LyricsDB discussion, discussion of the foo_lyricsdb plugin Options

[dug]

Foo_lyricsdb is a plugin for searching lyrics basing on song's artist title and sometimes album. You can also upload your lyrics to the plugin's database (located at the lyrics.mirkforce.net) to share your lyrics. Lyrics saved to the %lyrics% tag. This plugin is not intended to support timestamped lyrics, just plain text.

In this thread news about the plugin will be posted. Thread created to get some response, about new features, may be bugs and so on, fill free to ask your questions here.

Last known version:
http://lyrics.mirkforce.net/files/foo_lyricsdb_008_beta0.zip.

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Plugin's homepage: http://lyrics.mirkforce.net/

This post has been edited by dug: Oct 20 2009, 09:43

[ev0|]

I figured it out.

It happens with the exact same mp3s each time (example: The Zwan album, 'Mary Star of the Sea' has really long lyrics)

Example :

Lyrics for 'Yeah' from your database :

yeah
yeah
yeah

i gave you everything
what'd you give to me
a pocket full of empty rings
with diamonds that can sing
the most that i could ever hope
is that you'd start to feel so real

yeah
yeah
yeah

what i want is what you want
but what i want is more
i'm tired of the questions
am i left in scorn
the drugs are my addiction
she's laying on the tiles of my floor

yeah
yeah
yeah

'cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my will
but what i want you can't fucking kill

yeah
yeah
yeah

everyone is not as one
everyone's the same
they're asking for a moment
they're looking out to blame
so am i independent
or am i just playing my own games

yeah
yeah
yeah

'cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my guilt
but when i can you just never will

yeah
yeah
yeah

yeah
yeah
yeah

'cause you are my faults
well you are my own
it's your will in my guilt

yeah
yeah
yeah

This causes the crash.

My truncated version :

yeah (x3)

i gave you everything
what'd you give to me
a pocket full of empty rings
with diamonds that can sing
the most that i could ever hope
is that you'd start to feel so real

yeah (x3)

what i want is what you want
but what i want is more
i'm tired of the questions
am i left in scorn
the drugs are my addiction
she's laying on the tiles of my floor

yeah (x3)

'cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my will
but what i want you can't fucking kill

yeah (x3)

everyone is not as one
everyone's the same
they're asking for a moment
they're looking out to blame
so am i independent
or am i just playing my own games

yeah (x3)

'cause you are my faults
as you are my own
and you built my guilt
but when i can you just never will

yeah (x6)

'cause you are my faults
well you are my own
it's your will in my guilt

yeah (x3)

Is fine.

On a hunch, I tried editing the lyrics file and shortening it by a few lines.

Now it doesn't cause a crash on that file anymore.

It's definately length issues. Certain lyrics files that are very long (some rap lyrics, billy corgan songs etc ) cause the overflow and crash of windows explorer.

Anyway, at least now I know I can workaround the problem.

And Dug, I had to spend hours fixing the tags (by removing, retagging and reapplying replaygain data) because once the lyric was embedded, whether it was by either of the above mentioned plugins, playing that file would cause foobar to crash, along with windows explorer (and with it my desktop).

Now that I know that it is caused by lyric size too big, I just have to truncate the lyrics a little (by adding Chorus X3 etc) and that fixes the problem. I wish I had figured it out first.

That explains why most of the files have no problems (alot of lyrics are short on many files)

Now I'm not sure if there is something in my configuration that makes it crash; nevertheless, i thought it was worthy of reporting here.

This post has been edited by ev0|: Aug 28 2005, 08:40

[dug]

I think I figured it out.

It happens with the exact same mp3s each time (example: Zwan's Settle down triggered the crash)
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So either 1.) There is some character in the lyrics file that crashes it that editing it removes
or          2.) Certain of the lyrics files are too long to be inserted as lyrics tags in certain files.

1) hardly it is possible... you don't wanna know what I have tryed to place in lyrics tag wile testing
2) hardly it is possible, I have tryed lyrics much more than 16k. What tags do you use? preferences->playback->input->standart inputs. I use "APEv2 and ID3v1" with the "remove id3v2 tags while updating" checked. Don't know if this critical, but that's what I use.
I made up mp3 with same artist and title and tryed to get lyrics. I got it, everything works nice again... Have no idea why your desktop crashes bacause of the mp3 editing...

And Dug, I had to spend hours fixing the tags (by removing, retagging and reapplying replaygain data) because once the lyric was embedded, whether it was by either of the above mentioned plugins, playing that file would cause foobar to crash, along with windows explorer (and with it my desktop).

So the problem is with certain lyric tags being too long or containing a weird character.

Hours? Why? Just select all of them and use foobar's tagging power (masstagger or just properties for all the selection and remove lyrics tag?)... And if the problem is not in the exact lyricsdb plugin - it is somwhere else... When exactly crash happens? Have you tryed copy "bad" lyrics to clipboard and apply it by foobar's internal tag editor to the same or other mp3? Do crashes come when plugins are unloaded? (guess so)... seems strange. Do you have an icq account? Even if this problem is not the foo_lyricsdb problem it is related to it and I want to figure out what exactly happens and how it could be solved... For now it is very vaguely what causes these crashes...