The initial version of the Singing The Faith Importer for OpenLP can now be run in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine under Windows. In the Virtual Machine you run a Debian Installation of OpenLP 2.4.6, patched with the Importer. I do not recommend using this route for projection, but you can export Hymns from Hymnview on a Windows machine, use the Virtual machine to import them, and then export them as OpenLyric, and import them on your standard Windows install of OpenLP to project.
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To do this proceed as follows (Note that this is an outline, rather than full step-by-step guide, but all the major pieces are well described on the internet, The software is freely and legally available, so feel free to try it.
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Download and install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/
Download Debian Buster from https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/debian-installer/ You will want the 'amd64' netinst CD<br>
Run VirtualBox and Create a Virtual Machine - call it 'Debian OpenLP' - the type of the VM will be automatically set to Linux and sensible defaults set.
VirtualBox will ask for an Installation source - select the CD Image you downloaded.
The Debian installation should proceed - you will be asked for a root password - this is to create an Administrator password for your new Virtual Machine. It has nothing to do with any Windows passwords. Similarly you will be ased to create a user - again for the Virtual Machine, not for Windows.
Once created the Virtual Machine will reboot and you will log in using the user password you invented.
Start a 'Terminal' session - this may need some Googling
In the terminal - the $ and # signs are not typed - they show roughly what the computer will type to prompt you, lines where I have started with a hyphen describe what is going on.<br>
$ /bin/su -
- the computer will ask you for the root password you set when you created the Virtual Machine - you now have administrator access.<br>
# apt-get install openlp
- This installs the Debian version of the OpenLP program
# cd /usr/share/openlp/openlp/plugins/songs/lib
# mv importer.py importer.py.orig
# wget http://debian.paladyn.org/openlp/importer.py</li><li># cd importers
# wget http://debian.paladyn.org/openlp/singingthefaith.py</li><li># exit
- you are back to being a normal user without Administrator rights<br>
$ mkdir STF
$ cd STF
$ wget http://debian.paladyn.org/openlp/hints.tag</li></ol><div>You will now have a version of OpenLP running under Linux - inside your Windows system. If you put files which you have exported from the Electronic Version of Singing The Faith into the STF directory, along with the hints.tag you should be able to convert them into, in most cases, an song which can then be exported from your Linux copy of OpenLP and imported again into the Window copy of the program you use for live services. For the importing and exporting you could use VirtualBox shares, or Dropbox, or upload from the Windows system to a Google Drive, or Microsoft Cloud (as long as you can access these via a web browser.<br>
I recommend shutting down the VirtualBox system when you are not using it for conversion to save system resources.
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