ChorusLine 2.0 Product Overview

Songs at your Fingertips

Planning the appropriate songs for a meeting isn't easy. Do you need songs that follow a particular theme? Should all the songs be arranged for a particular type of accompaniment? Are you looking for songs that have been recently used, and are well-known by your congregation?  ChorusLine puts all of this information at your fingertips, making it easy to plan the appropriate music for your meetings.

• Store detailed information about songs, including key changes, time signature, tempo and arrangements to ensure that the feel of the music is appropriate, and is properly suited to the available accompaniment.
• Assign songs to one or more categories, to allow music to be selected according to themes. 
• Store song lyrics in a number of formats suitable for overhead projection, slide printing, or printed lyric sheets.
• Record the source folio of sheet music for the song, and the source of an audio recording of the song, to provide reference information for musicians and to provide an index into your song library. 
• Plan songs for an upcoming meeting, and keep a record of songs used in previous meetings.
• Get usage information for any number of songs during a specific period to create a list of popular songs.
   

Copyright License Reporting in an Instant

Many of the songs used in church meetings are subject to copyright licensing, and you are required to keep track of song usage whether it be copying or arranging sheet music, recording a live performance in a meeting, or projecting song lyrics. ChorusLine makes it easy for you to fulfil your licensing obligations and provide periodic reports to the appropriate licensing authority.

• Record information about copyright and sheet music folios for each song.
• Keep a record of activities such as printing, recording or projection that affect licensing, either by individual occurrence or automatically, based upon the usage of songs in particular types of meetings.
• Record activity for groups of songs at once, for batch copying of lyrics or sheet music.
• Print reports containing all the information you need to satisfy the reporting requirements of a licensing authority such as Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI).
   

Project a More Sophisticated Image!

ChorusLine has a flexible projection window that can be used with a video projector system linked to your computer.

• Show the songs selected for a particular meeting in a pre-defined order, or select and display songs ad-hoc during the meeting.
• Project song lyric slides in full-screen mode and use shortcut keys to quickly select which song is displayed, or display slides in a separate window if your projector has windowing capability.
• Change the size and position of the display window to suit your projector.
• Quickly display informative text messages or blank the screen if necessary.
• Choose the fonts, text sizes and colors that are most suitable for your projector and your operating environment.
• Show composer and copyright information to satisfy legal requirements.
   

Powerful Querying and Reporting

ChorusLine maximises the potential of your information by providing a number of reporting options including:

• A powerful and easy-to-use report writer which allows you to create customised reports in a number of formats to suit many of your organisation's reporting needs.
• A number of pre-defined reports to satisfy specific requirements, including licensing activity reporting, usage reports and summary reports.
• A user-friendly query writer that allows you to create and store queries to find the information you need to answer common questions or satisfy one-off requests. Stored queries can be used as the basis for a number of functions such as creating reports and exporting data.
• The ability to save and distribute the output of reports in a number of highly-portable file formats including HTML, Portable Document Format (PDF) or as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet (XLS). Share information from a single source with your entire music department!
   

Easy to Learn, Easy to Use

ChorusLine provides many features that make working with your songs a whole lot easier:

• A multiple-document interface lets you view and modify the properties of many items simultaneously.
• Comprehensive menus, toolbars and short-cut keys provide convenient access to many useful features as you need them.
• Step-by-step dialogs guide you through common tasks such as adding a batch licensing activity for a group of songs.
• Report previews allow you see how your reports will appear before you send them to a printer or save them to a file.
   

Access to your Data

ChorusLine ensures that your information is stored in a readily accessible format that can be used in many other applications by:

• Providing comprehensive export options in standard formats, so you can extract your data and integrate it with many other applications. Reports can even be exported to HTML documents for direct integration with a web site!
• Using the Microsoft Access™ database engine to store data, which provides you with complete access to your information at the lowest level should this be necessary.

Furthermore, you can use the information you already have by importing data from your existing applications into ChorusLine, including song and source product information.

 

System Requirements

To install ChorusLine 2.0, your system must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 or XP operating system.
• 32Mb RAM (64Mb recommended)
• 20Mb free disk space.