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Worship Him Power / Lite Edition Changelog

What's new in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.8.3

Dec 31, 2022
  • Improved memory utilization.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.8.2 (Feb 25, 2022)

  • Fixed DVD player volume control sometimes not working on Windows 11.
  • Song editing and projector display selection windows now show in the taskbar, and Picture-slideshow window can now be minimized.
  • Added links to online live-streaming tutorials to in-program help.
  • Added two green-screen projector display templates for broadcast streaming.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.8.1 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • Fixed manual live-video playback bug introduced in previous release.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.8.0 (Aug 15, 2021)

  • Added support for new JFIF picture format for 'Show picture', Picture Slideshows, and backgrounds.
  • Improved count down/up timer on-screen display: If no text is selected a blank line is no longer added and if the hours component is omitted if the timer value is under 1 hour.
  • Removed XML Bible Web Service from Bible source drop-down selector as it is no longer in service.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.9 (Dec 22, 2020)

  • Fixed the the play-list forward and next buttons sometimes not working properly with pasting in Bible text from an external source.
  • Added per-feed 'Fade to black color' option in the 'Projector feeds' section of the options window. This is primarily for using a feed that goes to a mixer/switcher for streaming: you can now set the fade-to-back color for the feed to green or whatever color you need for the transparent chroma-key of the switcher.
  • Added per-feed option to turn off title-author-copyright display in the Projector feeds' section of the options window. This is primarily for using bottom-thirds or simlar song text placement for streaming or with live-video as background.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.8 (Feb 12, 2020)

  • Removed detection of IE11 required for enabling YouTube fullscreen options. This prevents disabling fullscreen YouTube on some computers not reporting IE11 version properly.
  • Fixed bug when playing a macro with a video while the manual video-play option had been used previously: The previous manually-played video would also start when the macro video started.
  • The Song Editing window now has full resize options.
  • Added 'Copy for Pasting into Excel' for song usage tracking reports.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.7 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • The 'Remember cue list folder location' is fixed: it now works both with 'Save' and 'Save as'.
  • Manual formatting when pasting Bible passage text now works properly when saved to a cue list.
  • Added several Valentines Day backgrounds and projector display templates.
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power and Lite Edition users. Please email [email protected] for the new full-version download link if your previous download link no longer works. DO NOT install the demo version to upgrade.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.6 (Mar 15, 2018)

  • Improved PowerPoint auto-start when using 'Launch with PowerPoint'.
  • Added an easy way to reset options to help restore to 'first installed' condition.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.5 (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Worship Him now auto-detects if Internet Explorer 11 is installed for fullscreen YouTube video compatibility.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.4 (Aug 22, 2017)

  • Fixed fullscreen YouTube video support for compatibility with YouTube changes. Internet Explorer 11 is required for YouTube videos to play fullscreen
  • Added 'Cue list title' for showing web content

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.3 (Jun 23, 2017)

  • Improved Bible version database structure to allow for future improvements.
  • XML Bible Web API is now working again (80+ Bible versions in many languages!)
  • On-screen timer fix: When timer-end event is a message it will now remain for the selected duration instead of dissappearing immediately.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.2 (Aug 22, 2016)

  • Fixed an auto-backup error that could cause an error message when closing Worship Him.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.1 (Feb 9, 2016)

  • Fixed copy+paste Bible text sometimes not formatting properly
  • Fixed intermitent error when selecting a background for an announcement in the Lite Edition

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.7.0 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • Fixed folder-selection not working properly in Windows 10.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.9 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • If a monitor output becomes disabled then reenabled while Worship Him is running, Worship Him will recover the projector feed in that display.
  • Added 'Export to Excel' and 'Export to text' and 'Copy to clipboard' features for results in the song search+browse window.
  • You can now select which Windows monitor output each projector feed displays on.
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power and Lite Edition users. Please email [email protected] for the new full-version download link if your previous download link no longer works. DO NOT install the demo version to upgrade.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.8 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • Added 'None' to transition selection options.
  • DVD playback now auto resizes every few seconds to keep video full sized if/when video resolution changes between chapters.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.7 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Added 9 more looping video backgrounds, 2 more countdown timer videos, and 13 more still backgrounds
  • Fixed intermittent video background projection bug when using VJMode when one or more projector feeds are disabled.
  • Launch other' now works better with Windows 8 Metro apps.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.6 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Added support for PNG picture format for backgrounds and picture slideshows
  • Automatically fading to black when a video clip stops is now an option
  • Added hot-key for activating wireless presenter mode
  • Added 'View data and graphics folder locations' feature to the main window's 'File' menu. Allows you to easily see where the main storage folders are and open them in Windows Explorer
  • Fixed new custom projector display templates sometimes not working properly with video backgrounds
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power and Lite Edition users. Please email [email protected] for the new full-version download link if your previous download link no longer works. DO NOT install the demo version to upgrade

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.5 (May 30, 2014)

  • Added support for importing and exporting songs in Open Song and Open Lyrics format. Includes support for chords and importing/exporting any (large) numbers of songs at once..

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.4 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • You can now right-click the Worship Him icon in your computer's taskbar, then click on one of the recently opened cue list or suitcase files to open them. It works whether Worship Him is running or not. (Pin the icon to the taskbar to show it when Worship Him isn't running.)
  • More Bible format options: You can now select to break up single verses if they have more lines than you want to show per-slide.
  • Fixed message/notifications sometimes hidden behind main window making program appear to be frozen.
  • Improved the 'Show next piece first line' projector feed option. (Shows the first line of the next item in the cue list.)

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.3 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • Added the following song text formatting options:
  • make the current song all caps
  • make the current song all lower case
  • remove all punctuation from current song
  • and capitalize the first letter of each line
  • Improved CD player reliability
  • Removed automatic feed turnoff if projector disconnect detected (for improved stability)
  • Fixed a bug sometimes causing a freeze when previewing transitions

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.2 (Mar 13, 2014)

  • Added option to automatically start cue list auto-run when Worship Him is started
  • Added on-screen option for timer feature. You can now show the count-down and count-up timers on-screen with a short message such as: "Worship will start in". Options include position, size, and colors

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.1 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • Fixed data and graphics sharing helper warning that folders don't exist yet when it shouldn't.
  • Fixed projection text becoming misaligned when certain non-default Windows text size settings are used.
  • Fixed Bible phrase-search not working.
  • Fixed line spacing settings sometimes not working with European culture settings.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.6.0 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Added support for chords. Chords are entered in a separate tab in the song editing window and can optionally be projected with the lyrics on any feed. Chords are also supported in printing, copying to Windows clipboard, and text file inport/export.
  • The song-preview in the song editing window now changes based on what lyrics-editing tab is selected (primary language, chords, or alternate language): It shows primary language lyrics when the primary language tab is selected, and alternate language lyrics when the alternate language tab is selected. When the chords tab is selected it shows the chords along with either primary or alternate language lyrics (whichever was selected last before selecting the chords tab).
  • When copying and pasting Bible text from an external source (other Bible software or website, etc.), you now have the option to manually format the text for display.
  • The line-length indicators for song, spontaneous text, and Bible copy/paste text is now more accurate.
  • Improved quality of projected text rendering.
  • Fixed play order not advancing with buttons when a Bible passage is selected.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.9 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Fixed DVD clip errors in DVD playback when using PAL (European) DVDs.
  • Select template folder' now works properly when you have relocated the Worship Him data folder.
  • Improved codec-pack installation help.
  • Song hymnal numbers and key now appear when previewing songs, printing songs, and copying songs to the clipboard.
  • If the connection between the computer and one of the display devices is lost (due to a loose or defective VGA cable, etc), Worship Him now automatically turns off the projector feed displays. This prevents the projector feed display from taking over the computer's display and forcing you to have to restart the computer to regain control.
  • Fixed multi-line box-style nursery messages only showing the first line.
  • Added a step-by-step helper for relocating the data and graphics folders.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.8 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Improved text file import and export reliability with song play orders.
  • Fixed DVD clip errors in DVD playback when using PAL (European) DVDs.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.7 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Added 'Format line length' feature to the Song editing window. Selecting this will automatically make each line in the lyrics of the current song the maximum length that fits on the projector screen (or other diplay device).
  • Improved reliability when playing video clips using cue-list auto-run.
  • Added more options and flexibility to song print formatting.
  • Reduced memory footprint.
  • Added support for some XML Bibles available for free on the Internet such as OpenSong Bibles.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.6 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Reduced memory footprint.
  • Improved text file import and export:
  • Text file import is more flexible. Lyrics are more likely to be able to be imported with varying formats.
  • Exporting songs to text files is now much more powerful. Export a single song, or any selection of songs at once including all of the songs in your song database. Optionally include alternate language text, play orders, and print orders (these options are compatible with Worship Him's text file import only).
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power and Lite Edition users. Just download the Power+Lite Edition demo and install it right over your existing Worship Him installation to upgrade.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.5 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Fixed 'Single monitor demonstration mode' sometimes interfering with network slave mode performance.
  • Fixed 'Autorun cue list' not advancing properly with Macros when a Macro is the first cue list item.
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power and Lite Edition users. Just download the Power+Lite Edition demo and install it right over your existing Worship Him installation to upgrade.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.4 (Jun 22, 2013)

  • You can now have Worship Him automatically hide the projector feed that a PowerPoint is running in to prevent Worship Him's projector feed from blocking the PowerPoint display.
  • Launching a PowerPoint using the 'Launch with PowerPoint' option now works with Wireless Presenter mode.
  • Added 'Set Windows wallpaper to projected image' feature. Can select any active feed and works with video clips, video backgrounds, and live video.
  • Fixed 'Audio play/pause', 'CD play/pause', and DVD play/pause' cue list items sometimes not working.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.3 (Jun 7, 2013)

  • You can now proportionately resize the upper and lower halves of the picture slideshow window.
  • You no longer have to close and reopen the display template browse/select window after clicking the 'Refresh thumbnails' button.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.2 (May 25, 2013)

  • Audio, video, and DVD player cue list commands are now included in cue list print and copy-to-clipboard.
  • Removed user interface color scheme option to improved memory efficiency.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.1 (May 18, 2013)

  • Fixed prompt for 30 day trial period sometimes not working properly.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.5.0 (May 2, 2013)

  • When you first run the 30 day trial version, it asks you to select whether you want it to run as the Power Edition or the Lite Edition.
  • Minor user interface corrections.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.9 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • When dragging and dropping files into a cue list, the files are now inserted at the position in the cue list that you drop them
  • Added 'Save Cue list as' to cue-list right-click menu
  • Fixed DVD player error on some systems running 32 bit versions of Windows

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.8 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • You can now add 'Video play/pause', 'Audio play/pause', 'DVD play/pause', and 'CD play/pause' items to cue lists. These are usefull when using wireless presenter mode with audio and video clips.
  • Fixed serial port projector control not working on some systems.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.7 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • Fixed feed status window load error.
  • Improved DVD clip reliability.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.6 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Made a minor adjustment to the main and song browser window's song preview timing.
  • Added 'Reset all settings' selection to main window's tools menu.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.5 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Internet Web-API Bible verse requests are now retrieved asynchronously. Now if a request takes a long time it won't interfere with any running video backgrounds or clips. Web-API requests can also be cancelled if desired.
  • Getting Bible passages from multiple sources simultaneously (when using the alt-language Bible version feature and web-API versions) now works more reliably.
  • This upgrade is free to Worship Him Power Edition users. Just download the Power Edition demo and install it right over your existing Power Edition installation to upgrade. For the new video backgrounds in version 1.0.4.0, re-download the full version from the link in your purchase-receipt email.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.4 (Jan 28, 2013)

  • Messages (nursery alert, etc) can now have transparant backgrounds.
  • Added projector feed status icons to the feed-view tabs in the main window.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.3 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Added support for the 'Web XML Bible' and 'Easy JQuery Bible' APIs. You can now display passages from hundreds of Bible versions in over 80 languages provided by these web services. Requires an internet connection to use.
  • Added a new DVD display engine that increases reliability and compatibility. Requires separate installation of the free VLC Media Play from Video Lan instead of the complicated installation and setup of the Klite Codec pack.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.2 (Dec 11, 2012)

  • You can now choose whether a simple picture or video clip logo is stretched to fit the screen or not. (Uncheck this option to maintain the aspect ratio of original picture or video clip.)
  • The 'Video Jockey' and the 'Projector Display Template Selection' windows open faster now. (Thumbnails are now loaded in a background thread.)
  • You no longer get an error message if you try to select a new default transition for songs before opening a song.
  • When importing songs from a Classic edition song file, 'Don't break' markers are now automatically removed.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.1 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Keyboard control improved:
  • For compatibility the following keyboard-controls now require holding the Control key:
  • Numeric keypad right arrow or ] (close square bracket) for Project next piece in play order
  • Numeric Keypad left arrow [ (open square bracket) for Project previous piece in play order
  • Numeric keypad down arrow for Select next item in cue list
  • Numeric keypad up arrow for Select previous item in cue list
  • Numeric keypad zero for Clear to black
  • Numeric keypad one for Clear to background
  • Numeric keypad 3 for Show logo
  • Fixed default display region sometimes getting temporarily reset after selecting a new default projector display template for songs or Bible verses.
  • You can now select whether or not to stretch video clips to fit the
  • projection/display screen. Previously the video was always stretched. Unchecking 'Stretch video clips to fit screen' in the 'Video' section of the 'Options' window will allow video clips to retain their original aspect ratio. If the projector/display's aspect ratio differs from the video clip's, the video will have borders on either the sides or the top and bottom. adjustments.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.4.0 (Oct 1, 2012)

  • Added live video quality adjustments.
  • Improved live video fade transitions.
  • Fixed Video Jockey control mode selected transitions reverting to non-VJ mode after editing the current song.
  • Fixed Suitcase pack/unpack sometimes not transfering the latest version of songs if they were edited after being added to the cue list.
  • Fixed suitcase pack error when the cue list contains a song with a solid or gradient background template.
  • Fixed CCLI Import not importing the author properly.
  • You can now undock and resize the DVD preview window.
  • Added 9 HD video backgrounds

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.9 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Fixed Video Jockey control sometimes not changing transitions.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.8 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Added Video Jockey control allowing quick and easy on-the-fly changing of projector display templates (backgrounds + colors, etc) and transitions for songs, spontaneous song choruses, and optionally Bible verses.
  • Improved reliability of sound player/play lists.
  • Improved reliability of editing announcements already in cue lists.
  • Added 'Create copy of current song' to Song Editing window's 'Edit' menu. For when you want to have multiple versions of the same song.
  • Added the following keyboard controls:
  • Numeric keypad right arrow or ] (close square bracket) = Project next piece in play order.
  • Numeric Keypad left arrow or [ (open square bracket) = Project previous piece in play order.
  • Numeric keypad down arrow = Select next item in cue list.
  • Numeric keypad up arrow = Select previous item in cue list.
  • Numeric keypad zero = Clear to black.
  • Numeric keypad one = Clear to background.
  • Numeric keypad 3 = Show logo.
  • Fixed suitcase pack/unpack sometimes not updating song projector display template and title/author/copyright display settings.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.7 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Extra spaces before or after a song piece marker no longer causes it to not be recognized as a piece marker.
  • Fixed an error message that could occur when closing Worship Him if 'Reopen cue list(s) on startup' option is on.
  • Fixed feed selection sometimes not working properly on systems with more than 3 monitor outputs.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.6 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Added a 'Songs and Projector Display Templates' manual and a Suitcase pack+unpack mini manual by Author Wolfgang Maas to the help system.
  • Fixed A lockup that could sometimes occur when starting Worship Him on a single monitor computer with a specific clock setting enabled.
  • Added event logging that logs internal program processes. This information is program logic information only, no personal data, and is stored locally - never transmitted out. In the event of a program bug reported by a customer, our support staff may ask the customer to examine and forward the event logs to us to help us troubleshoot the problem.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.5 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Added 8 video backgrounds and 2 countdown videos
  • Added 'Text margins' option: An adjustable per-feed margin for the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the projector display. It allows you to bring all text (songs, bible, announcements, and logo) in from any or all of the edges of the display so if the projector is miss-aligned and cutting of text on any edge you can fix it.
  • Added a 'Countdown videos' selection to the timer/alarm drop-down button at the bottom of the main window and to the 'Additional actions' selection in the Alarm+timer options.
  • Fixed the Escape key sometimes not working to exit cue list auto-run, macro playback, and network remote slave mode in primary monitor.
  • Fixed Keyboard keys not working in wireless presenter mode.

New in Worship Him Power / Lite Edition 1.0.3.3 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Clicking in the play order list now works properly when a long list is scrolled down.
  • Added 'Launch other' feature, allowing you to easily launch applications and documents not otherwise supported, and project them on-screen. You can even use these items as backgrounds to songs and Bible verses!
  • Added a printable getting started manual, thanks to Author Wolfgang Maass!
  • You can now more easily select an entire Bible chapter for projecting by entering a book, chapter, verse and "-". For example, to select the entire first chapter of the Psalms use: "Psa 1:1-".