Topic: EvilLyrics Plugin (Read 63183 times)

Mr ChriZ · « **on:** February 27, 2006, 06:38:51 pm »

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I'm going to drop support for EvilLyrics because I have a lot of problems with it recently.
It often comes back with Spam etc.

I'm looking for an alternative to develop a plugin for over the next couple of weeks.
Hopefully something I also don't need to recompile on a regular basis as well.

Something like this maybe?
http://autolyrix.sourceforge.net/

Any suggestions welcomed.

We shall see. If anyone wants to take on the EvilLyrics stuff,
they're welcome to the sourcecode. It's written in C#
the codes fairly tatty as it was done in an evening with little care
other than to ge it working =)
I think Ideally it needs porting to C++ which I started doing once, and had
it more or less working, but then seemed to mislay in the midst of my dissertation.

Just post me a PM if you want the code.

EVIL LYRICS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY THIS AUTHOR!

WARNING 07/06/2007
A new version of EvilLyrics has been produced,
which does not work with the old version of the plugin.
Please download the latest plugin:
http://uppit.com/d/Z02E4

What is EvilLyrics?
"Automatically searches for lyrics as your song is played in your player " - EvilLyrics Website
Note I'm nothing to do with the EvilLyrics team, I just wrote the plugin.

What does the plugin do?
The plugin allows MC to connect to EvilLyrics.

Screenshot
A screenshot can be seen here

Where can I get it?
~~The plugin is available from the skins and plugins page~~
http://uppit.com/d/H6X1W

Pre-requesits
The plugin is written in C# V2.0
The plugin requires the latest .NET 2.0 (2.0.50727) Framework from Microsoft available here, without which it will not work!

It also requires Evil Lyrics (Oddly Enough!)

Plugin Features
* When tracks are played the information is sent to Evil Lyrics (A new instance will open if it's not yet open)
* Enabling and Disabling of the plugin
* Updating of library with lyrics providing they come from "trusted source" as deemed by Evillyrics.
* Limited Configuration of Library update

Enjoy!
Mr ChriZ

Development Status as of 15/03/2007:
Lost interest in this plugin ages ago.

Batch Lyric Finding
EvilLyrics is pretty good for keeping your Lyrics upto date
or for getting an On Screen Update of Lyrics.
However, if you want serious Lyric tagging capabilitys
I suggest you look at Kingspartas Lyric Finder Plugin
available from here http://www.spartasoftware.com/

or this by @l@n
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=33550.0

Lyrics Maintenance
Take a look at this by Doof
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=33530.msg229475#msg229475

Stimpco · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2006, 08:13:40 pm »

Absolutely Beautiful! The only thing I've noticed is that for some reason it is minimizing when I change tracks... Retested with winamp to be safe, winamp is not showing the same behaviour... is it my machine or can you recreate this? -Thomas

datdude · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2006, 09:34:35 pm »

Nothing you can do about it, but the EL leeching feaure sucks, when used with MC's preview playback.

Deivit · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2006, 02:26:32 pm »

Thank you very much for your plug-in Mr. Chriz. Just downloaded and installed and it looks great combined with Rhino's Playing Now.

Just a couple of quick comments, if I may

- If a song already has lyrics, the update library option is enabled and evil-lyrics finds new lyrics for that song, are they overwritten or kept intact? Perhaps this could be an option?

- I'm seeing here the minimize when the song changes thing too.

Thanks again for your work.

datdude · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2006, 12:34:55 am »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on February 28, 2006, 02:40:52 am

Can you elaborate a little. I'm not even sure I've used the preview playback you've
talked of.
Cheers
Chris

Mr. ChriZ,

Right click on the MC DSP studio and then select your preview mode. EvilLyrics however stops looking for lyrics after 20 songs if you put in 5 second playback intervals.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2006, 04:25:18 am »

Never knew that was there, cheers!
I'll look into it.

Stimpco · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2006, 01:49:29 am »

Just once again a thank you for all your hard work, Mr. ChriZ... -Thomas

iCamp · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2006, 07:20:06 am »

I've been playing with Evil Lyrics recently and have found the amount of spam make it almost unusable. Is there some way to avoid spam on Evil Lyrics. I like the idea behind this plug-in but if there is even the slight possibility I will be tagging my files with spam I'll stay away.

I guess what I'm asking is, how does your plug-in avoid spam-filled lyrics?

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #8 on:** March 16, 2006, 09:18:22 am »

I'm afraid Spam is down to EvilLyrics.
I get an event message from EvilLyrics saying that lyrics have been received.
EvilLyrics also tells the plugin whether the lyrics
are from a "trusted source". If they are not from a trusted
source the plugin does not save them in the tags.
If theres any problems with this then it's down
to EvilLyrics to be resolved, the plugin is just a bridge between
Media Center and EvilLyrics.

I don't know what a trusted source is, and whether trusted sources
ever distribute spam.
No one has reported it here, but I guess you'd have to try it and see...
I may add the option of using non trusted sources in the future.

Deivit · « **Reply #9 on:** March 16, 2006, 02:33:56 pm »

Thanks for your work Mr. Chriz

Just installed the new build and I can confirm that the minimize problem has been perfectly solved.

I have a doubt what respects to the tag updating. I've selected the option to "update the tag - overwrite with user confirmation", but I've not been asked for any confirmation and the tag has not been updated although the plug-in has retrieved the correct lyrics. How can I manage those confirmations? Am I supossed to get a confirmation dialogue popping-up somehow? It didn't

Thanks again.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2006, 02:37:47 pm »

I spent some time testing this myself!
It means that EvilLyrics does not believe the lyrics
are from a trusted source. Therefore no messagebox will be presented,
as the plugin will not store them.

I'm thinking about adding a simple logging system to it,
to show what has been used and whats ignored.

As mentioned above I also will probably add an option to allow non trusted
sources, however there are definitley some dodgy things it pulls up
so i'm not so sure this is a good idea.

Personally i think the confirmation system will actually drive people nuts after a while.

Deivit · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2006, 02:43:51 pm »

OK, I got now the message box but it was in the following scenario:

- A song did not previously have lyrics.
- The plug-in located the lyrics from a reliable source and updated the tag.
- Since the lyrics were not correct, I manually clicked on the green button with the right arrow to try more sites and found a different version, which was also considered as reliable.
- I immediately got the message box saying that the song already had lyrics and asking for a confirmation.

Tested again with a song that had lyrics before running through the plug-in. It found the correct lyrics from a reliable source (since I coud see the green confirmation tag in the lower right corner) but no message box was displayed for me to confirm and thus the tag was not updated.

Deivit · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2006, 02:48:26 pm »

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author=Mr ChriZ link=topic=32277.msg223783#msg223783 date=1142541467

As mentioned above I also will probably add an option to allow non trusted
sources, however there are definitley some dodgy things it pulls up
so i'm not so sure this is a good idea.

Personally i think the confirmation system will actually drive people nuts after a while.

I would not add that option for non trusted sources... even the trusted ones are bad lyrics or spam in some of the cases so

What respects to the confirmation system, you may be right that people can get nuts after a while. What happens if you are not paying attention and do not click on the message box? Could it block the program? I don't know how difficult could this be to implement, but perhaps a solution would be showing the message box for let's say 1 minute and if the user does not click yes, assume that "no" is the answer, hide the message box and do not update the tag. I'm thinking in those cases that you're not there to confirm the message box... Just an idea.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #13 on:** March 16, 2006, 03:06:01 pm »

Bear in mind that you do need to change track before the plugin
will send an update to EvilLyrics. Simply rewinding the track is insufficient.

I'm unsure as to whether the green tick indicates trusted source or not.
Still playing with that. I don't think it is. I'll do more testing though.

Your timer suggestion on the messagebox is a good one.
Currently the user could become inundated with MessageBoxes.

Deivit · « **Reply #14 on:** March 16, 2006, 03:16:51 pm »

It worked fine now with two songs with previous lyrics, so forget about my first message... it may have been a problem between the chair and the keyboard

Thank you

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #15 on:** March 16, 2006, 03:27:23 pm »

Yeh I've just done some more testing.
I've got a messagebox telling me the result of the incoming
TrustedSource.

And everytime I ask for coldplay lyrics it returns
a non trusted result. However by hitting the "Try Next Result"
a trusted result is always returned.

Seems like EvilLyrics itself may have a bug...
In that it doesn't always go to trusted sources first.

Stimpco · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:04:09 am »

Just installed the new version... VERY happy, flawless for me so far. Thanks again Mr. ChriZ!!!

datdude · « **Reply #17 on:** March 18, 2006, 05:12:45 pm »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on March 16, 2006, 03:27:23 pm

Yeh I've just done some more testing.
I've got a messagebox telling me the result of the incoming
TrustedSource.

And everytime I ask for coldplay lyrics it returns
a non trusted result. However by hitting the "Try Next Result"
a trusted result is always returned.

Seems like EvilLyrics itself may have a bug...
or wondering why it doesn't go to trusted sources first.

Yea thats kinda like a 'duh!' moment.

'No, please don't take me to a trusted source, I really want all my lyrics screwed up'

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** March 18, 2006, 07:23:44 pm »

Remember Send Your Lyrics To My Server

Stimpco · « **Reply #19 on:** March 20, 2006, 08:22:02 pm »

This is a non-important issue, but I figured I'd keep you all posted. The "Kareoke (sp)" feature... kinda neat if you've played with it, HOWEVER... In my experience using it with Winamp, it would keep track of where you are in the song regardless of whether or not you rewind.... not working with this plugin... am I asking too much? Really a small issue, but I thought I'd keep you (all) informed. -Thomas

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2006, 04:40:47 am »

I'm afraid thats not a part of the interface I've been
given.
I think the integration with Winamp does not work through
a plugin interface like this.
The guy who made EvilLyrics is considering a similar thing
for MC, which would make the plugin redundant.

KingSparta · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2006, 05:09:30 am »

what are you trying to do with message boxes?

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2006, 08:02:50 am »

Quote from: KingSparta on March 23, 2006, 05:09:30 am

what are you trying to do with message boxes?

On reflection I think I'm trying to fix a bug that doesn't exist, I think the message
boxes are static so a new one will overwrite the old one, need to investigate this...

However this I have found another bug, where EvilLyrics doesn't seem to want to
send a new event without the first one being complete, so will have to add
some threading in.

KingSparta · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2006, 11:54:20 am »

well you can use a form and create your own message box, and you can put a timmer in it to dismiss it if you just want to display it for lets say a few seconds.

that is something you can't do with a message box.

Justin L. Cox · « **Reply #24 on:** March 28, 2006, 01:53:54 pm »

The link http://uppit.com/dl/Q9hNi0Ns doesn't work anymore.

Appearently the website is down. Can you post the plugin someplace else?

Mehurin · « **Reply #25 on:** April 12, 2006, 03:29:44 pm »

Your plugin is AWESOME... when I was using the trial MC, I found the lack of EvilLyrics integration a huge con because I've been using it for so long with other players... found your plugin and that sealed the deal.

Is there a way to set it so that it doesn't automatically start whenever MC is started? If not, any plans to implement this in future versions?

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 17, 2006, 01:19:08 pm »

Dumb question, but how do I install the plugin?

I downloaded and installed EvilLyrics. No problem there.

I downloaded the plugin. It is called setup.rar. The .rar file is not an executable, so I don't know what to do with it.

Randy

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #27 on:** April 17, 2006, 03:36:21 pm »

Not dumb at all, I'll add it to the instructions.
You may have heard of zip files, they are compressed files,
windows xp allows you to create them.
Rar files is a kind of competing format, been around for years sorta thing.
Technically it's slightly better I think, although I can't say I've researched it much
So in order to get the setup out of the rar you'll need something to open the rar files.
Most people use something called WinRar
a free trial of which is available here

ferent · « **Reply #28 on:** April 17, 2006, 05:51:05 pm »

you can download Izarc, it´s free and it can un-compressed all!!

http://www.izarc.org/

KingSparta · « **Reply #29 on:** April 17, 2006, 06:08:30 pm »

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Rar files is a kind of competing format, been around for years sorta thing.

Do you remember .ARC Or LZH Compression?

Once they ruled the world

Winzip 10 Pro Introduced a higher compression algorithm

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #30 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:26:19 pm »

I've got everything working. Thanks for the help. Plugin works great.

Randy

dcwebman · « **Reply #31 on:** April 25, 2006, 06:23:42 am »

Mr ChriZ, I just wanted to let you know that I recently tried this and it's awesome! I usually try King's lyric finder and when it doesn't have them I have to go manually and try to find them on the web. This gets probably 95% of the ones I need after that now. And yes King, I'll upload them to your site after.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #32 on:** April 25, 2006, 09:29:36 am »

Quote from: dcwebman on April 25, 2006, 06:23:42 am

Mr ChriZ, I just wanted to let you know that I recently tried this and it's awesome! I usually try King's lyric finder and when it doesn't have them I have to go manually and try to find them on the web. This gets probably 95% of the ones I need after that now. And yes King, I'll upload them to your site after.

=) I'm glad Stimpco suggested the idea. It's actually quite good fun just having that
little window to check the lyrics of songs as they play. I have EvilLyrics Minimized
to the trayicon. I really can't take to much credit for the plugin. It's only about
40 lines of code!

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #33 on:** May 02, 2006, 12:12:41 pm »

Mr ChriZ,

You provide an option to disable/enable the plug-in. Even if the plug-in is disabled, EvilLyrics is started up. Is there a way to not start EvilLyrics? I only want it started when I'm searching for lyrics.

Randy

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #34 on:** May 02, 2006, 01:13:36 pm »

Mr ChriZ,

I noticed that the plug-in does not work when you go to the next track and the title is the same as the prior track. This is true if the artist is the same or different.

Randy

rbentley · « **Reply #35 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:09:06 pm »

Thank you for adding this plugin. It was just the perfect addition to Media Center.

I have to confess that I did have some difficulty installing the plugin.

I apparently only had 1.1 NET installed and that was the reason the plugin didnt work initally.

I did try to install 2.0 but I use Firefox as my defualt browser and Microsoft blocks Firefox from their download site. I tried using IE but only got a blank screen, even with Firefox closed. Ultimately I had to do a google search for donetfx.exe to find a mirror site to d/l it and install. After that all worked great.

If you are having diffculties, please try the above suggestions.

MEDIA CENTER ROCKS !!!!

Stimpco · « **Reply #36 on:** May 12, 2006, 01:05:58 am »

Once again, great work Mr. ChriZ!

dcwebman · « **Reply #37 on:** May 16, 2006, 06:59:32 am »

Mr ChriZ, I have got all my lyrics complete now. I don't want to uninstall your plugin because I may add more files and then will want to use it again. I can go into the plugin and disable evil lyrics which is fine for that session, however if I close MC and restart it, the setting is not saved and Evil Lyrics starts up again.

Without uninstalling it, how can I have it remember the disable and not start Evil Lyrics?
Thanks,
Jeff

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #38 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:04:12 am »

The setting should be saved. Just tried it here and it's working ok.
Are you on the latest build?
You haven't installed it to a Read only drive or anything?

dcwebman · « **Reply #39 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:55:40 am »

I think I figured out the difference. I installed MC 184 and it didn't remember the setting between installs. I disabled the plugin and had to reboot. Starting MC again I noticed that the setting was remembered. So I guess it was just between installs it somehow didn't remember.

mino · « **Reply #40 on:** June 08, 2006, 08:08:39 am »

I can't get the uppit.com download link to work -- is there a new/updated link somewhere? I can't seem to find one anywhere else on the forums...?

trott · « **Reply #41 on:** June 27, 2006, 08:36:32 am »

I...cannot download the plugin.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #42 on:** June 29, 2006, 07:31:42 am »

Top post updated with new download location (Now hosted by JRiver)

Stimpco · « **Reply #43 on:** October 05, 2006, 12:52:02 am »

Anybody seen this one?
"A Fatal error has occured while creating the EvilLyrics Plugin: -Unable to cast Com object of type 'evillyrics.lyricsrequestClass' to interface type 'EvilLyrics._LyricsRequest'. This operation failed becaused the QueryInterface call on the Com component for the interface with IID....
The Failure Occured
In Class Object EvilLyrics
when calling Method Void RegisterClient(System.String)

The following Inner Exception was caused

The Stack Trace Follows:

at Evil..... "

My server machine is working fine.... these errors are on a client.... any ideas, brilliant associates? -Thomas

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #44 on:** October 05, 2006, 01:06:27 am »

Quote from: stimpco on October 05, 2006, 12:52:02 am

Anybody seen this one?
"A Fatal error has occured while creating the EvilLyrics Plugin: -Unable to cast Com object of type 'evillyrics.lyricsrequestClass' to interface type 'EvilLyrics._LyricsRequest'. This operation failed becaused the QueryInterface call on the Com component for the interface with IID....
The Failure Occured
In Class Object EvilLyrics
when calling Method Void RegisterClient(System.String)

The following Inner Exception was caused

The Stack Trace Follows:

at Evil..... "

My server machine is working fine.... these errors are on a client.... any ideas, brilliant associates? -Thomas

It's working fine for me.

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #45 on:** October 05, 2006, 06:56:41 am »

This is the second instance of this message thats been brought up this week.
I've not had internet access for the past week, because of upgrades bringing
faster speeds and higher reliability (haha).
Anyhow not sure whats causing the problem.
Try uninstalling both EvilLyrics and the plugin.
Then Reinstall EvilLyrics (To be on the safe side make sure it goes in the default directory)
Then reinstall the plugin.

Let me know what happens.

Stimpco · « **Reply #46 on:** October 06, 2006, 02:19:21 am »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on October 05, 2006, 06:56:41 am

This is the second instance of this message thats been brought up this week.
I've not had internet access for the past week, because of upgrades bringing
faster speeds and higher reliability (haha).
Anyhow not sure whats causing the problem.
Try uninstalling both EvilLyrics and the plugin.
Then Reinstall EvilLyrics (To be on the safe side make sure it goes in the default directory)
Then reinstall the plugin.

Let me know what happens.

Unfortunately, i have tried that, uninstalled both, deleted both directories, reinstalled both (with mc11 CLOSED), same deal... are there any registry entries i need to manually delete? -Thomas

Stimpco · « **Reply #47 on:** October 06, 2006, 02:21:31 am »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on October 05, 2006, 06:56:41 am

This is the second instance of this message thats been brought up this week.
I've not had internet access for the past week, because of upgrades bringing
faster speeds and higher reliability (haha).
Anyhow not sure whats causing the problem.
Try uninstalling both EvilLyrics and the plugin.
Then Reinstall EvilLyrics (To be on the safe side make sure it goes in the default directory)
Then reinstall the plugin.

Let me know what happens.

Mr. Chriz, out of curiousity, who is your internet provider, and in what city? I work for Cox Cable in Vegas, and a lot of our customers with older modems have needed to upgrade equipment for the speed upgrades to "take"....

p1ut0nium · « **Reply #48 on:** October 07, 2006, 09:40:22 pm »

I have the same problem as the poster above. I just installed evil lyrics & the plugin for the first time today. Never used it before. I am using the newest version of MC - downloaded it a few days ago.

When I load MC, the window pops up complaining about a fatal error - (same as listed above in the post). Evil Lyrics does run, but I'm guessing it's not functioning properly.

dhill · « **Reply #49 on:** October 07, 2006, 11:05:53 pm »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on October 05, 2006, 06:56:41 am

This is the second instance of this message thats been brought up this week.
I've not had internet access for the past week, because of upgrades bringing
faster speeds and higher reliability (haha).
Anyhow not sure whats causing the problem.
Try uninstalling both EvilLyrics and the plugin.
Then Reinstall EvilLyrics (To be on the safe side make sure it goes in the default directory)
Then reinstall the plugin.

Let me know what happens.

I believe the problem is that different versions/builds of EvilLyrics use a different GUID for the COM connection (LyricsRequest). So the Interop.EvilLyrics.dll from your build will be trying to connect using a GUID that does not exist. I have seen 46A8F814-5F6E-4BF4-B6F1-C4E0F0AEF920 and 1FB8C46D-4D26-4EEB-837A-7C9107431D73 for differsnt installs of EL. Tough one to fix since EL is not good about version numbers so it is hard to say works with version X.

Cheers,
-dhill

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