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.. title: Is there hope for CCLI SongSelect integration?
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.. slug: 2008/08/31/is-there-hope-for-ccli-songselect-integration
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.. date: 2008-08-31 14:08:48 UTC
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.. description:
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As many folks know, the CCLI SongSelect importer in openlp.org has been
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disabled due to problems with the service. What many people don't know
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is that all the applications out there that interface with SongSelect
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are actually pretending to be web browsers, and are painstakingly
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pulling the information out of the SongSelect web pages.
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The reason openlp.org (and many other presentation applications) stopped
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working with SongSelect was because CCLI was busy moving their systems
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from a ColdFusion-based setup to an ASP.NET-based setup (to be honest,
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I'm not sure if that's an improvement). I took a look at SongSelect
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again today, and it seems like they have finished the conversion and are
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now in full swing with the ASP.NET system.
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This is both good news and bad news for us. The good news is that it
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means that we can integrate with SongSelect again. The bad news is that
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ASP.NET is a terrible system (for reasons I won't go into right now) and
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it's gonna take a very long time to get the SongSelect integration
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working again.
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We're going to look into getting it going for release with openlp.org
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1.2, but unfortunately we can't make any promises.
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