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Lyri

Lyric presentation for multilingual churches

I have spent most of my life on church production teams, and the lyric screen is always the awkward part. Lyri is my answer: one laptop, two languages, no accounts.

Finding a songI type a few letters and four thousand songs narrow to a handful. Each one shows in transliteration and its original script.
Running the serviceEvery verse is a tile. I step through them, the rail shows what is on the wall, and Black is one key away.
Audience and stageThe audience screen shows the live verse. The stage screen adds the first line of the next one, so the singers stay ahead.

Polish or two languages, never both

Production-grade lyric software is lovely and assumes one language. The tools that cope with two feel like a compromise. For more than a decade I have wanted something with the polish of the first and the thinking of the second.

One console, two screens

You build a setlist, go live, and drive everything from one laptop. The congregation screen and the stage screen follow along. Both carry the same line in both languages. The stage screen also shows what is coming next, so the band is never guessing.

Built for a bad Sunday

It works offline and needs no sign-in. Church wifi is not a dependency I want. Each screen is its own window, so you can send it to a projector or a stage monitor. A language can be switched off on any output, for the service that needs only one.

This time, to the finish

It is in progress. I have worked on it for a few weeks every few years. This time I intend to see it through.