composition. Imagine having 120 bar tune, but you want to audition last 5 bars. It would be impossible.
The only 2 things that need "fixing" concerning playing chord sheet in my humble view, is to: A) explain in manual what exactly play chord sheet means to avoid confusion. B) Have a solid Undo history function, so you can revert to whatever style you had initially.
Current method is a power feature, I would hate if PGM dumbs it down or make it more complex inviting extra steps. If you are not ready for it, use premade demos to audition.
Sure it plays the style in the song header. However, when I press the green Play button, I want it to just play the style that is highlighted in the StylePicker. The 2026 manual says it does that, but in BIAB 2026 it doesn't do that. And that is the whole point of the StylePicker, to play styles that are highlighted when the Green Play button is clicked.
I disagree that the Green Play button has always done this because it didn't. It worked just fine in BIAB 2024 (plus ALL the other versions of BIAB going back ten years). I miss this capability. I never use the demo, why would I? I put the all the chords into the bars in my song and want them to be played. I want to test/preview 20 to 30 different styles and not load any into my song unless I really like that particular style. Can't see why development doesn't consider this a problem. I can work around this issue, but having to quickly test styles in just the StylePicker with my song's chords is so, so much more helpful.
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I disagree that the Green Play button has always done this because it didn't. It worked just fine in BIAB 2024 (plus ALL the other versions of BIAB going back ten years). I miss this capability.
AurealiusB - That is fair, I am afraid I may have misspoke. I did think my claim was true but I have no evidance. Over the years we have had so many deep discussions about workflow in BIAB that I tend to be a bit confused at times. If you are correct that makes me agree with you even more that the current feature needs to be adjusted.
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I was under impression that you did want the styles to play Chord Sheet, but not loading / replacing tracks in the project.
Rusty, I think that is exactly the issue here. The OP says we could do this in v2024 and prior, but we lost this feature in current v2026. If that is truely the case we need to open up this can of worms again!
There was some convoluted method requiring opening non modal window with spaceship dials that would let you audition certain bars. I believe essentially what it did was it rendered or ghost loaded piece of chord sheet and sort of auditioned segment. I hope we never go that ancient route again.
The one and only true solution, without loading "ghost" project and retaining original would be a clean Undo + history, so you could potentially go back 20 steps or more without risking of losing anything.
Less flexible solution would be a button in MTP to save snapshot of the project before browsing styles with "Audition Chord Sheet" and not demo checked. In this scenario, user would press that button before browsing styles, it would still place tracks and other data in the project, but if nothing better is found, user would be able to revert to original snapshot with single click.
The Undo (under Edit) is a brilliant idea, but it didn't work for Style change. It only undoes Tracks Generation, not the style change. Will have to create a ghost project where I don't have to worry about any inadvertent changes to my song when I'm previewing/auditioning styles.
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Yeah, "Undo" in current iteration sucks. Not only with style undoing. Solid Undo and properly presented/displayed Undo history would solve quite a bit of issues in BIAB
The Undo (under Edit) is a brilliant idea, but it didn't work for Style change. It only undoes Tracks Generation, not the style change. Will have to create a ghost project where I don't have to worry about any inadvertent changes to my song when I'm previewing/auditioning styles.
Aurealius, I audition alternative styles quite frequently. When I wish to audition non-destructively, I first save the file with the style I wish to preserve. Then after destructively auditioning as many styles as I like with the same open file, I just click the topline File menu and click song #1 (the one I just saved) WITHOUT saving the changes to the open version that has been changed by the audition process. It's a bit of a workaround but it is fast and effective (so long as you don't inadvertently save the audition version).
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Here is another workaround. Save project duplicate. Open second instance of BIAB > open your project copy>browse styles - "destructively". Listen side by side: First instance of BIAB (original) VS second instance (dupe).
But....as DCRon said:
"It's a bit of a workaround" - That phrase should be illegal or at least considered to be a curse word
I don't want to bore anybody, but there was a veerryyy lengthy discussion some time ago on "UNDO". Most of participants agreed that UNDO should undo whole single action, even if it involves 100 automated steps.
Bottom line, without proper undo process unfortunately is destructive. Best solution is to have both: Proper Undo and Save Snapshot of the project, so you can revert back to original (last snap) from any rabbit hole.
Here is another workaround. Save project duplicate. Open second instance of BIAB > open your project copy>browse styles - "destructively". Listen side by side: First instance of BIAB (original) VS second instance (dupe).
But....as DCRon said:
"It's a bit of a workaround" - That phrase should be illegal or at least considered to be a curse word
I don't want to bore anybody, but there was a veerryyy lengthy discussion some time ago on "UNDO". Most of participants agreed that UNDO should undo whole single action, even if it involves 100 automated steps.
Bottom line, without proper undo process unfortunately is destructive. Best solution is to have both: Proper Undo and Save Snapshot of the project, so you can revert back to original (last snap) from any rabbit hole.
Truth. But a functional workaround is sometimes necessary when software development lags user needs...
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There are first tier items which are core functions, secondary, extras and wishes. "Undo" is a first tier item and it should do exactly what is expected. There should not be any workarounds for Undo, it definitely should not be a wish item. Undo that doesn't undo is a bug in my book.
The BIAB 2026 Manual (PDF) says this on page 74 (per the StylePicker): "You can also audition a style by actually playing it over the current chord progression of your song. The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
But this is not working. I select a style and it is highlighted but BIAB doesn't play the style that is highlighted when I press the green play button in StylePicker.
It still works in 2026. In recent design upgrades, developers have improved the StylePicker giving users multiple ways to customize searches and auditions to personalize the StylePicker to their preferences. To audition a style to play over the current highlighted style, do the following steps.
Highlight a style Press the Apply button Press the green play button
To continue auditioning styles over the chord progression of your song, highlight another style and press the Apply button
The Apply, Generate, and Demo buttons are active buttons and the selections made in the (+) sub menu affect how these buttons react to auditioning styles, move between playing style demos or current chord progression, saving search lists, and many other user settings to customize and personalize StylePicker searches.
< The one and only true solution, without loading "ghost" project and retaining original would be a clean Undo + history, so you could potentially go back 20 steps or more without risking of losing anything. >
Depending on the setting selected in the (+) sub menu, the StylePicker is linked to the Recently Selected/Favorites List and is selectable to either automatically save highlighted styles or not save them. Each project can have the complete StylePicker Style search saved and associated with that project.
This linked feature allows the user to search hundreds of styles over time without risk and instantly return to the original style. The Recently Used/Favorites list when set to link with the StylePicker and to save auditioned styles retains up to 250 of the most recent styles and 250 of any marked Favorites.
Charlie. While this is good to know...You are offering yet another workaround, without admitting there is a problem. Very expected. What you offered is a complete style reload not reverting to original project. I have seen many things going south, especially when style previously loaded had special tracks, like audio, silence., frozen, different time signatures and other type of tracks.
Undo needs to Undo last action - whatever steps it took to get there. Period. That would be a first step to fix.
Second, as I've mentioned possibility to take snapshot(s) of project which would include all customization, loaded synths, bar, midi, settings, partial regens, volume automations etc.
I usually end up with 5-10 project copies, mainly because I can't rely on undo.
This redesigned StylePicker is a program feature in BIAB 2026, not a workaround.
The on topic issue: Play Button in StylePicker Not Playing the Highlighted Style
To use it as intended, simply highlight a style, press Apply, then press the green Play button. The selected style is auditioned correctly within the program’s current style, and the StylePicker behaves as expected.
With exception that play button cant play Chord Sheet. And method that does that - is destructive, because Undo is broken. No matter what type of flower garden you will plant on this issue, it will not go away.
Thanks, I can get the demo or my song's chord sto play the highlighted style. What I can't do is to preview/play the highlighted style without loading in into my song.
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Thanks, I can get the demo or my song's chord to play the highlighted style. What I can't do is to preview/play the highlighted style without loading in into my song.
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Charlie, thanks for your feedback. However, the best solution (the only real solution and the easiest solution) and the way BIAB 2024 worked was this: 1) highlight the style one wishes to preview, 2) press the green play button to preview the highlighted style (and of course not load the style).
Simple as that. Enough said.
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Sorry, but for me every time I press the Apply button, it loads that style into my song. I want to preview, not import or load styles that I'm just testing.
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No, this issue is not resolved. I have been using BIAB for years (at least 10). Viewers of my posts should not only know that BAIB 2024 had this functionality, but previous versions had two play buttons, and this was great because one of the buttons (I think the green one) allowed for non-destructive playing/previewing highlighted styles playing the song's current chords.
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Thanks, I can get the demo or my song's chord to play the highlighted style. What I can't do is to preview/play the highlighted style without loading in into my song.
Correct. But, that's actually the way it's always worked. It was done in the background. Referred to in this thread as a Ghost.
Originally Posted by AurealiusB
Thanks for the feedback. Not sure which submenu you are referring to, but I have tried all the submenus and drop-downs.
No worries. It's not necessary for auditioning styles like you're requesting.
Originally Posted by AurealiusB
No, this issue is not resolved. I have been using BIAB for years (at least 10). Viewers of my posts should not only know that BAIB 2024 had this functionality, but previous versions had two play buttons, and this was great because one of the buttons (I think the green one) allowed for non-destructive playing/previewing highlighted styles playing the song's current chords.
Nothing’s been removed. What used to be the play-over-chords button is now the Apply button, and Demo is still the preview with the Demo button.
Charlie describes it well. I recall they added the option of auditioning a style using your own song and not their demo, but kept their existing demo capability. The added feature was in response to user support in the Wishlist.
In general, PG Music adds new features but leaves the existing ones for people who like the existing workflow. You can agree or disagree with that approach but it means less confusion after updates. The trade-off is you have to keep up to learn possibly better ways of doing things.
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This specific behavior (the green button playing the original style instead of the highlighted one) appears to be a point of contention in the current 2026 builds. Even if the manual says it "previews the song," if it isn't swapping the engine over to the new style for that preview, it’s essentially just a "Play" button for your current track, which makes it useless for auditioning.
It’s a classic "feature vs. bug" debate. When developers say, "it's not an issue," they usually mean "the code is doing what we told it to do" (which is play the song), ignoring the fact that it's not doing what the user—or even their own manual—expects.
For long-time users (like me) who point out that "The Manual says X, but the Software does Y," the harder it is for development to categorize it as a "user preference" rather than a functional oversight. Hey, I was once a programmer folks! That said, I will use Ghost files as a workaround but this is definitely a functional oversight.
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This specific behavior (the green button playing the original style instead of the highlighted one) appears to be a point of contention in the current 2026 builds. Even if the manual says it "previews the song," if it isn't swapping the engine over to the new style for that preview, it’s essentially just a "Play" button for your current track, which makes it useless for auditioning.
It’s a classic "feature vs. bug" debate. When developers say, "it's not an issue," they usually mean "the code is doing what we told it to do" (which is play the song), ignoring the fact that it's not doing what the user—or even their own manual—expects.
For long-time users (like me) who point out that "The Manual says X, but the Software does Y," the harder it is for development to categorize it as a "user preference" rather than a functional oversight. Hey, I was once a programmer folks! That said, I will use Ghost files as a workaround but this is definitely a functional oversight.
I disagree the new StylePicker is useless for auditioning.
Comments about what the manual says:
AurealiusB: The BIAB 2026 Manual (PDF) says this on page 74 (per the StylePicker): "You can also audition a style by actually playing it over the current chord progression of your song. The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
Noel96: On page 74, the instruction manual says: "The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
As quoted above and shown in the Screenshot of page 74 of the 2026 manual, the manual doesn't say it "previews the song,". Both you and Noel96 quote the manual to explicitly say, 'plays your song'. The wording is confirmed in the screenshot.
The StylePicker is doing what developers programmed it to do, which is play the song in audition mode. The redesigned StylePicker eliminates the need for Ghost files to workaround. It eliminates the need to redesign the program to create and activate undo (which doesn't currently exist) for the StylePicker. Some forum members and users may recall older versions of the two play buttons (Duplicates the Chord Sheet 'Play' and 'Generate and Play' Buttons) were restricted in audition mode to the default of generating and auditioning only the first 4 bars of the Chordsheet in order to create quick auditions. Later, the number of bars auditioned was adjustable, but the audition was still constrained to the beginning of the song.
The main question of this thread is only the green play button and it's function or functions. Different from earlier 'play' and 'play and generate' buttons, the StylePicker itself is expanded, upgraded and improved and that redesign in itself indicates a more sophisticated, intuitive (because of user preference and customizing) advanced and powerful tool.
Your last post served as a prompt to me to have Chatgpt assist me in producing a discussion detailing some of the advanced techniques, theory behind 'new' uses for the StylePicker and examples. Ignore the tone and pointed questions to Chat some may take offense to. These are to prompt questions intended to direct input from Chat not to be constrained to it's internal 'learned' biased answers it generates generically from its training. A post of this discussion with Chat will follow soon.
Thanks for the explanation of the line from Page 74 in the BIAB 2026 manual: "You can also audition a style by actually playing it over the current chord progression of your song." Followed by this line: "The green arrow button plays your song with the currently highlighted style."
My mistake for thinking that "auditioning" a style is the same as "previewing" a style.
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I appreciate the question. In most cases, audition and preview are often interchangeable. It's only in the sometimes unique language of BIAB the definitions become meaningful to be more specific in use. In earlier additions of BIAB, like it was in 2024, the generate and play acted more like a true preview than in 2026 because of the need to restrict the number of bars generated so auditions over the users song began playing sooner.
My mistake for thinking that "auditioning" a style is the same as "previewing" a style.
Hi Aurealius.
My goodness this thread has become immense! Honestly, I don't think that you've made a mistake. I've thought about your post a few times and I've also done a bit of homework. The green 'audition/preview' button was introduced in BIAB 2024. I'm was a beta tester for BIAB 2024, and I'm reasonably sure that I tested this feature at the time of its release.
My recall is that, just as you describe, the green arrow allowed the selected style to be played using the chord symbols on the chordsheet. Then when I closed down stylepicker, the original style that I used on the chordsheet wasn't overwritten with the new style. Unfortunately, I cannot be 100% certain about this because 2024 is a couple of years ago now and, as a result, my recall may be faulty.
For me, what is happening now when I use the green arrow is that it does not generate and play the highlighted style. It only plays the chordsheet with the original style that is loaded and already generated. In other words, having this green arrow seems pointless. That is why passed on a link for this thread to the development team.
Sooner or later, we will know exactly how this icon should work --Noel
Yes, you are 100% Noel! Glad you agree that this was how BIAB 2024 worked (I never used BIAB 2025, so I can't verify this with that version).
That said, development did not intend BIAB 2026 to work this same way.
Noel96’s recollection of BIAB 2024 behavior:
“My recall is that, just as you describe, the green arrow allowed the selected style to be played using the chord symbols on the ChordSheet. Then when I closed down StylePicker, the original style on the ChordSheet wasn’t overwritten.
For me now, clicking the green arrow does not generate and play the highlighted style. It only plays the already-generated ChordSheet using the currently loaded style. In that sense, the green arrow feels redundant.”
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After reviewing the BIAB 2024, 2025, and 2026 manuals, I was not able to find any documentation supporting the idea that the green Play button ever functioned as an instant style preview trigger.
Manual references:
2024: “You can browse styles by sorting columns or hear an ‘instant’ preview of the style by double-clicking on the list.” 2025 & 2026: “You can sort the list of styles or listen to an instant preview by double-clicking on a style.”
Aside from quotation marks around “instant” in 2024, the functionality described is identical across all three versions. In all cases, double-clicking is the documented method for previewing a style.
While it’s absolutely fair to say that StylePicker has supported previewing since the 2024 redesign, the manuals consistently describe that preview as being triggered by double-click—not by the green Play button.
Regarding the other controls (Apply, Generate, and the (+) submenu), the interface and documented behavior appear unchanged between 2024–2026. Screenshots from both versions show the same layout and button states, and the manuals describe the same functions for each. When enabled via the (+) submenu, these buttons determine whether a style is applied and/or generated, but they do not alter how preview is initiated.
I’ve attached a screenshot comparison of the two StylePicker's from the manuals and a simple flowchart illustrating how these controls interact.
Based on the documentation, there doesn’t appear to be a functional change between versions. Only a difference between how the feature is remembered versus how it is described and intended to work.
Aha, this might work for me (what was said above): “You can sort the list of styles or listen to an instant preview by double-clicking on a style.”
When I double-click on a highlighted style, BIAB indeed says it is auditioning it (and doesn't change my current style ... so far so good!). However, I don't hear anything. I hear the song fine in BIAB when I press the Play button.
So, why don't I hear any sound when I'm auditioning a Style? If I can get this to work (sound-wise), I think I'd be good to go.
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Good morning. I'm sorry to hear you're still running into this. I haven’t personally experienced it, but I’ve seen it come up from time to time and it’s usually something simple.
When you mention that double-click doesn’t change your current style, that’s actually not expected behavior.
With double-click working in Chord Sheet generation mode, it should:
* temporarily load the highlighted style * generate your song * and play it using your chord sheet, key, and tempo
If that’s not happening, then you’re not actually triggering chord-based auditioning yet.
A couple quick things to try:
* Highlight a style and press Generate * Or press the Spacebar (if enabled)
These should force playback using your chord sheet rather than the preview system.
If you still don’t hear anything after that, then it’s worth checking the program’s audio path/settings.
Bottom line: If the style isn’t temporarily loading and generating, you’re not auditioning against your chord sheet. You’re only triggering the preview system.
No, the software appears to be almost working. The 2026 manual says on page 15 to highlight the style you want to audition (or preview). So, when I double-click on a style in StylePicker, it tells me it is auditioning the style but I don't hear anything. Note the manual says this: "You can sort the list of styles by column or listen to an instant preview by double-clicking on a style."
Would like to talk to someone in PG Support about this. So, after I entered this I called PG Music Support and I have someone helping me now.
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If you are correct that makes me agree with you even more that the current feature needs to be adjusted. 
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