Questions about Steve Green's MIDI Hymnal

First, I want to say, I have searched the forums and read the threads already posted and I still have a few questions about Steve Green's MIDI Hymnal

The product's description says, "along with The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers, 101 Hymn Stories, 101 More Hymn Stories, Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions, but the contents of titles included is missing the sequel "More" volume.

Q: Is the book "101 More Hymn Stories" included? Or not?

Q: Do the MIDI files play fine under Windows 7? Or will I need a separate MIDI player? The posts I read are a little contradictory and confusing.

Q: Is it possible to add MIDI files to the collection?

Thanks in advance for all comments. (I may not be able to acknowledge answers quickly.)

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NetworkGeek

Q: Is the book "101 More Hymn Stories" included? Or not? YES - I have both 101 Hymn Stories AND 101 More Hymn Stories in my library.

Q: Do the MIDI files play fine under Windows 7? Or will I need a separate MIDI player? The posts I read are a little contradictory and confusing. - PLAYS FINE! I did not add any MIDI player to my system. You can click and play them within Logos, there is a little stop/pause/progress set of controls like when you see Read Aloud. You can also download the MID file to your PC, to use elsewhere/play outside of Logos. If I do that, and play them, they play from Windows Media Player which comes with Windows 7. I am on 64 bit Win 7.

Q: Is it possible to add MIDI files to the collection? Not that I am aware of, others may know for sure. I don't think Personal Books support them.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378063#Comment_378063

Personally, I'm waiting for L4 to handle video/audio resources before I buy this. This is perhaps the biggest feature of L3 that L4 doesn't have (that I care about).

DMB

I fully recommend the Steve Green CD-ROM (Libronix). I'd no idea who Steve was and still don't (I've forgotten; no offense to Steve).

But it does indeed deliver thousands of lyrics. And additionally you can see the various MIDI versions that played with the lyrics (some as many as 5-6). A good history lesson. A few days back one I was playing was Hamburg. So I did a search on just how many songs used Hamburg. A bunch!

You do get the additional volumes as noted above. Don't know if you care but the MIDI's are fairly professional meaning they're not heavily styled (with a lot of events), but they're superior to many of the Christian download MIDIs on the internet. They move nicely into score software where it's easy to split the parts. We then send it into our synths without hardly any editing.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378068#Comment_378068

I see that this resource is on sale...the first time I've ever seen Logos offer a sale discount on it! Perhaps I'll change my predilection to not purchase it until L4 supports it...

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378252#Comment_378252

What do you mean, "until Logos 4 supports it"? Seems to work fine to me, am I missing something?

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378256#Comment_378256

It remains an L3 product, which through machinations can be made to work with L4, but not like textual resources. I.e., it ships as a CD; when I get it, I'll have to load it into L3, then sync licenses so L4 knows about it...even though the Logos website knows I own the license. Then I have to manually copy the files from the CD onto the hard drive of every machine I want to access it from [a pain since only one machine still has a CD ROM drive]--and I've got to know, by operating system, which folder Logos4 will want to find them in. When media resources are updated (rare, but it happens), this requires shipping CD ROMs and manual intervention--on every machine--by the end user; the resources aren't cloud synch'd.

This is the same issue I have with the Learn Greek/Hebrew videos, the audio/video from Thomas Nelson resource packs that I bought in L3, etc.

It was a "missing feature" promised to be added in a later release...but that hasn't happened yet.

Therefore, I contend L4 does not support media resources like it does the textual stuff, aka L4 does not support it ATT.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378511#Comment_378511

Now Ward ... I don't wish to contradict you or even disagree per se.

But Steve Green is no different from any other CD-ROM resource ... it comes in the mail. At that point you can call up Customer Service with the authorization number OR you can load it into Libronix and synch the licenses. Either way, Logos downloads the files into Logos4 as with any other resource, whether books or MIDIs.

As for moving across computers, it's easiest to simply back up the licenses and then copy the resources to however many computers one has, restoring the licenses for each. We do that for 3 of our PCs, 2 of which are not on line.

Now regarding Logos4's overall media capability vs Libronix ..... well gee ... of course Libronix is the best. Always will be.

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378511#Comment_378511

I don't recall when I bought this resource. (I believe I bought the CD when it was still a STEP program and when L3 scanned my Hard Drive for resources it found it and included it into my LOGOS library) then when I upgraded to L4 it came along for the ride.

Last month I bought a new laptop and did a fresh install of L4 (I didn't want to run a risk of any index hiccups) and freshly downloaded all the resources from Logos servers. Steve Green's Midi Hymnal downloaded with all the other resources and I did NOT have to copy it over from a CD.

As I said, I do not remember when I first bought this resource (but I think it was before I bought my first version of Logos). It doesn't show up when I look through my order history on my Logos Account. But, it is fully integrated into my L4 library now.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378605#Comment_378605

It doesn't show up when I look through my order history on my Logos Account. But, it is fully integrated into my L4 library now.

The order history in our Logos account only shows the resources and merchandise we have purchased directly from Logos. If we buy something at a Morris Proctor seminar or from a third party source it will not appear in our order history. But rest assured that once you have registered a resource with Logos, that license is kept safe and as secure as all the others. The benefit I see in buying everything directly from Logos is the ongoing record we have of our purchases. (And as I said before: don't think your spouse will not eventually see that order history page... [:O] mine did.)

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/378516#Comment_378516

Now Ward ... I don't wish to contradict you or even disagree per se.

But Steve Green is no different from any other CD-ROM resource ... it comes in the mail. At that point you can call up Customer Service with the authorization number OR you can load it into Libronix and synch the licenses. Either way, Logos downloads the files into Logos4 as with any other resource, whether books or MIDIs.

As for moving across computers, it's easiest to simply back up the licenses and then copy the resources to however many computers one has, restoring the licenses for each. We do that for 3 of our PCs, 2 of which are not on line.

Now regarding Logos4's overall media capability vs Libronix ..... well gee ... of course Libronix is the best. Always will be.

I'll be happy to be wrong; would trade seamless license mgt for it.