BUG: BBMO 2.0.5 freezes when trying to import songs made using the BeatBuddy Manager (BBM)

UPDATE 2-19-26: Upon further testing, it appears that this has not been totally fixed as some older BBM-created songs import just fine into the BBMO while others don’t. Although it’s happening with my songs, it seems to affect some—but not all—user’s songs as well.

macOS 26.3 developer beta 3 (it also did this in macOS 26.2 [official release])
BBMO 2.0.5 using Vivaldi

Expected behavior: that the BBMO will open songs created using the BBM.

What is happening: when attempting to import a song into BBMO that was made using the BBM, the BBMO freezes and displays a spinning wheel. I have not found any feedback other than the spinning wheel, however, a Chrome user tells me that he gets an error message. Since there is no built-in escape mechanism that forces the project to stop loading (previously brought up as a feature request), I have to quit the browser and then reopen if I want to use the BBMO. This problem did not exist in previous versions of the BBMO.

Here’s BBM songs from two different creators for testing.
honky tonk women.zip (37.8 KB)
Shake it Off - Taylor Swift.zip (102.3 KB)

P.S. A suitable escape method might be using the Esc key, ctrl-C (Windows) or CMD-C (macOS)

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Thank you for reporting this! I’ve forwarded the issue to the dev team for further investigation.

Same issue with When Will I Be Loved from moderator Persist on the BeatBuddy Forum Song List (sorry, can’t post links here). I’m using the latest Chrome on the latest MacOS, and I just get the spinning beach ball.

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I’ve had the same issue with multiple files

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It is the same for me. Many older songs do not load.

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I’ve never used or imported a .sng file (I only use my own MIDI files) but when I tried to import one of the files Persist shared, I also had the spinning wheel and had to quit the browser to get out of it.

Using macOS 26.2 and Chrome 144.0.7559.61

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I have been having the same issue - many songs

Still getting the spinning wheel. No change unfortunately. Signed out and back into BBMO. Tried importing While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

  • Just tested with the attached song and it indeed freezes the BBMO.
  • I then imported it back into the BBM 1.6.6c (as well as BBM 1.6.7) and it imports and plays as intended so I
  • exported from BBM and tried to import back into the BBMO but it still freezes.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles.zip (68.0 KB)

Since there were no reports of these songs as not working in BBMO v2.0.3, it would seem to indicate that the issue exists with v2.0.5 of the BBMO.

The expected behavior is for non-autopilot songs and folders to be backward and forward compatible with the BBM and the BBMO.

Hope this can be corrected.

@Support, support@singularsound.com

Thank you! I’ve reported this issue to the dev team for further investigation.