#Opensong song format zip file
#Opensong song format update
#Opensong song format full

Vista/7 – C:UsersyourusernameDocumentsOpenSongOpenSongSearch Windows XP – C:Documents and SettingsyourusernameMy DocumentsOpenSongOpenSongSearch

#Opensong song format zip file

The zip file has a relative path of “OpenSongSearch” in it.

Unzip the zip file to your OpenSong documents folder.

System performance will depend upon system capacities, but we have it running with thousands of songs on an “average” XP box at church and it’s satisfactory. Let me know if anyone gets it to work under Wine.

I’ve not tested it on Wine, but I have my doubts. I believe it should work on any Windows platform which can run OpenSong. I’ve tested this on Windows XP (French and English versions) and Windows 7. OpenSongSearch 2.0 is a complete rewrite and enhancement over the original version (assuming you ever saw it!).

#Opensong song format update

Also we wanted add more songs but the performance was suffering on the queries and the database update was reeeeealllly sloooooooI dumped my Sqlite database and got on the the XML band wagon. Another person made some modifications and gave me some ideas to improve it. I originally released version 1 of OSS in 2007.

#Opensong song format full

So for us OpenSong fits well except for its glaring lack of a full text search. There are projection programs which already have full text searches but their projection interface is not as flexible for switching between songs as OpenSong and no other program has as vast a repertoire of songs in the French language. Songs may be begun anywhere within the song and sometimes we mix and match verses from one song with another. We have worship leaders whose repertoire is somewhat dated and others who stay with more recent songs. OpenSong has a decent following in France and these standard song books have all been converted to OpenSong format.Ĭonsequently, in our services and worship tabernacles we need to be able to pull up any song at any time from a database of thousands of songs. At our small church in France, we have a very free worship style and France has a number of standard song books that virtually all churches use. Necessity was the mother of this invention. This allows search results to be added automatically into set lists both in set mode and projection mode. AutoIt3 provides the user interface and the Windows dialog manipulation utilities that allows OSS to “interface” with certain OpenSong dialogs. OSS is written in AutoIt3 and uses the BaseX XML database (OSS is packaged with version 6.3.5 of BaseX) to store a copy of the OpenSong “database” of songs that can be queried against very flexibly. The purpose of OpenSongSearch (hereafter I’ll just call it OSS!) is to provide a full text search capability to OpenSong on the Windows platform (I’d be thrilled if someone would integrate it into OpenSong in RealBasic so that it would be available directly in OpenSong and be available on the other platforms). OpenSongSearch is a companion utility to the OpenSong lyric projection program. Introduction History System Requirements Installation Basic Usage Screen-shots FAQ Forums Download Introduction