To transfer some songs from one PC to another, the easiest way is to build an agenda with these songs on the source PC, then open the agenda on the destination PC. The songs will be instantly and automatically added to your songbooks.
Here is a detail of the steps, with some explanations:
1. Add your songs to an agenda on the source PC.
2. Save this agenda on a USB key or OneDrive, DropBox, etc.
The agenda contains all that is needed to reproduce your presentation identically on another PC:
3. On the destination PC, open this agenda.
This has the effect of instantly and automatically adding to your destination PC all the agenda songs, in particular those who are not yet on the destination PC.
If necessary, VideoPsalm will create the songbooks that contain the songs from your source PC.
If you have assigned the song backgrounds, these backgrounds are automatically added to the image or video galleries of the destination PC.
The styles you have assigned to songs at different levels are also rendered on the destination PC.
If the songs are already on the destination PC, their lyrics and other attributes are replaced by those of the agenda, depending on how you set up the opening agenda options on the destination PC:
Here is a detail of the steps, with some explanations:
1. Add your songs to an agenda on the source PC.
2. Save this agenda on a USB key or OneDrive, DropBox, etc.
The agenda contains all that is needed to reproduce your presentation identically on another PC:
- Songs with their lyrics
- Styles (the backgrounds, styles at different levels)
- Songbooks definitions
- Basic styles (Songbooks, Bibles, Base)
- Slideshow images
- Standalone videos
- PowerPoints
- etc.
3. On the destination PC, open this agenda.
This has the effect of instantly and automatically adding to your destination PC all the agenda songs, in particular those who are not yet on the destination PC.
If necessary, VideoPsalm will create the songbooks that contain the songs from your source PC.
If you have assigned the song backgrounds, these backgrounds are automatically added to the image or video galleries of the destination PC.
The styles you have assigned to songs at different levels are also rendered on the destination PC.
If the songs are already on the destination PC, their lyrics and other attributes are replaced by those of the agenda, depending on how you set up the opening agenda options on the destination PC:
Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the song lyrics on the destination PC with those from the agenda (those from the source PC).
In case the destination PC misses one or more songs from the agenda, VideoPsalm adds them to its songbooks, and, if necessary, creates the corresponding songbooks, regardless of the state of agenda open options.
Preserve the styles of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the styles of songs on the destination PC by those from the agenda (those from the source PC).
Note These options are disabled by default.
However, it is advised to turn these options on on the church PC, in order to protect the church song lyrics, their styles, etc.
Consider following example:
Someone prepares an agenda on his home PC. Among the songs, there is one song called "King of kings". In our example, this song contains an accidentally mistyped title "King of all kings". There are also possibly other misspellings in the lyrics.
To prevent these errors to propagate to the church PC, enable the "Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles" option on the church PC.
4. Finally, save the changes induced in songbooks by opening the agenda:
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the song lyrics on the destination PC with those from the agenda (those from the source PC).
In case the destination PC misses one or more songs from the agenda, VideoPsalm adds them to its songbooks, and, if necessary, creates the corresponding songbooks, regardless of the state of agenda open options.
Preserve the styles of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the styles of songs on the destination PC by those from the agenda (those from the source PC).
Note These options are disabled by default.
However, it is advised to turn these options on on the church PC, in order to protect the church song lyrics, their styles, etc.
Consider following example:
Someone prepares an agenda on his home PC. Among the songs, there is one song called "King of kings". In our example, this song contains an accidentally mistyped title "King of all kings". There are also possibly other misspellings in the lyrics.
To prevent these errors to propagate to the church PC, enable the "Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles" option on the church PC.
4. Finally, save the changes induced in songbooks by opening the agenda:
If you forget to save your changes, VideoPsalm will remind you about it when you close VideoPsalm.
Note that the songbooks and the Bibles only take little space on your hard drive:
A songbook occupies about a quarter of the space occupied by a photo.
A Bible takes around as much space as a photo.
Alternative method to transfer songs from one PC to another
To transfer a songbook from one PC to another, copy the corresponding file to the destination PC.
Your songbooks are normally located in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Songbooks
Note that the songbooks and the Bibles only take little space on your hard drive:
A songbook occupies about a quarter of the space occupied by a photo.
A Bible takes around as much space as a photo.
Alternative method to transfer songs from one PC to another
To transfer a songbook from one PC to another, copy the corresponding file to the destination PC.
Your songbooks are normally located in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Songbooks