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Version 1.4.142026-08-21T14:33:33.597

Version 1.4.14 · Pebble Time 2 (emery)


DESCRIPTION

The Yamanote Line's departure melodies, on your wrist — a soundboard of all 30 stations.

Ride the loop with UP/DOWN and every station appears as its authentic platform nameboard: JY badge, kanji / hiragana / rōmaji name, the green direction bar with the real neighbouring stations, and a platform clock. Press SELECT — or just tap the watch — and the station's departure melody plays through the speaker, with its name riding a green ♪ ticker along the bottom of the sign. Press or tap again to stop.


WHAT'S IN v1.4.14 — "yamaNOTE" (launch build; highlights since the v1.0.0 package)

• NEW NAME: yamaNOTE. Same app, same UUID — sideloads over any earlier build and keeps your settings.

• EVERY MELODY RE-ENCODED FROM VERIFIED GROUND TRUTH. v1.0.0's machine transcriptions are gone: all pitched melodies are now hand-encoded from sheet music, fan scores, and note-by-note FFT analysis of the real station recordings (sources documented in the repo). Harmony voices, echo double-strikes (Haru tremolo), and register-true bass — with every note tuned for the watch speaker: sub-200Hz fundamentals lifted clear of the tiny driver's buzz range, click-free voice routing, and clean headroom (0% clip across all 19 renders).

• TWO MELODY ERAS — new "Melodies" setting: Classic (2023), the beloved signature lineup (19 unique melodies), or Current (2026), today's JR East line where the standard JRE-IKST chime has replaced most classics while Kanda, Okachimachi–Tabata, Komagome, Ikebukuro, Takadanobaba, Ebisu, Takanawa Gateway and friends keep their tunes.

• FAST TRAVEL — hold UP/DOWN to ride, release to arrive:
  - Quick slide: the nameboard zips station to station (200 ms each), direction-aware.
  - Cinematic: the E235 runs EXPRESS — doors close, the camera pulls back, and platforms streak past with their real hanging station signs and JY numbers until you release and the train brakes into your stop.

• LOOP MAP QUICK-SELECT — settings row 0 opens a circular (truly circular, even on the tall emery screen) Yamanote map: 30 station dots, geographically oriented (Tokyo to the east), JY pill + kanji + rōmaji in the centre. UP/DOWN spins the loop, SELECT jumps there, BACK cancels.

• NEW APP ICON — the green loop ring with a bell note at its centre, JY-signage style. (The watch launcher renders all menu icons grayscale — that's firmware; the store icon is full colour.)

• Cinematic express signs carry the JY station number band, playing-ribbon layout no longer collides with the romaji rows, and dozens of smaller sign/animation fixes.

• audio-previews/ in this folder contains PC-playable WAV simulations of the exact watch-speaker output for all 19 melodies (device-accurate render of the shipping note data), plus the Ueno/Shin-Ōkubo bell.


CONTROLS

UP / DOWN ......... previous / next station (hold to fast-travel; wraps around the loop)
SELECT or tap ..... play / stop this station's melody
Long SELECT ....... settings (loop map, dark mode, animation, melodies era, clock, volume, backlight)
BACK .............. exit


NOTES

• Built from the Yamanote Loop watchface's sign renderer and train animations.
• Melody set and station mapping follow yamanot.es; titles verified against Japanese departure-melody databases.
• Speaker playback requires hardware with a speaker (Pebble Time 2). Melodies respect the system volume/mute.