• Web interface available – Precue
  • OpenGL accelerated server using Clutter
  • Use any image or video for backgrounds
  • Display text over live video from webcam
  • Play DVD titles directly
  • Runs in English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese or Swedish
  • Multiple Playlists
  • All songs kept in a database and so screens are dynamically generated, allowing you to easily change the backdrop, font etc without having to change all the songs
  • Can automatically create screens for bible verses
  • Quick searching for songs
  • Searching by song name or the lyrics themselves
  • Playlist shown as collapsable tree so easy to find wanted page
  • Add/Edit/Remove Songs (even while they are being displayed)
  • Preview a song as you enter it
  • Networkable (ie run interface and server on different machines)
  • Duplicate/Delete individual pages in playlist
  • User access controls
  • User-specific configuration/images (or can all refer to global one)
  • Honourize a song (change ‘jesus’ to ‘Jesus’ etc)
  • Graphical error reporting
  • Spellchecking
  • Change Font/Colours of text on a per-background basis
  • Playlist entries to change background
  • Automatic Page advance
  • Copyright info for songs
  • Can add images/videos/music to playlist
  • Scrolling on-screen display for short messages

Lyricue release announcements

Lyricue 3.4.5 released

Mon Apr 2 15:23:59 EST 2012

Lyricue 3.4.5 has been released with the following changes:

  • Add option to expand items on adding to playlist (LP#970411)
  • Fix going back a page when looping is not set (LP#970591)
  • Fix image tab not showing DB images (LP#970925)
  • Quick fix for not being able to select image category when adding to db
  • Refresh category lists for image/bgs when selecting tab (LP#970927)
  • Fix crash when transition type=None is set for song (LP#966661)

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.4.5.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.4.1 released

Sun Mar 18 11:57:01 EST 2012

Lyricue 3.4.1 has been released with the following changes:

  • Fix font colour preference changing
  • Fix import songlist menu item (LP#953603)
  • Fix import of utf8 ccli songs (LP#956770)

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.4.1.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.4.0 released

Wed Mar 7 12:46:09 EST 2012

Lyricue 3.4.0 has been released with the following changes:

  • Change from glade to gtkbuilder for interface
  • Make playlist items be expanded by default when added to playlist or
  • opening a new playlist

  • Add ability to copy a playlist
  • Allow installing to paths other than /usr

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.4.0.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.3.6 released

Wed Jan 11 16:20:15 EST 2012

Lyricue 3.3.6 has been released with the following changes:

  • Add xrandr and Xorg.log to bug report collection
  • Add dropdown of previous verses to navigator

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.3.6.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.3.5 released

Mon Jan 9 15:44:42 EST 2012

Lyricue 3.3.5 has been released with the following changes:

  • Add ‘Random’ transition
  • More work on songlist html output (LP#883368)

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.3.5.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.3.4 released

Wed Nov 30 11:49:00 EST 2011

Lyricue 3.3.4 has been released with the following changes:

  • Make toolbar buttons have text
  • Reformat songlist html output (LP#883368)
  • Change window titles for various file chooser dialogs (LP#887769)
  • More fixes for handling if no bibleDb installed (LP#882686)

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.3.4.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.3.3 released

Tue Nov 29 16:29:00 EST 2011

Lyricue 3.3.3 has been released with the following changes:

  • Fix html output of songlist
  • Allow lyricue to load even if bibleDb goes missing
  • Add apport bug reporting and menu option (LP#884335)

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.3.3.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.2.1 released

Fri Oct 21 13:55:57 EST 2011

Lyricue 3.2.1 has been released with the following changes:

  • Fix compilation on oneiric (needs clutter-gtk 1.0 in package deps)
  • Add multi-select for deleting songs
  • Fix compilation with clutter-gtk 1.0 (LP#876253)
  • Fix tooltip for start display button

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.2.1.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA – See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.1.1 released

Mon Aug 15 16:23:39 EST 2011

Lyricue 3.1.1 has been released with the following changes:

  • Add toolbar button to start display
  • Add special text-entry area for OSD
  • Make clear/blank toolbar buttons toggle

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.1.1.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA - See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.1.0 released

Mon Aug 1 14:26:27 EST 2011

After much time I finally decided that lyricue 3.x is at the point I can call it 3.1 :)
Since the release of 3.0 a lot of fixes and updates have gone in.
The main things are:

  • Works on Ubuntu oneiric, natty, maverick and lucid
  • Handling of non-alpha characters in filenames has been fixed up
  • You can associate font/shadow colours with a specific background (with a preview) via the media manager
  • Dramatic speed increase in advanced search
  • You can press enter to quickly add the first item found when searching the songlist
  • Lyricue can directly play DVD titles
  • Display live video feed as background
  • Online documentation included in the application itself
  • Video backgrounds play silently for a few seconds in the preview windows
  • Smarter adding of image, video and music files to the playlist
  • Imports pptx files (via workaround)
  • Better handling of different multi-display setups
  • Configuration now stored in the database directly
  • Preview window added to edit/add song screen

Lyricue 3.1.0 has the following changes since 3.0.41

  • Fix handling of apostrophe in presentation filenames
  • Add text overlay in background manager so it is easier to check text colour

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/lyricue_3.1.0.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA – See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Full list of changes since 3.0

  • Fix handling of apostrophe in presentation filenames
  • Add text overlay in background manager so it is easier to check text colour
  • Fix import of images to DB (LP#816937)
  • Dramatic speed increase in advanced search (LP#814772)
  • Fix handling of semicolons and ampersands in image filenames
  • Text/shadow colours should work properly now
  • Fix bible changing in preview
  • More work on getting text/shadow colour association working with videos
  • Fix application menu strings (LP#807237)
  • Make DVD playing actually play the selected title
  • Add local documentation
  • Fix build for maverick/lucid
  • Fix audio volume (LP#806715)
  • Make pressing enter in available songlist add song to playlist (makes interactive search work)
  • Enable videos to play for 3 seconds in miniview
  • Make shadow offset actually do something
  • Handle symlinks properly when importing a directory
  • Allow pressing enter when searching for a song to add first match
  • Allow any image, video or music file to be added via ‘add directory’
  • Sort list of song when importing
  • Fix for importing text songs with unicode
  • Fix looping of background videos
  • Fix progress bar for videos
  • Fix scaling on natty
  • Add support for importing pptx (via workaround)
  • Initial support for audio files in playlist
  • Fix text colour not being updated on re-config
  • Fix text colour not being updated
  • Fix automatic looping for sublists
  • Fixes for Clutter-gst 1.x
  • Fix crash when background not specified fully
  • Fix video playback related crash (LP#675090)
  • Migrate package name from lyricue3 to lyricue
  • Hide mouse cursor in display after three seconds of no motion
  • Fix video looping for playlist items
  • Fix geometry override handling when launching via lyricue
  • Default hostname should be ‘localhost’
  • Force CLUTTER_DISABLE_MIPMAPPED_TEXT and unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT
  • lyricue_display was ignoring database given on commandline
  • Lyricue should quote passwords in mysql command (LP#668770)
  • Playback control not working (LP#668443)
  • Fix handling of & in text display
  • Lyricue 3 miniview does not work (LP#640936)
  • Cannot use page forward or back when showing an image (LP#665498)
  • Work on blank screen behaviour (LP#662311)
  • Make ‘OK’ be default action in combo/entry dialogs (LP#665494)
  • Add fade/blur effect for backgrounds
  • Work on getting aspect ratio displayed right for backgrounds
  • Fix Crash when playing videos
  • Fix missing break in mouse-click handling (LP#664931)
  • Fix lyricue_display distorts images (LP#664921)
  • Fix lyricue_display ignores font colour setting on songs (LP#664929)
  • Add mouse-click handling (LP#664931)
  • Fix line-wrap for preview (LP#662893)
  • Fix preview window display
  • Remove multiple Load/Close Lyricue Display items in menu
  • Remove ServerType setting as it is no longer used
  • Fix preview in add/edit song dialog
  • Increase epoch so will superceed 1:2.3.x
  • Don’t complain if access.conf not setup
  • Re-add locales
  • Don’t complain if access.conf not setup
  • Add default items to applications menu to start/stop lyricue_display
  • Add option to lyricue_remote to close the server
  • Set process name for lyricue_display better
  • Turn off debug output by default (use ‘-d’ to re-enable)
  • Fix looping not working
  • Fix clear-text function
  • Fix double-changing of background in preview
  • Enable word-wrap by default for songs
  • Add lsdvd to dependancies
  • Report port number is process name
  • Fix crash when going back past first item
  • Enable live video backgrounds
  • Add .desktop files
  • Initial work at dvd support
  • Add preview window to edit/add song dialog
  • Force writing of config to db every startup (LP#636731)
  • Re-add lyricue_remote command
  • Let lyricue_display use GeometryOverride if set
  • Get lyricue_display to reload config when saving prefs in lyricue
  • Implement OSD functionality
  • Fix loading lyricue_display from apps menu
  • Save first config to database
  • Change some install dependancies
  • Make interface work at 1024×600
  • Fix status message to return proper screen size
  • Fix blank handling after preview
  • Fix missing files
  • Make presentation import retry if fails
  • Store presentation temp files in /var/tmp instead of /tmp
  • Packaging changes
  • Implement dbimage loading
  • Don’t try to set the geometry if it is null
  • Make lyricue_display log to logfile/stderr
  • Fixes for bible preview
  • Fix crash when blanking screen to database image
  • SEMI should be :
  • More fixes to preview command
  • Change debug messages for verse adding
  • Use mipmaps for glyph caches
  • Fix preview command
  • Fix crash on reconfigure
  • Add conflict for lyricue/lyricue-cvs
  • Look for sql updates in right directory
  • Add sword support