Create and update a working database for songs and other compositions. Write titles, subtitles, names and notes, insert an unlimited number of slides, use transitions, organize folders, import songs, and apply themes. Adjust the key, time signature, tempo, key line, and other song parameters.
OpenSong is a free program that allows you to organize, manage, and present the songs, hymns and Bible portions to be shown to the people attending to your church services.
The program has several Christian hymns preloaded, so you can simply select them and project the lyrics on the church screens so people can sing along. The program shows the chords of the songs so the musician(s) that will play at the service can follow them on their own devices and strum the chords at the right time.
Also, you can add your own songs using the Song editor, Just type or copy/paste the lyrics and add the corresponding chords. It is a very easy process.
An interesting feature is that you can transpose any song automatically. You only need to choose how many steps up or down you need to transpose, and the program will show the corresponding chords in the new tone.
You can manage your entire service by creating a set that can include both songs and Bible portions. The program also has the entire Bible, so you only need to choose the book, chapter, and verse, the program will add it to your set. It is possible to make any combination of Bible portions and songs to suit your needs.
Of course, you will need the necessary hardware, such as video screens and a broadcasting device or projector to allow the churchgoers to watch and follow the presentation.
In sum, it is a very useful program to manage church services. Its only disadvantage is that it is limited to Christian services. Nevertheless, If you are a Christian pastor or cleric and your church has the required equipment, then it may be very useful for you.
v1.7 [Feb 15, 2011]
Several fixes and improvements for tab processing:
- tabs at the beginning of a slide now also work
- styles with only 1 tabstop location now also work correct
- improved behaviour of character-aligned tabstops
Fix verse display presentation for songs with multiple chorus variants like C1 V1 C2 V2 C2 V3 C2
Add option in presentation settings to export snapshots of the slides that are presented as an image to a file
Decrease height of lbl_the_question in InputBox.Message to make push buttons visible again
Complete the fix for bug 3117855 by correcting issue with quick lookup with extended Latin-1 characters in book name. Requires change to the regular expression that parses the citation, so by creating a new key in the preferences file, biblefactory/useoldregex and setting it to true, the old regular expression will be used
Add option to turn off reversing the Bold attribute on the font used to print chorus lyrics
Misc. Mac stability fixes
Fix bible indexing issue where the first word in the first verse of the first chapter would be added to the index but the reference wouldn't be
Fix bible indexing issue where UTF-8 characters would be dropped from the index incorrectly
Fix bible indexing issue for bibles with newline characters
Improve set item reordering - quick drag-and-drop could mess up the synchronisation between set list and contents window. This still can happen - looks like an RB issue, although you need to try harder now.
Added an option to force 4:3 preview mode on wide or portrait screens. This allows correct presentation preparation for 4:3 screens on a monitor with a different aspect ratio. This option can be enabled on the Presentation Settings dialog. See the tab 'options' under 'Screens'. It is now also possible to make the Presentation Helper window even smaller.
Added next slide preview in presentation helper window.
Fix for CCLI song number reporting for presented songs
Fix in set item selection
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