September 2026
Volume for Every Item New
Media never arrives at the same level. The bumper video is hot, the testimony clip was filmed on a phone, the pre-service track is quiet — and somebody ends up riding the TV remote all morning. Every video, audio track and song now has its own Volume slider: open the item in your Media library, pull the loud ones down until everything matches, and that’s the level it plays at from then on. The level lives on the media item, so it applies everywhere that item is used — every playlist, every feed, every screen, TV Wall tiles and shareable preview links included. For a song it sets the backing track. Background soundtracks combine their own level with the playlist’s soundtrack volume, so one quiet track can be brought into line without touching the rest. Drag the slider and the preview player follows, so you can set it by ear. It turns things down from the original recording rather than boosting them: level a playlist to its quietest item, then set the room volume once and leave it. Items you haven’t touched play exactly as before. Playback on Apple TV requires the Apple TV app 1.3.6.Countdowns Can Advance the Screen New
A countdown banner could already trigger a different playlist when it reached zero. It can now simply move on instead. In a playlist item’s Actions → Countdown Banner, set Automation to Next Slide and the screen advances at zero exactly as if an operator had pressed Next — the next slide of a song if you’re in one, otherwise the next item in the playlist. Useful for a “service begins in 5:00” slide that should quietly hand over by itself, without building a second playlist just to jump to. Requires the Apple TV app 1.3.6.August 2026
Lyric Videos From Your Songs New
Any song with timing markers can now be rendered as a 1920×1080 MP4 lyric video. Click ⬇ Lyric Video next to ▶ Preview in the Song Editor and LightLoop renders your slides over your background, in your styling, with your cross-dissolve or slide transitions, timed to the audio exactly as it plays on stage. It’s the full-screen Preview, exported: font, colour, stroke, shadow, alignment and the text background box all carry through, video backgrounds loop for the length of the song, and still images are used at full resolution rather than the thumbnail. The audio is trimmed to the song’s in and out markers — and if the Instrumental switch is on, that’s what you get. Nothing is added to your media library or Drive folder; the file downloads straight to your device. Useful for pre-service loops, social clips, livestream beds, or handing a track to someone who doesn’t have an Apple TV. See Lyric video.Transpose Tool — Key Changes and Stems for Any Track New
A new standalone page at lightloop.app/transpose puts the Song Editor’s audio processing to work on any track, not just songs in your library. Drop in an audio file or paste a YouTube link, and LightLoop detects the key and gives you a player so you can check it by ear. Pick a target key and it pitch-shifts the track while preserving the tempo. Optionally pull out an instrumental, or run full stem separation to get the vocals, drums, bass and the rest as separate files. Everything downloads to your device — individually, or all at once as a zip — and nothing is saved to your library or Drive folder. Progress is reported at every stage, and separation shows a countdown estimated from how long previous runs took on your own media server. See Transpose Tool.Voice Follow — Spoken Scripture Straight to the Screen New
“This won’t be on the screen, but Genesis 3:12 says…” — the line every operator dreads. Switch on Voice Follow in Feeds → Settings and the LightLoop Remote listens through your iPhone, recognizes the spoken reference, and fades the verse onto your Apple TV in your translation and Bible template — then follows along verse by verse as it’s read, and fades out when the speaker moves on. It understands how people actually speak: “John three sixteen”, “first Corinthians chapter twelve, beginning in verse three”, “the second chapter of Acts”. Cite a chapter with no verse — “in John ten, Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice” — and it loads the chapter, then jumps to verse 27 on hearing the words. Every number is validated against the book’s real chapter and verse counts, so ordinary speech never triggers it. Speech is transcribed on-device (no audio leaves the phone) and parsed by a deterministic grammar, not an AI model. Requires LightLoop Remote 1.3.2 on iOS 26+ and the Apple TV app 1.3.2. See Voice Follow.Follow Slides — Your Presentation Keeps Up With the Speaker New
The second half of Voice Follow. Turn on Follow Slides and LightLoop matches what’s being said against every text slide in the running playlist — sermon points, quotes, Bible slides, and song lyrics — then jumps the live presentation to it. Read a quote off a slide you prepared and the screen goes there; skip two points and it catches up. If a verse is already a slide in your sermon, your slide is shown instead of a fetched one. For songs you advance by hand it stays a step ahead: as the last words of a slide are sung, the next is already up. Repeated choruses won’t drag it backwards — it only moves when another slide matches better than the one on screen, and prefers moving forward. Songs with an audio track and timing markers are left alone entirely, so lyrics never drift out of sync with the music. Say “next” or “next slide” on its own to advance manually. Every automatic move shows a banner with one-tap Undo, and a sensitivity slider controls how eager it is. See Follow Slides.Device Storage for Your Apple TVs Improved
A new Device Storage section in Settings lists every Apple TV currently connected to your feeds with a usage bar, free space, and how much of it LightLoop’s media cache is using — useful before pushing a large video playlist to a 32 GB Apple TV.June 2026
Import Songs & Charts by Drag-and-Drop New
Drag chord or lyric files into the Media Library (or onto a playlist) and LightLoop parses them — ChordPro, OnSong (including chords-over-lyrics), CCLI SongSelect, and plain text, several at once. Files with chords import as a Song, taking the title and key from the file (or the filename) and keeping CCLI/copyright/tempo metadata out of the lyrics. Files without chords prompt you to import as Song lyrics or a Sermon — for sermons, mark scripture by putting a[John 3:16] reference above the verse text.
See Importing songs & charts.
Instrumental / Karaoke Tracks New
Remove the vocals from a song’s audio with a single Instrumental switch on the Audio card — great for congregational singing, rehearsals, and “vocals out” moments. Switch on and LightLoop generates the instrumental in the background (about a minute) and starts playing it on your outputs automatically; switch off to restore the original vocals. The original audio is always kept. It also works with transposition — the instrumental is built from the current track, so it comes out in your transposed key. See the Instrumental section.Song Transposition — Pitch-Shift Audio & Chords New
Change a song’s key without re-recording. Open a song’s Audio card and click Transpose — pick the from and to keys and LightLoop pitch-shifts the track to match while preserving its tempo. When you assign audio, LightLoop also auto-detects its key in the background. The original file is always kept, so revert is one click. Turn on Sync to Audio and the stage chord chart’s display key follows every transposition automatically. See the Transposition section.Chords on Stage — ChordPro & OnSong with Smart Key Detection New
Add inline ChordPro[chords] to any song and they render above the lyrics on stage and confidence displays — the TV Wall Stage Display and the iOS Remote’s Stage Mode — while the audience screen stays clean, lyrics-only. LightLoop reads the chords and detects the key with real music-theory scoring, using the dominant chord to tell a key from its relative minor (Em C G D → G, Bm D A G… → D). Set a separate Display key to transpose the whole chart on the fly; chord charts and the “Next” preview transpose too.
Paste a ChordPro or OnSong chart and LightLoop imports it: chords-over-lyrics become inline chords, Verse 1 / Chorus: / REPEAT CHORUS section labels are recognized (dim cues on stage, hidden from the audience), and Key:/title metadata is read from the header.
See the Chords section.