Dear HarmonySite administrator,

We're pleased to announce a new feature for our App that's been much requested:  Playlists

This gives users the ability to create playlists of learning tracks.  Users can create as many playlists as they like, each containing as many tracks as they like, chosen from any of the songs in your Song Library.

It's pretty self-explanatory - using this new feature should be intuitive, requiring no instruction.

Note also that any playlists a user creates will be stored permanently (until deleted), even if the App is uninstalled and reinstalled.

Look for the new "PLAYLISTS" icon on the App's main screen, as follows...

If you DON'T see the new icon, swipe with your finger:  "pull down" from the top of the screen to refresh the icons.

This feature is NOT available in the website - it's an "App-only" feature.

MORE NEW FEATURES

• During playback of a learning track, you had the options to vary the speed.  As well as regular speed (1.0x), your options were:  0.5x and 1.5x.   We've now added many more, in 0.1 increments from 0.5 to 1.5.  So:  0.5, 0.6, 0.7, etc.
• We've added a SEARCH facility for the Song Library, Documents and the Bulletin Board.
• We've added a button to REFRESH any downloaded file, if a newer version of the file has been made available on the website.  This is USUALLY not needed, but just in case, you can find it by tapping the "Details" link at the top of the page, then looking on the right-hand side for the "refresh" icon, as shown here...
  
  

Bug fixes

• When people attempted to upload Assessment recording files that had a SPACE in the filename, the file would not get uploaded to the website.  This is now fixed.
• On the Song Library screen, the ordering of song CATEGORIES has now been fixed, to match what's shown on the website.

Be sure to update your version of the App in the App Store / Play Store to get these latest changes.  Ask all your members to do the same.  You do NOT need to uninstall and reinstall the App - simply update it (if it hasn't automatically updated).

WHAT'S NEXT?

The next thing we'll be working on is "push notifications".  This will allow you to send messages to each member, similar to sending them a text message via SMS.  Such messages will be completely free (text messages sent via your HarmonySite cost money).

Once that's in place, we'll have the infrastructure in place to develop the Event Calendar, with particular attention to allowing members to indicate their availability for events (our most-requested feature!).  You will be able to request members to do so via push notifications - all intuitively built into the system that you're already used to.

In harmony,

Mark Virtue

HarmonySite

Australia

+61 2 8005 4277 (Australian number)

In North America, call:  1-415-651-7009 (San Francisco number)

Skype name:  mvirtue

mark@harmonysite.com

www.harmonysite.com