"Open With MIDI", MIDI To QWERTY, Optimal Transpose, Visual Improvements & More!

Summary of this month's big batch of updates, as usual they're heavily-based on user ideas mostly from PianoGlow's Discord server (so thank you for the helpful feedback):

• "Open With Midi" Via File Explorer: On Windows file explorer, you can now right-click on any MIDI file and "Open With PianoGlow" will be an option - this option is available as long as you have launched the new update of PianoGlow at least once. Thanks noakopiano@ for suggesting the idea.

• Bi-directional game to Discord chat: The #cross-chat Discord channel now syncs with the in-game chat. Thanks noakopiano@ for the idea suggestion.

• QWERTY Feature Additions:

  • MIDI To QWERTY: When loading a MIDI, you can now convert it to QWERTY sheets. Thanks sweethoneycaramel@ for suggesting the idea.

  • Optimal Transpose: A button in the notepad ("T" icon) to optimally transpose minimizing shifts/capitals, and CTRL/SHIFT clicking it can be done for specific transposes.

  • Settings > Control > Enable QWERTY Input: Toggle whether QWERTY input is enabled. Thanks Gamerlfg@ for the idea.

• New MIDI library available: 100+ songs (huge thanks to @veronadediego for kindly supplying her arrangements 🙏 ). Thanks @7vlw and @zoulzeneo for the idea.

• Visuals:

  • 4 more Babel Themes: Added Crystal, Ink, Audio Pulsefield and Matrix.

  • Heavenly Clouds Notebeam Style.

  • Flames effect.

• Falling Notes Mode Improvements:

  • Option to set a track to "Auto" which will allow auto-playing of that track.

  • Option to use [ or ] to auto.

  • Better (more subtle) appearance when a note is hit instead of a massive glow effect.

  • Auto-restart option.

• Points shop (the animated profile frame is exclusive to the points shop): http://pianoglow.com/points

• Trading cards: you get up to a limit of 8, one for each 30m of playtime, which can be used to unlock backgrounds and emojis.

• Playtime Counter: shows near the note counter so you can better track practice hours

• /pg Discord commands, some staff commands too for banning, etc.

New unique marketing techniques will gradually ramp up and be applied on April 2026 for a larger growth of users. PianoGlow has been steadily growing since its release but the best marketing methods will later be tested on April 2026 to minimize risk (testing server load and whether multiplayer users will be malicious/spam etc). Thanks for your patience as I know the community really desires more users for multiplayer.Look forward to next month's batch of updates!
~TheAlanski