Suggest or vote on ideas for new features or changes you'd like to see in the AC Central app.
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Pitch Pipe for Hymns
Provide either a pitch pipe or a button to play the starting notes for hymns. This would be convenient when we are trying to use the sheet music to sing with a small group.
Random Hymn Button
Could you add a random hymn button similar to the random sermon button? Suggest placing this button within the Hymns section of the app instead of the overflow menu.
Improvements to the search engine for hymns
I'm on an Android device, although, from what I've heard, everyone experiences this, and I'm sure there is issue is platform-independent. Frequently, the search will not bring up the sought after hymn for the simple reason that the user didn't get all the capitalization and punctuation exactly the way it appears in the hymnal. It seems like it should be somewhat trivial to make the search engine a little more forgiving in that way.
Agreed. The current search behavior is not ideal. Unfortunately, fixing this issue is actually a much bigger deal than one would expect. I don't remember the technical explanation from the developers, but they'd basically have to rewrite the entire search functionality. So it is on our list of future improvements to consider, but it is well behind other higher priority items.
Sermons stop playing
Sermons stop playing after just a few minutes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times but it doesn't seem to fix it.
Marching to Zion
I am not sure how the copyright on Marching to Zion works, but if it would be possible, it would be nice to have access to our church history when traveling to other congregations. If this is not possible, I understand, but it would be a nice addition to the app.
Stop playing sermon/hymn
When I have something playing (sermon or MIDI hymn), I can't figure out how to stop playback completely. I'm able to pause playback, but the sermon or hymn stays "active" in the app and also shows the playback options when I pull down my notifications from the top. The only way I've figured out to get rid of that is to close AC Central completely and restart it by going to my phone's task manager. Can you consider 1) adding a way to remove what's playing from the queue without exiting and 2) adding a button or menu option to close the app without using task manager?
Samsung G8 running 8.0.0
Thank you,
Jeff
The audio player in the notifications center is now dismissible by swiping. It was in the April Android app update.
The Ability to Favorite Hymns
Would it be possible to add the ability to favorite hymns in the app? I know another person suggested this 5 years ago but there was no response to the earlier question.
Pretty much anything is possible, but it comes down to budget and priority. To determine priority on feature requests, we often wait to see how many upvotes a request gets and try to address first those that have the most demand.
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