Originally Posted by AurealiusB
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.

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BIAB 2026:RB 2026, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.