Power Music Essentials Version History
| Date | Version | Details |
| 29th March 2023 | 5.2.3.0 |
Updated image processing to correct new issue with importing PDFs from Song Select Improvements to OCR processing in Chord sheet imports from image PDFs (Professional only) Other minor fixes |
| 29th March 2022 | 5.2.2.1 |
New button Split Line in the Chord Sheet Editor. This splits a line along with chords at the cursor position. (Professional only) View details in the Help Centre Other minor fixes |
| 3rd August 2021 | 5.2.1.20 |
Fix to Parts drop down not showing fully Saved splitter distance in music editor Fix to saving modified date in playlist when saved Added modified date to saved playlist grid Fixed horizontal scrollbar in playlist grids in Power Music Box Window Fixed issues with position of drop down lists in the Chord Sheet editor with scaling > 100% Other minor fixes |
| 19th May 2021 | 5.2.1.11 |
Bug fix to the transpose drop-down in the Song Select screen |
| 13th May 2021 | 5.2.1.10 |
Improvements: Visual improvements including Playlist menu. |
| 6th May 2021 | 5.2.1.0 |
New features: Chord Sheet Editor – new button Auto Page (Professional only). This adds page breaks and line breaks automatically, wrapping chord lines with text lines to optimise the display size. Improvements: Updated Document camera scanning feature (Professional only) |
| 22nd Feb 2018 | 5.1.1.2 | Improvements to PDF import in Sheet Music Editor. Faster import plus progress bar allowing stop during import of large files. Fixed occasional blank pages appearing in large files (caused by Microsoft update). Other minor bug fixes. |
| 2nd Nov 2017 | 5.1.1.1 | New button for ChordPro File import in the Chord Sheet editor, but it is only implemented in Power Music Professional Quick Search now uses multiple criteria (use "+" for Boolean AND) eg Tomlin+Redman for all songs where Tomlin AND Redman are writers. CCLI button now links correctly to the updated CCLI website to search for title of the song. Fixed: Title now visible when going through song list of chord sheets in full screen Incorrect song was sometimes highlighted by rapid mouse movement in playlist in Full Screen - fixed. Landscape sheet music now scales correctly when printed. Other minor bug fixes. |
| 21st July 2016 | 5.1.0.8 | Major update including all fixes and enhancements which have been applied to Power Music Professional. The Sheet Music Editor now has the new interface. See the Help section for detailed use of this feature. Certain features are still only available in Professional. Check the Feature comparison table for details. |
| 27th Nov 2014 | 5.0.3.0 | Allow song notes to be viewed and edited in playlist sidebar (full screen mode) even if song is not on playlist New setting - auto display metronome/tempo in full screen Support for new iPad app. It is important to use this version if uploading songs from iPad app and downloading to PM Essentials Minor bug fixes |
| 12th Sept 2014 | 5.0.2.0 | Power music Essentials has now been brought up to date with all* Power Music Professional updates since 28th April (see version history for Power Music Professional). Includes updates to French and German languages. *Excludes updates to features not applicable such as Libraries, Annotations, multiple PDF import. |
| 28th April 2014 | 5.0.1.24 | Improvements to import, faster search, bug fixes. Remembers margins in select screen. |
| 21st April 2014 | 5.0.1.22 | Fixed an issue which prevented the import of a large number of songs from previous versions |
| 1st April 2014 | 5.0.1.19 | Minor bug fixes |
| 25th March 2014 | 5.0.1.16 | Fixes to chord sheet editor |
| 20th March 2014 | 5.0.1.12 | Correction to language setting in Download from PM Box |
| 20th March 2014 | 5.0.1.11 | Improvements to the update process to embed in the program |
| 20th March 2014 | 5.0.1.10 | Corrections to chord notation translations and transpose in full screen |
| 9th March 2014 | 5.0.1.9 | Minor bug fixes |
| 6th March 2014 | 5.0.1.8 | Release version with Spring Harvest Digital Songbook 2014 CD |
| 27th Feb 2014 | 5.0.1.1 | The first version for Beta testing |