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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...
Last edited by DrDan; Yesterday at 02:27 PM.
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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.
Last edited by DrDan; Yesterday at 03:21 PM.
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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.
--Noel
MY SONGS...Audiophile BIAB 2026
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Thanks much Noel!
Because I often preview many styles but wish not to have all of them get loaded into my songs when I select them.
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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.
Dan
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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 would dumb it down or make it more complex inviting extra steps. If you are not ready for it, use premade demos to audition.
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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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