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When you click Go on a playlist, you are taken to Songbee's "live" interface. This consists of two windows. The first window should appear on your projector.
Note
It should appear on your projector. At the moment, it won't, and you have to drag it there manually. We're working on this.
The second window is the live console. It looks like this:
On the left you see the current song. The portion in blue is currently visible on the projector. Usually this covers an entire verse, but when the verse is longer than one screenful, as in the example above, only the visible lines are highlighted.
The next song in the playlist is displayed on the right, and under that, the current playlist. At the bottom of the window are the buttons for controlling Songbee with the mouse.
However, the recommended way of controlling Songbee is with the keyboard. Even if you are used to using your mouse to control your computer, you will find that using the keyboard allows you to move to the right portion of the right song much more quickly in reaction to things that your worship leader may unexpectedly do!
Here are the keys used to control Songbee:
- ←
Go to the previous song in the playlist.
- →
Go to the next song in the playlist.
- ↑
This will return to the previous verse, chorus or bridge within the current song.
- ↓
If, as in the example above, only a portion of the lines of a verse can fit on the projector display, this key (cursor down) will scroll down the verse. Once the last line is displayed, or if the entire verse can fit on the display at once, then this key will jump to the next portion of the song shown in the left-hand pane.
- PgDn
Page down will jump, rather than scroll, to the next portion of the verse to be displayed.
- 1, 2, 3, etc.
Jump to the corresponding verse of the current song.
- v, c, b
Jump to the next verse, chorus or bridge. A chorus is displayed in the console in a slightly narrower margins than a verse; a bridge is displayed in italics.
- Esc
The escape key "pauses" the display, removing the text from the projector. The highlight in the current song pane turns from blue to yellow to remind you that the display is paused. Pressing escape again will unpause the display; you may change to a difference verse or a different song while the display is paused.