LyricDisplay - Professional Lyrics Presentation for Live Production

LyricDisplay - Professional Lyrics Presentation for Live Production 7.0.0

peteralaks updated LyricDisplay - Professional Lyrics Presentation for Live Production with a new update entry:

LyricDisplay 6.8.7

Bug Fixes:

- Addressed timer display bug with a more robust approach using createLatestElementRef for managing auto-fit.
- Fixed sectioned lyrics list gap bug for long lyric files that triggered virtualization render path
- Fixed file navigator bug where enter key failed to load song into control panel/canvas after mouse clicked was used.

Added Features:

- Added port configuration in advanced user preferences to enable users change the default backend port. Changing backend...

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peteralaks updated LyricDisplay - Professional Lyrics Presentation for Live Production with a new update entry:

LyricDisplay 6.8.12

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed blank lines being grouped with lyric lines.
- Fixed song canvas Cleanup leaving multiple blank lines behind.
- Fixed time display digits being cut off with an ellipsis when switching between the timer and the clock during a running schedule
- Fixed Schedule Creator chips rounding fractional durations
- Fixed the "Network address changed" alert appearing when the address had not actually changed, on computers with more than one static IP address.
- Fixed some Open...

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This looks incredibly well thought out, thank you for making this open source!
Having up to 6 outputs plus a dedicated stage display directly feeding OBS via transparent browser sources is huge. Most dedicated church presentation software with multi-screen and stage confidence monitors come with heavy subscription pricing, so having a lightweight, cross-platform alternative that integrates smoothly into OBS is fantastic.

The local network remote control and EasyWorship import are also massive time-savers for live teams.

Quick question regarding multi-output formatting: does LyricDisplay allow different line-break / font-size rules between outputs (for instance, 4 lines full-screen on the in-house projector vs. a 2-line lower-third on the live stream)?

Looking forward to following this project!
 
Thanks so much, really glad you like it! Keeping it free and making it fit naturally into OBS has been the goal from the start.

Great question, and it's partly yes. Font size, position, margins and backgrounds are all set per output, so the projector and the stream can look completely different. Line grouping (which lines go together on a slide) is set per song, so every output gets the same lines at the same moment. There's no per-output rule like "4 lines here, 2 lines there".

The closest thing is Max Lines, which you set separately on each output, along with a minimum font size. Say you set the stream output to 2 max lines with a 36px minimum. When a lyric would wrap onto a third line, LyricDisplay shrinks the text until it fits in 2 lines, never going below 36px. The projector can have max lines off, or set higher, and keep its big font. You can also lock the lower-third background band to the max lines setting, so the band is always the right height.

One catch: max lines controls wrapping, not slide breaks. If a slide itself has 4 lines, a 2-line output can't split it into two halves. It shrinks the text, and if it still won't fit, it cuts off after line 2. So for a projector-plus-lower-third setup, it works best to build songs in 2-line slides. The projector just shows them bigger, and the stream fits them neatly into the lower third.

Hope that helps, and feel free to share any feedback once you've tried it!
 
peteralaks updated LyricDisplay - Professional Lyrics Presentation for Live Production with a new update entry:

LyricDisplay 7.0.0 Anniversary Update

One year of LyricDisplay. Thank you to everyone who has used it, reported issues, and shared it with their teams.

New Features:

- New structured song editor. Write songs section by section, with each line marked as a lyric, translation, or stage-only note. Songs are saved as LyricDisplay Songs (`.ldsong`), so their sections and slides display exactly the same on every computer, whatever the parsing settings.
- Paste lyrics copied from anywhere into the song editor and they are laid out...

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