Justin  WagnerSamuel  BradshawHilton  Campbell

LDS Music for Mobile Devices

• What is the LDS Music app?• Where can I get LDS Music?• How is LDS Music different from

Gospel Library?

A Brief Introduction

Features of LDS Music 1.6• Sheet music for the Hymns and Children’s Songbook.• Additional Children’s Songs.• Instrumental and vocal audio.• Ability to find a song through search or keypad lookup.• Options for sharing a song.• Deep linking from web pages and other apps.• Topical index, authors and composers indexes.• User-defined playlists with sharing options.• Content in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.• Ability to cross-reference between collections.

Live Demo

New Features: LDS Music 1.7.0• Streamlined look and feel.• Improved words-only view: additional verses, singing instructions,

correction of typos, etc.• Combined authors and composers index.• Content in more languages (finally!) – German, Latvian, Korean, and

additional languages in the coming months.• Recent languages appear at the top.• Smarter management of duplicate audio files.• Advanced download and storage settings.• Localized in several new languages.

Live Demo

Future Improvements• Make better use of larger screens (iPad, iPad mini, iPhone 6 Plus) and

improve the look and feel.• Improved search, related topics, and people sorting.• Resizable text and song credits in words view.• Better integration with Gospel Library.• Sync playlists with church servers and other devices.• MusicXML rendered sheet music.• Integrate audio controls into song view.• Music from church magazines and other content.

MusicXML Demo

We need your help!• We need beta testers and in-app feedback.• We need iOS developers to help us add new features.• We need transcribers and QA engineers who speak different languages.

LDS Music Project Workshops• App developers: Thursday and Friday, 2:00–4:00 PM, room W112.• Language speakers: Thursday and Friday, 2:00–4:00 PM, room W105.

• Transcription Hackathon (at BYU): Saturday 18th, 10:30 AM, WSC Terrace.• Transcription Hackathon (online): Saturday 25th, 10:30 AM.• Join the project online at tech.lds.org/projects