Lyrics Grabber Feedback & Discussion, Proper place for Feedback & Discussion for foo_lyricsgrabber Options

[T.P Wang]

foo_lyricsgrabber is a component which allow users to download lyrics from specified lyrics provider.
Current supported

• lyricwiki.org
• lyricsplugin.com

Instructions
In context menu, Find "Lyrics Grabber", Choose a provider to download lyrics for tracks just selected. Or config properites by choosing "Configuration".


Requirements
foobar2000 0.9.5 or later


Changlog

CODE

0.2.6.2 Beta
FIX: Crash while decoding html entities that are at the end of the html content

0.2.6.1 Beta
FIX: Addtion spaces at the begining of a line
FIX: Results from LyricsPlugin always shows "<found>" even they are empty
FIX: "Configruation" grayed out after used once

0.2.6 Beta
ADD: New provider for lyricsplugin.com
CHG: Minor cleanups

0.2.5 Beta
FIX: Lyric could not get from lyricwiki.org due to case mismatch

0.2.4 Beta
ADD: New option for skipping updating file whose tag already exists
FIX: Cannot parse lyrics in multi chapter
FIX: Some lyrics cannot be parsed due to incorrect regular expression


0.2.3 Beta
FIX: Quick fix for lyric parsing

0.2.2 Beta
FIX: Quick fix for new lyricwiki.org site

0.2.1 Beta
FIX: Crashes when there is special character

0.2.0 Beta
ADD: In preview window, press "DELETE" key to remove selected items
ADD: Configruation window.
ADD: Lyric tag field name setting
ADD: Proxy setting (http, socks4, socks5)
FIX: Improved handling for lyric with sub-titles
FIX: Improved html tags & entities decoder
CHG: Various internal changes

0.1.6 Preview
FIX: LYRICS tag didn't have correct newline characters
FIX: LYRICS tag wirtten even if no lyrics found(null tag)
CHG: Some UI improvements

0.1.5 Preview
ADD: GUI for preview lyrics
FIX: Some glitches while updating tags

0.1.0 Preview
initial release

License
Released under MIT License

Credits
Thanks kanak for introducing lyricwiki

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This post has been edited by T.P Wang: Dec 24 2008, 13:29

[q-stankovic]

Why not use a tagging component ? Well, because it's impossible when you have separate lyrics files instead of embedded lyrics : how would you know exactly which of all my 25.000 music files have separate lyrics files if you don't set up previously a tag that says "Yes, this file has a separate lyrics file" ?

I am a little bit confused - if your tracks already contain lyrics as textfiles you must download them again to get your desired tag. Or are you planning to download all the lyrics for all 25000 tracks with one click?

This option is useless for those like you who have embedded lyrics. But it's very useful (I'd even say mandatory) for those like me who want to have separate lyrics files (until the blessed day when foobar will be able to handle the "Excluded search fields" in its advanced prefs tongue.gif ).

As i said lyricsfiles are a reasonable feature i was thinking about watching them outside of foobar in explorer/editor. Your initial point is a missing feature inside of foobar wich induced you to request a totally other feature in an special component. Your request shows how a fullfilled request (textfiles) causes an avalanche of new feature and option requests although the origin problem could be solved without any user interaction or option.

P.S. : if we want to keep prefs simple, then this option could be automatically enabled when the option "store lyrics in a separate file" is enabled. So in the prefs there would be only a single visible option "store lyrics in a separate file" and we would have this operatory mode :
- Embedded lyrics => lyrics stored in a %lyrics% tag AND NO %found lyrics% tag
- Separate lyrics files => lyrics stored in a separate file AND %found lyrics% tag automatically enabled
Would that be simple enough for you q-stankovic ?

Please don't get me wrong: I understand why you would like to have that feature. I even believe that it can make sense to have opportunity thatt foobar tells us if a track is mapped to a cover picture or lyrics file - that could be done by foobar. But please see that in your suggestion for lyrics_grabber every option of that kind forces new users to bother with its full meaning and that in that sense just 2 or 3 feature/options more of that style will result in breaking the promise to develop a simple and clean component. But finally it is up to T.P. Wang to write what he think is senseful.

By the way: You are an user of DUI? How will you display your lyrics then?

This post has been edited by q-stankovic: Dec 12 2008, 13:51

[foorious]

q-stankovic... I understand you are feeling concerned, but please understand one thing : what's a bit boring with you is that when you don't understand something, you are always requesting for more and more information and you are making endless posts simply because you don't know about (for example here) the details of my own config. So now I'm being forced to explain them to you, which will take me some time, and that is a bit boring because right now I'm focused on the implementation of that tiny new feature by T.P Wang, and not on going off-topic by explaining publicly the details of my config. I hope you undersand this.

So here are my answers, and I really hope you won't question me again :

I am a little bit confused - if your tracks already contain lyrics as textfiles you must download them again to get your desired tag. Or are you planning to download all the lyrics for all 25000 tracks with one click?

None of my tracks (excepted some test files) have lyrics. I'm waiting for a component like Lyrics Grabber to be "mature enough" in order to start downloading them. And yes, I'm intending do do that in batch-mode if possible (although maybe not for 25.000 tracks at once).

As i said lyricsfiles are a reasonable feature i was thinking about watching them outside of foobar in explorer/editor. Your initial point is a missing feature inside of foobar wich induced you to request a totally other feature in an special component.

In no way I would want to watch separate lyrics files outside foobar ! All separate lyrics files will be accessed within foobar of course. How ? Read on.

I even believe that it can make sense to have opportunity thatt foobar tells us if a track is mapped to a cover picture or lyrics file

We're not talking about mapping here. We're only talking about saving a lyrics file and writing a tag that says "Yes, this track has a separate lyrics file". That's all, period.

By the way: You are an user of DUI? How will you display your lyrics then?

I have already said that in this topic. I'm using the excellent Lyric Show Panel (with Dockable Panels) and a keyboard shortcut to make it appear / disappear. It works great with DUI, no problems so far.

This post has been edited by foorious: Dec 13 2008, 14:06