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Feature Request for MC17 - Automagic song lyrics importing

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flac.rules:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on November 06, 2011, 01:45:27 pm ---I'm not sure what you're implying. Are you saying because the developers are able to provide support for displaying subtitles associated with video, providing support for playing synchronized lyrics should be easy? I don't think you have to go looking for any evidence of the developers' capabilities. They're capable. But I doubt adding support for synchronized lyrics would be "easy." If it were, it would have been done long ago.

It's not beside the point if no one has synchronized lyrics. My question was straightforward. If I didn't use MiniLyrics, I don't have a clue where I would get the synchronized lyrics from. Where do you get yours from?

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Thats a weird assumption, just because something is reasonably easy to implement doesn't mean it has been added before. Easy or not easy, everything costs time, and the program can't have an unlimited amount of features, no matter how little work each one takes. That being said, something are more time-consuming to implement than others. Lyrics are just another tag in the file. The program already has a "tag-engine", it's only about viewing some text, I would not think that is a very time-consuming task.

I guess minilyrics is the best source for synchronized lyrics, but the problem with the program is using it to display the lyrics. Writing the lyrics with minilyrics isn ideal, but better than having to have a weird overlay when displaying them.

rick.ca:
To summarize, then...MiniLyrics is the best source for synchronized lyrics. It works with MC, but using a "weird" overlay—so it would be preferable if MC would play them natively. Considering JRiver has said nothing about doing so in years, there's no telling when such a feature will be implemented, if ever. So, in the meantime, using MiniLyrics might be a sensible thing to do.

fabien44:
How to display oin Theater View the embeded lyrics for audio files?

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---How to display oin Theater View the embeded lyrics for audio files?
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The file information displayed in Theatre View is completely configurable—using Options > Theatre View > Appearance > Customize file info panel... Select the Audio template, add [Lyrics], and indicate how/where you would like it displayed.

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