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Introducing Transposr.com and our new Community Support Director

So we have some exciting news for everyone today. First, we are very pleased to introduce you to our new Community Support Director, Katie Willard. After getting over 40 applications we were very happy to narrow it down to a person who was a perfect fit for this position.

Katie is originally from Oregon and moved down to Southern California with her husband in October 2007. Her husband is a youth pastor so Katie is busy doing ministry outside of her work here as well. She comes to us with a teaching background but is excited about this new line of work. She really has a heart for helping people learn and has the technological know-how to become a master of all things Planning Center.

Please feel free to shoot her an e-mail and say hi.

Transposr.com has been my little side project over the last month. When talking with churches at the conferences we go to, I find that many of them love our chord chart transposer but might not need a full worship planning tool. So about a 6 months ago I came up with the idea of pulling our chord chart transposer software out of PCO and making this site. It took a while to complete, but I am very happy with how it turned out.

One of the things that I am really excited about is the introduction of an MP3 transposer that I have been working on for quite awhile. This software will take any MP3 you upload into the system and transpose it to any key by changing the pitch but not changing the tempo. There is already downloadable software that does this, but this is the first free online solution I have seen. After a couple weeks in action, making sure that everything works, we will port this functionality into Planning Center so that we can automatically transpose your MP3s for you.

Please check out the screenshots below or check out Transposr.com and let us know what you think at support@ministrycentered.com.

Thanks!

Jeff Berg
Owner/Developer
Ministry Centered Technologies

23 comments

Billy Chia #permalink

Jeff,
Transposr.com rocks! Absolutely amazing. The MP3 transposer is exactly the tool I’ve needed for some auxiliary instruments (like violin) that have trouble writing a part when we play the song in a different key from the CD.

Thank you!

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Stephen Canfield #permalink

Jeff, you guys rock! You could have easily stopped with the success of PCO but you continue to blow me away with how inventive and forward thinking your company has been. Looks like I have a new tool to use!!!

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Daniel Davis #permalink

This sounds fantastic! Do you have an example of the format for the chord charts?

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Scott Magdalein #permalink

B-E-A-utiful. Thanks PCO.

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Brent Minter #permalink

You just keep making our lives easier and easier. I am going to love it when the MP3 transpose function is in PCO. Thanks

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Adam Haynes #permalink

That is GREAT!!! The mp3 transposer will be a HUGE asset for our team. Thanks for all you do.

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ministrycentered #permalink

@Daniel You can just copy and paste in one you find from the internet and it should work fine. Try this one: http://www.dayspringumc.com/chords/chords_47.htm

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scott #permalink

You guys are awesome. That mp3 function will be a valuable asset for my team. The ability to practice with the track in the key we will be performing it in is going to be awesome. It would tremendous if it could be automatically generated for each arrangement key listed.

Great job. I’m one satisfied customer.
Scott

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Kevin #permalink

I agree with Scott, if the mp3 could be automatically generated it would save us lots of time; and saving time is what you’ve done for me for the past year! I love PCO!!

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Barry Westman #permalink

What a great idea, guys! Thanks so much for all you do for us!

I tried out the MP3 Transposer, and I couldn’t get it to work. I tried it several times, and it looked like it worked – it said my file was being transposed, then said it was done and I could open or save it. It showed it was an .mp3 file, but when I downloaded it, it was only 1 KB in size. So, maybe the kinks are still being worked out?

I love the idea, though, and will definitely use it weekly! It will be great for my team to actually rehearse the song in the key we’re going to do it in! Wonderful!
Barry

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Tof #permalink

Thanks for your committment to making something great, even better. I usually do my own transposition in Word to keep specific formatting. For charts I don’t create, I pdf charts from CCLI SongSelect, then upload to PCO. Is there a way that you could link CCLI Song Select Software to keys we have listed in PCO? That’d take about about 4 or 5 steps out of my transposition process and would be greatly appreciated. Love the MP3 transposer!

You guys (and gals) are some of my favorite people in the world. You rock!

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ministrycentered #permalink

@Barry This should be fixed now…I was trying out something new and it didn’t work, back to the drawing board.

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Bill #permalink

ditto on Tof. That would be totally sweet.

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Kevin Perry #permalink

MP3 transposr is awesome!!! Great job……here’s hoping it gets put in PCO REALLY soon… :)

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Kevin Perry #permalink

Ditto the guys on as much Songselect integration as you can stand. Propresenter has ramped up their Songselect integration and it is WONDERFUL.

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Tiago #permalink

Good job!! It works great!

It’s good to know that you guys are always trying to make it better!

Keep it up

blessings,

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Gary Robertson #permalink

Jeff,
You Rock!! You da’ man!! This only makes my love for Planning Center grow stronger. I look forward to using the MP3 transposer.

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Dan Stephens #permalink

I am totally psyched out of mind about the mp3 transposer. What a fantastic thing! Praise God for technology, and those, like yourselves, who use it for the Kingdom! This is definitely going to make things easier. I used it this evening, and was very excited to tell our praise team about it. Thank you so much!

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randybonifield #permalink

Well done. Thank you for your continued efforts to give us great tools to make us more beautiful in our mission. It reminds me of something Dorothy Sayers once wrote:
“The only Christian work is good work well done.”

Well done.

I’m giving you props at my blog as well: http://randybonifield.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/a-great-new-tool-for-worship-leaders/

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Victor Estrada #permalink

awesome, congrats on the new hire and I’m excited about the new functionality that will be included on the site with transposr… especially the mp3 functionality. Awesome… thanks

- Vic

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Paige #permalink

this program is terrific! thank you for making it available to us!

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Paula #permalink

Really your programs make our lives so much easier!!! Thanks a ton! You are such a blessing!

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Caleb #permalink

This transposer helps simplify things a lot! I love it! ONE THING that we MAC users could still benefit from is the ability to upload iTunes files (MPEG 4 audio). I’m still forced to convert every single mp3 I own in order to upload it to my PCO Ministry.

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