A playlist is a collection of songs to be played in a worship session. Songbee currently assumes that the list of songs is known before the worship begins. Using Songbee has two phases: creating and editing the playlist before worship, and moving between the songs during the worship time.
When Songbee starts, you will see a window like this:
This shows all the playlists in your library, together with the songs in each playlist. At the top of the window are three toolbuttons:
- Add Playlist
This creates a new playlist, prompts you for a name, and takes you to the playlist editor.
- Add Song
This creates a new song, and takes you to the song editor.
- Import songs
This allows you to import songs from a Songbee song library file; that is to say, if you have a file containing additional songs in Songbee format, this option will add them to your database.
- Export songs
This will export your entire songs database as a Songbee song library file. If you enter a lot of the songs you use from week to week and then export your library and send the resulting file to the Songbee maintainer, perhaps together we can build up a good library of songs used by the Japanese church. Hopefully we'll then include the expanded library file in Songbee distributions in the future, making Songbee more useful for everyone, at least until the copyright police come to stop us worshipping freely.
Alongside each playlist's title are three buttons: Go will take you to the main "live" screen; Edit will take you to the playlist editor for this playlist; Delete will delete the playlist from the system. It does not delete the songs from the database, just the running order for an occasion.