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Windows => Plug-in Development => Topic started by: KingSparta on July 19, 2003, 10:50:57 am

Title: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: KingSparta on July 19, 2003, 10:50:57 am

Is there a way in the SDK to find out if a file has lyrics?

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: RhinoBanga on July 20, 2003, 04:23:48 am

Open the track and see if the length of the lyrics is > 0.

Beware though as accessing notes and lyrics is slooow as they are held within the physical file and not within the MC database.

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: KingSparta on July 20, 2003, 04:43:10 am

I thought of this

I was hoping not to scan all the files just to check if the lyrics was in the database\file.

if someone had 20,000 files that could take sometime.

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: RhinoBanga on July 20, 2003, 09:34:58 pm

I know and that's why I said it would be slow;  but think of it conversely.

Imagine how big the MC database would be if it stored the lyrics for every track you had.

Even if it stored just a yes/no flag for every track it could easily become out of date.

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: KingSparta on July 21, 2003, 09:24:59 am

Quote

Imagine how big the MC database would be if it stored the lyrics for every track you had.

well it does store the lyrics in the database.

As a matter of fact my MC database is 119+ megs

not only does has Lyrics but Artist Bios are in it.

in MC9 you can use search lyrics=[] and get all without lyrics. i woud like to do basicly the same thing in the SDK grab all files that lyrics is under len 50 or more than len 50 lets say and then submit lyrics or get lyrics for the media files to my lyrics server (33,000 lyrics and counting, 132 megs).

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: RhinoBanga on July 21, 2003, 12:20:50 pm

Did that change for MC9?

When I was writing AV accessing notes/lyrics for tracks which had no text was amazingly slow.    That's why I have an option in there to disable displaying that information.   I presumed that it was because it left the information in the tracks to save duplication and prevent synching issues.

Title: Re: Finding Files With Or Without Lyrics
Post by: KingSparta on July 21, 2003, 02:08:45 pm

I do not remember if the MJ8 had lyrics in it

I did loaded the MC db up and the info is in there