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Feature Request for MC17 - Automagic song lyrics importing

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kwake:
Hi,

I have an idea that I'm not sure anyone has come up with or mentioned in this forum yet (I'm probably wrong)...

I am a freak when it comes to tagging my music with 500x500 album art and lyrics.

Currently, the Find Album Art on Internet feature is amazing - 9 times out of 10 there is a perfect 500x500 cover found!

However, I have had to find and copy/paste the lyrics myself.

It's a painstaking process and I think that MC can be made smart enough to go to certain sites that allow copying of the lyrics (http://www.lyricsmania.com/ for example) and pasting them into the Lyrics tag field.

Hopefully others agree (especially at JRiver)!

Cheers,
Kwake

rick.ca:
You may want to consider this...


--- Quote from: rick.ca on May 23, 2011, 11:50:20 pm ---The best solution I'm aware of is the one described here—using a foobar2000 plugin to get lyrics from LyricWiki and write them to the file tags.
--- End quote ---

It seems unlikely the developers will take on the task of creating and maintaining scrapers for lyrics sites intended for personal use. An integrated solution would be better, but the foobar2000 solution is very good. The only additional effort involved is using Send To to send tracks to foobar2000, and then Update Library (from tags) to update the lyrics it found.

Raysy:
MiniLyrics is another way, but the plugin for MC is not that good. And it only accepts the bin of the lastest version. So no old MediaCenter13.exe or beta MediaCenter17.exe. You could try to rename that executable file... Automatic lyric finder integrated in Media Center would be great. Would love it!

glynor:
I think the main problem is that those Lyric sites often either:

A) Get sued out of existence.
B) Actively try to disable scrapers (because they want the Ad Views).

So if JRiver spent a bunch of time developing a stable scraper for some particular site, and then that site vanished overnight (or blocked access) they'd have a bunch of wasted time.

Developing the Lyrics system themselves is a good way to get sued for copyright infringement.

It would be nice if YADB contained user-sumbitted lyrics.  I'm not sure if it does.  I haven't tried in a long time.

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: Raysy on November 03, 2011, 05:54:51 pm ---MiniLyrics is another way, but the plugin for MC is not that good. And it only accepts the bin of the lastest version...
--- End quote ---

MiniLyrics works fine (such as it is) in any version of MC. "Show" it using MC's Plugin Manager. It will then start with MC. Disable MC in the MiniLyrics setup to stop it from starting an incorrect version of MC.

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