Bug while editing lyrics: i want identical lyrics for two tracks. I edit the lyrics for one track, hit CTRL-A, CTRL-C and paste the entry into the lyrics field of the new track with CTRL-V. Now, i select both tracks, and the lyrics field shows "[Varies]", even though the content of the fields is identical. This used to work some versions ago, where the field would show the actual content of the lyrics field for several selected tracks (when the content was identical, of course). I've also tried editing the lyrics in a text editor, then selecting both tracks, and pasting the lyrics. After that, they still show up as "[Varies]".
But what's even worse: MC will add additional, unwanted linebreaks (empty line) to lyrics copied from the lyrics field to the clipboard! The lyrics show up fine in MC, but after copying the text to the clipboard, and pasting it to a text editor, there is one additional empty line after each line of text. See end of post for example.
EDIT: this is a really serious and annoying bug, as adding and editing lyrics involves a lot of manual labour. I've tried editing lyrics with an external tagger (Mp3tag), and MC will "destroy" the lyrics once it writes its own tags. This could mean that, for an unknown number of builds, MC was silently altering the contents of the lyrics tag in each file it has updated. The "destroyed" lyrics will be quite hard, if not impossible, to fix automatically, too - how can MC determine if a linebreak is intentional, or if it has been added in error?
EDIT 2: a hex editor shows that with lyrics pasted into Mp3tag, a single line of text terminates with a sequence of hex "0D 0A" (CR LF). After using the "Update Tags" function in MC, the same line of text is terminated with a sequence of hex "0D 0D 0D 0D 0A" (CR CR CR CR LF). That's a few CR's too many, i think.
Another problem: MC hangs quite often. Happened to me a lot while playing, and tagging files (not the ones currently playing). Also happened while trying to select a value from a long list of keywords by typing the first letter(s). MC just hangs - playback stops, no screen refresh, showing "not responding" in task manager. After forcing MC to close, the last tag changes are gone, which is _very_ annoying (there seems to be no real logic as to which changes are saved in the library, and which are lost).
Example of "additional linebreaks in lyrics":
This is the original text, from a text editor:(Ba ba ba)
(Ba ba ba)
(Ba ba ba)
Take a message, let me know
Put on her shoes before she goes
Hazel eyes and auburn hair
How could she tell it's all for nothing?
Far away from what you want
Another night to spend alone
And now you really know
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone
You know it was a good thing
The best thing
Last thing you should have left behind
Out of nowhere
Out there
Looking all the way back
It's a good thing
The best thing
Last thing you should have left behind
Out of nowhere
Out there
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone
http://www.free-lyrics.org
A small cafe across the street
I heard you meet there every week
Got your favourite necklace on
How could you tell it's all for nothing?
Pack your bags and move along
Before your feelings get too strong
'Cos I can tell you now
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone
[chorus]
[spoken]
He looked away, pretending not to see her
She tried to say something, but nothing came out right
He's lost the best thing
One day it'll hit him
One day...
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone...
[chorus to fade]
http://www.free-lyrics.org/Saint-Etienne/237139-A-Good-Thing.html
This text pasted into the lyrics field in MC, copied from there, and pasted into a new text document looks like this:(Ba ba ba)
(Ba ba ba)
(Ba ba ba)
Take a message, let me know
Put on her shoes before she goes
Hazel eyes and auburn hair
How could she tell it's all for nothing?
Far away from what you want
Another night to spend alone
And now you really know
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone
You know it was a good thing
The best thing
Last thing you should have left behind
Out of nowhere
Out there
Looking all the way back
It's a good thing
The best thing
Last thing you should have left behind
Out of nowhere
Out there
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone
http://www.free-lyrics.org
A small cafe across the street
I heard you meet there every week
Got your favourite necklace on
How could you tell it's all for nothing?
Pack your bags and move along
Before your feelings get too strong
'Cos I can tell you now
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone
[chorus]
[spoken]
He looked away, pretending not to see her
She tried to say something, but nothing came out right
He's lost the best thing
One day it'll hit him
One day...
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone...
[chorus to fade]
http://www.free-lyrics.org/Saint-Etienne/237139-A-Good-Thing.html
