Transfer songs from one PC to another

6/24/2022

This topic describes 4 methods to transfer and synchronize VideoPsalm songs from one PC to another.

Method 1
Use an agenda

This solution comes in handy when you prepare your agenda on your HOME PC,
or when you only have a few songs to transfer.
It is something that may happen to you on a weekly basis.
1. On your HOME PC, type-in new songs and make song corrections.
2. Put all new or edited songs into an agenda.
3. Save the agenda onto a USB stick.

An agenda contains all that is needed to reproduce your presentation identically on the CHURCH PC:

Songs with their lyrics
Styles (the backgrounds, styles at different levels)
Songbooks definitions
Styles (Songbooks, Bibles, Base)
Slideshow images
Standalone videos
PowerPoints
etc.

4. On the CHURCH PC, open the agenda from the USB stick.
VideoPsalm will automatically:

Add to your CHURCH PC all the agenda songs, in particular those that are not yet there.
Create the potential new songbooks.
Add the song backgrounds to the image and video galleries.
If the songs are already on the CHURCH PC, their lyrics and other attributes are replaced by those from the agenda, depending on how you set up the “Agenda open” options on the CHURCH PC:

“Agenda Open” options

Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the song lyrics on the CHURCH PC with those from the agenda (those from the HOME PC).
In case the CHURCH PC misses one or more songs from the agenda, VideoPsalm adds them to its songbooks, and, if necessary, creates the corresponding songbooks, regardless of the state of agenda open options.

Preserve the styles of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the styles of songs on the CHURCH PC by those from the agenda (those from the HOME PC).

Note The “Agenda open” options are turned off by default.
However, it is advised to turn these options on on the CHURCH PC, in order to protect the church song lyrics, their styles, etc. against changes propagated from your HOME PC through agendas, week after week.

Consider following example
Someone prepares an agenda on his HOME PC. Among the songs, one is called “King of kings”. In our example, this song contains an accidentally mistyped title “King of all kings”. There are possibly other misspellings in the lyrics.
To prevent these errors to propagate to the CHURCH PC, enable the “Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles” option on the CHURCH PC.

In case your shields are both set, only new songs will be added to your CHURCH PC. Songs that already exist on your CHURCH PC won't get modified.

5. Finally, save the potential changes produced by opening the agenda:

If you forget to save your changes, VideoPsalm will remind you about it when you close it.

Note that the songbooks and the Bibles only take little space on your hard drive:
4 songbooks with hundreds of songs occupy about the space of a photo taken by your smartphone.
A Bible takes about as much space as a photo too.

YouTube tutorial
Open an agenda file
"Agenda open" shields/options (jump directly at 2' 27s)

With method 2 (compared to method 3 - Backup/restore, see further), you will want to manually copy the “SongbookStyle.json” and the “RootStyle.json” style files located in the VideoPsalm document folder.
This will ensure that your songs at church will get displayed with the same “Songbooks” and “Base” styles as at home.

Method 2
Transfer the songbooks directly

Method 3
Use the VideoPsalm backup/restore feature

In a common situation, you have VideoPsalm installed on your HOME PC, and on the CHURCH PC.

The initial setup follows more or less these steps:

On your NOME PC
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Add predefined songbooks.
3. Add Bibles.
4. Assign style attributes, like font, size, alignment, colors, animations, etc.
5. Type-in some songs.
6. etc.
7. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, backup the VideoPsalm documents to a USB stick.

On your CHURCH PC
You want to get exactly the same setup as the one you have at home.
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, restore the USB stick backup to the church PC.

VideoPsalm stores each songbook in a file on your hard drive.
A handy way to transfer a songbook from one PC to another, is to copy its file from one PC to the other, for example via a USB stick.

To easily locate the songbook on your hard drive, open the VideoPsalm options, and press the “Explore” button:

Your songbooks are located in the “Songbooks” sub-folder.
Copy the songbook onto a USB stick.
On the CHURCH PC, paste your USB stick songbooks to the corresponding VideoPsalm folder.

Additional read:
How to backup VideoPsalms' data or start it from a USB stick (portable VideoPsalm)

Method 4
Use a service like Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive

This requires an internet connection for both your HOME and CHURCH PCs.

Solution overview
1. Move your HOME PC VideoPsalm document folder into a Dropbox folder and make VideoPsalm point to this folder via its options.
2. Setup your CHURCH PC VideoPsalm document folder to the same Dropbox folder.
3. At CHURCH, wait until Dropbox finishes to sync its files before you open VideoPsalm.

Detailed instructions
To sync songs between multiple computers, you can use a service like Dropbox or any other similar cloud solution.

VideoPsalm usually stores its songbook files in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm

To setup your VideoPsalm to sync with Dropbox:

1. With a File Explorer, copy the "C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm" folder and its whole content into a Dropbox folder.

2. Start VideoPsalm.
It will load its documents (songbooks, Bibles, images, videos, etc.) from the usual location, namely from:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm

3. In its settings, tell VideoPsalm to load its files from the Dropbox location:

4. Click “OK” and confirm that you now want VideoPsalm to load its settings from this Dropbox folder.
The next time that you start VideoPsalm, it will remember to load its documents from this new location.

5. Proceed from step 3 on all PCs that you want to sync your songbooks with.

Additional points and remarks

You will need to "share" your Dropbox VideoPsalm folder with the other PCs, so that they get the changes from the other PCs.
Make sure that the changes from other PCs are propagated onto the PC before you start VideoPsalm.
Modify documents (songs, settings, etc.) only on one PC at any given time, or else Dropbox will create a copy of the songbook, giving it a filename including the date and time of the conflict.
(This enables you to identify at what time the conflict happen.)

52 Comments

Jerry Novell

2/2/2016 05:06:26 pm

1. Can I print the dir list of a songbook so I can give our song leader at church a list of songs which we have words to?

2. I have a folder with songs which we use at church before installing VideoPsalm which are in MS Powerpoint format. Can & how would I make a songbook of these songs?

VideoPsalm link

3/13/2016 03:27:21 pm

Hi Jerry,

To export the song list, right-click on a songbook and select "Copy a songbook summary to the Clipboard".
Then paste the Windows Clipboard into Excel or Word.

Another way to do this is to use the agenda "Copy to Clipboard" button:

1. Add all the relevant songs to the agenda.
2. Press the agenda "Copy to Clipboard" button.
3. Paste the Windows Clipboard into Excel.

Following information is copied to the Clipboard:
- Songbook abbreviation
- Song number (CCLI)
- Song title

To safely exchange emails with VideoPsalm, please use the contact form:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

Josef link

2/27/2021 12:41:03 pm

Hello,
is here a way to open *.vpc file in some browser (SQLite?) to create export of the songs? We share songs on our website for musicians/leaders, adding all to the agenda is time consuming (as multiselect on the song list is not possible...)

Josef

2/27/2021 01:14:26 pm

Regarding my previous question about opening *.vpc - I realise that inside *.vpc is JSON file, now I try to write some tool to convert songs to external format...

Isolino

5/11/2016 06:08:13 pm

Hello, Thank-you for providing this wonderful program, I've been using it at our church since January, really like it.
I have a question: I've created my own song book at the present time I have about 80 songs, is there a way to alphabetize the songs.

Thanks,
Isolino

VideoPsalm link

6/4/2016 09:58:49 am

Hi Isolino,

To sort the songs alphabetically:
1. Click the "Edit" tab.
2.. Press the "Sort alphabetically" button.
3. Press the "Save" button to save your changes.

Does this work for you?

Garba Songs link

9/27/2016 03:56:16 am

Thanks for sharing info.

Kallie

3/16/2017 01:25:53 pm

This is a very nice program. Is there a way to import songs from songbook to videopsalm. Most of our church songs is used from songbook that is supplied by linkesoft on appstore and it take a lot of time to type it. I tried to import but dont get it to import.

VideoPsalm link

3/17/2017 03:26:56 pm

Hi Kallie,

VideoPsalm can import songs from several well know formats, alas it cannot import songs from Linke-Soft directly.

Please use our contact form:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

from where you can safely exchange your email address or write directly to our gmail address.

If you don't mind, please send us your Linke-Soft songs so that we do the import for you, if possible.

Julio

5/16/2017 08:41:38 am

I have recently created a New agenda on one PC and when opening on the Other PC I have noticed that songs belonging to a songbook that is only in the PC where it was created is not being copied to the other PC. I have always prepared the agenda on Home PC and have been copying the agenda to the church PC with no problems. Not sure why it hasnt been working in the last 3 sundays. Any setting I should look at?

Julio Lebron

5/16/2017 08:45:21 am

Never mind this original question. Everything is normal. It has been a user error.

VideoPsalm link

5/17/2017 12:45:08 am

Hi Julio,

Thank you for the update.

Feel free to contact VideoPsalm per email at gmail when necessary.

These forums are not monitored as much as the emails.

Robert link

10/19/2017 06:59:09 pm

Great program so far, I am still feeling my way through before I use it at the church. I can not seem to import songs from an older version of openlp to VideoPsalm. The extension I exported is .olp as in songs.olp. Can you help?

VideoPsalm link

10/19/2017 11:27:17 pm

Hi Robert,

Feel free to send your .olp file as an email attachment at our email at gmail. This will enable us to investigate or do the import for you.

Robert link

10/20/2017 03:41:47 am

Thank You so much! Quick reply; I am loving this even more.

Robert link

10/21/2017 01:48:26 am

Hello,

I emailed my .olp file to Videopsalm@gmail.com; is that the correct gmail account? Did you receive the file? Thanks

VideoPsalm link

10/28/2017 02:02:06 pm

Hi Robert,
Thank you for your .olp file, I could import it into my VideoPsalm.
The olp database was in SQLite V.2 and I had to convert it first to SQLite V.3.
I answered you per email.

Darrell

11/5/2017 05:31:51 am

Occasionally (Once a day), after saving my agenda and reopening it later, I find that my file will not open. When I come across a file that will not open again I have to start from scratch and rebuild the agenda all over again. I noticed that a corrupt file and a good file, of the same agenda, have the same file size. Is there a way to fix the corrupt file so that it will open again?

VideoPsalm link

11/5/2017 07:51:02 am

Hi Darrell,

I already answered you per email.
The contact form is actually the preferred way to communicate, as these forums here are public, cannot link to documents or images, etc...

This is the email that I sent you:

Thank you for informing me that VideoPsalm fails to reopen some agendas.
Could you please forward such an agenda file to me (a .vpagd file), as an email attachment to my gmail email, so that I can investigate?

Note that if you store the agenda on a USB-stick, always store it twice at least (under different names), because USB-sticks are not very reliable memory devices.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Evelyn link

11/28/2017 01:55:05 pm

Hi
Thanks for your VideoPsalm.
How do you copy songs from one song book to another?

VideoPsalm link

11/28/2017 03:25:17 pm

Hi Evelyn,

To copy a song from one songbook to another:
1. Right-click on the song.
2. Select either "Copy song to ->" or "Move song to ->"
3. Select the destination songbook.
4. Save your changes.

Does this work for you?

Batuk Alergi link

12/22/2017 10:08:02 pm

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Josh

1/30/2018 10:35:11 pm

Can I export the songs which I have manually typed into my VideoPsalms in XML format?

VideoPsalm link

6/22/2018 02:13:24 pm

Hi Josh,

It is possible to export your songs, in text format (not in xml).

To export songs, put them first into an agenda.
Then press the "Copy agenda content in the Windows clipboard" button.

The following article has some screenshots :
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-create-your-song-usage-report-for-ccli-songselect

Jerry

1/31/2018 08:21:37 am

Thanks for all the help.

Larry

6/22/2018 05:55:40 am

We've just been using the program for a few months in our church in Uruguay, but we love it! I have one question regarding the songbooks. I understand how to copy them from one computer to another, but is it possible to save them on the cloud (Google Drive) so that any changes made either on the home computer or the church computer will automatically appear on the other? Or do the songbooks have to be located on the hard drive? Thanks for a fantastic program!

Pinson

10/6/2018 06:41:17 am

Hi Larry,

We do have the same wish in our Church.
We do greatly enjoy using videospsalm!!
This is a very useful tool to better song and pray.
Thanka a lot for it.

VideoPsalm link

12/1/2018 01:48:26 pm

Hi Larry,

Please let me know if the following article describes this task well enough:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/sync-songs-between-multiple-computers-via-dropbox

Chandra Whittley

6/30/2018 06:05:38 pm

Hi,
I accidently deleted a songbook that contained many of the praise and worship songs that are unique to our church. Is there any way to retrieve it or must I start it all over again?

VideoPsql, link

6/30/2018 10:26:20 pm

Hi Chandra,

When VideoPsalm "deletes" a songbook, it does actually "rename" its file extension to ".ignore".
The file is still there, on your hard drive, usually located in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\SongBooks

To get your songbook back into VideoPsalm:
1. Use a Windows File Explorer and navigate to the aforementioned folder.
2. Locate the file corresponding to the songbook that you just deleted.
Usually, the file has the same name as your songbook. it also will have a ".ignore" extension.
You may need to tell your Windows File Explorer to show you the file extensions, which it does not by default for some reason.
3. Remove the ".ignore" file extension. It will now have a .json extension (or .vpc).
4. Restart your VideoPsalm.

Jake

2/16/2019 04:37:03 pm

Can I create upload a songbook with custom song lyrics regularly sang in our church so different members of my team can keep updating it and downloading as our library of songs grows?

VideoPsalm link

1/1/2020 01:54:11 am

Hi Jake,

There are several ways to share songs between your team members.

Solutions to transfer songbooks, new songs and song corrections from one PC to another

1) Transfer the songbook directly

1. On your home PC, type-in new songs and make song corrections.
2. Save your songbook changes.
3. Locate the songbook file on your hard drive.
A handy way of doing this is to open the VideoPsalm options, and press the "Explore" button:

[Image 1] (The forum here does not allow images)

Your songbooks are located into the "Songbooks" sub-folder.

4. Copy the songbooks onto a USB stick.
5. On the church PC, paste your USB stick songbooks to the corresponding songbook VideoPsalm folder.
6. Open VideoPsalm.

2) Use an agenda
1. On your home PC, type-in new songs and make song corrections.
2. Put all new or edited songs into an agenda.
3. Save the agenda onto a USB stick.
4. On the church PC, open the agenda from the USB stick.
Before opening the agenda, make sure that the "Agenda open options" are deselected:

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VideoPsalm will propagate the changes into the church PC songbook.
If the church PC songbook doesn't exist, VideoPsalm will create it.

5. Save your changes on the church PC:

YouTube tutorial - Open an agenda file
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIi_xPZ6mw

3) Use the VideoPsalm backup/restore feature
How to backup VideoPsalms' data or start it from a USB stick (portable VideoPsalm)
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-backup-videopsalms-data-or-start-it-from-a-usb-stick-portable-videopsalm

4) Use a service like DropBox or any other similar cloud solution.

VideoPsalm usually stores its documents (songbooks, Bibles, images, etc.) files in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm

To setup your VideoPsalm to sync with DropBox:

1. With a File Explorer, copy the "C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm" folder and its whole content into a DropBox folder.
To make things easier, setup your DropBox folder in C:\DropBox, so that it is the same path for all PCs sharing the VideoPsalm library.

2. Start VideoPsalm.
It will load its documents (songbooks, Bibles, images, videos, etc.) from the usual location, namely from "C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm".

3. In its settings, tell VideoPsalm to load its files from the DropBox location:

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4. Click "OK" and confirm that you now want VideoPsalm to load its settings from this DropBox folder.
The next time that you start VideoPsalm, it will remember to load its documents from this new location.

5. Proceed from step 3 on all PCs that you want to sync your songbooks with.

Careful
6. Make sure to wait until DropBox finishes to sync its files before you open VideoPsalm.

Additional points and remarks
You will need to "share" your DropBox VideoPsalm folder with the other PCs, so that they get the changes from the other PCs.
Make sure that the changes from other PCs are propagated onto the PC before you start VideoPsalm.

Sorry for the late reply.
These forums are not regularly monitored.
Feel free to contact me via email at my gmail account.

Holly

6/23/2019 12:30:43 pm

Hi, I am exploring whether to use this at our church. We were using mediashout which no longer runs on the laptop. All of our files are in simple MS Word .doc format. I am trying to import them into the agenda, but it only shows the first word. What am I doing wrong?

VideoPsalm link

10/27/2019 08:57:45 am

Hi Holly,

To import Word songs, it is necessary to first convert them to text.
The following article describes this task:
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-import-text-formatted-songs-into-videopsalm

Ray

10/27/2019 07:57:34 am

Hi, we've been using Video Psalm for several years, it's so simple to use. 2 questions: 1 - will video psalm be available for Mac? 2 - Is there a way to "Save as"? I'm not finding it

VideoPsalm link

11/6/2019 02:16:11 pm

Hi Ray,

1. VIDEOPSALM FOR MAC
Alas, there is no plan to adapt VideoPsalm to Mac in the near future, as it would imply a lot of programming work.
Hopefully Microsoft or another company will enable the easy porting of Windows applications to Mac. We are monitoring this.

However, there are several people who use VideoPsalm on their Mac, and they seem quite happy with it.

Following options are available:
BootCamp, which is an Apple product, integrated into OSX.
VMware Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/), one of the best ways to run Windows on a Mac.
Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/),
VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/), free virtualization solution from Oracle.
These environments are a kind of a shell enabling to add Microsoft Windows to a Mac, which is a necessary step before installing VideoPsalm.

To recapitulate, these are the steps to get VideoPsalm on a Mac:
1. Install one of the virtual environments listed higher-up.
2. Install Microsoft Windows 10 in this virtual environment.
3. Install VideoPsalm on Windows 10.

2. SAVE AS
To save an agenda as: Press the small "Down" button to the right of the "Save agenda" button, and select "Save as".

szocs

11/2/2019 01:30:08 pm

Hello . I want to import a bible. The bible format .json.
Wath i moust to do to work it?

VideoPsalm link

11/6/2019 02:18:31 pm

Hi SZocs,

VideoPsalm can open .json Bibles.
Put your json Bibles int the VideoPsalm Bibles folder, usually located here:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Bibles
... then restart VideoPsalm.

Does it work for you?
If not, please let me know which Bible translation you need.

Destiny

12/3/2019 03:03:51 am

I really love this app so I had to introduce it to my new parish. A new pc was got I was able to transfer the contents of the songbook but am having issue with transferring the whole bible as only a book of the Bible was copied from the whole version of bibles from the old pc to the destination pc. What do I do please.
Thanks.

VideoPsalm link

1/1/2020 01:36:32 am

Hi Destiny,

Thank you for your feedback.
It is unclear why only one Bible book was transferred, because there is a single file per Bible, so it is either all Bible Books, or nothing.

Anyway what you can do is to re-import the Bibles that you need, like described in the following article:

How to add Bibles to your VideoPsalm
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/how-to-get-bibles.html

Clyde

12/31/2019 10:02:37 am

Hello

We've been testing out VideoPsalm on our church computer and it's been a great experience so far. We would like to categorise our songs into different song books as all of the imported songs are all in one large songbook. Is there a way to move multiple songs at once?

VideoPsalm link

1/1/2020 01:40:26 am

Hi Clyde,

It is possible to move songs from one songbook to another, one at a time:
1. Right-click the song.
2. Select "Move song to" and select the songbook in the list.
3. Repeat for each song.

To move several songs from one songbook to another, one way is to directly edit the songbook file in a text editor like NotePad++.
However, this task requires to follow the correct song syntax and is not so easy.
Feel free to send me an email at my gmail account, to see how to proceed.

Vinícius

4/3/2020 03:09:31 pm

Grace and Peace,
We are using VideoPsalm, it's a great program, very well develped. God Bless you.

We'd like to ask: Is it possible to export the song lyrics to word or pdf?

VideoPsalm link

7/29/2020 05:08:59 am

Hi Vinicius,

One way to export your songs from VideoPsalm is like follows:

1. Add into an agenda all the songs that you want to export.
2. Press the "Copy to clipboard" button, to export all the song lyrics to your Windows Clipboard:

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3. Paste the clipboard into Word.

To quickly add many songs into an agenda:
1. Select the first song in its songbook, for example by clicking on it.
2. Press the "Insert" keyboard key.
This will add the selected song to the agenda.
3. Press the "Down" key.
This will select the next songbook song.
4. Repeat from step 2 until done.

This forum does not allow images.
To get a better support experience, please contact me via email at my gmail account.

Edreisme link

5/10/2021 01:39:12 pm

Is there a form to export songs from VideoPsalm to EasyWorship???/?

VideoPsalm link

10/16/2021 06:03:24 pm

Hi Edreisme,
Yes, VideoPsalm can import EasyWorship songs.
These forums are not well monitored. You will get a better and faster answer via the videopsalm gmail email.

George K. Sifa

6/17/2021 11:23:33 am

Hi, I needed help with trying to export songs from VideoPsalm individual to opensong but can't see the option for it. Is it possible?

VideoPsalm link

10/16/2021 06:02:21 pm

Hi George
These forums are not well monitored. You will get a better and faster answer via the videopsalm gmail email.

Patti Garcia link

6/20/2021 09:15:50 am

Is there a way, and if so, how, to add in the music to our songbook? I can add in the words but would like to also add in the music to the song.

Thank you
Patti G

VideoPsalm link

10/16/2021 06:05:22 pm

Hi Patti,

To attach music notes to a song, for example a PDF document, click the "Folder" tab, and assign the PDF to the song. VideoPsalm will display the PDF instead of the lyrics.

These forums are not well monitored. You will get a better and faster answer via an email to videopsalm at gmail.

Peter

1/21/2023 07:14:15 am

Is it possible to print out a list of all songs in the song library?

VideoPsalm link

1/21/2023 07:27:09 am

Hi Peter,
To print out the list of all songs in a songbook:
1. Right-click a songbook with the mouse.
2. In the popup menu, select "Copy a songbook summary".
3. Paste the Clipboard content into Word and print it from there.

Does this work for you?
Let me know by email at videopsalm@gmail.com, this will enable me to better keep track of our conversation.

VideoPsalm