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.. title: Song imports
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.. slug: 2010/04/06/song-imports
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.. date: 2010-04-06 12:04:51 UTC
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.. description:
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Well 2.0alpha1 has been out in the wild for just over a week now, and
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we're both relieved and delighted that the response has been positive!
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According to the stats, just over 400 of you have been brave enough to
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download it and give it a try, and we've been been bumped up to 246 in
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the SourceForge rankings which I think is pretty good for a niche
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application, out of 266090 registered projects.
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If you haven't tried the alpha yet, I'd urge you to please take a look.
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We'll be interested in your comments, both good and bad as to the
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progress we've made so far.
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You'll be pleased to know that the developers have decided not to take a
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post-alpha nap, but are instead working as hard as ever towards the
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alpha-2 release. One of the things we're going to be focusing on is song
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imports. We all know how tiresome it is to type in the lyrics to the
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songs, and so we're trying to make your lives easier in this respect.
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Raoul is working hard making the existing Song Import menu options
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functional and pretty, Tim continues to work hard to support the
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underlying infrastructure, whilst I've been looking at incorporating
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some of my external v1 utilities into v2. I've already managed to
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complete the Songs of Fellowship import, and some will be pleased to
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know that this now uses OpenOffice.org Writer, rather than Microsoft
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Word. Next I'm going to be looking at a few online options, to get the
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lyrics from sites such as nethymnal.org, kingswaysongs.co.uk and
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pwarchive.org. If you're aware of any other sites which offer Christian
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lyric downloads without requiring registration, then please let me know.
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On the horizon is a general purpose PowerPoint/Impress/Word/Writer text
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import.
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We've also got newer members of the team working hard to document the
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database formats used by other worship presentation software in the hope
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we can also support imports from these. We've even got a couple of guys
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taking the time to learn to program in Python, so they can contribute
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import code to the project, which is great!
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CCLI import is a bit lower down the priority list, since our CCLI guru
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(Derek) is still working hard fixing a few things in v1.2.4. However
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we're hoping that you'll soon stop reporting bugs in that version, so
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Derek can join in the 2.0 fun with the rest of the team :)
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Anyway please continue to report your feature requests, bugs and
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comments. Even if we don't respond or implement it all (we're busy
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people!) we do read everything you've got to say.
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