Product Release Notes

CURRENT VERSION: v.3.26

BLACK BOX Prompter software updates are always free.
Bookmark this page and periodically check to ensure you have the latest and greatest version.

How to Update your BLACK BOX Prompter software:

  1. From Main Menu, choose ‘Update Software | Backup’ > ‘Update Software’
  2. Press Select key to start the update
  3. Please wait for the system to reboot
  4. Verify your software version is 3.26 (shown at top of Main Menu)

*If you’re running v. 3.07 or older, it will take longer to update than normal, please be patient. Updates can take anywhere from 3 – 30 minutes to run depending on current version.

Version 3.26 (2.10.25)

1. Choose which color you wish to highlight your chords  (note: the color White means no color).

2. Force a page break by using [page] (capitalization doesn’t matter) on text-based songs.

3. Ultimate-Guitar.com “Print-to-PDF’ files are automatically converted to text and parsed (cleaned) – some manual cleaning may still be required which you can edit directly on the prompter.

4. Chords.wiki library (*.json) files can be placed on the thumb drive in the chordwiki directory (now made automatically) to be imported automatically into the BLACK BOX Prompter songs.

5. SingAlong is now available!

a. The Black Box Prompter WiFi must have internet access. SingAlong must be turned on each time your boot.

b. The SingAlong QR label – unique to each Black Box Prompter – is automatically written to the backup directory when a backup is executed.

c. The SingAlong QR label can be shown on the Black Box Prompter under the SingAlong menu option (#3 on the main menu)

6. Wireless sync now has a new mode “Turn ON Wireless Sync (WiFi)” which will run Wireless Sync using the existing WiFi. All BLACK BOX Prompters must be on the same WiFi. This Wireless Sync version supports simultaneous running of SingAlong.

7. Removed single quotes from all song names – fixes bug where we could not edit (on the box) any song name that contained a single quote.

8. In EverySong (when using keyboard): Quickly jump to song names in EverySong by pressing the capital letter corresponding to the first letter of a song name. 

9. You have an option to show the startup logo at the start of each set list automatically OR launch it immediately from the Songs SubMenu.

10. Software will check version on Software Update and only perform an update if different.

11. We now accept and convert *.notepad songs (Mac OS).

BUG FIXES:

1. Wireless Sync bug fix to show correctly when it is enabled on the Settings status menu.

2. Disabled use of symbols when creating set lists on the box. Symbols caused intermittent system crashes

3. Fixed bug where first song of a set is not colored properly.

4. Removed extra blank lines during scrolling of songs.

Versions 3.18-3.25

  • Automatic Download of PDF files from Ultimate Guitar and other websites
  • Bug fix: EasyLoad now turns off correctly
  • Multiple other bug fixes

Version 3.16-3.17

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Version 3.15

New Features:

  1. New submenu system.  New multi-page menu system where all menus are under 10 lines.
  2. Load from Thumb-Drive backup.  You can now load songs, set lists, and logos from a backup saved to a thumb drive (See Backup in the menu)
    1. You can load all songs, set lists, and logos from the backup
    2. Or, you can load only those songs, set lists, and logos not presently on your BLACK BOX Prompter
  3. Added automatic import of charts from Ultimate Guitar (UG) while using UG in the BLACK BOX Prompter Internet Browser mode.
    1. Download button on UG will result in a true PDF being added
    2. Print to PDF in UG will result in a text based file being added – if possible.  If the text conversion fails a true PDF file will be automatcially generated.
    3. The files need to be saved in the default “Downloads” directory.
    4. This conversion should work for other sites that download or print to pdf files.  
  4. Changed PDF/Image navigation
    1. Hitting the right pedal (right arrow) will move to each page of a song
    2. At the end of the song hitting the right pedal (right arrow) will only to the next song if the next song is text based.  If the next song is another PDF/Image the screen will go back to the song list and the cursor will automatically move to the next song.  This allows for users to get out of a set list when they have all or many PDF/Image files.

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed bugs in multi-page song display (dropped chords when colored, too many lines, etc)
  2. Removed WiFI Power Management to aid in successful Wireless Sync Receiver mode
  3. Fixed OnSong connection when more than one OnSong device is present
    1. The user is presented a list of device names from which to choose
  4. Fixed Wireless sync so that it now automatically updates EverySong without having to restart
  5. Fixed Easyload so that it can now be turned off without rebooting/restarting
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