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๐ค Big Words on the Wall
Most options for gettin' your lyrics up on the big screenโlike background color, images, gradients & all that font jazzโlive over in the Bleepin' Video Deets. But if you wanna tweak the system-wide vibe for lyrics projection, that's what the settings screen is for. ZOMG, so many places to click. ๐
Typeface Shenanigans
Pick which font makes your lyrics look totally professional & not at all like you\u{2019}re screaming them from your garage. Default is Verdana because, y\u{2019}know, boring choices for boring people. Options:
- Baskerville
- Courier
- Georgia
- Helvetica
- Verdana
Horizontal Text Vibes
By default, your lyrics are dead center on the screen (as nature intended), but if you wanna be extra, you can yeet them around:
- Left shoves the text all the way to the left side. Edgy.
- Center keeps it in the middle like a well-balanced human. Default.
- Right sends it to starboard. Risky.
Vertical Text Positioning (Or: Where Do You Want Your Words To Live?)
Lyrics hang out in the middle height-wise by default, but you can move them up or down if you\u{2019}re feelin\u{2019} fancy:
- Top parks the text at the ceiling. Good luck readin\u{2019} that.
- Middle nestles it right in the middle. Default. Sensible.
- Bottom drops it to the floor where nobody wants to look.
Breathing Room (aka Margins)
Control how much space between your lyrics & the edge of the screen before things get uncomfortably close. Because nobody likes claustrophobic text. Options:
- None lets your lyrics get real cozy with that edge. Yikes.
- Hairline gives you 1% of screen width. Basically nothin\u{2019}.
- Thin gives you 2% of screen width. Still basically nothin\u{2019}.
- Normal gives you 4% of screen width. Finally, some air. Default.
- Thick gives you 6% of screen width. Now we\u{2019}re talkin\u{2019}.
- Thicker gives you 8% of screen width. Fancy.
- Thickest gives you 10% of screen width. Treat yo\u{2019} lyrics right.
Maximum Lines (aka "My Song is Thicc & Won\u{2019}t Fit")
Let OnSong automatically chop up long lyrics sections into bite-sized chunks. Perfect if you wanna show two lines while your live video feed steals the spotlight. If you enable this, you tap the section over & over to scroll through all the little chunks.
Options:
- None keeps the whole thing intact & shows it all at once. Default.
- 1-5 lets you pick the max number of lines to show at a time. OnSong will do its best to divide things evenly. Like, if your section\u{2019}s got five lines & you say max two, it\u{2019}ll split it into three subsections (first two lines, next two lines, last one). Science!
Force Lyrics To Stay On One Line (aka Don\u{2019}t Wrap, Bro)
This keeps text from word-wrappin\u{2019} when you project. Turned on by default because presumably you actually thought about where your line breaks should go. If you turn this off & your font is YUGE, your lyrics might wrap everywhere like some kind of text disaster. Risky move.
Zap Those Weird Hyphens
Chord charts sometimes have junk characters for alignin\u{2019} chords. This nukes the extra hyphens so your lyrics don\u{2019}t look like they\u{2019}re havin\u{2019} a seizure. Default is on. You\u{2019}re welcome.
Yeet Those Weird Spaces
Same dealโchord charts add spaces for alignment, & this strips \u{2019}em out so your lyrics read clean. Default is on. Again, you\u{2019}re welcome.
The Footer Situation
The footer is that little thing at the bottom with your song title, artist name, legal mumbo-jumbo & copyright stuff that nobody reads. You can move it around:
- Off kills the footer completely. Poof. Gone.
- Bottom sticks it at the bottom left. Default. Invisible enough.
- Top throws it at the top left. Annoying but possible.
Footer Size (The Slider of Proportion)
This slider lets you shrink or grow the footer compared to your lyrics. Default is 1/3 the size of your lyrics font. Adjust at your own risk.
Background Fill (How Do You Want Your Picture Stretched?)
When your background image is the wrong aspect ratio, this decides what happens. Options:
- Fit resizes the image to fit the screen without gettin\u{2019} all stretched out, but you might get those black bars. Classy.
- Stretch yanks the image to fill the whole screen, even if it looks like hot garbage. LOL.
- Zoom blows up the image to fill the screen without black bars, keepin\u{2019} it looking decent. Default. The least-worst option.
Slide Behavior (What Happens When You Hit the End?)
These settings control what goes down when you\u{2019}ve scrolled to the very first or very last section of your song.
- Stop just stops. Doesn\u{2019}t go anywhere. Default. Boring but safe.
- Goto Last/First Slide loops back to the top or bottom once you hit the end. Like a merry-go-round. Reach the last slide, hit next, BAMโback to the first.
- Goto Previous/Next Song bounces you to the actual previous or next song in your set. For when you\u{2019}re really done with this one.
