Website Release Notes
Updates that ship to bandcentral.com — rolled out continuously and grouped into numbered builds.
Band Central for Web -- Build 273
June 28, 2026
Added a proper Page Not Found page. Visiting a link that does not exist (an outdated bookmark or a mistyped address) now shows a clear 404 page with a button back to the homepage and links to Help, Release Notes, Tools, and Contact, instead of silently bouncing you to the homepage with no explanation. The not-found page is also marked so search engines do not index dead URLs.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 272
June 28, 2026
Reorganized the release notes section so updates are easier to find. The main Release Notes page is now a simple hub with a card for each platform (Website, Android, and iOS), and each card opens its own page listing that platform's full history as cards, newest first. Before, every platform and build sat on one long combined page that was hard to scan. The web address for release notes is unchanged.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 271
June 28, 2026
Chord diagrams come to the web, matching the iOS and Android apps. Open any lyric and use the Diagrams control to turn them on. Pick how you see them: Off, Chord summary (every chord in the song shown once at the top), Inline (a small fretboard above each chord), or a pinned Bottom strip, Top strip, or Right panel that stays in view as you scroll. Choose guitar or ukulele, turn on left-handed diagrams, and turn on capo-aware shapes so a song with a capo shows the shape you actually play while the chord name stays the sounding chord. Use the size slider to make diagrams bigger or smaller. Click any chord to open the inspector, step through alternate voicings, and pick one to use for every time that chord appears. Diagrams follow the Transpose tool so they always match the chords on screen, and any ChordPro define shapes in your song are used first. Your choices are saved with the lyric and sync across your devices and the apps. Chord shape data is from the open-source chords-db project (MIT License); see the About page for the full credit.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 270
June 2026
Fixed bracketed text that is not a real chord showing up as a chord. Some songs use bracket markers that are not chords, like [=] as a separator in alternate-chord sections or [N.C.] for no chord. The web was treating any bracketed text as a chord and rendering it above the lyrics. Now only text whose root is an actual note (A through G) is rendered as a chord; everything else is left as plain bracketed text, so your chord lines stay clean.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 269
June 2026
Added two new gear guides to the site to help musicians set up a tablet for reading music on stage. The best tablets for musicians guide compares the top tablets for sheet music by screen size, aspect ratio, brightness, and price, from the iPad Pro to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra and budget picks. The best page-turner pedals guide covers the top Bluetooth foot pedals for turning pages hands-free, including the AirTurn Duo 500, PageFlip Butterfly and Firefly, and iRig BlueTurn. Both pages are linked from the site footer.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 268
June 2026
Fixed a subscription bug that could quietly downgrade a band to the free plan. When you edited a band, such as adding or removing a member, renaming it, or saving lyric format settings, the band could be reset to the free plan if the app was working from an incomplete copy of the account. For people who own more than one band, this made the plan appear to change depending on which band they were viewing, and it capped member and song limits below what their subscription allows. Band edits now leave the existing plan untouched, so your subscription level stays put.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 267
June 2026
A round of setlist editor and layout improvements. In the setlist editor, each song now has a menu to add a new song, break, or catalog song right below it, so you can place a break exactly where you want instead of dragging it up from the bottom. The song catalog now hides songs that are already in the setlist by default, with a Show all option in the catalog menu to bring them back. Clicking a break no longer tries to open lyrics. The Songs, Setlists, Tags, and setlist editor pages now fill the height of the window with only their lists scrolling, so there is no wasted space at the bottom and no whole-page scrollbar, and the two-pane views line up cleanly.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 266
June 2026
Two improvements to setlist printing. First, you can now print the full lyrics of every song in a setlist: open a setlist, go to Print, and click the new Lyrics button. Each song prints its lyrics on its own page, with a page break after each one, using the same formatting and your own default lyric version for each song. Songs with no lyrics still print a titled page. Second, the print Header menu now has a Left, Center, or Right alignment option for the header block (setlist name, gig date, location, and duration), with Center as the default.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 265
June 2026
Fixed setlists going missing from the web setlist list. Setlists that had no gig date could be left out of the list on the web, even though they showed up fine in the iOS and Android apps. This affected setlists created or cloned on iPhone or iPad without a date set. The web now sorts the list in the browser instead of relying on the database to sort by date, so every setlist shows up regardless of whether it has a gig date. Undated setlists sort to the bottom of the date view.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 264
June 2026
Fixed drag and drop into an empty setlist in the desktop two-pane editor. Before, when a setlist had no songs yet, the drop area on the right was hidden, so dragging the first song over from your catalog had nowhere to land and nothing happened; you had to add a song some other way first before drag and drop started working. Now the setlist side always shows a drop zone, even when empty, so you can drag the very first song straight in. Reordering songs once the setlist has them, and the phone layout, are unchanged.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 263
June 2026
Small follow-up to the Setlists phone layout: the list now fills the full height of the screen. Before, the card stopped short of the bottom on phones, leaving an empty grey strip and a stray border. The list height now accounts for just the top navigation bar, so it reaches the bottom edge cleanly.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 262
June 2026
Reworked the Setlists toolbar on phones to match the Songs page. Before, the search box and the row menu could overlap on small screens. Now the phone toolbar shows Add, Delete, a More menu (Sort and Export), and a search button; tapping search expands a full-width search box with a back arrow, just like the Songs page. The toolbar stays pinned while you scroll the list, and nothing runs off the edge of the screen.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 260
June 2026
Cleaned up the setlist actions so it is obvious how to open a setlist and add songs to it. Each setlist in the list now has a single three-dot menu with three clearly labeled choices: Edit Setlist (name, date, location), Edit Setlist Songs (opens the editor where you add songs from your catalog), and Clone Setlist. Before, a setlist row showed only an edit pencil and a copy icon, and it was easy to miss how to get into the song editor. The preview pane on the right no longer shows a duplicate Clone button, since cloning now lives in the three-dot menu, so each action appears in just one place.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 259
June 2026
The side-by-side setlist editor now shows on more screen sizes. Before, opening a setlist on a laptop only gave you the compact single-column layout unless your window was about 1280 pixels or wider; the two-pane view (your song catalog on the left, the setlist on the right, with drag and drop between them) was reserved for very wide monitors. It now appears from about 960 pixels wide, the same breakpoint the Songs page uses, so laptop users get the full editor by default instead of having to tap into edit mode to reach the columns. Phones and small windows still use the compact single-column layout, which fits better on a small screen.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 258
June 2026
Fixed duplicate songs when sharing to a band. Before, sharing the same song to a band a second time added another linked copy, so the song appeared twice in that band. Now the share checks whether that song is already shared into the target band (matching on the original source song) and skips it instead of adding a duplicate, so each shared song shows up only once. Songs that are not already there still share normally, and the result message reflects how many were added versus skipped.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 257
June 2026
The Songs page now shows the full spreadsheet view (the table with columns for Name, Artist, Genre, Key, Tempo, Time Signature, Length, Lyrics, and Setlists) on more screen sizes. Before, the table only appeared on very wide windows (about 1280 pixels and up), so many laptops fell back to the compact stacked list, especially with Windows display scaling turned up. The table now appears from about 960 pixels wide, and it scrolls sideways if the window is narrow, so laptop users get the columns view by default. Phones still use the compact list, which fits a small screen better.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 256
June 2026
Lyric Format settings now carry over fully between the apps and the website. Before, the web only applied formatting for the title, subtitle, chords, lyrics, section headers, and comments; formatting you set on your phone for the Key/Tempo header, highlights, and tablature was dropped, and a part you chose to hide still showed on the web. Now the web reads every part of your saved format, applies the Key/Tempo, highlight, and tablature styles, honors the "show/hide" toggle for each part (so hiding chords or any part on your phone also hides it on the web), and uses your custom highlight colors. This build also fixes the default font: a lyric with no custom format now shows in Times New Roman on the web, matching the apps (it used to default to Arial on the web only). This applies everywhere the web shows lyrics: the lyric view, the editor preview, and print.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 255
June 2026
The lyric editor now color-codes ChordPro tags while you type. Chords like [A] and [Gm7] show in blue, bracket section labels like [Verse] and [Chorus] show in orange, and curly-brace directives like {title:...} and {soc} show in green italics, so each kind of tag stands out clearly from the plain lyric lines. The three colors use a color-blind-friendly palette, and the directives are italicized so they are distinguishable without relying on color alone. The highlighting updates live as you edit and works with the Insert menus and the converter. It is a visual aid only; nothing about your saved lyrics changes. This build also recognizes [Middle 8] (the "middle eight" bridge section) as a song part, so it is labeled and colored like [Verse] and [Chorus] in the editor, the lyric view, and print.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 254
June 2026
Fixed the Login button in the collapsed (phone and tablet) navigation menu. It used to stretch edge to edge as a full-width blue bar pressed right up against the Help item. It is now a centered, normal-width button with space above it, so it lines up with the other menu items and is clearly separated from Help.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 253
June 2026
Fixed an issue where some accounts (mainly those created with Sign in with Google) were saved without an email address attached. Because adding a member to a band looks people up by email, those accounts could not be found, so the band owner saw "Could not find user" even after the person had signed up. New accounts now always store their email, and the owner record on a band is no longer left blank. Accounts that were already affected have been repaired.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 252
June 2026
Fixed duplicating a setlist. The copy correctly included all the songs, but its song count, break count, and total time were left at zero, so the duplicated setlist looked empty or wrong in the list. Duplicating now tallies the copied songs and writes the correct song count, break count, and total time onto the new setlist. (Any setlist you already duplicated will correct itself the next time you add, move, or edit a song in it.)
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 251
June 2026
The Band Users window now shows a loading spinner while your band members are being fetched. Before, it briefly displayed a "no members" message until the list finished loading, which looked like an error. It now waits for the data and only shows that message if the band really has no other members.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 250
June 2026
A small layout polish in the Band Users window. Added padding on the left, and moved the owner star to its own slot on the left edge of the row, vertically centered, so it stands out. Members without the star get the same spacing reserved, so every name and email lines up neatly down the list.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 249
June 2026
Reworked how band members are shown in the Band Users window. Instead of a fixed column table that got cramped and scrolled sideways in a narrow or split-screen browser, each member now appears as a simple stacked row, name on top with their email beneath and the remove button on the right. It reads cleanly at any window width and never needs a horizontal scroll bar.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 248
June 2026
Fixed the Band Users window (where you add and remove band members). In a narrow or split-screen browser it used to be squeezed too small, which produced a horizontal scroll bar, a cut-off right edge, and wrapped text. It now opens wide enough to show the Email, Display Name, and Action columns cleanly, shrinks to fit when your browser window is narrow, and you can drag its right edge to make it wider when you have the room. Also removed a stray "true" that briefly appeared above the email field while typing.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 247
June 2026
Fixed the total time shown next to each setlist. Before, that total did not refresh when you changed a song's length, so it could show an old value, and it left out any breaks you had added. Now the setlist total recalculates whenever a song's duration changes, and it includes break time, so it reflects the full length of the set, the same way the iPhone, iPad, and Android apps do. The total inside an open setlist was already correct; this brings the setlist list in line with it.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 246
June 2026
You can now sort the Songs list by the Lyrics and Setlists columns. Click the Lyrics column header to order your catalog by how many lyrics each song has, an easy way to spot songs that still need lyrics added, and click the Setlists column to order by how many setlists a song appears in. Click again to reverse the order. Sorting happens instantly in your browser, so it does not slow anything down.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 245
June 2026
Fixed song duration not syncing between bandcentral.com and the mobile apps. The website was saving a song's length in a different place than the apps read it from, so a duration you set on the website never showed up on your phone or tablet, and a duration set on a device never showed on the website. The website now reads and writes the same duration value the apps use, so a song's length stays consistent everywhere. Durations you had already set on a device will now display correctly on the website too.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 244
June 2026
Added a Login button to the top menu. Before, the only way to sign in from the home page was the Get Started button or a small Login link tucked in the footer at the bottom of the page, which was easy to miss. Now there is a clear Login button in the main navigation bar at the top of every page, so you can get to your songs and setlists from anywhere on the site.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 243
June 2026
A behind-the-scenes update. Added an internal admin-only tool for composing and sending release announcement emails, with live send-progress tracking and a resume control. This changes nothing about how the app looks or works for you -- it is only used by the team to send update announcements more reliably.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 242
June 2026
Made it clear when adding a band member requires upgrading your plan. Before, if your plan was already at its member limit (the free plan includes only you), the Add Member field still looked usable, and clicking Add only flashed a brief message at the bottom of the screen that was easy to miss -- so it looked like adding the person simply failed. Now the Band Users dialog shows a clear, persistent notice explaining that your current plan is at its member limit, with a View Plans button, and the email field is disabled until you upgrade. No more guessing why a member would not add.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 241
June 2026
A follow-up round of accessibility polish. Several spots that used light gray text are now darker and easier to read for everyone: the plan descriptions and prices on the pricing page, the copyright line in the site footer, and the song durations and footer on printed setlists. The small print at the bottom of a printed setlist is also a bit larger now. And if you have turned on "reduce motion" in your device or browser settings, Band Central now honors it by skipping non-essential animations. Nothing changes about how the app works -- these are readability and comfort improvements.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 240
June 2026
A round of accessibility improvements across the whole site. Pinch zoom now works on phones and tablets (it was previously blocked). Everything now works from the keyboard: song and tag cards on mobile, the page arrows in the lyric view (plus left and right arrow keys to flip pages), and the action menus that used to appear only when hovering with a mouse now also appear when you tab to a row. You can now reorder setlist songs from the keyboard too: focus a row and press Alt plus the up or down arrow on desktop, or use the arrow keys on the reorder handle on mobile. Keyboard users get a clear focus outline showing where they are on the page, a "skip to main content" link, and proper page titles on every screen. Screen readers get proper names on buttons and menus, announcements when content is loading or a song is deleted, and better page structure. Mouse and touch users see no visual changes -- the app looks the same, it just works for more people and more devices.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 239
June 2026
Fixed deleting a song on the web. Removing a song now correctly lowers the band song count (it used to stay the same, so the number on your band card could look wrong), and the song is now properly soft-deleted and kept for 30 days in case you need it back, matching the iOS and Android apps. Songs you delete still disappear from your lists right away.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 238
June 2026
When you edit lyrics with the live preview pane open, the editor and the preview now scroll together. Before, the two sides scrolled independently, so editing near the bottom of a long song left the preview stuck at the top. Now scrolling either side keeps the other in sync, so the part you are working on stays lined up in both panes.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 237
June 2026
A behind-the-scenes update. The website now records when you open the app (no more than once a day) so we can better understand how many people are actively using Band Central, rather than only counting fresh sign-ins. This is internal usage measurement only -- nothing changes about how the app looks or works for you.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 236
June 2026
Every release note now opens its own page. Previously the "Read full notes" links on the Release Notes page led to a "not found" message for all but a few builds; now each build has a real page showing what changed. Behind the scenes, the website also fixed how these pages are generated so that search engines and link previews see the actual title and summary of each release instead of a blank page. No change to how the app itself works.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 235
June 2026
Lyric colors now match the iOS and Android apps. The website now reads the same up-to-date format settings the apps use, so the font colors, background highlights, section-header bands, and subtitle styling you set on your phone or tablet finally show on the web. The Format toolbar adds a font Color and Background color picker (a full color palette with a "None" option), reordered to Song Part, Font, Font Size, B/I/U, Color, Background. Pick a part (Lyrics, Chords, Song Part, Title, and so on) and set its colors right in the lyric view; changes save and sync back to the apps. The Font Size menu now lists plain pixel sizes (8px to 32px) instead of numbered steps, matching the apps.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 234
June 2026
Fixed the free online Chord Transpose tool so it no longer changes letters inside lyric words. Before, transposing could read the start of a word like "Amazing" as an "Am" chord and turn it into "Cmazing." Chords are now only transposed when they stand on their own, so your lyrics are left exactly as written.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 233
June 2026
Fixed a chord-spelling glitch when transposing on the web. Some transposed chords showed theoretical note names that nobody writes on a chart, like Fbm7 or Cb, instead of the natural equivalent (Em7, B). Transposed chords now fold back to natural names, matching how the iOS and Android apps display them. The chords always sounded correct; this only fixes the spelling on screen.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 232
June 2026
Finding how to upgrade is now easier. The account menu has a new Subscription item that opens the Plans & Subscriptions page, and whenever you reach a free-plan limit (songs, set lists, bands, or members) the message now includes a View Plans button that takes you there. The page explains that subscriptions are purchased in the iOS or Android app and that paid features then unlock everywhere you sign in, including the website.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 231
June 2026
Deleting is now safer and tidier. When you delete a song, set list, or lyric it is hidden right away but kept on the server for 30 days before it is permanently removed, instead of being erased immediately. Deleting also clears the item's attached document and audio files from the "Update Dropbox files" list in the mobile apps, so files for deleted songs no longer show up there. This matches how the iOS and Android apps already work.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 230
June 2026
Share songs between bands you own. From the song list, use the new Share button to pick songs (or the per-row menu to share one) and copy them, along with your own lyrics, into another band you own. The copies stay linked: edit a shared song or lyric in either band and the change syncs to the other. A linked song shows a "Synced from" badge, and a Disconnect action breaks the link so the two copies can diverge. A single share copies up to 100 songs at a time. This first version works on the website and is limited to bands you own.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 229
June 2026
The free plan now holds up to 50 songs per band (up from 25). A new Plans & Subscriptions help page at bandcentral.com/help/subscriptions explains that every feature is free and a subscription only raises limits -- so a band you are invited to has no restrictions because the owner pays, and you only need to subscribe to own more than 1 band or keep more than 50 songs in a band you own.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 228
May 2026
Lyric editor preview panel polish. The preview and editor panes are now the same height and each scroll independently -- no more page-level scrollbar. The preview opens by default and your on/off preference is remembered between sessions. The song info block (key, tempo) now stays inside the preview panel instead of floating above the toolbar.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 227
May 2026
Live ChordPro preview in the lyric editor (desktop only). Click the Preview button on the right side of the toolbar to open a side-by-side rendered view of your ChordPro text. Chords appear above lyrics, section headers are styled, and the preview updates as you type. The Convert panel still appears above the editor when open, and the preview can be shown at the same time.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web -- Build 226
May 2026
New tool: ChordPro Converter at bandcentral.com/tools/chordpro-converter. Paste lyrics in the chords-above-lyrics format used by Ultimate Guitar and most tab sites, and the tool converts them to ChordPro bracket notation instantly. The output pane has two tabs -- raw ChordPro text and a live rendered preview. On mobile, a Convert button switches between the input view and the tabbed output view.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 225
May 2026
Adding a new lyric version now automatically becomes your default for that song. Any prior default lyric for you on the same song is cleared in the same write, so you only see one starred lyric per song. The existing star icon in the lyrics list still works the same way for manually changing your default.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 224
May 2026
Chorus and bridge gutter bar: sections opened via {soc} / {start_of_chorus} and {sob} / {start_of_bridge} now display a thin vertical bar in the left margin with content indented 16px, matching the BC iOS native lyric viewer. Sections using [Chorus] bracket markers or bare {chorus} directives are unchanged.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 223
May 2026
Fixed a bug where section headers (Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc.) ignored Format Lyrics settings. Saved format settings created before the Song Part format option existed were missing that entry, causing section headers to render unstyled. The format is now filled with defaults for any missing part types on load.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 222
May 2026
ChordPro rendering fixes: multiple {soh}...{eoh} highlight pairs on a single line now all render correctly. Lowercase chord notation like [g] is preserved as-is instead of being capitalized to [G]. Highlight state now carries correctly across lines when {soh} and {eoh} appear on different lines.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 221
May 2026
Fixed a bug where printing lyrics to PDF in Chrome produced the wrong font (a system serif instead of Roboto). The print path now preserves all stylesheets correctly.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 220
May 2026
Fixed a rendering bug where some songs (imported from older versions or edited on Windows) showed an extra blank line between every lyric line in the viewer and editor. The app now normalizes mixed line endings on load, save, and parse so lyrics always display correctly.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 219
May 2026
Tags page improvements: the desktop tag list now shows a checkbox icon next to each tag name so it is clear which tags are selected in multi-select mode. Fixed a bug where the back button from a song lyrics page (reached via Tags) skipped tag songs and jumped straight to the tags list. Also fixed the tag songs view on mobile not showing songs.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 218
May 2026
Setlist rows now show song count and total duration without opening the edit dialog. The right-pane setlist preview now shows full song details (artist, genre, key, tempo, duration) for each song, matching the mobile app layout.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 217
May 2026
Bug fix: songs added to a setlist via the catalog (multi-select) now correctly store the reference back to the master song. Previously the songId was saved as an empty string, which caused lyrics to fail to load when viewing a song inside a setlist.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 216
May 2026
Bug fix: when a band owner adds a member, the member's uid is now validated before being pushed into the band's users array. Without this, a missing uid could land a null slot in the array, the /bands query would never match the new member, and they'd be able to see themselves in the Band Users dialog but not open the band.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 215
May 2026
Band Small plan ($29.99/yr) now covers up to 6 members instead of 5. Useful for small ensembles with a regular sub or a sound engineer in addition to the four/five core members.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 214
May 2026
Bug fix: the trash icon for removing band members from the Users dialog (the one opened from the band card) is now visible on bandcentral.com. The "remove" column was defined in the template but missing from the mat-table displayed-columns list, so it never rendered. Owners can now self-serve member removal again.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 213
May 2026
Setlist break printing: breaks now show as a clear divider — 14pt non-bold "---- Break ----" label with solid 2px rules above and below — instead of blending into the song list when songs are set to a large font. Help center: new "Do I need wifi at the venue?" FAQ under Cloud Sync (iOS + Android).
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 212
May 2026
Setlist printing polish: 1cm margin on all four sides (no more uneven left/right), full 2-point font-size steps from 8 through 36 plus 40/44/56/64, and a Left/Center alignment toggle in the Font menu.
Read full notes →Band Central for Web — Build 211
May 2026
First numbered web build — combines several months of work on bandcentral.com into one release: redesigned setlist list, profile dialog, CSV/HTML export, tag filter on the setlist catalog, accent-insensitive search, duplicate setlist, ChordPro fixes, drag-and-drop polish, and tightened sign-in routing.
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