The Song Database is a program to show lyrics on a digital projector for worship in a congregation. It can also display calendar events or a slide show.
- runs on nearly all systems because it is a Java application
- presentation control window shown separately from actual presentation(s) (which means your graphics
card has to have two or three outputs)
- you have a control monitor to display the database and the presentation control while the seperate projection screen shows only the content which the congregation (or the worship team, respectively) wants to see - no confusion, very professional
- show or hide the song title for the audience
- guitar chords can be included in the database, but will not be shown when presenting songs to the congregation - but they are useful when printing song sheets and for displaying the lyrics including the chords to the worship team on a separate monitor
- english user interface
- fonts and colors are customizable
- you can add remarks to every song
- easy song search/filtering - just type a part of the title or the text
- show the song beginnings in the song list (additionally to the song title) - you can find songs faster in spontaneous worship sessions
- image slides possible in worship, among normal song texts
- image slide show possible for announcements, e.g. before or after the service
- remote usage possible using MQTT, there's also an Android app for controlling SDB2
- the database format is not binary, but XML (essentially a text file) - you can easily modify it manually if you wish, synchronize it using any cloud service or even put it into a Git repository (producing nice diffs)
- the days on which a song is presented are counted automatically (in a separate statistics file)
so you have the data ready when the collecting society wants to know which songs you used
- you can export the statistics to an Excel file
- the song texts are displayed continually, not on individual slides, so everyone sees how the song continues
after the current part
- animated transition when displaying another part of a song
- fade effect when displaying another song (with configurable fade duration)
- download the latest SDB2 release
(use the file named
sdb2-...which corresponds to your system), unpack it and look for a batch file or shell script in thebinsubdirectory- if you're on MacOS you have to install Java by yourself (use the most current version) and use
sdb2-without-jre.zip
- if you're on MacOS you have to install Java by yourself (use the most current version) and use
The program has evolved since 2005 at Koinonia Calvary Chapel Hannover. If you find a bug or want a new feature, you are welcome to file an issue or even fix things yourself and create a pull request!