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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: fegelmej on November 28, 2013, 08:49:33 am

Title: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on November 28, 2013, 08:49:33 am

Happy Thanksgiving

I've downloaded a number of Track Info plug-ins (Thanks for builiding them) with lyrics.  Unfortunately, the lyrics don't show.  Is there another step I'm missing?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: Ramona60 on November 28, 2013, 12:58:18 pm

You can do it by yourself. You need a html editor (e.g. FrontPage Express). The skins are stored in the JRiver program folder C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 19\Visualizations\Track Info. In the subfolder named like your favorite skin is a html file (index.html). You can open it an insert (or replace an existing string with) "TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS". You should backup this file (and copy this in the MC 20 folder in a few weeks)

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on November 29, 2013, 09:13:46 am

Excellent.  I'll give it a go.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on November 29, 2013, 09:20:04 am

Well, the line "TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS" is present in the skin, but when I call up that visualization, I get all the information called for in the HTML except the lyrics.


I've tried several different skins/plugins, all have the language, but none call up the lyrics.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: Ramona60 on November 29, 2013, 11:13:58 am

For me it works. I tested it just now with the standard Noire visualization. I replaced the string TRACKINFO_INSERT_GENRE with TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS. I saved the html on the desktop and replaced the index.html in the Visualization folder with the new file and instead of genre now lyrics are called. Have you used uppercase characters?

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on November 29, 2013, 04:17:50 pm

Followed those explicit instructions.  And unfortunately, not calling the lyrics.  I cut and pasted so the case and syntax should be the same.  Weird.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: BernhardS on December 01, 2013, 08:12:24 am

please try this as a test.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on December 01, 2013, 02:58:38 pm

Thanks very much for the attachment.  It loads fine, and all of the track info data is present, but no lyrics.

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: BernhardS on December 03, 2013, 02:08:40 pm

What is the MC field name where your lyrics are stored?  Use the Tag Action Window, expand it to show all fields, and see if you see your lyrics under the Lyrics tag.  Or have you used another field? (In Win7) under C:\Users\......user name....\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 19 is a file "field (lyrics).jmd", and it's size should be significant greater than 1 kb

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: fegelmej on December 06, 2013, 01:51:02 pm

No file with "lyrics" in that location.  Do I need to actually create it?

Title: Re: lyric acquistion
Post by: Ramona60 on December 06, 2013, 03:00:55 pm

Maybe you have no lyrics in your data base? Use the Tag Action Window, expand it to show all fields, and see if you see your lyrics under the Lyrics tag. The track info shows always lyrics stored in the tags - it's not a lyrics grabber.