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NEW: Lyrics Lookup
dtc:
Will there be a built in lyric viewer also? Maybe Lawrence Welk style with the bouncing ball :) Showing my age.
Craig:
Wasn't there a plugin that did this years ago? I seem to remember it running into some legal problems.
Craig
dtc:
I pulled up Joan Baez Blessed Are and clicked on Lookup Lyrics and - bingo - the lyrics loaded. Then I tried Eva Cassidy Live at Blues Alley and, unfortunately, nothing loaded. Blues Alley is a pretty well know jazz vocal album so I was surprised nothing came up. So I did a little searching.
Well, there are at least 3 azlyrics sites that I found - .com, .biz and .org. .org does not seem to actually exist, except in searches. .com exists but Firefox will not pull it up - it says it is suspicious. .org comes up alright and does have Blues Alley in it. When I search on Cheek to Cheek (the first song on Blue Alley) on azlyrics.com from Firefox it does find the song, but on a different album of hers - Nightbird. So, it seems the lookup may be using the .com site. But since it does not have Blues Alley on it, I am fearful that it might be pretty incomplete. Can you confirm which site the new lookup is using?
When looking up the lyrics, a count of the tracks being looked up is given, but there is no indication how many are found. You have to go look at the tag to see if the lookup was successful. That is Ok for a few lookups, but for any sizeable number it would be nice to have success or not reported. I can envision doing a lot of lookups, especially at first, and not having any indication of which were successful and which failed.
A View option to see the lyrics during playback would be nice.
imeric:
--- Quote from: dtc on January 08, 2019, 08:47:20 am ---Will there be a built in lyric viewer also? Maybe Lawrence Welk style with the bouncing ball :) Showing my age.
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This is why I still use Foobar from time to time... Along with the ability to read lyrics outside the tag and located in a text file. (Lookup done using Artist - Name or something similar...)
It should read both synced (.lrc or .kas) files and unsynced (.txt.) files.
That would be a nice addition for MC25...
Thx for considering!
marko:
After some initial success with this, I'm now getting no lyrics at all...
Firefox won't load https://www.azlyrics.com/ reporting "secure connection failed", while chrome reports that the "page is not working"
However, it loads just fine in Safari on my phone. Are there limits imposed?
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