Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Mediashout Lyrics #58

Closed
rohanale opened this issue Mar 1, 2024 · 24 comments
Closed

Mediashout Lyrics #58

rohanale opened this issue Mar 1, 2024 · 24 comments
Labels
new format export new format import

Comments

@rohanale
Copy link

rohanale commented Mar 1, 2024

Hi,

Stumbled upon your program which looks great.

Was wondering if it works with Mediashout v7 which we used at our church. I believe they used json format for their lyrics.

I have a bunch of songs in text format which I would like to convert so they can be used in Mediashout if possible.

Thanks

Rohan
@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

It does not currently work with MediaShout, but that's mostly because I have not ever had any sample files to test with. I cannot guarantee when, but if you have any MediaShout files you can send over I can take a look at the format to see if it's something I can add support for.

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 1, 2024 via email

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 1, 2024 via email

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

I don't think you can reply to the github emails with attachments, they don't get passed through. You'll have to do it on the github website

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 1, 2024

Here you go ...
JOY is Joy.json

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 2, 2024

The Blessing.json

here's another song.

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 2, 2024

Hymn 002 - All Creatures or our God.json

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 8, 2024

Hi. Any news on those mediashout files I sent?

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

Sorry, I haven't had time to look into this yet. I would need to analyze the files, learn about the format, and build an entire parsing/building library and then integrate it into LyricConverter. I will attempt to get to it when I have the time, but probably not something terribly soon.

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Mar 8, 2024 via email

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

@rohanale I began to take a look at this, but I am unclear on a few things about these files.

What version of MediaShout are you using to get those *.json files? I installed the trial version of Mediashout 7 and I see no options at all for *.json files. It seems to save things as *.sc7x files, which I would not be able to do anything with (they are binary files).

The JSON file you sent would be extremely easy to work with, but I am unable to open them in MediaShout and I am also unable to get MediaShout to export anything in that format.

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented Apr 29, 2024 via email •
edited
Loading

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented May 3, 2024

Hi Chris,

I hope my response made sense.

If not, please let me know.

Thanks

Rohan

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

ok, sorry, I've been busy. Finally sat down to try this out and I'm a little lost. I used MediaShout probably 15+ years ago and it has changed quite a lot!

You said "All the lyrics/songs listed are saved in JSON format.You can export and import songs from here." but I don't see any options for that anywhere. I do see some "export" options but my only options are text, PDF, or images. I'm not seeing JSON listed anywhere

image

image

In addition to that, I'm not seeing any way to import these files anyway. There's a very clear "Import" menu, but no JSON is listed.

image

But after looking in their knowledge base, I found this page: https://support.mediashout.com/244705-How-to-move-your-Song-Library-from-one-computer-to-another---MediaShout-7

Basically there are unlabeled icons in a menu, and I have no idea why they would do it this way and not list this in the regular import/export menus. Whatever! I'm just glad their file formats are simple JSON files which are incredibly easy to work with.

image

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented May 7, 2024 via email

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

No that's OK, I've got it working. I was just venting about how un-obvious it is to get that.

I've actually currently got it working with reading/importing MediaShout files. Still need to work on the outputs. MediaShould also allow multiple songs to be in a single file to be imported, so I will need to handle a way to deal with that as well. That will be useful for importing an entire library

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented May 7, 2024

Oh wow. Great stuff. Let me know if you need anything from me.

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

I've just published a new release which should be live on the website now. LyricConverter can now READ MediaShout 7 files and convert them to any of the output types! This works for files that contain multiple songs too!

I wanted to get the MediaShout file output type made as well, but I ran out of time this weekend. But that's a separate feature really so I wanted to get this out there now in case it was needed.

Please let me know if this works for you or if you have any issues with it reading MS7 files. I'm going to keep this issue open until I complete the MS7 Output type as well.

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

rohanale commented May 20, 2024 via email

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

Hi Chris,

Just looked on your website and realise what you meant about the Output type. So we had all the songs in Mediashout but due to a machine issue, lost all the songs.

So the output type is very important for me. I need it as we have all the songs in text format which I would like to convert to Mediashout 7 json format so I do not have the type the songs back in again.

Thanks

Rohan

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

ah ok, I understand. Thankfully it's a fairly simple format to do since I'm already working with JSON data. Once I have a good chunk of time (hopefully this coming weekend) I should be able to knock it out pretty quickly

ChrisMBarr added a commit that referenced this issue May 27, 2024
@ChrisMBarr
Update readme, should take care of #58 now
d97d47c
@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

ok, I've just finished up the MediaShout 7 support for output/writing files! Please give this a try and let me know how this works for you. I'm going to go ahead and close this issue for now, if you have any problems please open up a new issue

@rohanale
Copy link
Author

Hi Chris,

Thanks for sorting this. It is working well.

The only comment I would make is that when the song is created in Mediashout all the stanzas are labeled as Verse1. So if the song has 2 verses for example both verses are labelled as Verse 1. And choruses are not recognised. I guess there is nothing in the text to denote what a verse or a chorus is.

Not sure if anything can be done about this but I thought I would let you know.

Thanks

Rohan

@ChrisMBarr
Copy link
Owner

Hmm strange. I might be able to do something about that. Can you please create a new issue here and attach a file.

If you're curious, a mediashout file just uses a number to define which part of a song it is, like this: https://github.com/ChrisMBarr/LyricConverter/blob/master/test/sample-files/MediaShout/JOY.is.Joy.json#L13

And then I have a way to map those numbers to which part they should be here: https://github.com/ChrisMBarr/LyricConverter/blob/master/src/app/convert/models/mediashout.model.ts#L29-L45

I just figured that out based on the dropdown list inside of MediaShout, it appears to be in the correct order.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
new format export new format import
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

No branches or pull requests
2 participants
@ChrisMBarr @rohanale