Issue preserving lyric order when importing songs from text files

Nick Pappas

I'm writing an exporter to convert a song database from OpenLP for use with Proclaim. I understand from reading the docs that the text file format uses CCLI style files. I followed this guide http://www.mediashout.com/guide/prepare-a-lyric-text-file-for-import/ and I'm generating files like this now https://gist.github.com/radicand/840dd5e07b0b5a8af602

When I import the file in Proclaim, all is good, however the PlayOrder field is ignored and the songs lose that configuration. From what I'm researching, it's unclear if PlayOrder is something MediaShout has created, or if it's something in the original file spec. Regardless of where it came from, are there any tricks to getting the song order to be respected when importing a song from a text file? It'd be quite a pain to have to do this all manually (e.g, putting the order in the lyric text somewhere and having someone fix it all post-import).

Thanks!

Scott Alexander

The current Proclaim lyrics import does not support custom order sequences (aka play order), though it should. I think this is an artifact of us not storing the order sequence in the group's song database, which was not added until later. We've actually just added support for importing OpenLP lyrics. We plan to ship this new feature in a week or two. I'll have a developer reach out to you next week and if you supply the OpenLP lyrics we can use an internal version to import them for your group. We can also add support for the PlayOrder property at this time.