ChurchView2EasyWorship
This is a dinky little program I made because I was in charge of our church's transition from ChurchView to EasyWorship and there is not an existing free software solution for this problem.
Note to owners of the above software: this software was independently developed and I am not aware of any copyright or trademark infringement within the program or this text. However, if you have any concerns, please contact me directly to discuss them.
Input and Output
ChurchView2EasyWorship takes as input an Access database conforming to the ChurchView database schema (version 3.1) and produces as output a folder of text files named after the songs in the given database. The content of each text file is a CCLI-formatted representation of that song.
This output folder can be imported directly into EasyWorship using the CCLI import function.
Normalization
During song transfer, the song lyrics are also put through a case normalization process. The process is as follows for each line of the song:
- The line is trimmed of excess white space.
- The entire line is converted to lower-case.
- The first letter is converted to upper-case.
- The following words are capitalized wherever and in whatever form they appear: Jesus, God, King, I, Lord, You, Him, Spirit, Zion, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Ancient of Days, Jireh, Nissi, Shalom, Rock of Ages, and Emmanuel. This list can be changed in the .config file that comes with the executable.
Usage:
ChurchView2EasyWorship.exe [dbfilename] [foldername]
Version: 1.0
Language: C# (requires .NET 4.0)
Operating system: Windows, Linux/OS X using Mono (untested)
Source code: GitHub
Download: ChurchView2EasyWorship (6 KB)