If you're moving to Proclaim from another presentation software platform, follow the instructions below to export your lyrics from your previous software. To learn how to import your lyrics into Proclaim, visit our support article.
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EasyWorship does not have a built-in export feature. If you have EasyWorship 6 or 7, you can find your song database on your hard drive and import it directly into Proclaim.
Locate the Songs.db on your hard drive at the file path “C:\Users\Public\Documents\Softouch\EasyWorship\Default\v6.1\Databases\Data” (or by using the search feature).
In Proclaim, go to Media > Import Media > Song Lyrics…
Click Choose song files… then select the files Songs.db and SongWords.db and click Open.
Proclaim will show you the songs from the import. Click Import All to import your songs.
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Note: If you are using EasyWorship 6, you may see an error message instead of your song lyrics. This means that your version of EasyWorship is not new enough for Proclaim to import your songs. You will need to open them using OpenLP.
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Note: Proclaim often needs the entire "Data" folder or at least the Songs.db and SongWords.dat (note the .dat extension in newer versions vs .db).
If you have an older version of EasyWorship, you will have to use OpenLP to export your songs.
OpenLP adds export functionality to EasyWorship. We're not able to help you with this on the phone, but you can follow these instructions to get your song files from EasyWorship into Proclaim.
On your hard drive, locate the Songs.DB file by using the search feature. In OpenLP, navigate to the File menu, then select Import and Song.
In the Song Import Wizard, select the EasyWorship Song Database format and enter the filepath for the Songs.DB file you located earlier.
Once the database has finished being imported, select Finish. The original EasyWorship database file is now imported into OpenLP and can be exported to text files by following the instructions found in this link.
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Note: once you have exported your song lyrics from OpenLP you will have to import them into Proclaim. Click here to learn how.
In the Audio Deck, highlight all the songs that you wish to export.
Click the Audio Deck action menu button and choose Export Lyrics...
Click OK to save it to a location on the computer.
- Open MediaShout 6 or 7 and navigate to Settings > General Settings > Lyrics and click Compact.
- On the Home tab, click Insert Lyrics.
- Search for the song(s) you want to export then highlight it in the list. (Ctrl+click on Windows or Shift+click on macOS to select multiple songs. Press Ctrl+A on Windows or Cmd+A on macOS to select all songs.)
- Right-click a highlighted song in the list.
- Click Export Lyrics.
- Select the text (.txt) file type, then click Save.
- When the export is finished, the Exporting Results window appears. It confirms which songs were exported successfully.
- Click Close.
ProPresenter supports exporting songs as plain text or as ProPresenter files (.pro). To export your songs from ProPresenter, navigate to the songs in your library and highlight them. In the File menu, select Export, and select Presentation or As Plain Text.
SongShow Plus uses a propriety filename extension for their song files. There is a free third-party tool called OpenLP that adds export functionality to SongShow Plus. Currently, this unsupported workaround is the only way to get your song files from SongShow Plus into Proclaim.
On your hard drive, navigate to the following folders:
- C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\R-Technics\SongShow Plus\Songs(this is where your user-generated songs are stored)
- C:\Program Files (x86)\R-Technics\SongShow Plus [version number]\Bin\Songs.Stock Hymns (this is where the stock hymns are stored)
In OpenLP, navigate to the File menu and select Import and Song.
In the Song Import Wizard, select the SongShow Plus format and add all of the files you located from the two folders in the first step.
Once the songs have finished being imported, select Finish. The original SongShow Plus song files are now imported into OpenLP and can be exported to text files by following the instructions found in this link.