
August 25, 2025
I live in South Africa and am part of a church movement called Four12. Four12 consists of just over a thousand churches partnering all over the world that believe in following the Holy Spirit's leadership. And that is why I love the functionality of Presenter, because you can search for a song or scripture while presenting something else and project that newly added song or scripture at a drop of a hat and also present other media and PowerPoints presentations effortlessly, however it would be extremely helpful if there is a way the songs in particular are viewed. We normally have a setlist that we add to the sidebar under the songs heading, but because of the way we do church the worship team will almost never follow the list from song 1 to song 5 in the order it was added, they might start with the first song then jump to a bridge of the fourth song then go back to the 2nd verse of the first song and then the worship leader might sing something that was not added to the setlist, that the AV volunteer needs to be add it quickly and so it goes on as the Spirit leads. This means that the AV person will have to click on each of the songs one by one and try to find the correct slide to be presented. This process takes too long and sometimes frazzles the AV volunteers. So with this in mind, can I ask if the following changes are possible?
Will it be possible to add an option in the sidebar window that when you click on the ‘Song’ heading all the loaded songs underneath the songs heading gets displayed in your main window as lyric lines (instead of slide thumbnails) with a gap that separates the songs in between. This will make it very easy to spot the correct lyrics. This is the only feature that OpenSong does well. It will just make it easier for the AV volunteer to quickly find the correct song/verse/chorus/bridge that the worship team has jumped to without having to click on each song in the sidebar to find the correct slide. Will you please seriously consider my request?
Then in the future when you incorporate AI into your software, you can have a feature where you can connect an mic or ‘line in’ into the software that listens to the lyrics and indicates with an arrow what the AI thinks is being sung at the moment and the AV volunteer can just double check and click. It will also be nice if it can also possibly suggest what song to quickly load to the setlist if it hears a song that is not in your current setlist.
If you can get the first suggestion to work we will be extremely grateful and if you can get the second suggestion to work your software will be the best in the world!
Thanks again for your great program!
Warm regards,
Armand
Posted by Joshgen Sea Point
August 25, 2025
Here is a mockup image that I have made to explain it a bit better:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dW5npJSuebmFRO2Rq-5ozAyoT6BLcDkZ/view?usp=sharing
Posted by Joshgen Sea Point