Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Now in Portuguese!

The latest update to LDS Hymns (1.6.1) fixes an annoying crashing bug, but also provides the Portuguese Hymns!  Special thanks to Eurico Costa for his help with the translation.

Many of you have asked to help with additional languages.  I would love to add more languages, but this is limited by the availability of the hymns in native PDF format (not scanned), which is only possible with the original music notation source content (which only the Church is likely to have).  The only other language with these PDF hymns available is French.  I'm hopeful that in the future more languages will become available!

17 comments:

  1. Hey, I wasn't sure where a more appropriate place to add this was, so move it if you see fit. This is a bug report.

    BUG: LDS Hymns v. 1.6.2
    2G iPod Touch (8GB) - iOS 4.0

    Description: Spanish Himno #65 does not load, and simply causes the program to exit.

    Thanks for a truly awesome app that we use every week in church here in Monterrey, Mexico! (The chapel doesn't have hymn books, and we just barely bought our own). This new version that allows language switching is a welcome addition. Keep it up!

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  2. hello, are you going to add the french version? tx for the app

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  3. congrats on adding Portuguese! hey, have you ever considered an android version? I'd like to do one. maybe we can connect via email and chat about it.

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  4. I'd love to see les cantiques in French.. :)

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  5. Where did you find the English pdf files for the hymns?

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  6. Any plans on porting this over to Android? Love having the music along with the lyrics. Saw this on my sisters iPhone, now I want it. Nice work.

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  7. I would love to, but currently don't have the time. I know a lot of people would like this!

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  8. How do you opt out of sharing data - it mentions it in your privacy policy, but there is no way to opt out in your app... I would likve to not have any of my info shared...

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  9. Hi Rick,

    we emailed a while back about adding the german hymns. I finally received the german hymnal as a pdf file today. If you could provide your email address I would be happy to email them to you! dennis@lorenzfamily.de

    Regards,

    Dennis

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  10. necesitamos esta aplicacion en español para Ipad

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  11. Hey Ricky,

    I noticed that this is now available for the Android thanks to your .pdf files. That has been VERY helpful - thank you!! Is there any way to get the .pdf files so that I can get them ported over to the Kindle as well?

    Thanks!

    Rich

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  12. It would probably be more easier for Kindle to get these from lds.org. Have you tried that?

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  13. I don't see any copyright authorizations on the app. Are you using the LDS hymn book with appropriate copyright permissions? In addition, there are several hymns that require written permission from respective copyright holders.

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  14. Great, but.... How can Help you to have an italian version of it?

    Nicola

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  15. Hi Ricky,
    Luv your app but I'd luv one in Tongan. I'm no computer wiz but willing to try. Could you help me get started? Need a distraction from Candy Crush. Please let me know. Thanks. -Malina

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  16. Hi!,
    I just downloaded this app and was so hoping that the German had been added. I am an ex-pat RS Pres living in Germany and would love to see a listing in German. On another reply I saw an email address. Could I please email you & have you send me that list? PLEASE!
    Thank you!-Karen

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