Topic: NEW: Lyrics Display in Playing Now (Read 62988 times)

Matt · « **on:** February 26, 2019, 01:18:43 pm »

Hi all,

Today I've been working on a way to make the lyrics display at playback time.

Here's what we've got so far:

To add lyrics, right click on any track and choose Library Tools > Lookup Lyrics.

Our lyrics come from https://www.azlyrics.com/, http://genius.com and Google so consider supporting them if you like what we've done.

To display lyrics, make sure you're showing cover art in Playing Now (and not a visualization), then right click and choose Display Lyrics.

Cheers

joshhuggins · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2019, 01:48:44 pm »

Diggin it! Makes sense since there is usually a lot of space around the album/cover art.

dtc · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2019, 07:34:40 am »

It would be nice to be able to see all the lyrics at once, without having them scroll. Maybe in a separate, moveable and resizable window. Given today's wide displays, it could be outside the main MC window. If it ends up a smaller window, it should scroll automatically as the song plays.

mark_h · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2019, 07:40:50 am »

Looks good. Are these new methods? Will they be available to Track Info views for user customisation? Related: would be very nice to have scalable windows in Track Info that dynamically adjust their size to use available space while keeping their overall aspect ratio - eg for cover art and other info boxes.

imeric · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2019, 10:19:16 am »

BTW I'M still "banned" from their website ie any PCs from my home network's IP address won't connect to azlyrics unless I use a VPN.

All of this due to doing a bulk of about 150 songs or so a few weeks back...I guess they didn't appreciate...

I was looking at their website how do we contribute?

hoyt · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2019, 06:40:08 pm »

Quote from: imeric on February 28, 2019, 10:19:16 am

BTW I'M still "banned" from their website ie any PCs from my home network's IP address won't connect to azlyrics unless I use a VPN.

All of this due to doing a bulk of about 150 songs or so a few weeks back...I guess they didn't appreciate...

I was looking at their website how do we contribute?

I'm having the same problem. But I did all of three albums, and not at once, it was one after the other. AZ Lyrics doesn't seem like a workable solution.

hoyt · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2019, 01:08:41 pm »

Does JRiver have a contact with AZLyrics?

I contacted through the website about being apparently banned after requesting lyrics for 3 albums, and asked about usage metrics, request delays, etc. I have not heard back and appear to still be banned.

blgentry · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2019, 05:22:28 pm »

In terms of showing the lyrics, this feature works as you would expect. It's fairly nice. But in some cases the cover art (or artist image) is kinda small compared to the screen real estate available. It looks to me like 1/3 of the horizontal space is allocated to the image and 2/3 to the lyrics.

This results in a whole bunch of the screen being blank while the image sits over on the left looking kind of small. It's not a huge big deal. I'm inclined to suggest a handle so we can adjust lyrics space versus image space. But I'm not sure if that's too fiddly. I'm also inclined to think that maybe keeping the image exactly as is and wrapping the lyrics around it might be better.

Or at a minimum some algorithmic placement which allows the image to be the full height of the display area. Otherwise it looks kinda weird.

I can post screen shots if this is not clear.

Thanks,

Brian.

Matt · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2019, 12:15:13 pm »

Next build will look at azlyrics and also another site if that fails. Hopefully we'll fare a little better this way.

dtc · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2019, 01:16:58 pm »

This is ridiculous. I, like others, cannot access their website - after downloading lyrics for just a few albums.

Given how they treat your customers, I would suggest you drop them altogether unless they re-instate people and promise not to do it in the future.

hoyt · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2019, 03:12:26 pm »

The lyrics display is pretty cool.

However, I came across a track with lots of lyrics and the font is pretty dang tiny. I'm not sure what I'd rather see, a scroll bar - certainly not, truncated lyrics, eh probably not - but there's a good deal of white space beneath/ around the lyrics that isn't used which could make this font size 4 a bit larger. I know I can resize the window, but this one made me realize how small it was.

swiv3d · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2019, 04:33:58 pm »

The cutting off of lyric lines in the three column display is a little underwhelming compared to some of the other media apps available. Would it be possible to have single column auto scroll? (Ok! It's a lot to ask but one can dream of Utopia!)

This is not to say that what you have done is pretty awesome.

swiv3d · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2019, 05:20:49 pm »

There is of course a danger that a wonderfully rich audiophile audio system is gradually transforming into a karaoke app. Just a thought!

JimH · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2019, 05:44:34 pm »

If you don't like it, you can turn it off with a right click.

swiv3d · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2019, 05:54:19 pm »

Just being a pratt JimH. Love JRiver, and always in awe of what you are all doing to improve it. I am listenening to a wonderful playlist with all of the wonders of DSP and who could want more. You are blessed.

swiv3d · « **Reply #15 on:** March 19, 2019, 06:14:11 pm »

Here is an example as you can see many lines ae truncated - not what your average music junkie is expecting to see.

marko · « **Reply #16 on:** March 19, 2019, 11:29:24 pm »

Quote from: swiv3d on March 19, 2019, 06:14:11 pm

Here is an example as you can see many lines ae truncated - not what your average music junkie is expecting to see.

I saw the truncation too. While this is not a feature I have been longing for, I thought to myself, if I had been, I would be dissappointed.

I would have expected live scrolling lyrics in the way Soundhound does it on my phone.

-marko

Guernsey · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2019, 12:49:21 pm »

Do we have to right click etc on every track In an album or playlist
And does it save the lyrics in the tracks file?

Thanks Steve

jctcom · « **Reply #18 on:** March 21, 2019, 05:29:49 pm »

Must be missing something? How do I enable the new Lyrics display?

Have installed the new Ver. 25.014

I can see the lyrics if I change to Info>Noir Viz
and also in the tags.

But I don't see any option to change the view to the examples above?

Carl.

JimH · « **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2019, 05:32:25 pm »

Right click on the view to the right in Playing Now.

jctcom · « **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2019, 06:45:39 pm »

Quote from: JimH on March 21, 2019, 05:32:25 pm

Right click on the view to the right in Playing Now.

Tried that. The options I get are:

Display View
Detach Display
More>

Cover Art
3D Visualizations
Track Info
Visualizations

Enable Scrollbars (Checked)
Display Cover Art when small (Checked)

Don't see anything relating to lyrics specifically even when drilling down into all of those options above.

Also display is currently in "Noir Viz" under Track Info in case that makes a difference.

Carl

JimH · « **Reply #21 on:** March 21, 2019, 06:54:27 pm »

Click on "Cover Art" to activate it. You'll see the cover.

stewart_pk · « **Reply #22 on:** March 21, 2019, 08:08:34 pm »

Display View? Theater View?

jctcom · « **Reply #23 on:** March 21, 2019, 08:11:06 pm »

Quote from: JimH on March 21, 2019, 06:54:27 pm

Click on "Cover Art" to activate it. You'll see the cover.

Thanks. That did it. Love the new right click option to lookup lyrics as well. Also this makes it much easier to see if there are already lyrics attached etc...

Carl.

mattlovell · « **Reply #24 on:** March 21, 2019, 11:01:15 pm »

Quote from: swiv3d on March 19, 2019, 06:14:11 pm

Here is an example as you can see many lines ae truncated - not what your average music junkie is expecting to see.

Agreed.

Is there an option to control the display of the lyrics (e.g., enable/disable truncation, set a min or max font size)?

sikm · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2019, 12:10:03 am »

LOVE IT! I'm finding my voice! Only question can one change the font size?

username2013 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 22, 2019, 01:22:47 am »

Many thanks for the Lyrics Display!
I appreciate it! Good job.

-Steve

lepa · « **Reply #27 on:** March 22, 2019, 03:16:30 am »

Yes, please solve the truncate issue.

avul · « **Reply #28 on:** March 22, 2019, 07:21:19 am »

Thank you very much! The lyrics work in my favorite player, I'm happy!

audioriver · « **Reply #29 on:** March 22, 2019, 01:34:24 pm »

I managed to show them in Display View but not in Standard View/Playing Now. Not sure if this is expected, but the screenshot in Matt's first post looks like Standard View (I'm no Media Center UI expert, far from it...).

I do have the album cover in Playing Now (no visualisation) but there are no 'Display Lyrics' when right-clicking on the cover, only the usual Play, Remove from List, Send To etc.

Right-clicking on the Zone (under Playing Now) also reveals no lyrics option.

Axilian · « **Reply #30 on:** March 22, 2019, 03:51:24 pm »

Would there be any way to have the lyrics download for a whole album when you play it (atm I seem to have to download each track

manually) . Also it seems I can't get lyrics to display on a track I'm currently playing - but can on ones I'm not (lyrics display when that particular track is playing)

jctcom · « **Reply #31 on:** March 22, 2019, 03:57:48 pm »

Quote from: Axilian on March 22, 2019, 03:51:24 pm

Would there be any way to have the lyrics download for a whole album when you play it (atm I seem to have to download each track manually) . Also it seems I can't get lyrics to display on a track I'm currently playing - but can on ones I'm not (lyrics display when that particular track is playing)

Don't know about the album thing. But if you want to display lyrics for a track currently playing that you have just added the lyrics to you will need to turn the lyrics feature off and then back on again by "Right" clicking on the display area and clicking on the (Checked) "Display Lyrics" option and then repeating that procedure.

Carl.

imeric · « **Reply #32 on:** March 22, 2019, 05:11:27 pm »

Quote from: mattlovell on March 21, 2019, 11:01:15 pm

Agreed.

Is there an option to control the display of the lyrics (e.g., enable/disable truncation, set a min or max font size)?

Looks nice however a lot of them show up truncated...A visualization equivalent that we could modify would be nice!
Thx

jabo1961 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 23, 2019, 02:23:13 am »

Quote from: Axilian on March 22, 2019, 03:51:24 pm

Would there be any way to have the lyrics download for a whole album when you play it (atm I seem to have to download each track manually) . Also it seems I can't get lyrics to display on a track I'm currently playing - but can on ones I'm not (lyrics display when that particular track is playing)

Right click on cover art then library tools then lookup lyrics. Adds lyrics for each track , a bit quicker than doing each track individually.

thecrow · « **Reply #34 on:** March 23, 2019, 07:57:56 am »

Whilst this works fine for me when playing to a MC instance, if I play to a DLNA renderer (Marantz 7012) then as soon as I select "Display Lyrics" MC crashes.
I've included my log file and crash dump.

NealJ · « **Reply #35 on:** March 23, 2019, 09:36:20 am »

Same thing happened here, streaming to Pi, enable 'display lyrics' causes an immediate crash and the MC 'incomplete shutdown detected' window pops up.

nataru · « **Reply #36 on:** March 23, 2019, 12:49:54 pm »

Being able to click on "Display" and view both the album art and lyrics in full screen is the most glorious thing ever. Thanks!!

Bro · « **Reply #37 on:** March 23, 2019, 03:21:11 pm »

Both options were chosen but no lyrics...am I missing something?
I tried to choose a most classical song so I guess it's not the problem of song missing from the database, it's just not working for me...

Axilian · « **Reply #38 on:** March 23, 2019, 04:13:21 pm »

Quote from: jabo1961 on March 23, 2019, 02:23:13 am

Right click on cover art then library tools then lookup lyrics. Adds lyrics for each track , a bit quicker than doing each track individually.

Thanks

franswilco · « **Reply #39 on:** March 24, 2019, 09:01:15 am »

@JimH and @Matt did you see the implementation I did a couple of weeks ago?

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,116394.0.html

Marpow · « **Reply #40 on:** March 24, 2019, 11:27:58 am »

The good news is that my 64bit MC25 loaded perfectly and all copied from my MC24 flawlessly, thank you, that is most important.
Regarding lyrics, I have read all the posts and have tried to load lyrics, from cover art, track title, tools, etc and I see and get all the prompts, even the small pop up window that says, looking up lyrics, but for the life of me I cannot get lyrics to display.
I do this from one of my playing zones called stereo.
Do I need to add something that I am not doing, I am on PC with Windows 10.

JimH · « **Reply #41 on:** March 24, 2019, 12:32:44 pm »

Start something playing, then click on Playing Now in a local zone. Check "Display Lyrics". You need to be in Cover Art view.

DJLegba · « **Reply #42 on:** March 24, 2019, 12:53:06 pm »

The lookup success rate is not high, and not always correct. After you do a lookup, open the tag editor and see if there's anything in the Lyrics tag.

wilfredjg · « **Reply #43 on:** March 24, 2019, 04:15:06 pm »

THANK YOU.

Marpow · « **Reply #44 on:** March 24, 2019, 04:27:43 pm »

I switched my "Cover Art View" to "Plain" and boom there where the lyrics for one song thought I had it and then next track back to nothing.
I am sure this will be dialed in better, at a later time.

stampie · « **Reply #45 on:** March 24, 2019, 04:33:11 pm »

Really pleased that this has been added, as I have been thinking about how best to add lyrics for a while now.

I've been trying it out, and mostly it works fine.

One change I would like to see is the behaviour when no lyrics are found. At the moment a track will have 'Lyrics for this song have yet to be released. Please check back once the song has been released.' added to the LYRIC tag of a FLAC file, but I would prefer it was left blank if there were no lyrics found.

Otherwise, a player will just display that message as a lyric!

Also, I couldn't test this as none of my music has lyrics, but if lyrics are already present when a lookup is done, are they overwritten? I would prefer the option to either choose to retain/replace, or at least have an option to state the default behaviour in a setting somewhere

Finally, I am getting a lot of false positives (i.e. wrong lyrics) so I don't think the lookup criteria is working that efficiently at the moment - is anyone else finding this problem as well?

Thanks
Nick

Matt · « **Reply #46 on:** March 25, 2019, 07:45:44 am »

Quote from: thecrow on March 23, 2019, 07:57:56 am

Whilst this works fine for me when playing to a MC instance, if I play to a DLNA renderer (Marantz 7012) then as soon as I select "Display Lyrics" MC crashes.
I've included my log file and crash dump.

Fixed next build. Thanks for the report.

Axilian · « **Reply #47 on:** March 25, 2019, 08:30:35 am »

Quote from: marko on March 19, 2019, 11:29:24 pm

I saw the truncation too. While this is not a feature I have been longing for, I thought to myself, if I had been, I would be dissappointed.

I would have expected live scrolling lyrics in the way Soundhound does it on my phone.

-marko

Seems dependent on the skin . I use a Modern Cards variant by Awesome Donkey and get no truncation of lyrics - the lyric display is split up into 5 columns with the text small enough to fully display the lyrics

chris635 · « **Reply #48 on:** March 25, 2019, 11:35:21 am »

Quote from: Axilian on March 25, 2019, 08:30:35 am

Seems dependent on the skin . I use a Modern Cards variant by Awesome Donkey and get no truncation of lyrics - the lyric display is split up into 5 columns with the text small enough to fully display the lyrics

Yes, I can confirm this on some albums. Others are still truncated.

SirTom2015 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 25, 2019, 09:12:35 pm »

First, let me say seeing lyrics display in the playing now area is fantastic and I thank the tech guys who have finally added this feature. There are some problems though. A-Z Lyrics seems to not like it when multiple albums worth of lyrics are sought. Also, More than once now they either come up with totally wrong lyrics for a song look up or they don't have them at all. They are not a very good service at all so I hope other options are given so that the user can choose where to get lyrics from.

For now I will use a third party app to get my lyrics for songs that the current built in service misses and insert them in the tag field where lyrics go. They still display on the playing now area dedicated for them.
Thanks much though for adding this feature. I know with future updates, the bugs will be worked out. You guys rock. I upgraded this time around to a master license so I can use it on my Linux box, and I am an early adopter of the Android app. I love JRiver and I wholly support you guys. Keep up the good work!!

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