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Lyricue Gets Lifted to Higher Ground

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  LXer Feature: 28-Jun-06

With Lyricue, you can display song lyrics on the wall screens during worship. With Lyricue 1.9.3, you can easily add Bible verses, and manage the display across the network from the comfort of your pew, using a server and a tablet PC running GNU/Linux. Support for two more languages makes Lyricue usable by more people as well.

Putting song lyrics up on a wall screen has been a fairly simple task using Lyricue on GNU/Linux. With the recent release of Lyricue 1.9.3, churches can more easily add Bible verses, change backgrounds, and manage the database. And, if you speak Dutch or Swedish, you'll find Lyricue does too.



Lyricue includes the Bible Navigator, that allows users to quickly and easily pull up Bible verses. When the pastor calls for a verse "on the fly", there's no need to add the verse to the playlist. You can just find and display it. Additionally, the Lyricue supports an improved search feature as well as tray icons for quick access to common tasks. Users can also blank the screen to clear text or reset to the default background.



Churches that use the Christian Copyright License International system can now turn off auditing on individual songs. The CCLI feature allows churches to figure out licensing and whether they might be "over-using" any songs. Users can designate a special song, such as the announcements or any other frequently used item, which is placed first in the list, so it can be found quickly. Likewise, users can do the same with backgrounds and other images.



The new Lyricue further adds MySQL database management to the interface. Lyricue can use MySQL or SQLite. According to Lyricue's developer, Chris Debenham, "Currently MySQL is the main DB, but there is support for using SQLite if you don't want to install a full db (but then you lose the ability to run the interface and server on different machines, or to run multiple interfaces on different machines)." MySQL still needs to be installed and maintained separately, but the Lyricue database can be installed and upgraded from within Lyricue itself.



Debenham initially developed Lyricue for his church in Gosford, Australia. He frequently runs the server and interface on one dual-headed machine running, while running another interface on his tablet PC, and controlling everything with a stylus. The dual-headed machine runs Ubuntu Dapper, while the tablet PC dual boots Ubuntu Dapper and Solaris Express.



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Comments (13)

herzeleid ·
This could come in handy in trying to get some of these churches off of ms windoze - there is really no good reason for churches to send tribute to redmond for the privilege of using a buggy virus-ridden platform. Linux seems tailor-made for such organizations, but alas, resistance to change runs deep...
dcparris ·
You're right. Churches face the same resistance as anyone else. The good news is that my book is still selling on Lulu. Lyricue is featured in the book, including a photo of Lyricue in action. So maybe we're starting to make some progress.
tuxchick2 ·
oh man, you mean you want to destroy the tradition of the caller? It just isn't church without a tightly-corseted woman thumping on a piano and yelling out the next lines-

BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES bringing in the sheaves

BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES bringing in the sheaves

WE WILL COME REJOICING we will come rejoicing

BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES bringing in the sheaves

Though your church does sound like it's rather more contemporary than that.
jimf ·
Thanks for that image tuxchick :-o... I suspect that these days most members wouldn't even know what a SHEAVE was... Or a corset.
dcparris ·
That still happens in the country churches, I know. But the, um, "citified" folk use all that new-fangled tek-nawlogy to put the words up on the screen so you don't have to fiddle with which page to flip to, and whether your hymn book is the new green one or the old red one (which usually means the song is on another page altogether). Plus the old fogies can see the wall screens better. And if you can't see that piece of chicken sticking between the pastor's teeth because you're all the way up in the 3rd balcony, don't worry. Those wall screen displays are great for video-ing the sermon, chicken remnants and all. Why waste that opportunity on a bogged-down Windoze box? :-)
dinotrac ·
Rev -

No kidding!

At my church, they have a full-scale stage with lights and hookups, a second-story tech-booth at the end of the auditorium with all the lighting controls (computerized) and the computers driving the three screens in back of the stage. Oh yeah...there's another one controlling the lyric box which flashes lyrics on the back of the auditorium for the benefit of singers on stage.

Sound is still done in the tech booth, but we're building a ground-floor sound console because we believe we will do a better job of getting volume and balance right if we're actually down by the congregation.

And that's not counting temporary gizmos like the rig we brought in for our easter shows to create a rainstorm on stage that the audience could come up and walk through.

Gotta tell you -- it ain't the way I remember church when I was a kid.











dcparris ·
I was shocked to discover that one of the InfoCentral spin-offs offers bar-code attendance tracking. I'm sorry, but I just won't be attending that church. However, I understand it comes in quite handy for the nursery facilities on Sunday morning. Whoddathunk the church would have much use for hi-tech like that?
dinotrac ·
>Whoddathunk the church would have much use for hi-tech like that?

Pretty amazing stuff...but, I guess it kind of makes sense, especially if your church is reaching out to those who are reaching out...

Got to get past their attention span.

Beyond that, a little technology can be a big boon when you need to get a bunch of work done by volunteers.
tuxchick2 ·
Bar codes is the mark of the beast.

*spit* *scratch*
dinotrac ·
TC -

Oh my goodness....you mean...

The Devil is a stock clerk at the Safeway store?
jimf ·
> The Devil is a stock clerk at the Safeway store?

Well, certainly at Walmart ;-).
grouch ·
Church? Lights? Computers? Y'all don't just find a clearing in the woods and sit around admiring the handiwork for a spell? You folks is strange.
number6x ·
Thick Limestone or adobe walls, stained glass windows, candles flickering, a hint of leftover incense from a funeral, songs in a paper hymnal (usually printed by the J.S. Paluch and Sons company).

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