END function discussion

[Kalokagathon]

I probably made a bad move by posting this problem in two posts - your reply is in the "wrong" one.
This reply is to dflat's reply in the other (wrong) thread (see above). The problem is that the thread title should read "END-tag behavior"... My bad.
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We did not program END to be used within a CODA.

I know that, and I hope to convince you guys to re-program it for version 5... ;-)

The Player will (should) end with the final chord of D- if the song is set in D- and the final chord is not the tonic chord

Actually, as per your indications in the help pages, Dm will come if after the tonic or after the dominant, not just a non-tonic. This renders the next phrase false:

so there is no need to put in your last D- bar. Once it gets to the final G7, it should end with a final D- chord. (Make sure you delete the END tag.)

When I remove END, what I get as last unwritten chord (after the last G7) is a G7, which is expected behavior, but unwanted.

Deleting the END character will also give correct behavior to the first CODA sign.

Yes, correct behavior as per instructions, but not as musical necessity or intuitive results.

I am trying to bring up the issue of awkward behavior when:
1) song chords don't end on a tonic or dominant, but you want the tonic at the end (and it will never come, things standing as they are); consider also my playable version of "Blue Bossa".
2) typically there is a vamp at the end, so it's tagged as CODA (as in this case), AND one wants the ending on a specific chord - right now this is not possible.
Even if I wanted to end on the dominant, I couldn't do it...

BTW
the END character is used mainly for turnarounds at the end of a song (see Just Friends for instance) where you want the song to end before the turnaround.

... and I humbly ask: why? Why does the END tag not just end the song where it's inserted, instead of messing with the CODA indications?
From a programming point of view, I believe it should simply do something like:
"when it's final chorus, stop player. If in a repeat, stop player on last repeat."

I hope my tone is not coming across as cross ; I'm just pointing out what I believe are shortcomings of the app, and - perhaps naively - solvable ones. I don't know how to program, so I can't help you; it's just that I find no logic in the status quo, and I care about the app, love it, and would like to see it work for musicians who need a playable version (not for giggers who just need charts).