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I don't want to downplay your experiences with Windows or prevent you from wanting to switch to a Mac, but what kind of problems are you having? I have not really had any issues with Windows that would cause me to want to change to a different OS. Again, not trying to downlplay the problems you're having, just curious as to what is going on? Just want to be able to help if possible.
Realistically, the thread on a Mac version goes back over seven years. At that time I was told that a Mac version would be forthcoming, and alas, nothing happening. Dan Willard posted three months ago that the mac version is in "full development." This long delay has made me more and more skeptical about the Windows version of the software. It too has problems, but I continue to use it when I have to. I wish there was integrity in the company. If a Mac version isn't really coming, just tell us.
I've been asking for over seven years for a Mac version, only to get a response much like the above "In full development." Unfortunately the integrity of the team is in question. I use Easy Worship only when I have to. If you are not going to put out a Mac version, that's OK, just be open and tell people who really want to know.
Kenneth, I'm sorry you feel you have to question our integrity. You are fully entitled to your opinion, but there is a Mac version in full development. There have been many changes and restarts to this process that have delayed it time and time again. And the main focus of the developers has been the current released PC version.
We are using a pretty new Dell enterprise-class tower workstation (Dell Precision T1500) with an Intel i7 processor, 16 GB Crucial RAM (up from 4 GB), two video cards (Matrox M9120 PCIe x16 & Nvidea Quadro NVS 295 PCIe x1). The two cards allow us to drive a total of 4 video outputs (3 for monitors on the desk + 1 output to our video mixing board for projection of content to the (mirrored) video projectors behind the worship platform. We are using the stock sound card and that gets sent into our sound mixing board. It is running Window7 Professional x64 bit. It is on a Microsoft domain.
EasyWorship is a bit limited, out of the box, with supported video codec formats so I used some of the video recoding software I have on it to generate new versions. The issue remained the same if it was coded in WMV, MOV, MP4, etc. Video playback was fine. No audio.
I think if this happens it should probably just start with songs/text stuff, since much of the binary/non-text stuff in an EWSX file can be found by unzipping it (may need to rename as .zip) and then looking in the 'Media' folder.
Sorry to re-open this topic after 5 years, but I think being able to open EWSX files would be a great and useful addition. I also think it might be low hanging fruit given that earlier EasyWorship file versions and databases seem to import without issue, so hopefully small tweaks only needed to OpenLP 3.1.x.
I can extract a file, and then using "DB Browser for SQLite" (available for Windows, Mac and Linux also - ) I can see the data structure in the main.db file. It also has a "Media" folder that contains any external non-text files such as PPTX or JPG.
It has a small group of PD songs from the EasyWorship PD sample song data. I have not included any media files, only text, to keep this simple, but I might do another file with a few media files in it as The screenshot shows the song schedule titles only, but it should not be tricky to find these in the db file. I might add an OpenLP file with the same contents in case that would help. I might also add a text file with the song words in case that helps.
With this sample file I unzipped it and tried renaming the main.db file to songs.db and using an EW 6/7 song database import, but it doesn't work, so obviously the format is somewhat different between the songs.db and the EWSX's main.db.
When I look at the contents of main.db using the DB Browser for SQLite, I noticed that there seems to be a repeated pattern under the Browse Data tab that includes "BACKGROUND", "AUDIO", "CONTENT_SONG", "COPYRIGHT within the file. I am not a whiz with the SQLITE format, unfortunately.
The 'info' table describes the EasyWorship app version default/expected and minimum (allowed?) for this file format as '7.4.1.3' and '6.5.1.0', which means their format may not have changed a lot for a while at least for simple text since I am using the latest 7.4.1.9. Edit: according to -notes 6.5.1.0 came out on Sep 6, 2016, so hopefully no major changes since then.
The 'resource-text' table has each verse/slide as a separate row and the contents of each row are in RTF format. If I select a row and copy the contents to a text file and name it *.RTF, I can then open that in LibreOffice Writer without issue. I have added a screen shot of this SQLite DB table to the google drive link above. Edit: Actually each verse appears to start on every third row after the first, with two rows of some sort of extra meta/data for two rows after each text/rtf row.
There are many similar tables that are empty in this file (as they are not in the file) but that mention 'resource_audio', 'resource_color', 'resource_dvd', 'resource_image', 'resource_video', 'resource_web' that can presumably contain links to resources, possibly hyperlinks to external web sites or to files in the Media folder in the EWSX file itself.
Seems that in the EWSX\main.db file there is a table, "presentation", that lists the slides, together with associated metadata such as slide title, (song/bible/other) author, (song/bible/other) copyright, (song/bible/other) copyright administrator, theme/background, and more. It seems to also assign a unique ID (UID) to each slide and another to thumbnails of slides, and that is how slides and images can be referred to/identified.
This is similar, or at least not incredibly different, to the main database that EasyWorship uses, except this is all contained in the Songs.db (e.g. in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Softouch\Easyworship\Default\v6.1\Databases\Data), while the text of the songs in an EWSX schedule is kept in the main.db in the 'resource-text' table, whereas in the main EW database the text of the songs seems to be in the separate SongWords.db file, rather than a table in the same Songs.db file. Again with UID's, but all the slides for a song seem to be kept in one row in SongWords.db, all in Rich Text Format (RTF), whereas they seem to be parsed and split out (as described above) into individual slides in the EWSX\main.db\'resource-text' table.
I think priority should obviously be given to text resources such as songs, but other text resources such as external links might be useful too. I think for instance that links to YouTube videos would just be a text field.
I think that sadly Easy Worship is on the decline after (I believe) being bought out a few years ago, having been about 14 months since any update releases, and having moved to a subscription model. Many have also tried to encourage them to think beyond Microsoft Office in terms of helper apps, but they seem reluctant, and they are also very much coming from an inflexible NVIDIA and Windows only mindset. I do not wish to think in a commercial us/them way about this but a kingdom way, however there is an opportunity here for OpenLP to open more/easier access to great free tools to promote gospel ministry ahead of profits.
Again, thank you for your work on this. I saw that two python files were changed in git and tried to update these in my stable version of OpenLP but I'm thinking that a menu entry needs to be added to try out the new functions. Not sure how to do that.
On a different but related matter, do you think there would be any value in being able to open and save services from/to different formats, if even just to open foreign formats as a service in OpenLP?
Part of my thinking is that when importing from formats (e.g. EasyWorship 6) that are already available in stable OpenLP, it is possible to import but there seems to be no indication of what was imported or the contents of the file. This might be addressed by being able to open it just like an osz file, even if only text resources, or by showing a list of resources titles during the import process.
Thinking about that step got me thinking about broader import/export interoperability, a bit like LibreOffice allows, even if it just starts with text resources and perhaps binary resources like media files could be a further/later step.
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