Church Music Software / Data Base

[kennyrb]

I am looking for software that will import music chord sheets and has the ability to transpose as well. It also needs to be able to export the words only to projection software. Other than paying a yearly fee to CCLI for song select is there another option?

[shayward]

The makers of Media Shout also make Shout Music Manager.

A quick Google turns up Score! and a company called DBSoft.

There is also a program called SongBase which does chord charts and worship presentation but we had an aweful lot of trouble with it (quite a few bugs, non-intuitive).

[kbob]

The closest I know of is the Open Source project OpenSong-though it's more of a one-way thing.

OpenSong (OS) can display worship songs a la worship software, with background images and scripture support. It will also let you input chord sheets at the same time-but the chord sheets don't display in projection mode.

While more keyboard shortcut friendly than most (but it also works with mouse clicks, of course), in it's current iteration it doesn't support motion backgrounds or have good ppt integration. However, I liked the interface enough that if it was just me running things, and I didn't need motion backgrounds, I'd give it serious consideration.

The text over graphics feature was really nice, and you could save each song with a different background, something some freebie worship software still doesn't do, or doesn't do well.

Further, the number of Bible translations supported was pretty good, and transferring songs between pc's was simply a matter of copying xml files-and the background images were saved with each song.