Songs
The Songs tab (Ctrl + 1) holds your church's song library. Songs you add here can be searched, organised into collections, added to the schedule and sent to the screen.
To add, edit or format songs, see Managing Songs. To bring songs across from EasyWorship, see Importing from EasyWorship.
Finding a song
Type in the search box at the top of the sidebar. The button at the left of the box picks what to search:
| Mode | Searches |
|---|---|
| All (default) | Titles, authors and lyrics together, with title matches ranked first |
| Title | Song titles only |
| Lyrics | Lyrics only |
| Author | Author names only |
Search tips:
- Part of a word is enough.
gracfinds Amazing Grace. - Put a phrase in quotes to match it exactly:
"how great thou art". - Put
-in front of a word to leave out songs that contain it. - Apostrophes don't matter.
itsfinds It's. - Typos are forgiven. In All mode, if nothing matches exactly, Crater looks for titles and authors spelt similarly and says songs similar to… above the results.
- Search needs three letters. In All and Lyrics modes, words shorter than three letters are skipped.
While you search, each result shows the line of lyrics that matched, with your words highlighted. You can turn both off in Settings > Search.
When the search box is empty, a Recent button lists your last few searches in this session.
Sorting
Open the gear menu above the song list and choose Sort by Name, Sort by Most Recent (last edited), Sort by Newest or Sort by Oldest.
Favourites and collections
The sidebar groups your songs:
- All Songs shows the whole library.
- My Favorites shows songs you've marked with a heart. Right-click a song and choose Add to Favorites.
- My Collections expands to show your collections, such as Christmas, Communion or Youth Sunday. Click a collection to show only its songs.
A song can be in as many collections as you like. See Managing Songs to create and manage them.
Showing a song
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Click a song | Loads it into Preview |
| Up / Down in the search box | Moves through the list, loading each song into Preview |
| Double-click, or Enter | Sends it live |
| Right-click > Push to Live | Sends it live |
| Right-click > Add to Schedule, or Ctrl + T | Adds it to the schedule |
Each section of the song (Verse 1, Chorus, Bridge and so on) becomes one slide, in the order you wrote them. The section label appears on the slide cards in Preview and Live so you can find the chorus at a glance. Long sections shrink to fit the text box in your theme.
A red LIVE badge marks the song that's currently on screen.
Right-click menu
- Edit Song opens the song editor.
- Duplicate Song makes a copy called (copy), handy for a special arrangement.
- Add to Schedule and Push to Live.
- Add to Favorites or Remove from Favorites.
- Add to Collection… adds it to an existing collection or a new one.
- Remove from Collection appears while you're viewing a collection.
- Delete Song removes it from the library after asking you to confirm.
How songs look
Songs use your default song theme unless you pick a different one:
- For every song: Settings > Song > Default theme, or right-click a theme on the Themes tab and set it as the default.
- For one song: choose a theme in the song editor.
- For one service: right-click the song in the schedule and choose Theme….
See Themes for how to design one.
Song settings
In Settings > Song:
- Auto-advance slides, Advance after and Loop at end move through slides automatically. See Running a Service.
- Show author and Show CCLI number control whether the author and CCLI number appear under songs in the schedule.
In Settings > Appearance, Show CCLI badges shows the CCLI number beside each song in the library. Author and CCLI details come in with songs imported from EasyWorship.