What is Lyricue?
Lyricue is free and open-source application that is used to edit/display song lyrics and passages of text along with images and videos on a second screen/projector. It was designed for use at live events such as church services, concerts and seminars.

Why use lyricue?
With Lyricue you are not restricted to setting everything up before the event as you can add, remove and change songs on the fly.

You can edit a song while it is up on the screen and quickly show your changes (good for when you notice a misspelling or the singers decide to change the words on you)

You can even type up notes directly to the screen or quickly display a bible verse at an instants notice.

Updated packages for Ubuntu are available from the package archive at https://code.launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/ubuntu/lyricue

Source packages are now downloadable directly from github at https://github.com/cjd/lyricue/releases

Get it on Google Play At this point most of the basic functionality is implemented such as quick controls, viewing playlists, adding/removing songs from playlists, adding bible verses (but with no page splitting as yet) and even quick access to putting text on the screen or OSD.
Download it now and let me know how it goes 🙂

Source is available at https://github.com/cjd/lyricue-android

- Now works with current Lyricue releases

Download the source from www.lyricue.org/archive/precue_2.0.tar.gz
Or install from the PPA – See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this

Lyricue 3.4.0 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<br/%gt;
Or install from the PPA – See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this<br/%gt;

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<br/%gt;
Or install from the PPA – See https://launchpad.net/~chris-debenham/+archive/lyricue for details on how to do this<br/%gt;

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 3.1.0 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

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