Worship Software

[liam]

Does any one know of any Worship software for linux that supports Dual Monitor?
Also software for recording from line in port on linux

Just using windows is getting a bit expensive

[[Admin] osborn4]

Check out Free for Churches. It has a section on free worship software.

You may find something there.

[[Admin] danroth]

Originally Posted by osborn4

Check out Free for Churches. It has a section on free worship software.

You may find something there.

There's one called "Lyricue".

[TMcKellar]

I second the Lyricue motion. For recording look for Rezound. The processing in it works a lot better than in Audacity. Audacity has a tendency to add noise to the recording when you use essentially any function to normalize or elevate the volume of the recording.

[kbob]

supports dual or single monitor setups. I think the linux version was recently brought up to speed, but no ppt or video support yet. OTOH-it does chord sheets as well as projecting the lyrics (not at the same time).

[Ken Koster]

Im playing around with the current version on linux and have it working pretty well with a dual screen Xinerama setup. I had to make a couple of window specific settings in KDE's control panel to force the second screen display but overall it works quite well. From the mailing list discussions it appears there may be changes on the way that will obsolete the need for custom KDE settings.

I've not yet used it in a worship service (no projector/screen yet) but it's extremely easy to use and appears to do everything that a beginner like me would want.

Ken

[TMcKellar]

Just out of curiousity because you said you were using KDE, which Linux distribution do you use Ken. I never really thought about it but I would recommend using KDE over Gnome if you'd be using Lyricue or possibly Opensong. Personally I'm a fan of Gnome and don't really have any problem pulling up a terminal and doing a sudo gedit /some/file/name to any configuration files but KDE will definitely make the initial setup slightly easier. And although I'm an Ubuntu fanatic I'd also recommend using probably Fedora or OpenSuse for it. KDE on Ubuntu or Kubuntu is probably not as well polished as others that have been running KDE for a while. Plus one of the benefits of a KDE based desktop is the stylistic similarities with ******* which can lessen some of the shell shock for new volunteers.

[Ken Koster]

I've been a SuSE fan for a long time. Originally because it was not only easy to install, but it included support for amateur radio by default. I continue to dabble in other distributions but stick with SuSE for all my main machines.

As far as desktops go, I'd agree that I'd recommend KDE due to its similarities to that 'other os' also. Especially on machines that might be shared by others who don't have our passion for Linux. It's what I run on our sound system computer, as well as those I've deployed at other locations and most people find it not very difficult to get used to.

And KDE has a number of programs I really like (kdevelop, kstars, konqueror...). Then again I'm not beyond dropping back to fvwm or twm on some of my older machines

[jrhoades9989]

Check out getautomatix.com it has every thing that a common use will need plus tuns of software for multimedia uses from there you will install the automatix apt manager install goes fairly easy then select the packages that you want(I selected everything) and click start install will take quiet a long time i just left it running all night and it almost took that long but when it is done every 99% of all the programs you will ever need are install

[TMcKellar]

I did find a new piece of software a few days ago that looks fairly promising. It's called qsong. It still needs some work to be useful as a full blown worship software application but it might make it. Plus they are supposed to be working on a linux version of OpenLP.org too. I personally like that about as much as Easyworship.