opensong's fantastic, I can definitely back Chris up on that one! openlp's another good free program but that's more just words projection instead of song management, it's nice and lightweight though :)

We use OpenSong too. It's not as fully featured as some of the major players in the Windows market, but when we were re-equipping our AV setup we simply had to have a Mac, as many in the church have them and trust them. In order to spend that little bit extra on a Mac, we didn't have much money left for projection software. Thankfully, not only is OpenSong open-source, but it is completely free. Suddenly, several hundred pounds for the more 'popular' software packages doesn't look such good value... Matt www.worshiplifesongs.com - Free worship songs www.picturemotive.tv - Creative video production resourcing churches

We use songbase. Have played with OpenSong, Songsmart and something else that I can't remember the name off. I found Songbase the easiest to use. You get a huge choice of how you want to print your songs out. That was what I found the big down side for the other software I tried. It was really only 1 song to a page. I once managed to fit 5 songs in 4 columns on a landsape sheet of A4 with songbase. You can transpose keys, and even print out pictures of the chords used plus margins for notes you make. Now not the cheapest option due the £ to $ coversation rate but I think the easiest, enviromentally friendliest because of less paper usage. Go have a looksie www.songbase.com Much Love G

Hey Greg - nice to see you on Saturday bud - sorry we didn't get time to chat - will have to at the next one! Anyway, At the mo I've got a box of songs cut out and I copy onto A3, have done like 10 songs on a page before. But.... I've just blagged an A3 inkjet from Freecycle so I'm wondering how to do it. Most music stands are A3 so I thought might as well use it all!