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Songbee is an application designed to be used in churches for the projection of worship song lyrics. Instead of using hymn books, churches can use a data projector and a computer running Songbee to display the words to hymns and songs.
Songbee is particularly designed for the Japanese church. It handles Japanese text, and particularly the display of furigana, in ways that other similar applications (Easislides, openlp.org, Opensong and Lyricue) do not.
In order to use Songbee, you will need to have a dual-monitor set up. That is to say, your computer must be able to send video to two different monitors: one will be your ordinary workstation, and the second will be a projector or closed-circuit television system to display the lyrics to your congregation.
If you have a laptop, you normally have the ability to plug in an external monitor - plug your projector into the monitor output. If you have a desktop PC, you may need to install a second video card. Once you have done this and plugged the projector into the second output, you will need to configure your operating system to display in multi-monitor mode.
For Windows computers, follow these steps to turn on multiple monitor support:
Right-click on the desktop.
Click the Settings tab.
Click the Display list and select the second monitor.
Select Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor and click OK.
Note that on some brands of laptop the above instructions do not work and you will need to use the software that comes with the laptop.
On a Macintosh:
Open System Preferences.
Click on the Displays icon.
Click the Detect Displays button
Turn off display mirroring.