Orfeo 1.7.3

Orfeo 1.7.3 — The Explorers hear your keyboard, a bigger Settings window

12. 11. 2026

• Hold a chord on your keyboard and both Explorers name it; the Scales Explorer also shows which scales it belongs to.
• The Settings window opens larger, with bigger text, and resizes from any edge or corner.
• The tempo can show as a speed in percent instead of BPM.
• Songs and folders that are shortcuts (symbolic links) now show in the Library.

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Full changelog: 4 changed, 1 fixed

Changed

• The Chords Explorer follows your keyboard. With the Explorer open, hold three or more
  notes on a connected keyboard: it names the chord, picks its root and tile, and lights it in
  the shape you played, inversion included, without playing it again. A chord that's only in
  Extended switches the list there, and a notes or hand filter or a search that would hide it
  is cleared. Notes that make no chord light up with their names instead.
• The Scales Explorer shows where a chord belongs. Hold a chord and the row under the chord
  tiles names it, with its inversion and the notes you hold, left to right (C/E 1st inv
  (E G C)), and lists the scales it fits, the likeliest first. Click one to choose that key.
• A bigger, resizable Settings window. It opens larger on a big screen, and everything in
  it, text, cards and controls, grows with it, so it's much easier to read. Drag any edge to
  make it wider or taller, or a corner to resize it in proportion; double-click an edge for
  the size it opened at. It stays clear of the top bar, and remembers its size and place.
• Tempo as a speed in percent. Settings › Playback › Tempo display shows the tempo at the
  top as BPM, as before, or as a speed against the song's own tempo: 100 % as written, 50 % at
  half speed. The arrows step by one percent and you can type a speed, just as with BPM. The
  number keeps the same room whatever it shows, so nothing beside it moves as it changes.

Fixed

• Linked songs and folders show in the Library. A Library folder whose songs are shortcuts
  (symbolic links) to files kept elsewhere, for example an index by artist pointing into one
  big collection, came up empty: only real files loaded. Links to songs and to folders are now
  followed, a linked folder appears in the folder list, a link whose file is gone is skipped,
  and a folder linked back into itself no longer keeps the scan going round forever. Thanks to
  Jon Drews.

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