If a student completes or submits a take, and wants to listen back, but either had the accompaniment off or headphones on to help with assessment, they should be able to add in the accompaniment track while they listen.
Anything update on this yet? I'm trying to grade submissions and having a hard time grading due to not being able to hear any kind of reference tempo or pitch or anything.
We need to be able to hear the background when students submit assignments. I cannot tell if they are playing in time with the music because all I hear is them. I have no idea if they play in tune with the music because all I hear is them. I need to be able to hear what the students hear (the background track) in order to fully assess their submission.
Yes, this is a huge problem. We need to be able to hear the accompaniment to see how the student is relating to the accompaniment. I'm doubting the "no microphone needed" claim. I think that SM would solve some of these problems by going back to a USB microphone. But then they need to sell them at a reasonable price ($30 isn't reasonable).
Not having the accompaniment or the My Part or the Click in the students playback recording makes SM online useless. I can just have them play with an mp3 and record it with a different program. Why would you discontinue the most important feature used for evaluating students performance? I have been telling all students in school and private studio that SM Online is useless and get SM Classic. I sure hope that come August 2020 this has been corrected or several hundred students will not be using Smartmusic anymore. Please prioritize and fix this now!
Yes! In order for this to be a remotely functional program, you should be able to hear and adjust the accompaniment during playback. The fact that the company hasn't fixed it yet shows two things:
1. This is a truly terrible company who is not remotely interested in customer satisfaction
2. They are only interested in making $$$ selling to middle school students and band directors
