Whole Album/Directory Lyrics Tool, Created a Lyrics Tool... help me improve it :) Options

[ResidualImages]

Well, apparently the people have changed their website. I will take a look at it this weekend and try to fix it for us.

Thanks for letting me know, and I'm sorry it's not working yet

Hi,

I tried to install and run this beautiful tool as explained. Everything works as expected, except for one crucial point:

For every song that lyrics are found for, the lyrics are the same:

Upgrade to Lyrics Plugin version 0.4

I tried inspecting the intermediate results. It turns out the second step (running lyrics.exe) actually creates a txt file for every song. But instead of the song's lyrics, the file contains this text above.

Since this works apearantly for you all, I wonder: WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

[ResidualImages]

They've changed the php and JS behind the scenes indeed! Appears like that just happened in January.


This post has been edited by ResidualImages: Nov 7 2011, 23:10

[ResidualImages]

Hi,

I tried to install and run this beautiful tool as explained. Everything works as expected, except for one crucial point:

For every song that lyrics are found for, the lyrics are the same:

Upgrade to Lyrics Plugin version 0.4

I tried inspecting the intermediate results. It turns out the second step (running lyrics.exe) actually creates a txt file for every song. But instead of the song's lyrics, the file contains this text above.

Since this works apearantly for you all, I wonder: WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

Well, I was tired of not having this tool. I currently have a new tool that does not rely on LyricsPlugin.com, but instead Googles the song and artist, and if it finds MetroLyrics, AZLyrics, Sing365, LyricsMania, LyricsMode, or SongLyrics results in the first page of Google results, it will attempt to parse the lyrics from those sites.

Does anyone have any other recommended sites?

I will be polishing up the tool and documenting the options this week.

[ResidualImages]

After looking it over LyricsWiki (http://lyrics.wikia.com/) seems to have a fairly reliable database. So I am updating the tool to use that site.

I could release modules at a later version that picked up from other sites if LyricsWiki is not doing the trick for your music.

Original Post will be updated.

[Luctus]

Well, I was tired of not having this tool. I currently have a new tool that does not rely on LyricsPlugin.com, but instead Googles the song and artist, and if it finds MetroLyrics, AZLyrics, Sing365, LyricsMania, LyricsMode, or SongLyrics results in the first page of Google results, it will attempt to parse the lyrics from those sites.

Does anyone have any other recommended sites?

I will be polishing up the tool and documenting the options this week.

darklyrics.com

[ResidualImages]

darklyrics.com

well, that can be arranged. though the site is certainly slow and inconsistent, today. making coding for it difficult.

Complete. See original post.

This post has been edited by ResidualImages: Nov 30 2011, 01:43

[LyricsLover]

Nice work! Thank you for this tool!!

I have some questions:
a ) How can I save the lyrics to a specific path (not the same where the mp3 are stored)?
Example:
I would like to store the lyrics for the 10cc-song '01 - The Wall Street Shuffle' in the path
D:\mp3\Lyrics\1\10cc (01 - The Wall Street Shuffle).txt
(First letter/number of the Band as directory name, no need for the source in the filename)

If this is too complex, I would just be happy with a fixed different lyrics path like:
D:\mp3\Lyrics\AllFoundLyrics\


b ) How can I run the lyrics.exe without the final result windows?
Just the logfile or nothing at all would be enough for me.


c ) How can I export only the files not alread including lyrics? The command in the PDF

QUELLTEXT

$filename(txt,utf-8)$loop(%_path%)%_path%|%artist%|%title%
$loopend()

exports ALL files, not only the one without lyrics, right?


d) Is there any known limit of number of tracks to get the lyrics? Are the sources banning my IP if I use your tool to many times?

[ResidualImages]

Nice work! Thank you for this tool!!
Glad you like!

I have some questions:
a ) How can I save the lyrics to a specific path (not the same where the mp3 are stored)?
...
If this is too complex, I would just be happy with a fixed different lyrics path like:
D:\mp3\Lyrics\AllFoundLyrics\
this is a likely option, I suppose. i understand liking options, but do people hang on to the ".txt" files once they embed the lyrics?? i don't usually; that's why I never made many options for the output files

b ) How can I run the lyrics.exe without the final result windows?
Just the logfile or nothing at all would be enough for me.
I will try to remember to include a no-result option next time I compile it

c ) How can I export only the files not alread including lyrics? The command in the PDF

CODE

$filename(txt,utf-8)$loop(%_path%)%_path%|%artist%|%title%
$loopend()

exports ALL files, not only the one without lyrics, right?
correct. i can look to see if there is any clean way to list only non-lyric'd files, but I will be at the mercy of what is possible in the code section.

d) Is there any known limit of number of tracks to get the lyrics? Are the sources banning my IP if I use your tool to many times?
the tool is actually visiting the websites in the background, so their terms are not being violated. they still get hits / generate ads, whatever. i have run this on thousands of files multiple times and never had issues.

[tbum20]

c ) How can I export only the files not alread including lyrics? The command in the PDF

CODE

$filename(txt,utf-8)$loop(%_path%)%_path%|%artist%|%title%
$loopend()

exports ALL files, not only the one without lyrics, right?

I don't feel this should be included in the hard code of the tool as the core of the tool would then include a rule based on code which is highly dynamic. Most importantly there currently are two tags for lyrics which are universally considered standard not to mention the tag for lyrics is moderately inconsistent between applications.

LyricsLover,
To run the tool for songs without lyrics you should create a column in mp3tag with the tag(s) mapped to lyrics and simply sort your files by that column making it very simple to choose songs without lyrics.
All files would already have to be loaded into mp3tag for a rule change in the lyrics tool even be applicable and creating a column to sort your files would complicate your experience using this tool very little.

[ohrenkino]

... you should create a column in mp3tag with the tag(s) mapped to lyrics and simply sort your files by that column making it very simple to choose songs without lyrics..

Or apply a filter with something like
%unsyncedlyrics% IS ""
as this works even if there is no column displayed with that data.

[ResidualImages]

Thanks, tbum20 and ohrenkino for chiming in.

both of you have fine ideas. perhaps one of those pieces of advice will work out better for LyricsLover

[LyricsLover]

...perhaps one of those pieces of advice will work out better for LyricsLover

Yes. For c) ohrenkino's

QUELLTEXT

%unsyncedlyrics% IS ""

is a nice solution!

Now I hope for a solution for a ) and b ). For a big song collection it would be nice to have the lyric files in one single directory, not everywhere on the disks. The same for b ): If you search the lyrics for a huge amount of songs, the result- and final window isn't that interesting .-)

This post has been edited by LyricsLover: Mar 14 2012, 06:17

[ResidualImages]

Yes. For c) ohrenkino's

CODE

%unsyncedlyrics% IS ""

is a nice solution!

Now I hope for a solution for a ) and b ). For a big song collection it would be nice to have the lyric files in one single directory, not everywhere on the disks. The same for b ): If you search the lyrics for a huge amount of songs, the result- and final window isn't that interesting .-)

glad you liked one of their solutions.

I am on call this week at work, so I'm getting sleep when I can. hopefully next week I'll be able to create some extra options as far as file paths and results window for you; I may just make a special LyricsLover version especially for you! because otherwise, I want to keep it the way it is for me.

[LyricsLover]

A special version only for me? Wow!
I really hope that other users appeciate this features too.

[ResidualImages]

A special version only for me? Wow!
I really hope that other users appeciate this features too.

haha, alright, i'll try to wrap it up next week.