brunods

very nice

smartn

as i sort the artists alphabetically by their last name, i’d REALLY love to see lyricmaster find the lyrics for “johnson, jack – on and on” – as it already does for “jack johnson – on and on”.
generally spoken: ignore punctiation, show hits that match any combination of the searchterms. that would make lyricmaster better than any add-on for any other mediaplayer.
thanks!
smartn

smartn

great piece of work, but i’d love to see the lyrics search improved: as i sort my music by the artist’s last name (so the structure is ‘last name, first name’ or ‘band name, the’ etc.) i don’t get any results for the lyric search; if there was an option to display hits that match any combination of the search terms (regardless of punctuation and order of these terms), this add-on would be awesome!
thanks
smartn

smartn

ups – sorry for the doubling…

liltrix

this doesnt work in my version of song bird :(
im using 0.6.1

benhparry

Firstly, thanks for a great add on, works fine for me so far, grabs all the lyrics from the songs I’ve thrown at it. However, I stupidly right clicked the panel and closed it, and now I can’t get the LyricMaster panel to show again. I know there is going to be a stupidly easy way to get it back, but my silly brain can’t find an option. Please help. x

benhparry

Fixed it now: View > Show Right Side Bar
Knew it would be simple. :( x

gengnom

Great add-on so far.

The sidebar doesn't adjust in to height of the window. I have a resolution of 1024x768. But I have to scroll to see the bottom of the text box and then again with the inner scroll bar to see all the content.

stevel

Awesome, nice job. :) Super cool to have lyrics available separately.

ALU

very nice work ;)

but there is a bug if there is no lyric found.
the yellow bar appears on the top but its cut from the lyricsbox.

by the way there is one thing I miss... the option to send lyrics to the database

Greetz ALU

kt_leohart

Very nice works. I like the color choice very much. Certainly, being able to send lyrics to the database will be a nice addition.

Brendy

great add on but i didn't know that clicking the yes button meant that it saved it to the database and went and clicked yes to almost every song i've played so far and now only the songs that i clicked yes to have lyrics displayed. how exactly do i undo this so it searches the internet and retrieves lyrics to my songs?

awkwardsmile

i'm not sure if it's my computer etc but i don't see lyrics appearing at the side for this plugin as well as for the other lyrics plugin. help? did install any other plug in cause this lyrics plug in not to work? i dont even see the error messages popping up

ashre

If possible, you should try to get this to work with minilyrics, or else adapt their thing. Synched lyrics are officially awesome.

atreiu

Thanks for this great add-on! I can't wait for updates :-)
The feature I'm missing the most:
- dynamic-resize of the lyrics-editbox to use the whole space of the sidebar...
- option for font-size (currently way to small for me)
- save lyrics to the mp3-files.

szman86

synced lyrics would be sweet. Also I was wondering if you could make it auto-save. Thanks

maxmaronna

Great add-on! But....Where are saved the lyrics?

Nice job rcw2003!

max

neelance

Nice add-on. Also one feature request: It would be really great if it could automatically update when a webstream sends new title information. Thanks.

golvin

Nice and handy one! I like it. However, it has a problem getting lyrics for songs with Chinese title. It works fine for Chinese songs in English titles, though. I presume it also happens to other languages that does not use the western characters. Please fix this so more people can enjoy this plugin. =) Thanks a lot for the plugin.

Cloonix

Works great. Thank you.

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SB0.7.0

Tuche

Would be it possible to implement Lyric searching while listening to Radio ? (Shoutcast)

I think the problem is that it reads the radio name(Stream Name) instead of reading the comments(Radio Comments) where the artist/song name is displayed !

Brendy

this is in my top 2 favourite add ons! other than the Now playing list add on, this is the most useful add on in songbird. the new update is fantastic! keep up the good work

stevel

Fantastic add-on... this is the add-on that has made me decide to drop lyrics from the next version of mashTape, cause this just does it better in every possible way. Nice work. :)

atreiu

Really, really, REALLY great update! :-D

Can I send you a display-scheme to fit my feathers (YABS)?

komi

Wow - the styles are great!

There's a class (.generic-bar) that we've been using if you want to add that to your list of styles (the shoutcast add-on uses it for the box that holds the logo and filter text input box)

nicolaluna

hi rcw003 et all,

i downloaded this and i can't find it anywhere.... where is it? i've tried looking in rubberducky and gonzo.... i looked at the screenshots but it just doesn't show up like that....

thanks!

atreiu

@rcw003: you got email :-) .css and background-image in it.

nicolaluna

found it. thank you very much, this looks like just what i wanted! nice add-on!

atreiu

THANKS! =)

nicolaluna

ok, i have a second question. i'm listening to a cd and lyricmaster downloaded faulty lyrics for a song. the song is led zeppelin's "in my time of dying" which definitely has words, but all lyricmaster says is "led zeppelin lyrics." all the rest of the songs pull the correct lyrics just fine, so i know it works.

how do i delete the field so that it can try again to pull up the correct lyrics? i don't see a way to do this, is it a permanent error?

thanks again!

Maxo

I would really like to see the ability to edit the lyrics and change the search query. I save named like "The Beatles" as "Beatles, The" and this prevents the plugin from finding lyrics to many songs. Other times the lyrics are off or formatted poorly and I would like to edit it.
Thanks for listening.

voxel486

LyricMaster saved the wrong lyrics for one of my songs, how do i remove it and point Lyric Master to the correct one, that i recently put on LyricWiki?

washboardplayer

This is almost the single reason to ditch iTunes and jump on the songbird bandwagon. Sweet!

boris

@rcw003
Filed by Brett on GetSatisfaction:

"How do I delete lyrics if I accidentally saved the wrong ones?"

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyrics_pane?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification

The same question I see here from voxe1486.
Is there a separate db file which can be deleted/modified?

"If you don't want your files and database out of sync. Please do not hit the YES button when it asks you to save!"
What if someone did hit YES accidentally or want to change to another lyrics later?

awkwardsmile

this doesn't save to the "lyrics" portion but the "comments" segment of the metadata right? because when i "save" the lyrics as prompted and i try to "open" it on my ipod but nothing shows up. help?

alest

Why plugin doesn't show lyrics from shoutcast? When I listen the same station on winamp I have lyrics... Don't know if this problem is caused by this plugin or shoutcast.

alest

It seems that plugin tries searching by the station name, not by the title of the song.

alest

Sons Too Much Of A Good Thing lyrics - search string from winamp
lyrics "RadioTUT" by "Sons - Too Much Of A Good Thing" - search string by this plugin

alest

Ok, thank you.
Just one more thing about lyrics from shoutcast. This addon doesn't reload title information from the stream. Radio casts another song but I see title of the first one, that was played when I pushed play button.

leoperbo

I have a workaround for the question: "How do I delete lyrics if I accidentally saved the wrong ones?"

Just delete the songs that has been played since the option "Save alwas" has been activated, then, look again for your media, play it, and enjoy the correct lyrics.

The bad news are: you will lost metada that is not saved in the song-file.

leoperbo

Ups! with "delete the songs" I refer to delete them from the Songbird's Music Library, not from file system.

3kornepenal

great addon, just what i needed. thx!

pedroducos

Hello!

Great addon I use it pretty much ALWAYS. That's why I stumbled into a little bug. It seems that when you get an error while fetching the lyrics you open too many sql connectors to the lyrics wiki server and the plugins displays the error. It would seem important to me that those errors come back as no lyrics found instead of showing the error on the lyrics pane. This is what i got while retrieving several songs from an album called "Fantasia O Realidad" from artist "Alex Ubago".

----SQL error----
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/server.php on line 161

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/server.php on line 162

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/server.php on line 1389

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/html/lyricwiki.org/server.php on line 1516
Not found
----SQL error----

This is the only almbum so far that i got this problem with.

On a lighter note, have you considered using the eyeD3 library to embedd the lyrics into the file. Its a linux package and I beleve it can also be installed in windows, not so sure about mac.

haberlah

this is the future of music and the killer feature over itunes if you ask me. however, i'd love to read the lyrics on my ipod for which i would need to save them in the metatag of the song. any idea?

slowness

how can I save the lyrics I find from internet , there is no text input anything. also save lyrics into mp3 file would be great.

cellarmation

I think if you are already playing a song and dont have this panel open, then open it, it doesnt check for meta data for the currently playing song. Would be handy if you could add a check there for people who like to switch around there panels. Awesome addon thanks.

atreiu

Wooo yah! Last update is great! Especially the ability for feather-developers to create a css is perfect! I wish more add-on developers would add this feature. I hope some will follow your example! Thanks a lot!

atreiu

@rcw003

You can know delete the YABS style from your list. I put the lyricmaster.css in the last update of my skin, an additional Style could be confusing... Thanks!

fcastillo

there is a bug in the new version of this bug. It's ment to write the lyrics to the ID3 of the file with the latest nightly build of Songbird, but it doesn't. Even the batch process doesn't does this. But, the info is saved in the database, and to make it saved on the ID3 tag, the metadata has to be edited, in other words, if the lyrics have been saved, to actually save them inside the ID3, the lyrics have to be edited from the lyrics tab in the metadata, at least a letter erase, and then the lyrics is saved inside the ID3. I hope you can fix this, this is an awesome add-on

FilmFollower18

Hey, I know this is probably very obvious but bare with me. So i just downloaded this add-on, and wanted to hide it for a few moments. But after hiding it, I can't seem to find how to bring it back up. Any help would be sweet.

tacticalbread

so, either I'm an unobservant idiot, or this add-on has compatibility issues with Linux, because the only thing I can seem to do, is view lyrics. when I go to the Metadata editor, there is no lyrics tab, and I can't find anything relating to LyricMaster, except for the options.

tacticalbread

I just noticed the window in the screenshots looks exactly like my Emerald theme.

I must be an unobservant idiot. -_-

lonbluster

I agree with Tuche, please ad support for songs on Radio

I love this pluging

Kisses

tacticalbread

I'm using Songbird 0.7.0, on Ubuntu. when I tested it I was 8.04, and now I'm on 8.10.

is there a newer Songbird version?

GeekShadow

@rcw003
can you set minVersion to 1.0.0rc1 at least ?

snorgplat

When LyricMaster is unable to find Lyrics, I like that it gives you a link to a google search, is there any way that I can add the lyrics so that it can find them next time?

xplosneer

With the release of 1.0RC1, lyricsmaster seems to "squash" the lines together instead of separating them as before, making one gigantic paragraph. Eye strain! In addition, it does this:
"I heard this old story beforeWhere the people keep on killing for the metaphorsBut don't leave much up to the imaginationSo I wanna give this imagery backBut...." See how where there used to be line gaps, now the words are actually pushed together because there was no space added?.... Alright, enough with the whining. That's the problem I'm getting.

xplosneer

**Edit**: I have found this problem is only occurring with lyrics that have been saved *before* the switch to 1.0RC1. I bet this could be solved by deleting the previously saved lyrics. If it can be solved on your end go ahead, but I will start re-retrieving them now myself, but just for the heads up.

xplosneer

Confirmed: Reentering the lyrics solves the problem

jeremys18

this is worthless! im removing this. it doesnt allow me to add lyrics when it cant find any and when it does find them, the're the wrong words!

there's no point to have this when it gives me the wrong words.

mettkea

With the 1.5.1 release using 1.0 RC1 on Windows, the add-on is not able to fetch lyrics embedded in the id3 (USLT section of the id3 tag). However, the same MP3 using the linux version of Songbird is able to read the embedded lyrics.

xplosneer

Jeremys18 - Actually, it does. Right click the song you want to change the lyrics of, or shift-click to select many. Then click "Edit Metadata" and go to the lyrics tab. Insert your lyrics, and press ok...

Cairsten

I'm having a problem, I'm afraid -- when I right-click a song, and choose to edit metadata, there *is* no lyrics tab. Here's a screenshot. I've tried changing the feather back to the default, with no effect. Am I missing something? Or is there maybe a key combination that would bring up this so-elusive lyrics tab? I'd really like to be able to correct and add lyrics.

eyeverve

This really is a great extension, rcw003. Thanks!

My question for you: I have some obscure artists that don't have lyrics available. I realize their lyrics could be added by me to the metadata file, but I would like for their lyrics to also be available to other people. So, where is the database that you pull lyrics from and how can I add to that database? Thanks!

tshack

Having the same problem as Cairsten: No Lyricstab in Editor.
I use Songbird 0.7.0 and Lyricsmaster 1.3.0.1 under Ubuntu which are IMO the most recent versions available.

Erickejah

It would be great if it work with shout cast

Wr4tH

The plugin won't extract lyrics from metadata nor save lyrics to them for m4a files.

Wr4tH

I forgot to say that it worked fine for mp3, thanks.

Lakrits

Hi,

I think I have found a bug. Every time a song changes, the program opens and focuses on the Songbird window. At first I thought I had isolated this problem to SongSnarl, but a recheck today concluded that it's LyricMaster (I disabled the add-ons and ran them one by one). It's pretty annoying when you e.g. are writing an article in Word and the usually minimized Songbird window pops up every three minutes or so. Please tend to this bug, otherwise it's a great add-on :)

hi9

[I've noticed the same issue as Lakrits.]

This add-on is the main reason I'm now using Songbird as my main media player. Having them save-able, editable, displayed in a right column where both they and the main library list are shown side-by-side--all of this makes so much sense.

I also love the new icon indicating which songs already have saved lyrics; smart!

I'm thankful that you keep fine tuning features, creating new ones, and in general making yours the single most useful add-on in Songbird!

Great job man!

Lakrits

@rcw003: Yep, it was the notifications by LyricMaster that caused the pop-ups.

hi9

Okay, I turned off notifications. I'll try to report back in the next day or two.

Olivia_Lovag

Hi!!
I aprecciate the LyricMaster enhancements very much, thank you!!
I'm having a problem with the text formatting though (no tabs/paragraphs, etc). This is what it looks like:

It only happens when the lyric is authomatically fetched from the web. If i right click in order to edit the metadata, and choose to fetch the lyric from the lyricMaster tab, the text config will be just fine.
Maybe it has something to do with the "none" style thing.
Also, i'd like to know where is lyricmaster.css file alocated so that i could edit my own personal style.
thankx in advance

Olivia_Lovag

"Also, i'd like to know where is lyricmaster.css file alocated so that i could edit my own personal style."

--> i mean is it possible to do that?? (without having nothing to do with the feather at all - what if i just wanted my own style sheet added to the list?)

Olivia_Lovag

lyricwiki, SB 1.0 RC2, 1.6.0.0, Vista Ultimate, Always save/Never ask;
I'm not a feather developer and i don't even know code, but i just thought it would be cool if could add my own style sheet ( but if that meant messing with the feather code, then it would be a no hehe. i dont' speak "codeish", only css...)

Olivia_Lovag

On another note, feather development is 90% css development :)

Aw Seriously? I thought it was like rocket science or something... :-D
I'll definetely give it a try later!!
Thank you!

tshack

Hi rcw003

I've found a strange behavior: (have SB 1.0RC3 and LM 0.6.0.0 on a Ubuntu 8.10 64bit)

If a song terminates and the next one starts, the plugin works as expected. When I doubleclick a song or click "next" to start a song LyricMaster displays the "nothing play" text.

Thanks for developping such a great feature!

tshack

Have a screenshot for you as well ;-)

http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lmye8.png

ZSchrink

OK, I think I may have found a serious bug, but first, let me THANK YOU so much for making this extension. I learned of and installed Songbird just 2 days ago and went through and fixed up most of my metadata (10,000+ songs, pshew...) Then, yesterday, I stumbled upon this extension. Needless to say, it makes this the best media player/music manager/metadata editor. It just makes it feel complete! If this extension was not here, I would have only used Songbird to fix up my metadata. So congrats are in order. So now to my 'critiques'.

The serious bug I found. It occurs when I highlight text in the LyricMaster pane to copy it, but leave the text highlighted. The song will end and try to proceed to the next song, but hangup, completely locking Songbird up. I actually found this error while writing a post about 20 minutes ago.

On the topic of highlighting and copying text from the lyrics pane. I know that I can highlight all the text I want and press control+c, but is there a way that you could add a right-click feature that would utilize functions such as 'select all', 'copy text', and anything that you think would be important (like maybe reload lyrics just in case it loaded the wrong ones or the metadata has the wrong ones).

Also, if there was a way that we could change text sizes and fonts in the options, that would be icing on the cake. Being able to select sizes for 'song name', 'artist', and for 'album' would be great as well. On that thought, having the option to select which categories get displayed above the lyrics would be quite useful since Songbird already displays the same data just above the song progress bar (I'm a stickler for redundant data, it just makes it seem more cluttered that what it actually is).

The next is just a question. I read all of the posts before posting, to see what people have said so I didn't become a redundant and therefore useless post. Well, I read that there is supposed to be an icon by songs that have lyrics already downloaded and saved. I know that a good deal of certain songs have lyrics (thanks totally to your extension), but I don't see any icon. Not really a major problem, but thought you may want to know.

Lastly, I am glad to see that 'tshack' was having the same problem that I was, I suppose that I will wait until the next update.

I have Songbird 1.0.0rc3, Build 856 (20081120214438) with LyricMaster 1.6.0.0 running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3

I want to end by saying that I am not a programmer, so I don't know if any of these changes can be included in future releases, but I figure that its worth a try to give you suggestions to help you polish an already great extension.

Thanks for your time and I apologize for such a long post! Keep up the AMAZING work!

ZSchrink

UPDATE - I found out how to get the icon. I just had my side bar pulled over too far and it covered up the 'lyrics' category.

Lukas_Skywalker

Highlighting the text and proceeding to the next song works fine on my machine: WinXP Home SP3, Songbird 1.0.0rc3, Build 856 (20081120214438). Maybe it's just on your PC, ZSchrink?
Nice Addon, though! The only one i had installed without interruption.

seba_kerckhof

I got an annoying bug since version 1.6:
When a song changes automatic (because the previous song has ended) then it displays the lyric. Otherwise, if a song is played because of my interaction (double clicking a song, skipping a song, ...) then it states 'nothing playing'...

I have songbird 1.0.0 rc3 and the latest version of lyricmaster

viper.kabir

I am having the same problem as seba with songbird 1.0.0rc3 and LyricMaster 1.6.0.0. Moreover, the whole GUI hangs up if I change multiple songs by double clicking in quick succession.

viper.kabir

One more thing, if I switch to another display pane and come back to lyric master it shows the lyrics again.

However, apparently the bug, as rcw003 mentioned, will be fixed in songbird 1.0.0rc4.

ZSchrink

It could just be my machine, regarding the freezing up problem. Yesterday I repeated it three times in a row, but now I can't get it to do it AT ALL. So, I'm not sure what happened. My best guess is that the virus scan I did this morning and the subsequent reboot had something to do with fixing it. Not sure.

shufan

I've run into a problem on RC3, so I don't know if it holds true for older builds of Songbird. It works flawlessly if I let songs play fully, and the lyrics will load as soon as one song ends and the next song begins, as it should. However, if I do not finish listening to the current song and instead click next or choose a new song midway through the current song LyricsMaster shows "Nothing playing". I have to hide LyricsMaster and make it reshow in order to have it display the lyrics of the new song I have chosen, when it really should be showing the lyrics of the new song without me having to do that. Any idea what could be the problem, whether it is a problem isolated to my Songbird, and whether this happened on older builds of Songbird?

shufan

I saw just now that the bug I just posted has already been mentioned above, woops. Sorry. Anyways, I guess I'm just another case of the same bug.

hi9

Regarding the issue I previously wrote about, I implemented your suggestions and that fixed the problem for me. Thanks! :)

flameo993

Ya, I'm having the same bug as Shufan. It's kinda annoying, but I'm patient, so fix it when you can plz ;)

flameo993

The workaround I found is to just drag the progress bar at the bottom to the end instead of clicking next track.

xplosneer

@Olivia- I had a similar problem when I upgraded to RC1(check above your post in the comments). The fix is to simply delete and refetch all the lyrics, but it's easy, just use the group feature under Edit Metadata.

@rcw003- Was having a similar problem with the "Nothing Playing" text. Thanks for the heads up, I'll just live with it until RC4.

XCrunner

Hey. There is a little bug in lyricmaster. When a song doesn't have a album it come up as null in the lyrics. Thanks. I love this add-on.

coke

I figured out a way to fix the "nothing playing" problem mentioned by Seba, viper and shufan.

After you select a new song (by double-clicking or clicking next or what have you) if you collapse the LyricMaster pane and bring it back up with the correct lyrics It's pretty easy to do if you use the little arrow on the bottom-right of the pane.

MikeHarris

It looks like LyricMaster will not search for lyrics embedded in MP3 files' metadata. I installed Songbird (1.0 RC3, then upgraded today to 1.0.0) on my computer at work, which has no music files on its hard drive and therefore has an empty Songbird library. When I go to work, I connect my iPod to the computer, launch Songbird, and wait for Songbird to mount the device. Then I go to a playlist on the iPod (under the iPod node in Songbird) and have Songbird play song files directly from the iPod (all MP3 files, most with lyrics embedded in id3v2 metadata).

Today I installed the LyricMaster 1.6.0.0 add-on, and was surprised that it wasn't displaying the lyrics embedded in any of the MP3 files -- just song title, artist, and album. After a bit of time, LyricMaster then displayed lyrics it had retrieved from LyricsPlugin.com or LyricWiki.org (with a button allowing me to save them).

I would suggest you modify LyricMaster so that, when lyrics are missing from the Songbird database, it first search the song file's metadata for lyrics. If no lyrics are found there, then it should go to the Internet databases to search for them.

c.nano98

Wow - I love this addon, well done!

One problem though... When I click yes to save lyrics to id3, there is a stuttering in the song, or sometimes even locks up completely with static. Perhaps you can alter the way it stores the lyrics to not interfere with playback.

jigarshah

Excellent Addon. Few Suggestion / Enhancement.
- Now since You display icon in lyrics column, Can we add this option to smart playlist drop-dwn. So i can query "Lyrics is not '' " ")

Some status icon which notifies lyrics is present (Icon available) / Lyrics available online (icon blinking). bcos most of time my mp3s are lyrics less so don't keep sidebar on. So if such status bar icons are there, i can click to open sidebar / panel.

atreiu

Thanks a lot for your last update! :-)

One thing is still bothering me: If the feather has a LyricMaster-skin, it is not automatically selected, when I installed this feather. LyricMaster should 1.) check if the user already has set a LM-Skin for this feather, then 2.) check if a lyricsmaster.css is available for this feather, and only if both are false, then it should 3.) select the [no skin] options and use the html.css.

cmlenz

Would be nice if this transparently fell back to lyricswiki.org (or other sites) if no lyrics are found on lyricsplugin.com.

bt4wang

Is this addon going to support .lrc files?

patoruso

PLEASE add .lrc support, i'd really appreciate and it would be great.

koffeinoverdos

Wonderful addon. However, can you adjust it so it stops hijacking the playlists with its lyric markers column? I can uncheck it but it just comes back the next time i start up songbird and it is very annoying.

And maybe adding the ability to control the text font/color/size would be cool, because the current text size is too big for my taste, and i have to make songbird way too wide in order to be able to make the lyrics look correctly formatted.

Fantastic addon though. very handy.

Olivia_Lovag

Hi again!

Thanks for updating.

I'm still having trouble with the lyrics text formatting. But since no one else seems to have that same problem, i believe it must be something with my computer specifically. In case i find out anything new i'll let you know (it's a minor problem, anyways).

I just had an idea about a new add-on, based on LyricMaster. Only it would retrieve guitar tablatures instead of lyrics. Something like "TablatureMaster". I don't play any instrument myself, but my Dad has a band, and from watching him looking for tabs all the time i thought that might be something users would aprecciate; and i guess it' would be quite an original add-on because, i might be wrong, but i don't think something like it was ever made.
So... What do you think? Is it possible? Hopefully
:-)
Cheers
Olivia

sammyhellsyea

I installed Lyric Master and it shows up as an option in the notifications but I can't get any lyrics. I went into options and set them as needed but when I click the retrieve lyrics for all the songs in your library button, it doesnt work. Any ideas???

crc

I've just upgraded to 1.0.0 and installed LyricMaster 1.6.1.0 for the first time. LyricMaster is showing no lyrics found. Below the "No Lyrics Found" / Web Search box, the song title is listed, then "untitled" followed by the Artist. The last line shows the album name.

Here's a specific example:

One
undefined U2
Achtung Baby

Any ideas? Thanks!

crc

As a followup, if I click the Web Search box, Google opens and finds no lyrics. Here's what's in the search box:

lyrics "One" by "undefined U2"

mettkea

I'm still not able to display lyrics embedded in the MP3 (USLT section of the ID3 tag) using Windows, however the tag displays fine in Ubuntu... I'm running releast 1.0 of Songbird and 1.6.1 or lyricsmaster.

jorfermo

One more vote for supporting lrc files and embedded lyrics on ID3 tags.

Good work!!

wrightak

I don't think this supports lyrics in complex script languages. Please support searches in UTF-8. I have Japanese songs whose lyrics exist on lyricswiki but aren't found by the plugin.

ben1021

Doesn't work with French Language -> "Parser error"

[JavaScript Error: undefined entity {file: "chrome://lyricmaster/content/options.xul" line: 98 column: 1 source: "< button flex="1" label= &Iyricmaster.prefs.scanlib;" oncommand= LM _scanLibSet();" />"}]


Clownmite

Can you add an option to change the font size?

ADC

Hi, Your add-on is fantastic really, however I think there's a problem with your latest version. I'm on Ubunto 8.10 and Songbird 1.0.0 and the add on just stopped searching lyrics when I upgraded. I had to downgrade and now everything is good again. Anyways, great job again.

uiyaca

que buen complemento (add-on), muy chevere... GrAciaS

awkwardsmile

is it possible to save the lyrics and when used in ipod, the lyrics would show up? because mine can't :(

pilpi

Hi,
Posted a comment about LyricMaster at getsatisfaction:

It should be possible to listen to the songs in LyricMaster Aggregator to confirm the lyrics are correct.

I do not want to risk putting faulty lyrics in my DB and thus "contaminating" the files.

LyricMaster Aggregator rocks, never seen something like that before. And the results seem reliable at first glance! However, to make sure, it should have controls for playing each of the songs that lyrics were found for, to confirm the lyrics before saving (I selected all my library to fetch lyrics for).

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/it_should_be_possible_to_listen_the_songs_lyricmaster_aggregator_to_confirm_the_lyrics?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification

crc

@rcw003 Regarding the "no lyrics found" / "undefined" error, my entire collection is tagged with ID3v1.1, with no non-standard, english characters. I thought it might be a ID3v1.x tagging issue, so I tagged a test file with ID3v2.x, and the same "undefined" line pops up with "no lyrics found". Which of the tag fields does LyricMaster base its search on? Could I just be missing an appropriate field?

Thanks!

Paynie

Is it possible to make the addon retrieve lyrics for songs who are badly named / no metadata? For example aerosmith & run dmc - walk this way.mp3, this would not give a result with the addon.

It's a great addon ^btw ^^

goldfire

Just a reminder that the focus-stealing issue with notifications reported by Lakrits and hi9 a little while ago is still present and still a bit annoying. However, I feel compelled to add that this is the only problem I have seen with this add-on and it isn't even close to enough to make me stop using it or recommending it (or even to make me turn off notifications to make it stop); you've done a brilliant job, please keep up the good work.

grampybone

I'd like to see in the future something that would let me translate lyrics into my language, either automatically or manually with some kind of context option/button. (Perhaps an option to toggle between automatic and manual translation in the preferences dialog.)

shanesterb

A majority of my songs are titled similarly to "Watch Out (feat. Akon, Styles P, Fat Joe, Rick Ross)." LyricMaster will not find the lyrics for most songs in this format unless I remove the (feat. Akon, Styles P, Fat Joe, Rick Ross) from the title of the song. Is there anyway the search can be less strict to allow titles like this to return the intended lyrics?

washboardplayer

This is a great add-on, however there is a bug that I continually run into regarding saving the lyrics. Whenever the option to save lyrics pops up and I click it, it kills the song I am currently playing and skips onto the next. My library consists mostly of FLAC encoded music and I presume it is an issue that arises from reading and writing the same file. This is on songbird 1.0 in Vista 64.

Otherwise, great little addon.

ruipenunes

Hello!

Thanks for your fantastic work on this add-on.

Though the excellent work, there's one thing that's bugging me: the font size. I couldn't agree more with koffeinoverdos: "the current text size is too big for my taste, and i have to make songbird way too wide in order to be able to make the lyrics look correctly formatted."

Thanks again!

Xylo

Think it was better before the songbird update. The text was divided but now it's just one big text and it is kinda difficult to both read and see the text.

pluss it should have other colours than black cause i can't use the feathers with black background.

federtanz

I just wanted to state the same thing Xylo did. The Feather of my Songbird is black - at first I thought the lyricsmaster didn't work until I came up with Strg+a.. It'd be great, if one could change the font colour.

Jaydub2000

Lyricmaster only works if it is open before the song starts playing. If the song is playing, then I open lyricmaster (as I often do if I am curious about what someone is saying), the lyrics pane is blank ("refresh lyrics" doesn't work). Am I doing something wrong or is it normal to have to hit the back arrow key to restart the song just to see the lyrics for it?

1.0 on XP

Anearion

Like the app just one suggestion? Maybe an auto-scroller to move down the page at a set speed so whole set of lyrics can be seen over course of song. The speed could be user changable. They have something exactly like this on ultimate-guitar.com for guitar tabs.

I suppose u may even be able to do something fancy and have it look at the length of the song and scroll at a speed which will show all of the lyrics in the song period. I dont know anything about programming just an idea :)

atreiu

The manually loading ("refresh Lyrics") does not work, if I started playing the song before i opened the Lyrics-Pane. Sadly, that's my most common use: I'm listening to songs, then i wonder about the lyrics and want to take a look at it. I open the LyricMaster-pane and ... nothing is displayed :-( And there is no way to receive the lyrics, now. The only thing I can do is, to leave the pane open and to restart the song. Then LyricMaster get the lyrics. Please change this behaviour, it is really annoying! It would be nice, if I could receive the lyrics for the currently played song just by opening the pane, without the need to restart the song (and, if possible, without additional clicks).

Thanks a lot for this great add-on!

fcastillo

I have the same problem as atreiu and in addition to that bug, when you're listening to a song and hide the pane and then show it again, nothing is shown, and the refresh option from the right click menu doesn't work. I have to leave the pane open and re-start the song. It's really annoying, really...
Another thing I suggest is that in the right click menu, there should be an option to change from servers. Sometimes lyrics are not found in one server, and going all the way to the preferences of the add-on to change the servers is annoying too. An option in the right click menu that change the servers and auto refreshes to show the new result from the new server would be really nice.

fcastillo

oh, another thing.... the pane should hide automatically when a new tab is open to browse. Exactly as the mashTape add-on does. It hides when it's switch to another tab, and when you go to the library, it's brought back up

boris

@rcw003

There is bug filed for this add-on in our Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14287
Create an account in Bugzilla, if you don't have one and accept the bug, please.

Thanks.
Boris.

boris

@rcw003

There is another bug filed for this add-on in our Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14288
Create an account in Bugzilla, if you don't have one and accept the bug, please.

Thanks.
Boris.

mattargyle

I'd love it if lyricmaster could also search for guitar/piano chords and tablature. It wouldn't be a far jump at all from from lyricmaster already is.

tonificante

I read that there will not be support for .lrc files in this plugin.

I find this feature really, REALLY interesting, because I have a (cheap) mp3 player that can read these files, so I can watch the lyrics of any song wherever I go! This is specially great when you are learning new languages :)

So, I was thinking of something like, after playing the songs in computer, I could search in a cache folder to retrieve the .lrc files and copy them to my mp3 player.

RCW003, do you know any valid songbird plugin for this? In windows the application for this is "minilyrics". Does somebody know how to make it work under Linux?

At the moment I only found an application for audacious (Lyriczilla), but it doesn't retrieve many songs, just the most famous ones (and very few german songs).

Thanks in advance.
Antonio.

Olivia_Lovag

I found this sites that seemed very good as tabs resources (amongst hundreds of):
www.ultimate-guitar.com
www.tabs-database.com

jexi

Well, what's this I asks... itunes rip or what ... well let's see if it will do better than ripoff itunes...

mmm72392

This is a great add on, but I would love to see it included in Mashtape.

V3NOM

Hey, i have a question.
The lyric master plugins displays an option to save the lyric??
But where is it stored??? i can't find it anywhere?

Thx for the ans!

ADC

that bug I told a couple of weeks ago (LyricsMaster stopped retrieving lyrics) just stopped. Now everything is good.

May I suggest that this plugin search on both websites (lyricwiki and lyricsplugin) instead of having to choose from either one of them because sometimes there are lyrics in one that there are not on the other.

Thanks again. Your plugin is already one of the greatest.

Bertel

Hi there!
I really like this plugin, but it doesn't work with shoutcast-streams. When I listen to an internet radio it tries to find lyrics for the radio itself, not for the song thats playing.
It'd be really nice if someone would fix this.
Thanks
Bertel

Steve123458

@Bertel:

Are you sure?

I have been using this add-on and it displays lyrics of the song on SHOUTcast Radio.

For me works fine.

WallnutBoy

This is a great add on. The only thing I could ask for is if you could make it automatically scroll to the top of the lyrics when a new song is played. I scroll down to read the lyrics whilst listening to the song, then the next song comes on and I have to scroll up manually.

It isn't anything big, I know, and it's just me being lazy, but it might be something you could take into consideration. =]

svejk

Excellent addon, but do you know how to make it work with the YABS feather? I saw YABS mentioned in a previous comment, but it wasn't clear what I would need to do.

Thanks =)
Tristan

Gizmokid2005

Awesome add-on. I have one thing that may/maynot be something you can fix (and I tried to go through all the comments to find it, but I couldn't by just scanning).

When you are in mini-player and open up to main-player the lyricsmaster sidebar is empty until you change songs. Something that can be fixed?

Thanks
-Michael

keoshi

i can't read saved lyrics on my ipod :(

Si esto se arregla me cambio para siempre de itunes a songbird.

If this is fixed, I will switch forever from itunes to songbird (google translation)

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/scrolling_lyrics

Scrolling lyrics?
Could the lyric master plugin that comes with Songbird have support for scrolling lyrics? If the lyrics were grabbed from lyricwiki I'm sure markup like [1:20]lyrics[/1:26] could be used to describe what point a song those lyrics occur.

movez

Any news about bug 14287 (the problem atreiu and fcastillo are having)?

I'm Rodolfo there, so the last comment is mine. Basically the problem is just with remote lyrics, with local ones refresh works, so you can fetch the lyrics from the metadata editor and then do a refresh in the lyricmaster pane.

Hope it helps.

mark32

Great extension! One suggestion would be to allow lyrics to be fetched while a song is playing, instead of just when a new song starts. To save screen real estate, I often have the right pane closed, and open it up in the middle of song, but I have to restart the song to get the option to add the lyrics. Anyway, thanks for your work on this.

hellocatfood

@Steve123458 Did you change anything about the plugin and does it work on every radio station? I've been trying to find a way to do this with no luck so far

jtbjustin

Hi,
I am running Song Bird: Songbird 1.0.0, Build 860 (20081124135419)
and LyricMaster: 1.6.1.1
on Windows XP: SP3

as mentioned on GetSatisfaction.com here: http://gsfn.us/t/opi

Lyricmaster causes Song Bird to popup and become the active window when every new song begins. This can get annoying when you are trying to do work on something else on the computer.

However, LyricMaster is a really great addon, and I really look forward to being able to use it!

Thank you!

emartini

Same problem as described before, lyrics don't show up on iPod!
Is there any way to insert them in the mp3 files?? That would be awsome! =D

zayed1

I have to check first guys .

Thanks a lot from Athens Greece

dsfagundes

First of all, great add-on!

I have a problem, though...

I'm running Songbird 1.0.0, Build 860 (20081124135419) and iTunes 8.0.2.20 on Windows XP SP2

LyricsMaster works fine when I ask it to fetch the lyrics of a song, but I'm still using iTunes to update my iPod (mainly because it handles podcasts better than Songbird). I can read the lyrics in iTunes (the ones that were fetched by LyricsMaster), but they don't show up on my iPod (it's possible to see the title of the song, nothing else).

Also, when I try to erase the lyrics in iTunes, they simply won't disappear! It's necessary to go back to Songbird and delete the lyrics there.

Eric.

I am having the same exact problem as crc, my lyrics keep coming up as "undefined [artist]" when it tries to search for lyrics. I've tried completely uninstalling songbird and reinstalling, and it still doesn't find lyrics for the same songs. I've tried uninstalling all of my other add-ons, too, and nothing happens. Anyone have any idea?

Eric.

Oh, and I'm also having trouble with the naming scheme working. I set it to "Doe, John" because some of my artists (like "The Offspring") are named like that with commas. This used to work, but decided to stop working for some reason.

citrouwi

I found a possible problem with this plugin and wonder how others solved this...
For CDs like sound tracks, my music is stored liek this:

Artist: Various
Title: Martina McBride / (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden

Is there a way to get the lyrics plugin to find the lyrics for a setup like this?
How do others handle this?

Thanks...

permster

One problem I've seen. Here is the scenario...when you have the LyricMaster notifications enabled, Songbird minimized, and you hit a global hotkey for next track for example. LyricMaster opens Songbird and gives it focus. If Songbird is minimized it shouldn't do that (regardless of how you have the LyricMaster options set).

The only workaround is to turn LyricMaster to Never Save/Never Ask and No when no lyrics are found. Sucks to have to switch that off and on all the time.

pozdrav

+1 to .lrc/dynamic lyrics/scrolling lyrics (there is also a software for other media players called minilyrics)
thank you.

Zshazz

I found a potential bug.

When I played "My<Dsmbr" by Linkin Park, I noticed that everything after "My" on that line was gone. So, I believe that this plugin is not properly escaping HTML.

plouffle

i had install.but how to use

ALU

Hello
I have a suggestion for Scrolling lyrics.
I know that fukid is working hard on his extension, but i think his solution isnt that good. because it causes to much server taffic and its not very fast.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Okay here we go:
needed on the WWW:
--> webspace like funpic.
--> a simple homepage written in PHP or something to submit (rate and manage?) Lyrics.

Songbird:
--> fetch the Dynamic lyrics with an named array like this:

Code
arr = new Array();
arr['time1']="lyr1";
arr['time2']="lyr2";
arr['time3']="lyr3";
var test = 'time2';
if (arr[test] != null){
  print( arr[test] );
}

--> and last hover the line in the disp pane.(sorry dont know much about the Panes).
(--> posibillity to send and rate lyrics)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm looking forward to the awsome scrolling lyric master ;)
PS: sorry for my bad english

greetz ALU

nicolaluna

hey rcw003,

the updated version for the latest sb release works great for me, nice job!

i am wondering, is there some way in this version to clear or manually delete all the lyrics at once? the way they are entered in this version is more functional but unfortunately all those lyrics from the previous version are slurred together, and it would be easier to start over than to go through each one to fetch the correct ones....

thanks, and happy new year!

n30

Hey man this is so cool. One thing though. Can you make it to where we can add our own sites for lyrics? or at least add Lyricsspot.com, mp3lyrics.org, and lyricsbay.com? I listen to a lot of music that most people haven't heard of so I'm a little behind the pack with this plugin. :P

moopet

Bug: if you right-click and choose "Metadata Editor", it opens the metadata editor for the last track it edited, not the currently displayed/playing track. You have to edit the data of a random track from the library and then come back to LyricMaster before they are in sync.
XP/1.0

Good extension, btw, thanks.

skainsworth

I get this error:

Error: SQLite compile step:
SELECT count(*) FROM playing_at JOIN artists on artistid=artists.ROWID JOIN concerts on concertid=concerts.id WHERE artists.name = 'Coldplay'AND concerts.timestamp > 1231018399
caused the error
no such table: playing_at

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lower_case_letters_in_song_name_can_cause_a_no_lyrics_found_in_lyricmaster

TheOne says:
Lower case letters in song name can cause a "no lyrics found" in lyricmaster
the lyric system can make a bug when using lower case letters in the start of a song name fx frontline by Pillar. can you make it incase sensetive?
 
I’m frustrated that i have to re name all my songs because of this bug

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyricmaster_lyrics_not_showing_up_on_itunes

Uxi says:
LyricMaster lyrics not showing up on iTunes
Lyrics from LyricMaster don't show up on iPod classic (though I can see them when I open to the same library in iTunes). Thinking maybe some special characters or formatting are doing this, though it looks plain text to me when I paste it into a terminal.

boris

From Get Satisfaction:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/custom_playlist_columns_do_not_save

slythfox says:

"Custom playlist columns (from addons) do not stay removed if the user sets them that way. In particular, I have the LyricMaster (1.6.1.1) addon installed. It adds a "lyrics" column. I can remove it, but when I close and open Songbird, it comes back. The rest of Songbird's columns behave properly: if you remove them, they stay removed.

Always reproducible. I understand this could be a problem with LyricMaster, but it is likely a problem with how Songbird handles addons."

I'm repoducing this too with the latest 1.1.0pre builds and the latest add-on version.

dogi

Hi rcw003,
I'm very lucky that LyricMaster has been created by you, because the functionality is super!
I've translated the extension (newest version 1.6.1.1) completely into German, including the help files, but I don't know how to send the translated local files to you.
At Babelzilla, there's already somebody translating LyricMaster 1.6.1.0 to German, but his activity is quite low, so I tried to become translator, but the server does not allow a second one.
The translated add-on is tested by me in German language and works confidently as you deleted some translations who not had been completed in the newest version.
Perhaps you could upload LyricMaster 1.6.1.1 to Babelzilla and I upload the files there or post
a comment here, that you're interested in a German translation and I upload the files to my server and you can download them there.

kiwibird

@cmlenz: +1 on the fallback methods... of course, when there are hits in several databases, there should be the option of having a simple drop-down or something to switch between hits.

dogi

I've uploaded German to Babelzilla. Thank you for your fast response!
I will try to hack the code at Google.
My real name is Dominik, perhaps you need it for Contribution.

nicoj

Any chance to have the option to save lyrics to the metadata rather than the SB database?

Reader93

This addon is really fricking sweet, just two suggestions:

1) As others mentioned, having the lyrics embedded into the song file so that they sync with other devices.

2) If the song title in lyricmaster linked to the page where the lyrics were retreived it'd be great. That would make it easy to share with friends!

Thanks, and great addon!

joluv

Great add on, but I seem to have a little problem : lyrics don't refresh when right-clicking on the pane and clicking on "refresh lyrics".

It appear when I select another feature than LyricMaster on the right pane, and I select back LyrciMaster. Then there are no more lyrics on the pane for the song playing. And refreshing it by right-clicking doesn't make lyrics appear back.
I guess it isn't a common behaviour of this extension ?

Thanks

Akumasama

I just found out a very little bug. Almost insignificant but I would be happy if it could be addressed :)
This addons enables a new column called "Lyrics" appears in the main window.

Even if you turn it off, sometimes it just turns on again, and it does that each time you open Songbird again, and in some other random times.

kisskeneeth

very good!

fivins

I have a problem with Songbird maximizing and jumping in front of other windows every time the song changes. I (and others from a bit of searching) have nailed this down to happening when LyricMaster is loaded into a pane. LyricMaster is one of the best reasons to use Songbird, but this really detracts from it's usefulness. Can anything be done about this?

krisharp

um, i might be an idiot but when you can't fetch the lyrics from the metadata editor and you have to use the web... how do you get those lyrics to save? the metadata editor doesn't let you highlight it anymore once i've searched the web. i know i'm probably missing something really stupid. thanks if anyone can help.

trgz

No icon problem:
 I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of tracks with lyrics from when I was using iTunes/MP3Tag etc to manage my mp3s but only some of those with lyrics added in Songbird (with this app) appear with an icon. I say some as I've added, or tried to re-add lyrics to a bunch of albums but not all of the tracks are showing as having lyrics (but if you edit the tag then they're quite clearly there). And it's not 'cos I've hidden the field!

alest

Plugin does wrong search string for non-english titles:
lyrics "%u0420%u0430%u0431%u0441%u0442%u0432%u043E %u0438%u043B%u043B%u044E%u0437%u0438%u0439" by "undefined %u0410%u0440%u0438%u044F"

Mads-HK

The Danish translation are completely off in some of the strings... Is there a way to correct this...?

alvareo

Hey, where is the sidebar supposed to appear? I can't see it when I play some songs...

alvareo

Nevermind, I found it. Although it says "Notifications Enabled" instead of "LyricMaster", why?

Btw, it's awesome, I'm ranking it 4/5. Why? because of the non-english characters support.

speedicut

Great add-on.

Note: the "none" and "current feather" views don't work for me now. In "none" the top half of the pane is a dark, barely opaque gray and the bottom half is light gray. Sometimes lyrics appear, sometimes not. Even for the same song played minutes apart. "Current feather" is just totally black. "None" was working fine the last time I booted songbird - just yesterday I think. Reboots of songbird didn't help.

I've switched to rubberducky, it and the rest of the views seem to work fine. Only the above seemed to have freaked out.

bicchi

I have three feature requests.

1)
Most of my mp3 already have lyrics on them and when my Internet connection is down LyricMaster should be able to use those lyrics instead of pulling from the web. Perhaps LyricsMaster needs to check the ID3 tag before it bothers to do a fetch just in case lyrics are already present in the tag.

2)
It would be nice to have an input box where I can input a different song name or perhaps spell the song in a different way.

3)
I am always trying to find the correct font size that better matches. So perhaps a font option would be nice.

Thanks,
Al

deOmega

@rcw003,
I have found that if I am playing a song, and hide the lyrics side panel... then bringing back the side panel.. the Lyrics is gone.. and even by hitting refresh, it does not come back. To get it back, i have to either click the song for it to play again, or just leave it to go to the next song.
This is only the case for songs that do not have their lyrics on my computer already. SO.. seems like it only does an internet search when a song is started.

Thanks.

boosh

Hey,

I think it would be best for the Default 'custom display style' to be the [Current feather] ( instead of [None] ), that way when people install Lyrics Master and change between feathers, they never have to go into the options to change it.. Plus, doesn't it default to [None] if the feather doesn't have a custom style... ;)

Thanks so much for the add-on!

coffee-turtle

This is the best Lyrics engine for Songbird (and the best I used ever). I hope to see it being made compatible for the latest version of Songbird soon. Thank you!

olguitao

Super add-on. Congratulations! Version for 1.1.1.b1 anytime soon? Thanks a lot!!!!!!

LazarusBird

Why i can't install this add on?
songbird 1.1.1

allerlei

Ya, I'm missing 1.1.1 support, too! It's one of my favorite addons!

Keep on coding,
Stefan

evantravers

Are you aware of the bug with the lyricmaster that causes it to mess up the genre tag? I'd really appreciate it if you could look at it. Awesome addon.

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/possible_genre_corruption_when_using_both_sb_itunes

shamasn

use SongMeanings.net to get the lyrics.. The owners/operators/moderators, etc are old friends of mine, and the site is AWESOME!

apohran

awesome add-on! hope to see support for songbird 1.1 soon :-)

Jerome

Thanks a lot for this plug ;)

Jerome

Bonjour,

Tout d'abord, j'adore votre Add-on, mais...
Prenons un exemple :
J'ai une musique qui s'appelle : "my song (feat artist)", là j'ai des paroles disponibles!
Si je met "my song (featuring artist)", j'en ai plus!
Je pense qu'il faudrait mettre des exceptions dans la recherche car une simple personnalisation du titre entraîne un coruption des recherches... :(

Il faudrais mettre des exeptions avec les ( ) [ ] - / ...

In english (simply) :
If i put the title "my song (feat artist)", i have lyrics
But, if i change the name and i put "my song (featuring artist)", i havn't !

Thanks, merci ;)

b.pwned

First of all: awesome plugin!! made me switch over to Songbird!

Please add two features:

1) pull lyrics from both lyricswiki and lyricsmaster (whichever has them)

2) allow editing lyrics from within Songbird/the lyricsmaster pane, not only offline but also online (i.e. save changes back to the online source). Lyricsplugin for WMP/Winamp allows this, would be great if you could implement it, too :-)
(the simplest way would be to add 2 links: one to each website where the user can edit the source lyrics, for example http://lyricwiki.org/index.php?title=Logh:String_Theory)

ilaggoodly

Very cool plugin, however I could use some support for lyrics with Daap clients... the method you are using returns null for the name/etc. in that case. I noticed that birdtitle manages to snag the names despite this... and it uses dataremotes... although my attempts to hack your code to fix this have been yet unsuccessful!

smocca

I absolutely love and am really missing this addon. Please update to 1.1.1 asap!

b.pwned

Just add extensions.checkCompatibility = false to your about:config

To do that, open a new tab in Songbird, enter "about:config" in your address bar and hit enter. Then right click, create a new boolean value with that name and set it to false. Restart Songbird et voilà.

Jerome

For the update of lyrics, it cool be nice if the add-on say "do you wan't to put the last version of the lyrics?".
And please, put somethings for put my lyrics if they are not with a redirection to the lyrics website!

Thanks

wollig

hi,

Really great add-on!
Two questions:
(1) where are the lyrics stored? (mp3file/db/...)
(2) when i try to open the metadata editor, nothing happens. Is this a known problem?

Jerome

A version for Songbird 1.1.1b3 please ;)

Jerome

It's working if I install it manually... :)
Add more custom display please ;)

b.pwned

Use http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/122?id=122 to force compatibility with b3

alvareo

b.pwned, neither of your techniques work with me. I still get that grey "Not compatible with your Songbird" Install button. Help please? Thanks!

alvareo

Oh, a manual install is required. Thanks!

b.pwned

...you're welcome? ;-)

Jerome

Hello!
I have a problème with japanes lyrics... :(

When I lisen a japanes music, i have lyrics like that :

獲物を呼びよせるように サーチライトが空を照らす
獣たちも色めく 歓声はアリーナ揺らす

ぞくっとするだろ? 本能がうずくだろ?
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スモークの中で生まれ変わる

灼熱への招待 ここじゃすベてがLive
見たこともない 自分に会える
オリジナルのアイディアで 主役を奪いとれ
世間を巻きこむ 渦を起こそう
悔いのない時間が流れて
痛みも忘れる It's showtime!!

目をそらさず こっちを見てよ
キミだけが ボクを変える

灼熱への招待 ここじゃすべてがLive
見たこともない 自分に会える
傷だらけの腕を 高く振りあげて
反省も弁解も 受けつけられない
悔いのない時間が流れて
疲れ知らずの It's showtime!!
天井知らずの It's showtime!!

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Why????!!!!????

I'm on Linux Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Schaapie

WOOT, 1.1.1 support. DAMN, I can´t get it working in the content pane so i have no room to use it :(. I hope you can fix that because in earlier versions i was able to use it there.

deOmega

Never noticed before that this displays lyrics for songs played on Shoutcast radio. Nice job!

starke

First off, love the add-on. One of the main reasons I use Songbird now. Anyway, I'm having a problem - I think it's a problem. Songs aren't downloading and I'm getting the "No Lyrics Found" message. I selected the "lyricwiki.org" option and still no lyrics. I went to lyricwiki.org, and the lyrics were certainly there. What might cause this? I did format the tags using MusicBrainz picard, but some songs in the same album do download. =(

ihtarlik

I'm curious to know which shoutcast streams display lyrics. I listen to streams from somafm.com and can't get any lyrics. I can't imagine that the streams are that different from one content provider to the next, or maybe I'm totally clueless about how shoutcast works. I'd love to get lyrics for my favorite music! Keep up the good work.

scriptdaemon

When browsing the internet via Songbird, the right pane should be disabled automatically.

Schaapie

For users who want this add-on in the content pane do this?

Change these three things in your install.rdf from the addon with these values.

songbird:defaultWidth="500"
songbird:defaultHeight="200"
songbird:suggestedContentGroups="contentpane"

jeriskoli

urology nephrology

http://www.lyrical.fr/Cape.png

look... It's very strange...
(and please, repear the webpage, because it's actualising allways)

wangstra

Thanks for the add-on but I must express some frustration I've had with it. I noticed after saving the lyrics to a song that my meticulously done meta data was being changed. Instead of just writing to the lyrics field, my album artists names were being modified? Why is that? Is there a way to get the addon to just edit what it claims to do, just the lyrics?

I have a few compilations and I group them together as an album with "various artists" for the album artist, with the individual tracks song artists reflecting the true artist. Why is lyrics master editing any other field than just the lyrics?

sizzler

Thanks for a great feature.
However I see a bit of problem when I use shoutcast radio station.. The artist, song name etc changes automatically when song is changed but I need to clear and refresh lyrics manually.

cwilliams

Was just about to try this extension until I read Wangstra's comment above that it overwrites other metadata fields. Will try a later version that fixes this, looks like a great extension.

Mavaron81

A suggestion I have (unless the option already exists - I couldn't find it) would be to allow the user to stop the songbird search from searching through the lyrics. This would be great for users like myself, who almost exclusively search for songs via title.

Jerome

http://www.lyrical.fr/Cape.png

RizzenVirnn

bug : frame size
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9831/screenshot2t.png

Use with songbird 1.1.1 and the last version of lyricmaster
That's quiet annoying. I think songbird crash also a lot when i enable the addon but I'm not sure (joaumsk8erboi seems to have the same problem)

shy761207

뭐하자는거야.....

2nanfer

----> RCW003

Very nice job indeed!

I could be doing the translation to pt-BRA, if not already done.
My version is in German.
In any case:
2nanfer at gmail.com

congrats.

touringlonewulf

Changing a Cascading Style Sheep has no influence.

Please help! What have I done wrong?

I just tried to adjust the "old_school.css" in order to make it a little bit easier for my eyes...

changes line 18:
p { font-style:normal;font-size:10pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:5; }

And the background image link in line 2 (to slightly darker one, same size, same resolution, same format, same location)
But even after restarting the Songbird, enabling and disabling the Ly.Ma. none of the changes are visible...?
Lyricsmaster: 1.6.1.2.
Birdie: 1.1.1
OS: WinXP SP3
Edited with normal windows notepad.

__________________________
P.S. The Add on itself is WORKING PERFEKTLY, and with the two Data sources I can find most lyrics, very fast!
just some relativly new lyrics i had to ad manually from songlyrics. but was easy to find too, just clicked "web search" also very useful!!!

Thanks very much, it saves a lot of time looking up lyrics!

touringlonewulf

Ok, sorry, forget about it

Songbird 1.1.1 as described above!
But I installed the "nightly build" beta version now...
so with
Sonbird 1.2.0 the style sheep changes layout like expectet.

cualquiercosadonde

@rcw003
Hey, very nice add-on, thanks for all the work.

BUG: It seems that you've been aware of the column problem for a while; do you think you'll be able to fix it? Or give the option not to use the lyrics column at all? Thanks again...

Amak

Love the addon. Just a few minor bugs:

Sometimes, a single quotation mark (') turns into an odd square () with 1 number in each corner...happens randomly and is fixed with a simple manual-edit.

The second is similar, but more of an issue. It seems that some languages have characters that give it issues. Appears in the pane with issues, but copies/pastes just fine...only song I have seen that gives this issue is Superstar by Activ fetching lyrics from lyricswiki.

darklightmw

Hey - This pane used to be able to be put in the bottom left area, in place of the "now selected" album art. That's the way it worked pre-version 1 I think, but as of the latest version, it seems that I can't put lyrics master there anymore. That's where I liked it, so I'd appreciate it if you fixed that bug!

busman4

Thanks rcw003 for a great lyrics add-on. However, whilst it worked well in previous versions, since the update to Songbird 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309144748) I cannot display Lyric Master lyrics. Is this a common bug or just my PC?

busman4

Previous to my previous post - it's all sorted...somehow the Lyricmaster pane was minimised. All working finer than before. Once again, great job rcw003

DaCosta

Hello, rcw003 !
Thanks for your great add-on. Once again it´s a nice job my friend ...

spiffwalker

idk if this has been stated before, but I use the mini player feature of songbird a lot, and when i return to the main player the lyrics pane is always blank, and when i click "refresh lyrics" it never works in refreshing the lyrics. any idea of why this is or how to fix it? thanks and thanks for the great addon! :)

dgbx

Hello,
I'm trying Songbird again and your add on sounds great! However, only a few of my 27,000+ songs are showing up with the Lyrics indicator in the Library view, while 90%+ of my songs have lyrics tagged.

Also, the first song I played after installing LyricMaster found lyrics on the web so I said to add them to see what would happen. It wiped out other tags in the song, like Comments, Year and Genre.

Is the add on looking in id3v2 tags for lyrics? Or maybe lyrics3v2?

Thanks for the great add on!

Jerome

So many bugs!

http://www.lyrical.fr/Cape.png

SimonSays

LyricMaster 1.6.1.2 is deleting some tags from ID3v2. Mainly 'Year' & 'Genere'. Sometimes it also removes other tags like 'Artist' and 'Album' and almost always removes the Album Art tagged into ID3v2.

KongShaoLong

I've been getting the same problem Jerome already reported with Japanese lyrics: it's really annoying to have the hard work to go through all the tracks in an album adding the lyrics and then all of them just turn to gibberish (some don't, however -why?!). But the same happens with any special character, even in English. Check this:
All apostrophes turn into this character. I just can't get it right. I go back and fetch the right lyrics with all the apostrophes in place, but from the time that it takes from 'OK' to 'Refresh' they disappear again. Please fix this!

boris

rcw003,

The new suggestion for LyricMaster was filed in Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16099

xell

A great plugin - very much needed.

Could you implement a method of changing the Artist it searches for, to perhaps, album artist? I find a lot of my songs have 'feat X' but the album artist remains the same.

Just a though :D

Thanks!

boris

rcw003,
There is a bug in Metadata Editor window running Songbird in German locale:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15785

thanks.

danstu

Love the extension, but I have a bug that just developed about an hour ago for me.

Up until just now, I've had the lyrics display in the bottom content pane. I restarted songbird to remove a plugin I didn't use, but when it reloaded, the bottom pane was blank, and I can only put the lyrics in the right content pane, which I don't want to do because that cuts off too many columns I want to display in the song list. If anyone's had this problem with this extension before, please let me know how to fix it. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't work.

torturedklown

I agree with danstu... great addon, but could we get bottom panel functionality put back into it?

oddly enough on my desktop it still works on the bottom panel (where i've always had it), trying my damndest to not to update it so i can keep it there.

r3d

Excellent App!

I have noticed a few issues for me that I would like to see resolved. The main issues for me is when using batch function to add lyrics an album. When ever I do that the lyrics text if viewed in any other tag editor shows up all on a single line. However, If I do each song individually they come out fine. The other thing I have noticed is sometimes when I do add lyrics to a single son that not all the characters are recognized and I end up with a bunch of square looking things that have replaced commas. That is my only issue with the plugin.

r3d

And to add one last thing to my previous comment; I am on a Windows XP with all updates as of today.

B_old

When I have the add-on enabled the lyrics-column in the list of songs is visible every time I restart songbird although I don't want to have it there.
I only use lyricmaster sometimes as a convenient way to read the lyrics of a song. Therefore it would also be nice, if you could load the lyrics for a song even after the song actually starts playing, so that we don't have to restart the song.
Otherwise, nice add-on.

titon.art

woowww good

EEKaWILL

When i first installed this it was in the bottom display pane and now it no longer is is there anyway to make it available for the bottom display pane?

butterdori

Hi

I still seem to have a 'nothing playing' bug
No matter what I try (collapse, reload, wait for automatic song change), it still shows up 'nothing playing'
How can I fix this?

I'm running it on Ubuntu 9.04

thanks

anzac10

Good work man, simple ad-on but very effective, maybe you can add a background to the Old school skin, the rest just perfect. Keep the good work.

Thnx

baskinghobo

I would recommend you get your source of lyrics from http://www.lyricwiki.org, i'm not sure how it compares with http://www.lyricsplugin.com/ but i'm pretty sure it has a larger database because it is public and anyone can edit it. I would also like a feature which will automatically search,find and sync lyrics with all the current songs loaded onto songbird.

baskinghobo

Edit: I would also like a feature which will automatically search,find and sync lyrics onto the mp3tag with all the songs loaded onto songbird

baskinghobo

Oh my bad for making so many comments at once, should've read the comments properly but i would also like an option to gather lyrics from the site (it finds the meaning of the song) - http://www.songmeanings.net/ . And just a question, i'm pretty sure lyricwiki.org has a larger database of lyrics compared to lyricsplugin so why did you add that feature to lyricmaster?

NK4551

Hello. I love the LyricMaster addon, I use it all the time. There are, however, three things that I think should be implemented, if possible.

First, I agree with the people who would like a scrolling option. but I'm sure you already know about that.

Second, when I click the little lyric indicator (the small paper looking thing in the 'Lyric' column), nothing happens. I think it would be great if, regardless what song was playing, that clicking on the lyric icon for a specific song, would open that song's lyrics in the pane. That way, when I'm just looking for a lyric, I don't have to listen to the song.

Third, If scrolling ever gets implemented, I would like a bottom-pane, karaoke style, lyric scroll.

Those aren't really needed, but I'd love the addon even more if they were added

neil.s

+1 for lrc support.
Love the feature set, but scrolling really is a deal breaker. Your addon is better presented, better maintained, and has a lot more shine to it, and yet I'm considering shifting to the shabbily presented scrolling__lyrics (even the name is ridiculous!), just coz of that. You really gotta consider adding support for lrc files, coz I can't use MiniLyrics on my Mac like I used to on my PC, and I still gotta try out scrolling lyrics but am turned off by the bad presentation and the bad reviews. You've said its outta your scope, but maybe you could inspect the scrolling lyrics addon, and check out how he has written the lrc reader and maybe take some inspiration from there and integrate his best features with yours and make one great addon.

Also, you gotta change the triggering of your addon. If some other addon is active in the content pane and then I switch to LyricMaster, it doesn't recognise the song playing, I have to restart the song or go to the next song for it to work. Maybe you could modify the triggering to look for the lyrics when your addon is activated AND when a new song is played.

AudieMurphy

First off I'd like to say great addon -- I love to sing along so this is a great idea.

However, sometimes it won't find lyrics from lyricsplugin.com. I then can switch it to lyricwiki, and it does find them, and vice-versa. Basically I have observed that sometimes lyrics are on lyricsplugin and not on lyricwiki or on lyricwiki and not on lyricsplugin. I think there should be an option to search on one database first, and if none are found switch to the other database so there is a greater chance the lyrics will be found.

Paps

Thank you for this

Anti

Someone might have suggested this in the comments before me, but a simple way to improve this would be to enable the plugin to search BOTH databases you have listed.

Rather than having the user select which database to search from, just wrap everything in a simple if/else statement so that if lyrics aren't found in one database, it searches the other.

That should take all of a couple minutes and would be a nice fix until you get around to using lyricsplugin.com's library or whatever. In any event, I think there should always be a second library to search in case the first doesn't return any results.

Rolle

I also had lyricMaster first in bottom pane, but now it's only possible to show in right pane... and FFS every time I restart songbird there's "Lyrics" column in the "playlist-area" (whatever it's called, the area where are the songs listed), how to get rid of that?

Laibcoms

Question, how does the add-on do its searches? I have some tracks (and some even albums) that already have a lyrics entry in lyricwiki.org but the add-on can not find it. I prefer it automatically, because I will know if the lyrics will show up in other people's machine ^_^

quincy_taylor

im just a tad bit confused, i have a black skin here and the lyrics in this add on is black, how do i change the colour?

NK4551

Apostrophes get replaced by an 0019 and an 0018 character. Any chance you can tell us if/when/how this will be resolved?

Laibcoms

Anyway, I'll just report it as a bug then. The add-on currently won't fetch the lyrics of a file if the artist name is not exactly the same as the one found in lyricwiki. Or maybe, if the artist name have dots.

I encountered this with artist: "i.d.0.4." (1st two albums) and "I.D.0.4." (2nd two albums). The entry for Lyricwiki is "I.d.0.4."

Thanks and hope to see a fix in the future :D

Rolle

I had a question, could somebody please answer?

 => Every time I restart songbird there's "Lyrics" column in the "playlist-area" (whatever it's called, the area where are the songs listed), how to get rid of that?

saxman01

Great plugin! It is very tasteful and required zero config to find the lyrics.

Great enhancement!

buddy

It cannot display Chinese lyrics.
Please fix it.

boosh

Can we have 1.3.0a compatibility... 1.2 is coming soon...

Thanks!

ashwani17

why this add on not for linux user please...make it for us too....

WippoZippo

I hope there's an update coming! I'd really love to use it in 1.2 too, it's just tooo addicting. :D

thevan

Hmm, could we get an option to stop Songbird from searching through every song's lyrics when you type something in the search box? Slows the search right down.

Insomniac

I need help here...i installed Lyric Master plugin ..but nothing is coming up. Even the Lyric option...in the Title,Genre,Album..window shows nothing.
Kindly help

Insomniac

Even side bar shows only Now Playing not Lyric Master Sidebar..help....??????

Insomniac

Hey i could solve it....great totla 316 comments helped a lot...awesome job rcw003

robhayes

I would love to use this if support for songmeanings.net is added :)

erik ch

We need do some translations like the portuguese (brasilian)

and include some features like, lirics translation using some translations from the web
like this
http://www.lyricstime.com/blind-guardian-mr-sandman-tradu-o-lyrics.html

The lirics translation could be fetch like the original lirics fetch.
We can fetch the original lirics, or fetch lirics translation or fetch the both separeted by a line in the same metadata lirics.

sauntimo

Can we have a version bump to 1.2.0b2? I really miss this!

lionwq1

I hope there's an update coming! I'd really love to use it in 1.2 too, it's just tooo addicting. :D

LoZfan03

With the 1.2 update, you should throw in font/size options ;) But great add, thanks

ivareske

Great plug-in, but it would be nice to see the lyrics scrolling as the song plays, like in the scrolling lyrics plug-in

dtay

Can we have a version bump to 1.2.0b2? I really miss this! [2]

Also do you think you could add other sites for trial and error sort of? Like how you can fetch album covers from your computer, discogs, amazon, if others fail.

Some suggested sites to get lyrics from would be last.fm, pandora, azlyrics, et cetera, et cetera :)

semanet

Any idea when we receive an upgrad for Songbird 1.2?

sauntimo

Please, pretty please? I've got my shiny new 1.2 up and running and it's not complete without this! Please please please can someone version bump this?! Epic love if someone will...

Pxl_Buzzard

^^Same thing that sauntimo said.

Merlin1951de

hello to all

vprestes

Hello to all

juvenal

I've made my LyricsMaster addon work with version 1.2.0 of Songbird. This is what I did:

1) Download the latest version of the addon (1.6.1.2) from the version history link on this page. (The link is in the panel Details at the top of this page).

2) Extract the addon's file content using Winzip or Winrar (or whatever program you have that can handle ZIP files) to a folder.

3) Open the file 'install.rdf' and change the line that says

em:maxVersion="1.2.0a" to em:maxVersion="1.2.0"

*This line is at the end of the file.
**notice I only deleted the letter 'a' after the version string 1.2.0

4) Repack all the files using Winzip or Winrar and install the addon with Songbird.
* the package file must be in ZIP format. Don't use Winrar's default RAR format. If you're using Winrar, choose the ZIP format before creating the archive.

That's what I've done. It's working for me perfectly.
I hope it helps.

Peace

boxfrommars

thank you, juvenal!

hknklbk

The install button remains flue. I can not install, why?

superchivo

juvenal ... you're my new hero !!! I just did what you said, and voilá!! I have my Lyricmaster working again !!

Hope they DO update the plugin to the new version though

Gerti

greay'ed out install button.. wazzap with that? :)

TheLazSamurai

Thanks a lot juneval, it's helpful for someone, but i cant unzip it because its extension is xpi, what about that? Should i back to the earlier version or what?

TheLazSamurai

Sorry dude, i respect you really. I just did it, it works perfectly. For others who are not sure how to do it, i tell them: First open the xpi file with winrar and open the file "install.rdf" with wordpad (not notepad) and do what juneval said, and save it, than click yes to winrar's notification:"do you want do apply changes". Yeah, you got it, it's ready to be installed. Thank you again juneval!

bobo2854

Version update foe 1.2?

baksimcha

:)

gordykeene

Best. Plugin. Ever.

Here are my top likes of this plugin:
* Text stays stationary on the screen (I don't want it to move while I'm reading it),
* Text is left justified (the other versions I've seen appear to center the text)
* Text is editable, so if the downloaded version doesn't match the song, I can fix it.

huolya

Thanks, for the 1.2 compatibility, Lyric Master Rules!

Pxl_Buzzard

Thanks for the update, however it seems to be obtaining the lyrics from the next song instead of the current song. I get my lyrics from lyricwiki.org and I have Always Save/Never Ask enabled.

BJEagle

BOTTOM DISPLAY PANE.

Like danstu and torturedklown mentions.
How can lyricmaster be shown there in stead of right pane only? It used to work in 1.1.2

one71

I love this add-on and I have added the lyrics in all my mp3 with it. I have just bought a samsung YP_P3 player.

I have transferred the music there as UMS from the PC (I have copy/paste the files on it as a mass storage device).

Everything works except ... it says" no lyrics". Why not? Where can it hang? Any idea to make them compatible?

neilmayur

for some reason the the updated lyric master still doesnt work on my new songbird...it doesnt even show up....does anyone have any ideas?

Nuker5

Hi, I have downloaded your version 1.6.1.3 and I use Songbird 1.3.0a Build 1133 (20090609013217).
So it is the problem that I'm getting in the lyrics pane that error:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul
Line Number 26, Column 6: <menuitem />
------------^

Could you please help me what could be done here?
Thanks in advance.
Before that it worked like a charm and I very like your plugin and I used it very often.

Jos5508

Hi,

I use Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030043) and Lyricmaster 1.6.1.3 now you're application doesn't work properly.

When I select a song, I see :

[the name of the song]
[undefined]
[Songtittle]

Nothing happens now. Is there a solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance for your answer or solution.

Regards,

Jos

Maxo

The same way we can set that our artists may be saved in LastName, FirstName format, could we also have an option to say that our artists are saved in ArtistName, The format also?

Maxo

I'm also having the same problem as Jos5508. In stead of showing an icon it shows the chrome information.

KMH

Help. I have 'installed' LyricMaster over 3 times without a result. I had LyricMaster installed earlier, but when I installed the new release of Songbird the other day, Lyric Master disappeared and I cannot install it now. Advice?

Thanks.

boris

rcw003,

New bug report was filed against LyricMaster add-on(update issue):
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16903

Thanks.

kinesico

i add the lyrics to the mp3 file, but my ipod touch cant read this lyrics. Any solution to this problem????

boris

rcw003,

New suggestion for LyricMaster was filed in Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16872

thanks.

jazzagers

Can the lyrics be made to scroll down automatically?

focal.truth

Another XML Parsing error like Nuker5, seems to occur on all of the nightly builds I've used since the 1.2 alphas. Been persistent through the 1.3 nightlys.

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul
Line Number 26, Column 6: <menuitem />
------------^

Enjabain

When i minimize the display panel during a song the lyrics disappears and a refresh doesn't do anything starting a new song brings new lyrics. thanks

boris

rcw003,

The new bug report was filed in Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16950

Thanks.

torturedklown

Still hoping to get some sort of reply about how to get this addon back into the bottom panel. (As are several others in the list that i saw) Is this doable? Kind of a make or break thing here.

thanx

kkemenczy

How can I localize this plugin?

dartfira

Would it be possible to save lyrics in a Text file automatically?

rko1988

please fix this for the new version T.T

aylab

Just installed this plugin after not using it for a while.

I'm very happy that the plugin finally reads the lyrics from the existing Metadata tags. I have been waiting for that for a while.

I'm disappointed that the plugin no longer writes the lyrics to the Metadata tags as it did in previous versions. I use the lyrics quite frequently in my mp3 player but with this version I am no longer able to view them.

afv

I was getting the same error as Nuker5 (@ Songbird 1.3.0a, Build 1169) and commented out that line from pane.xul to get it working again.

parseError:[JavaScript Error: "undefined entity" {file: "chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul" line: 26 column: 4 source: " <menuitem />"}]

pav

First of all: Great Plugin ;)

But, is it possible that LyricMaster automatically searches the Lyrics in both databases?
Sometimes LyricMaster does not found a Lyric in one Database and if I switch to the other DB manually, the Lyric is found.
Maybe something like: "if not fount @lyricsplugin.com, try lyricwiki.org" :)

Best regards
pav

tinotom

Really a very very very useful and well-done addon!!
Congratulations!

It would be nice if several songs can be select for lyrics fetching instead of play a song to have lyric fetched...

Thank you very much,

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyricmaster_lyrics_are_unreadable_on_ipod

LyricMaster lyrics are unreadable on iPod
The lyrics I save with LyricMaster are unreadable on iPod (synced with iTunes), even if they are correctly loaded in Songbird and even in iTunes.

On the iPod, after searching for half a minute, it says that it is impossible to load the lyrics.

dexotaku

Minor aesthetic feature request:
By default, indent wordwrapped lines by, say, 3 em-spaces.

Cheers,
D

DivinityCycle

Hey man, this is an awesome add-on! One thing that would really really help: Better handling of the "no lyrics found" case. I have some simple ideas on how to fix this:
1-If the search fails, do some string processing to shorten then song name. The easiest thing you can do is simply search for the first open parenthesis character "(", in the song title. If it IS present, remove everything from that index forward, resulting in a new, shorter song title. Then retry the search. This would fix like 90% of the failed searches I've encountered while using this add-on.
2-if option 1 fails, or if you're feeling lazy, what about presenting the user with a form where they can manually type / edit the Song Title string used in the search? The current handling does not allow for this and results in a VERY clunky process if you have a failed search.

If I get time I'll look at the code. I don't know what kind of string processing facilities are available in this framework, but in the languages I know, this kind of stuff is relatively trivial.

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyricmaster_unicode_support_for_artist_names_and_song_titles

Lyricmaster unicode support for artist names and song titles
The lyricmaster plugin fails to work with song title and artist names that contain Japanese characters. I assume that this implies a lack of UTF-8 support. The lyrics exist on the wikis but the plugin doesn't find them.

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/hari

Where does LyricMaster store lyrics?

Hi ,
I have been using song bird for the past 6 months and I have only one question.

Where does LyricMaster stores the lyrics. I am using it on Mint Linux and Windows Vista.

Let me tell you an example: I had a song in my playlist for 3 months during those days it has downloaded the lyrics and I clicked on "save " options to save it. Then I deleted the song from my play list for One week and now I have added it. There was no internet connection to my computer for 2 days and I observed that there was no lyrics during that two days and on 3rd day Lyricmaster downloaded the lyrics and offered a " Save" option..... !!!

*Note: I copied the file from the playlist location thinking that it saved the lyrics in to metadata of the mp3 file and used the same file after One week.

Please help me to understand it.

Thank you :-)

Hari

deathtrader666

this thing gets the lyrics SO INSTANTLY.. you barely start the song.. and BANG.. there the lyrics are..

deathtrader666

IT EVEN HAS LYRICS FOR BOLLYWOOD SONGS.. YAAAAY....

ps.. sorry for the caps.. but i *LOVE* this addon..

riarebrand

i love this Add-on so much! thanks RCW003

korsbecker

Greate Add-on.

Is there any way of changing the font color under the Sparkle theme by way of css or something?

henrik :-)

Schwadegan

@korsbecker;
I'll release an update of my Sparkle feather very soon, which include enhanced compatibility with Lyricmaster as well as mashTape.

kregstrong

is there any way to make lyric master download all my lyrics and save them at the same time without having to play every song individually to get the lyrics?

martinizz

It would be nice to implant autoscroll for the lyrics, like the latest version of BirdTabs.

Nice addon!

vietphi

lyricsmaster doesn't work well in vista and window 7. It has some problem with Vietnameses font if i save the lyrics. It can't display vietnamese

Sorry, i don't speak well englsih

Qgel

LyricsMaster stopped working for me. all it shows is:

Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of the major music publishers we can no longer return lyrics through the LyricWiki API (where this application gets some or all of its lyrics).

The lyrics for this song can be found at the following URL:
http://lyricwiki.org/[linkt to song]

(Please note: this is not the fault of the developer who created this application, but is a restriction imposed by the music publishers themselves.)

Pxl_Buzzard

@Qgel

Sadly lyricwiki.org has removed their developer API because of some major publishers asking them to or whatever. To get your lyrics running again, just use lyricsplugin.com lyrics instead of lyricwiki.org and you should be fine. :)

Achy

this is such a good add-on for songbird, however i found a little bug if u may call it that way, when im listening stream radio through SHOUTcast in songbird the artist/song info is displayed correctly but the lyrics are totally wrong, can anybody take care of this "bug" please? thanks a lot and keep it up.....

gollum

Lyric master overwrites Album Art Cover in the ID3 Tags as soon as I save the Lyric.......

Would be better if not.......

Thanks

msharmony2001

It worked great until this last update, now it does not work at all. I have uninstalled and reinstalled three times now.

Cato62

I am having the same issue with 1.3.0 beta 1 and the new version of LyricMaster 1.7.0.0. I get the error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul Line Number 26, Column 6: <menuitem /> ------------^

When I revert back the version posted on your get satisfaction page everything works fine.

Any ideas?

Seb

Hello,

I have strange characters that appear in place of apostrophes in the window lyrics.

Does someone could help me to eradicate ... ?

Ex: phoenix / lisztomania - 4th line
I use 1.2.0 in french with windows vista 32

Seb

Hello,

I very love Lyricmaster but to be the master of the lyrics, I think it lacks a few things:

- The scrolling (why not combine your efforts between scrolling lyrics and lyricmaster ...)
- Translation of words (language select destination) via google for example ...

I'll post this message in the box ideas ...

Thank you for your consideration ...

DivinityCycle

I am trying to figure out what causes the character that shows up in the place of apostrophes. I believe its actually just that the source lyrics in lyricsplugin.com are like that. I haven't figured out how to capture what the character is yet, but once we have the exact character value it should be easy to patch in a process to replace that character with proper apostrophes.

kaos46

I've got the same Problems as msharmony2001. I use Songbird 1.2.0 and updated from LM 1.6.1.3 (where everything runs fine) to 1.7.0.0. From this time on, no Lyrics would be downloaded anymore. I've "downgraded" back to 1.6.1.3 and await the next update - in hope of fixing this Problem...

nnati

How can I add lyrics in Hebrew ? I get Gibrish when it display it.
can I share it with other users?

Seb

I have add a topic "Combine efforts between lyricmaster and scrolling lyrics " in getsatisfaction.
It was in this page : http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/combine_efforts_between_lyricmaster_and_scrolling_lyrics
You can add your vote or participate...

Miu19

@Cato62 for the problem :

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul Line Number 26, Column 6: <menuitem /> ------------^

Go to the folder in your Songbird Profile.

In extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content , open pane.xul

On line 26, replace &menu.tools.metadata by &menu.file.metadata, save and close.

Restart Songbird and LyricsMaster will work again

hellocatfood

I'd definitely like to see some combined efforts from this plugin and the scrolling lyric plugin. One of the only things missing from this plugin is scrolling lyrics.

SixString

I'm experiencing the apostrophe issue as well.

I second the motion to add a Folder option, since I too have all my files arranged by folder.

Also, since I play guitar, the ability to display tab or lyrics w/chord names would be awesome!

tbriggs928

When songbird saves the lyrics to the mp3 file, it prefaces them with "XXX||". This syntax prevents other apps (e.g., WMP) from recognizing the lyrics. If you preface the lyrics with "eng||" then the lyrics will be flagged as english, and other apps will pick them up.

DivinityCycle

@Six String, what are you talking about when you say "Folder option"?

Joergenr

Hi

The batch fetch feature doesn't work anymore. Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030043) and LyricMaster 1.7.0.0.
I tried disabling all other add-ons. I reinstalled Songbird but that didn't help. The icons just keeps spinning, but no lyrics or text appear.
The strange thing is, the lyrics get fetched and appear in the LyricsMaster pane, as usual.

Alivezombie16

Hey,

I just installed Lyricmaster today, and I seem to be having the same problem as Joergenr with the fetching feature in general. When I go to Edit Metadata on song(s) and go to fetch lyrics in a batch or individually, nothing happens. But when I play the song, the lyrics appear in the right sidebar, and I can save them to the song. Seems like an obscure problem, and I'm new to Songbird in general, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

KongShaoLong

Ditto. I've been having just the same issue since the last update. Hope it gets fixed soon.

DivinityCycle

I sent the dev a fix but he hasn't responded to me yet :(

KingyOwl

Hi,

This plugin looks perfect, however my entire library is made of M4A files and it doesn't fetch the lyric metadata from them.

Therefore I would like to make a feature request for support for M4A files if this is possible.

Cato62

@Miu19

Thanks for the fix! Working well again! :)

ankou22

Hi,
As Joergenr said, the batch fetch feature doesn't work anymore. Version: Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030043) and LyricMaster 1.7.0.0.
I've exactly the same problem !
"..when I go to Edit Metadata on song(s) and go to fetch lyrics in a batch or individually, nothing happens. But when I play the song, the lyrics appear in the right sidebar, and I can save them to the song..."
Both on Linux and Vista ...
;-(

DivinityCycle

e-mail me and I will throw you the fixed version. The main developer is MIA at the moment, so he hasn't gotten back to me about updating it. you can reach at my username (DivinityCycle) at g mail dot com

manubda

"..when I go to Edit Metadata on song(s) and go to fetch lyrics in a batch or individually, nothing happens. But when I play the song, the lyrics appear in the right sidebar, and I can save them to the song..." Me too....

=[

DivinityCycle

email me, manubda. Like I said, I have a fix for that.

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyric_master_web_search

Lyric Master web search.

Dear sir,
This is just my report for some problem about Lyric search in Thai language

I use Lyric Master for lyric search. Lyric Master search from www.lyricsplugin.com.
1.Some song cannot found in Songbird, but can met when use Window Media Player (use Lyrics plugin).
2. I have problem when search. Lyric Master cannot find lyric then I use Web Search feature (by Google). The result can see in picture 01. The same song I have play by WMP it can found, do not need to search (see picture 02).

This is my report only (not blame).
Best regards.
Gondolaz

SEE Link for screenshots: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyric_master_web_search

Akheriot

Hi,
Some lyrics in my song files can't be displayed on my iPhone, but without any problems in iTunes. Any hints?

xplosneer

I am recently encountering an issue where LyricsMaster will fetch all the song lyrics and put the lyrics for that song on the song below it in my library. I can't fetch multiple songs(or one) on the lyrics tab for each file, and the only way to get new lyrics is to delete all of them and save them by starting the song.

Thanks,
xplosneer

ihavnoclue

The batch lyric gathering is no longer working for me :(
any suggestions?

DivinityCycle

IHaveNoClue, please read the above comments...

LiXiang

This extension provokes a glitch in Songbird's metadata editor on my computer. the window is truncated and I can't access the "OK" button. There is a screenshot there : http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/attachment.cgi?id=11883

I'll try and see where the problem can come from, but if anyone had pointers, that would be nice.

I'm on Linux Fedora x86_64, with songbird 1.2.0, build 1146.

Thanks

FFBlue

Would it be possible to update lyricmaster to work with sb 1.3?

DivinityCycle

let me guess, you get an error about a missing XML file?

el.pancho

Not working in debian lenny

laurakthomas

Issue reported in GS: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyricsmaster_songs_disappear_after_downloading_and_saving_lyrics

Lyricsmaster: Songs Disappear after downloading and saving lyrics...

After installing lyricsmaster, some songs "disappear" from media database displayed?? Songbirds downloads the lyrics, and after answering to the question "save lyrics?", the song disappears completely...!

moragos

Running LyricsMaster on 1.3
FFBlue:

I found myself wishing the same thing. After a little lyrics obsession I had this morning (just had to know the lyrics to a certain song) I decided I can wait no longer and I did the following 5 simple steps (please note that it worked for me, but I can't guarantee it will work for you or that it won't damage anything, backup any file you change first) :

1. Opened (using notepad) the following file "...extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\install.rdf" located under my SongBird profile folder (under %appdata%).
2. Replaced the value of em:maxVersion from "1.3.0a" to "1.4.0a" and saved the file.
*** You can try restarting Songbird and see if it works for you now. Myself, I encountered a parsing issue and had to perform steps 3 - 4 as well.
3. Opened (using notepad) the following file "...extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content\pane.xul" located under my Songbird profile folder (under %appdata%).
4. Deleted the entire line 26:
menuitem id="metadataMenuItem" label="&menu.tools.metadata;" oncommand="LM_goDoCommand('cmd_metadata');" including the <> , If i write them it doesn't write the line correctly
5. Saved the file and restarted Songbird.

Works great now.

Thank god for OpenSource!!!

Raid

An easier method might be to download the xpi manually (click here for a version list), open it as a zip file.. Edit install.rdf and change the "1.3.0a" to "1.4.0*" (yes that's an asterix after the 0)

Then go to the chrome/content directory in the xpi archive, and edit the pane.xul,

CHANGE the label="&menu.tools.metadata;" to label="&menu.file.metadata;" as the "View Metadata" option has moved to the file menu..

Then install the .xpi file normally (through the addons menu)

braintank

What became out of the "dynamic lyrics" issue? A combination with the
scrolling_lyrics addon would be awesome!

If that is not possible, it would be cool if lyricmaster would understand .lrc files or .txt files with timestamps!

laurakthomas

From Get Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/lyricmaster_aggregator_fetch_batch_option_not_working_on_song_selections

LyricMaster Aggregator: Fetch, Batch option not working on song selections * Edit
or Cancel
I have Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331142126). I did not update to the latest version since many plugins I use are not supported as yet in the latest version.

When I play any song, I notice that the lyrics appear on the sidebar and get saved into the ID3 tag of the song that's playing. But, when I select multiple songs and use the "Edit Metadata" option, click on the "Lyrics" tab, and click the Batch button, I can't get any lyrics. The list of songs show up on the "LyricMaster Aggregator" window and there is a spinning circle next to each song, but no lyrics get fetched even after waiting five minutes. The problem happens even when a single song is selected and I go into the "Fetch" option on the "Lyrics" tab of "Edit Metadata".

Is there a problem with the Batch / Fetch option in LyricMaster?
 
:-( I’m frustrated

razorhanny

Please, make this available for songbird 1.5.0! That's the version of songbird I'm using right now, and I was sad when I noticed I couldn't install LyricMaster plugin. Thanks!

predator

Hi everyone,
I'm new to songbird and would love to download the lyrics feature but it say's it's not compatible with my version, 1.3.0 build 1211. When I look for updates I get a message saying I have the current version. what do I need gang?
look forward to any help you can give.

DivinityCycle

I have uploaded an updated version to Google Code. It hopefully should be making its way here soon. The update makes the extension compatible with the most recent betas of Songbird (version 1.4, not 1.5. There is no such thing as SongBird 1.5 yet), and also fixes the batch issue.

jackalfe

Que tal, soy nuevo en estos campos de Linux, me parece una muy buena aportaciòn de "lyrics" en el Songbird, recién lo utilizo, pero creo que me volveré adicto a el.

Gracias y éxito

Rolle

LyricWiki.org is http://lyrics.wikia.com/ today. The API doesn't work any more. It crashes songbird for me, and saves weird error xml to song's meta... pffff. Fix this pls.

Maya

erm....is there any possibility to put the lyrics on the iPod so they can be displayed?
sorry if this question is already answered i didn't read through all the comments...

thanks for help

stevles

Updated version that works with all songbird upto 1.6.0.
http://rapidshare.com/files/289791179/Lyricmaster.xpi

*note: this is just version 1.7.0.0 but with edited code enabling use on higher versions.
Enjoy!

P.S. Thank you to Moragos and Raid for providing the details enabling me to do this! :)

randomz

Great plugin! However, it doesn't correctly display non-English lyrics that are saved in the database (not downloaded from the web).

If I input lyrics in, say, Korean via the metadata editor, save and then reload the lyrics, they're not displayed but replaced by gibberish. This seems to indicate that different encodings are used when loading and saving the lyrics. They are displayed in the same messed-up way in both the metadata editor and the lyrics pane.

Also, when non-English lyrics are available on the web, they are displayed correctly, but once I save and reload them, they turn into gibberish, too.

I guess there are two ways to work around this problems: a) use Unicode for both saving and loading lyrics, as apparently already happens when loading lyrics from the web; b) provide a way to set the encoding to be used when displaying lyrics (this is obviously less comfortable).

I'd really like seeing this fixed.

Apart from that, LyricsMaster brings a lot of convenience to my music listening :) so thanks for making it.

stevles

that could probably be fixed with a little code work... Hopefully one of these days the maker gets off his lazy arse :) *P.S. Just joking I meant no offence*

snowbunny

i keep getting this error code
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <error>
  
  
  ******************************************************************
  ** **
  ** This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page **
  ** **
  ** Documentation and Examples: **
  ** http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API **
  ** **
  ********************************************

wtf should i do?

shevanski

Lyrics will not be grabbed for a song in progress if lyric master is switched to during playback. For example, I have Now Playing selected as my sidebar, then I start playing a song. Now I switch to Lyric Master, and no lyrics appear. They do not appear if I hit refresh lyrics either. Can you check to grab lyrics if a song if playing currently when it is initialized as the sidebar? Thanks much, great extension.

one71

since a while it has stopped working: I can not fetch any song from the net anymore!!! what's wrong? (I have tried both fetch sites available: same result)

Hiromacu

@stevles: Thank you very much for the updated version! It works well with Songbird 1.4.0b3! :)

fatherofsix

Lastest Version is incompatible with Songbird 1.3.

plz do something.

Hiromacu

@fatherofsix: You should read the previous comments! Stevles uploaded an updated version to rapidshare.com 7 days ago, that works with all songbird upto 1.6.0.

baysid3

here's a mirror of stevies upload!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=08DTZWUH

DivinityCycle

I am the Patrick Simonds listed in the contributors section of this extension.
The whole "I posted a patched version" has gotten out of hand. The main administrator for this plugin is MIA and hasn't responded to email in a few months. I have been in contact with Stephen Lau, who gave me access to this extension's Google Code. I have posted the following changes / patches to Google Code. The Google Code page for this extension is here:
http://code.google.com/p/lyricmaster/
Since most people don't know how to download the extension from SVN, I put my most recent version on MediaFire for you all to download.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e1ed38ad2a8d1bd1e7ba8e3c6e11ce20e04e75f6e8ebb871
It includes the following changes/fixes:
-Fixed Install.rdf by increasing Max Version Number to 1.6.0. Also updated
extension version # to 1.7.1.0
-Patched search logic to fix Batch Fetch function (I broke it on last release,
sorry!)
-Fixed XML Parsing Error by commenting out Line 26 of content/pane.xul
-Removed LyricWiki as a potential source of lyrics for now, since its 100%
broken by server-side changes (Thanks to Chris L. for pointing this out)
--Commented out line 36 of options.xul

nima.lena

hey,
it's an amazing plug-ins. in fact i didn't have problem with winamp just the lyrics. so you see what an unfortunate situation might be if you transform to songbird for just a plugin named lyric master and when you press the install button in lyricmaster after installation and restarting the songbird it doesn't even show me lyricmaster in addons. what is the problem?

dadrivr

LyricMaster still doesn't work with shoutcast radio. It retrieves the lyrics for the first song, but it doesn't refresh when a new song plays. Please fix this.

wilson.alzate

This is a really nice add-on.... i thought that only English lyrics were available but surprise, songs in Spanish and German were found... thanks so much for this really excellent work.. please continue making better this project

sunfire

that´s very cooL

ben2talk

The Install button is greyed out - what's the story?

DivinityCycle

ben2talk, what version of Songbird are you running? If you are running beta or nightly builds you'll need to download my updated version, which I posted to both the Google Code page and this MediaFire URL:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e1ed38ad2a8d1bd1e7ba8e3c6e11ce20e04e75f6e8ebb871

tonoy29

Its good!

acrcool245

is there a way to disable for ever the lirycs column? I don't need this column and I don't like the icon.

DivinityCycle

Right click on the column headers and uncheck Lyrics...

acrcool245

@DivinityCycle
Yes, but when I restart Songbird, it appears again.

DivinityCycle

OK that bug is confirmed here with Songbird 1.2 running on Windows 7 with LyricMaster 1.7.1. I have no idea why that is happening but I know it is happening, will try to figure it out.

toperzar

hello everybody
there is a problem with songbird 1.5 version, this addon is not compatible, it just with 1.2 one.
any idea?
thanks
Raul

tryfonaration

There is an incompatibility with "Now Playing List" add-on. When you double click the song in your library it gets added in the List instead of start playing. So you have to go to the List and start it from there. But then when you turn to the LyricMaster pane the lyrics are not loaded and there doesn't seem to be a way to get them loaded.

tryfonaration

LyricMaster causes the Songbird window to maximize every time it switches to the next song in the playlist. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10
That's a serious bug!

Jasperovic

@DivinityCycle

"I am the Patrick Simonds listed in the contributors section of this extension.
The whole "I posted a patched version" has gotten out of hand. The main administrator for this plugin is MIA and hasn't responded to email in a few months. I have been in contact with Stephen Lau, who gave me access to this extension's Google Code. I have posted the following changes / patches to Google Code. The Google Code page for this extension is here:
http://code.google.com/p/lyricmaster/
Since most people don't know how to download the extension from SVN, I put my most recent version on MediaFire for you all to download.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e1ed38ad2a8d1bd1e7ba8e3c6e11ce20e04e75f6e8ebb871
It includes the following changes/fixes:
-Fixed Install.rdf by increasing Max Version Number to 1.6.0. Also updated
extension version # to 1.7.1.0
-Patched search logic to fix Batch Fetch function (I broke it on last release,
sorry!)
-Fixed XML Parsing Error by commenting out Line 26 of content/pane.xul
-Removed LyricWiki as a potential source of lyrics for now, since its 100%
broken by server-side changes (Thanks to Chris L. for pointing this out)
--Commented out line 36 of options.xul"

The provided Mediafire link seems to be broken. Is it possible to post a new one?

DivinityCycle

um it works for me. Shrug?

deques

Hey,
great plugin, but for some reason I dont get the whole lyrics. only a part of it. then it ends with [...]
am i the only one who is getting this?

toperzar

the plugin doesn't work good for me.
i am using ubuntu 9.10 and songbird 1.5.0

thanks

smitty5569

It would be extremely awesome if somehow you could add a feature that auto scrolls the lyrics that would keep up with the song

Shearer

Good add-ons. But can't found unicode support, while saving lyric into *.mp3 files. :(

Stevo32792

@deques Go to the options for LyricMaster and change the retrieve site to lyricsplugin.com instead of lyricswiki.

ALSO, is anyone having problems with retrieving lyrics for their entire library? I click the button and it does nothing...

Bad2theBone

I had posted this problem originally on the main app forum thinking not realizing that it was this addon. The problem is that the Edit Metadata Dialog Box is missing the right edge leaving off the OK button. When editing multiple files the OK button is totally missing, but single file edits the left end of the button is there. The OK function is there you just have to TAB the focus over to what should be the OK button and hit enter. The mouse pointer will not work. As suggested by someone else on the forum I disabled LyricMaster and the problem went away. Changing feathers as another person had suggested, did not have any effect on it.

kejbar

great...

Areleos

Is there any way that I can make lyric master use the album artist instead of the artist, when searching for the lyrics? My library contains a lot of songs with feat. artist and their names are included in the artist tag, this seems to confuse lyricmaster and thus the lyrics are not displayed.

livingdaylight

don't seem to be able to Install? the Install button doesn't highlight or do anything when i hover over it or click on it.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10

any ideas?

thank you

holy_

Can't display japanese metadata... but works on lyricsplugin
And can't fetch the lyrics
Using Windows 7 Prof 64bit

lovenemesis

Err, please make it usable for Songbird 1.4 Beta 3. Thanks.

eriktaveras

GRACIAS

acaciosc

Essential for me!
Greetings from Brazil.

elegyfordoom

Hey there, nice AddOn!! I have a problem though, after I reinstalled Songbird and forgot to back up my settings...
So now the full lyrics content won't show on the plugin, just goes [...] on the 5th line.
Please help me through this.
Thanx

fredphoesh

First Track of album often not added...

Hi there, and thanks for the great plugin.

Very often, not always, when I click on a first track of an album, it does not add the lyrics found to the mp3 file. From track 2 onwards it works fine.

I'd love it to "crawl" my collection in the background and add lyrics as it finds them!

Tx
Mark.

vincent325

Thanks!

gnome1919

There is a bug in Windows Vista and 7:
When you save downloaded lyrics to ID3tag, triple x(as unknown language) and double vertical bar added automatically to the start of lyrics like this:

XXX||...(lyrics)

this procedure cause Windows Vista or 7 not to show song cover art in explorer windows when you switch to large icon view. I found that if you remove the five characters, which I mentioned before (XXX||), the problem will be solved.

Please consider this bug in the future updates. thanks

DivinityCycle

@gnome1919
I am unable to reproduce the issue you describe and believe your issue is being caused by something else. Are you exclusively using Songbird to embed your artwork, or doing it some other way?

Also, please note that the language code being set to "xxx" is actually an issue with SongBird itself and not something that could be changed by the extension. The SB developers' response to this issue is basically "You're free to write a patch to fix this but we don't care to." Here's me asking the devs about it and their response:
http://groups.google.com/group/songbird-dev/browse_thread/thread/1b87698f7bbae366/07c27fd6e4e148bc#07c27fd6e4e148bc

Please also note that as others in the comments have said, there are several workarounds to this issue, you just need to use third party software that actually DOES respect the language code. The free example I would recommend is the extremely powerful Mp3tag, which can be used to batch-replace the term "xxx||" with "eng||" in all your files in one step.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

The other way to do it is to simply write anything into the lyrics tags using any program that respects the language code (iTunes, Mp3tag, Tag&Rename, etc), and then run the files through LyricMaster, which will overwrite the junk with actual lyrics.

I am in the process of fixing up / auditing my music library (which is very large), so I have had to figure out what works and what doesn't. I have processed about 20,000 tracks this way, so I can confirm it does work, resulting in tracks with lyrics tagged into them which can then be displayed in devices like my iPod Touch :)

faust-nt

once again - when lyricmaster will read lyrics.wikia.com instead lyrics.wiki.org?

MarjonW

Great stuff!! Thank you!!

I found that I can add lyrics myself with the Windows Media Player after installing www.lyricsplugin.com (a button in the LyricsMaster to add lyrics would be nice though).

I found something strange however: the lyrics I added for:
Title: Hilly Fields (1982)
Artist: Nick Nicely
Album: Psychotropia
were found by the Windows Media Player but not by LyricsMaster.
Ive tried removing the brackets from the mp3’s title and from the lyrics database, but only when I lost the (1982) completely it worked and LM also found the lyrics.
????

A suggestion: maybe somebody could make a button so that a second pane opens with the translation of the lyrics? I open Google Translate in another window to translate the lyrics, if this could be done within the SB screen that would be very nice.

DivinityCycle

@faust-nt

They currently have disabled lyrics access in their API. Please see here:
http://groups.google.com/group/lyricwiki-api/browse_thread/thread/733ccd919d654040

gnome1919

@DivinityCycle

Hi and thanks for your response;
I use MP3tag software to manage my MP3 files' ID3 including artwork, but this problem concerns to all MP3 files not just the ones which is manipulated by MP3tag software, i mean i've tested it myself.
I hope that Songbird developer team solve this issue on the future releases and thanks again for your effort.

trschober

Hi!
Just letting you know this add-on is not working on the latest builds or 1.4.1 (Korn), from here:
http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/Korn/
tested on 1392 and 1394, Lyricmaster states: "Nothing Playing"
maybe there was a subtle API change in Songbird?

pr1mal0ne

Ok so I dont want lyrics up all the time, I right clicked and hit "hide"

now i cant get it back.
Shouldnt there be an intuitive way to control what is showing in songbird and what isnt.
there probably is but its not obvious enough for me to find at the moment

mullens101

As trschober noted, this isn't working with newer builds. I'm running 1.6.0a build 1393. I get an XML parsing error with entity not defined on line 26 of pane.xul. If I comment out line 26 of this file things work with no errors. Here's the commented out line:

<!--menuitem id="metadataMenuItem" label="&menu.tools.metadata;" oncommand="LM_goDoCommand('cmd_metadata');"/ -->

hiddensanctum

Is it possible to add Asian Language support on this? When it tries to search the Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters display in google search incorrectly.

Also, the lyrics in Asian character don't show up on the iPhone correctly, however English shows up fine

zaba

Songbird could not install the file at

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/xpis/4334?source=install

because: Not a valid install package
-207

i cant download it..HELP me FAST!

trschober

@mullens101
My extension had that line already commented out...

finemann

Hi,

I use Songbird 1.2.0 on Windows XP. First of all lemme tell you that LyricsMaster is a Kickass addon! But there seems to be a problem while writing the UNSYNCEDLYRICS ID3 tag. its being written as XXX||"The lyrics goes here". Because of this many other applications are not displaying the lyrics properly (for instance my jailbreaked iPod Touch G2 running iPhone OS 3.1.2)...So please fix this bug of this otherwise great addon!

DivinityCycle

@finemann: See previous comments about this issue.

For people experiencing issues with the new Korn builds, an update is forthcoming to fix compatibility.

DivinityCycle

@hiddensanctum
What languages? The first thing to check would be to see if the site we get our lyrics from actually supports the language(s) you want. If it doesn't, then there's not really anything we can do about it. If that part works then I might be able to fiddle with it. Please note English is the only language I am fluent in, so I'll be useless in testing out such functionality.

@zaba
What? Cannot reproduce issue.

@pr1mal0ne
That's how panels are managed in Songbird and has nothing to do with LyricMaster itself.

@gnome1919
Can you send me a file which "doesn't work" in this way? I've been running Windows 7 for about 6 months and honestly have never seen this sort of thing. If nothing else I'd like to be able to figure out what's causing the probably non-standard-compliant tag reader in Explorer problems...

My e-mail address is my username on here at gmail dot com.

Arkady

Hi! sorry I just updated my songbird, and using the 1.7 lyric master. I had found it great previously, but now whenever it searches for lyrics it comes up with no lyrics found. This happens with everything. I have noticed that it searches for 'undefined''then the band and the lyrics and when i manually searched for them without the undefined it found them easily. Can anybody help me with this? This could be something I'm doing or something really simple that I'm missing, so help would be REALLY appreciated. Really liked the add on so would love this fixed. Thanks.

humbertoudg

excellent

.ElAndres

how do I add new lyrics?

raziel08

thats an awesome addon.
however i found an error.
whenever i save the lyircs to the tag of a vbr encoded mp3 the title/interpret/album tags will no longer be shown in the explorer. they are still "in" the file but i need to rewrite them every time in order to make them work.
im using win7 x64, songbird 1.2, mp3 with lame codec 3.98
any suggestions??

sirius365

@raziel08

It seems windows 7 does not like ID3 2.4 Tags (I'm on win7 32bit) & I had the same problem.
only way around it was to delete all the 2.4 tags & everything should show up again. due to some hardware failure some time back my music library is not what is used to be so I deleted all tags & retaged everything (with ID3 2.3 & lower) & set all my music folders to read only to try & prevent this until there's some kind of fix. I don't think its a bug with lyrics master & or songbird as such, its more a problem of Microsoft not supporting ID3 2.4. but oddly Vista could read all tags... beware If you go down the route of removing all tags it seems that 2.4 Tags seem to "stack" so they need wiping quite a few times.

I must add that everything was fine with songbird before I retagged everything submissions to last.fm worked OK & all tags showed up (in songbird & just about every other media) but not Windows Explorer or WMP I'm not sure if MS are going to fix it or not, likely they will just say hey we don't do 2.4 tags...

DivinityCycle

For maximum compatibility use ID3v2.3 UTF-16. You can CONVERT directly TO this format in one operation using Mp3tag.

Please also note that ID3v2.4 Lyrics tags do NOT work on the iPhone OS, whereas 2.3 UTF-16 do work. If you have 2.4 tags with Lyrics in them, you will experience the bug where the iPhone / iPod Touch simply displays "Loading..." but never displays the lyrics.

fviertel

install buttom dont work...anybody knows about thaht? tks

aLeX90

The updated version doesn't work with (at least) the Spanish translation installed, but does it's work with the default english language.

1.4.1beta

Paulms

I have problems with the Spanish Translation too. It doesn't work, in Songbird 1.4.1beta

ihavnoclue

I have an issue with this add-on:
After adding lyrics to a song if I check back sometime later lyrics have strange symbols added where the ' (apostrophes) should be.
This then stops my ipod from being able to read the lyrics.

DivinityCycle

@ihavnoclue
I'll need an example of a song with the non-working characters. If I can figure out what they are I should be able to replace them with characters that won't make the stupid iPod OS unhappy. This will be the third seperate and independent thing I've found that causes problems with it...

vsushkov

it's nice add-on. thx. but how to add my own lyrics to lyrucsplugin.com from LyricMaster?

vsushkov

ooops :) i found what i need.

foolishgrunt

Feature request: would there be any way to make the page scroll back up to the top when Songbird begins playing a new song?

Truly awesome addon, though. I just noticed a recent addition that hides the sidebar when no song is playing. Nice!

shadyabhi

Very nice. Great addon..
Pls add a feature so that the lyrics page scrolls back to the top when the song changes.

Joergenr

This add-on has a bug in the localized versions. I see this in the Lyrics pane: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul line 24, column 7: <menuitem />
------^

Windows XP. Songbird Version: Songbird 1.4.2, Build 1434 (20091221185809)

Joergen

Techno_funky

Does not work with 1.4.2, tried uninstalling reinstalling 2 times but no go. Halp!!

Techno_funky

1.4.1 sorry ^^^

rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

Since Version 1.7.3 Lyricmaster can't be disabled (except I choose another Addon in the pane), every time a song starts or the playback switchs to the next song, LyricMaster opens his pane. Maybe there is a possibility to notice the pane-closing as disabling until it is opened again?

pepeheavymetalfan

Error de lectura XML: entidad no definida
Ubicación: chrome://lyricmaster/content/pane.xul
Número de línea 24, columna 7: <menuitem />
------^

??? help! D: I can't see the lyrics, it only appear that. help!

DivinityCycle

@Techno_funky: You typo was actually pretty well timed, 1.4.2 literally just came out. I'm running LyricMaster 1.7.3 on SongBird 1.4.2 on top of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. So far, I can't seem to make LM misbehave. What exactly is happening when you try to use it?

@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
What version of Songbird and what OS?

@Joergenr
Thanks for the heads up, hopefully should be easy to fix.

@shadyabhi & foolishgrunt:
I'll look into it, thanks for the feedback :)

DivinityCycle

@pepeheavymetalfan: Looks like the same localization bug that Joergenr found.

mein_ruin

I got the same problem that rsjtdrjgfuzkfg described. Songbird 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 9.10.

jrusinek

I hope it uses lyrics.wikia.com (prev: lyricwiki.org) - they're the best :) .

ihavnoclue

@DivinityCycle I sent you an email a while ago with an example to the email you listed earlier.

DivinityCycle

@ihavnoclue
Yeah I sent you a reply back detailing my setup and my inability to reproduce your bug, with a request for more info. Never got any reply back :(

rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

@DivinityCycle:

Problem is gone with 1.7.4.
Thanks!

DivinityCycle

The last couple point releases were all the work of Stephen Lau. I DID send him an email summing up the stuff that's been posted in the comments, but he did the actual work on the code. Gotta love the collaborative nature of open source!

Vince

Is it possible to have an option to prevent the panel hide when there is no song playing, I don't really like to see my songlist being resize so often.

Keep up the good work!

cricker

For some reason, only the first few lines of the song will display and then end suddenly with [...]. Any ideas? (Running 1.7.5; am new to Songbird so am not sure if this occurred with previous versions).

inorbez

eu-ES translation is complete. I hope to see it soon on my Songbird.

foolishgrunt

The descriptions of the last two revisions in the version history say "reset window scroll to top upon track change." But I'm running Songbird 1.4.3 on both Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit, and neither show LyricMaster as having this feature.

noofny

could you please provide a way to show this in the bottom-left (now playing) or bottom panes...or can someone give some clues on how to hack this in if possible? thanks!

noofny

...oh bloody awesome plugin by the way - many many thanks :-)

DivinityCycle

@noofny
Stephen Lau is working on that exact feature (since I asked him for it) but it won't be ready for a bit. It isn't quite as trivial as hacking in a few lines of code...

helm

Great plugin, however I just installed Songbird 1.4.3 and Lyrics Master 1.7.5 and now if no lyric is found for a song it display a question "Save These Lyrics?" instead of the previous search the web for lyrics. I have set the program to automatically save the lyrics if available.

shadyabhi

+1 to helm

Ya, its a bug. I am also using Songbird 1.4.3 and LyricMaster 1.7.5 on ubuntu 9.10. When no lyric is found, it asks to "save lyrics", which is irrelevant. It should show the notification to do a "web search" like it used to be.
Hope to see the bug solved soon.

s_murli

It will be really great if this plug-in provides a way to use the edit interface provided by lyricsplugin.com. Songbird users also will be able to contribute to the lyricsplugin.com database.

chichikov

Are .m4a files unsupported?

surigra

@cricker I'm having the same problem! Please help! I'm running 1.7.5 on Songbird 1.4.3 on Windows Vista. Every song's lyrics look like this:

She knows I can't read
She knows I can't write
But these are the letters from [...]

very frustrating ;_;

xenotime

great plugin
is it possible to add our own server adress, it would be great for non-english song like french, chinese, and other...

yamal85

When will support the latest version(1.5.0a)? I'm waiting a long time

inorbez

Two weeks ago, I commented that the eu (basque) localization was ready. Please, don't forget it, I'm looking forward.

DivinityCycle

@xenotime
What do you mean "our own server address"? Can you give me an example of the kind of address you're talking about?

@surigra
Cannot reproduce that behavior.
I'm testing on with LyricMaster 1.7.5, Songbird 1.4.3 running on Windows 7 Ultimate x86. Are there any specific songs I should test?
@yamal85
I'll look into it. :)

elegyfordoom

I have the same problem! Only the first few lines of the song text is shown, and then suddenly a [...] mark.
I would like to point out that this did not occur till I once reinstalled Songbird. From then on, the addon could not show any lyrics properly. I'm running on Windows 7.

HenningStummer

Don't know if it's a new problem, but when I play music while SB is minimized (I use the MinimizeToTry add-on), SB is restored (pops up) on track change.
Other that that, this is a great add-on :)

tupsi

could you please think about changing the meta tag you enter from
XXX||lyrics text
to
eng||lyrics text

or give us an option in the settings to deal with that ourselfs?

background about this is, that the iphone/ipod refuses to show lyrics with the XXX|| present, but has no probs whatsoever to show them after I changed the tag with mp3tag to eng||

Thanks.

Pigudu

I also have the same issue with the [...] mark after only a few lines of lyrics.
It only happened after I upgraded Songbird to 1.4.3 and LyricMaster to 1.7.5. I'm running Songbird on Windows XP Pro.

mfn

HenningStummer: Don't know if it's a new problem, but when I play music while SB is minimized (I use the MinimizeToTry add-on), SB is restored (pops up) on track change.

I can confirm this. I just upgraded an old Songbird 1.2 installation and also LyricMaster was updated to 1.7.5

I now set "How do you want your lyrics saved" to "Never Save / Never Ask"; I had it to "Prompt to Save / Always Ask".

That "Prompt to save / Always Ask" in past versions did not bring Songbird to the foreground, which is ok, but now that option is useless to me.

animesh_jain9

m not abl to download it....

typerlc

Any chance to add an option to save lyrics in a file (for me, I prefer to keep the lyrics in a file in the same directory as the media file).

I really dislike my player of the day changing my media files!

If that's not technically possible, how about an option to save into the songbird db, like the original version?

typerlc

Sorry, one more request ... I have a lot of lyrics stored locally, but in .lrc format. Even if you don't implement scrolling support, it would be great if you could read these files and display them (without timecoding).

Mr.An3

Another request for better compatibility with the "Now playing" Addon, besides that this is a great plugin, keep up the good work. Greetings from colombia guys.

dadrivr

Still doesn't work with shoutcast radio. Please update to refresh lyrics when song changes! Thanks!

inorbez

Please, add the basque (eu) localization. Thanks.

gamma

The bug with "undefined" before the artist name is still present. It happens whenever the naming scheme is selected to be "Doe, John" instead of "John Doe".

agnespopagnes

I'm trying to add lyric tags to my whole mp3 collection (about 30000 songs). Is there any better way than using about 30 times the batch fetcher with the 1000 songs limit?

JasonDW

How do you activate the batch fetcher? Sorry if this is a silly question but I cannot seem to work it out.

coffee-turtle

Your plugin is my favorite for Songbird. What is the last version of Songbird that will work with it? I want to try the 1.7 build, but I would hate to lose Lyrics Master. Thank you.

agnespopagnes

@JasonDW: You right click on a selection of titles (has to be between 2 and 1000 of them) and choose "View Metadata". You can then find the batch button in the lyrics tab of the metadata editor.

mjones41

I can't install this at all with version 1.4.3, it is just greyed out, cmon developer gurus, keep up, please :(

winter123

Using windows 7 btw and I love this add-on :) I used to use itunes and always wished I had something like this. But... Downloaded songbird like a weekago, and just installed today. When i changed the option to "automatically add lyrics" it crashes every time, so I changed the option back to ask me. I really wish I could have them added automatically! Also, I would like if actual lyrics are found to overwrite if I have just garbage in there (like, "lyrics could not be found" etc because I used to use itunes freeware crap like lyricsnapper which hardly worked)

DivinityCycle

@tupsi
Please read about that same issue on this comments page, this has already been addressed. You're welcome to submit a patch to Songbird if you think you can fix it.

@mjones41
What are you talking about? We have supported 1.4x builds since LyricMaster 1.7.1.0. What version of Songbird and LyricMaster are you trying to work with? What OS?

@gamma
I can reproduce this so it looks like a genuine bug. Will have a look at it ASAP.

@winter123
Can you consistently get Songbird to crash? If so I will need a sample file that causes the crash so I can try and figure out why that's happening.

@Mr.An3
What do you mean, exactly?

@typerlc
This will likely never be supported, as what you request is completely outside the tagging standards used by pretty much the entire world. You're welcome to submit a patch, though :)

For everyone experiencing the "..." issue, I still cannot reproduce this at all :( I'm going to email

DivinityCycle

er my last comment was cut off.
I'm going to email the Lyricsplugin.com guys to see if maybe they have some explanation. The actual lyrics retrieval code doesn't try to do any real processing, so it seems likely that the "..." versions of lyrics are being returned by the site for some weird reason.

winter123

Unfortunately, I am trying now and I cannot. Well, I guess that's not unfortunate for me, but if there's really a bug I'd like to help. I guess it was something odd with a particular artist. If it happens again I'll tell you the artist/album and some information about the files.

jithin1987

I have a issue with this addon and now playing addon.
Say if I start playing a song and lycricmaster fetches the lyric, then if I switch to Now playing display pane and then switch back the lyric is gone. I just get a blank pane. It seems that only when we start playing a song the lyric master fetches the lyric.
Clicking refresh lyrics does nothing in this scenario.

jithin1987

Also when starting playback if the focus was not on lyricmaster display pane ( it was on now playing pane in my case) lyric master says "Nothing Playing"

inorbez

Euskara or basque language is ready to be used. Thanks.

Menthix

My most beloved Songbird add-on :).

leohoyee

For the "..." problem, this happens because lyrics wiki can no longer provide full lyric through their API. Please make sure you have lyricsplugin selected in the addon option.

It will be great if you all log bugs you encounter at http://code.google.com/p/lyricmaster/issues/list It is really hard to keep track of bug in this long thread.

captchasux

Songbird 1.4.3 and LyricMaster 1.7.5
The lyrics never show on the right panel, it only says Nothing Playing.

teikyo30

See, this is why I like Jet Audio. First off, it's simple. Second, it has numerous settings for equalizer, etc, third, it plays almost every format including video. Some of us like media players that we can set to be our one and only, sort of like how vlc is for video. The lyric thing is really annoying on songbird. Assuming I could get beyond having something with playlists, like itunes, which is something I don't really like, but can use in jet audio also, the lyric thing just doesn't work. I have never seen one single song have any lyrics. I use jet audio and if one server can't find the lyrics the other one can. Please fix it so I can keep playing with songbird. And the powers that be for the other stuff: add video support, and and equalizer. Thanks :)

muttal

lyrics text is always wrapped around with no end of line.it appears as one contineous line of text with no end of line.
these files look fine in the Lyrics under ID3 tag.
how can i fix this?
please advice/suggesr.

this is one the best plugins i have ever seen.

grantmeaname

I'm having the same problem as r3d, with the unicode square with "00 19" in it replacing all my apostrophes. That isn't that hard to fix, right?

Ethelred

I can only pull lyrics from lyricsplugin.com and not lyrics.wikia.com anymore… Is it a bug or is it deliberate? The latter is more complete.
Anyway, great addon.

fcastillo

Is there any chance you can add at option for auto-hide the lyrics pane? Mashtape has it, I think that'll help a lot. A lot of people don't like to see the lyrics pane when you're browsing

nos09

how do i save the lyrics ?
i mean how do i get backup ?

Yotta

i cant batch the lyrics. it will "search" but never come up with anything. also if i try the "scan entire library for lyrics" option its will freeze like its going to do something, but doesn't. if a song is playing, it will find the lyrics and successfully save them. can you help me with this problem?

DevilDoc5

ok well first off, for some reason sb doesnt seem to like this add on any more...out of date? IDK. I did go into the install.rdf file and changed the maxversion to 1.7.* After that I try and install again and it comes up with error "not compatible with Songbird 1.5.0a" Anyone else have any ideas or work arounds or anything like that?

Sanathan

So how is this different from the standard Mashtape lyrics feature that shows up to the side? Is it simply the ability to edit lyrics, and choose alternate sources for obtaining lyrics?

leodbil

Hi for the most part I love this add-on. But, I'm having some problems... When playing a song, the track name, album and artist is displayed along with an option to save these lyrics. Problem is there are no lyrics. Where is this web search button that I've read about?

Also most of the songs I listen to are jazz standards, non-vocal versions. But I do love to read the lyrics. As a performer I find this useful to get a general Idea of what the composer had in mind. Anyway, it seems that the lyric search works by combining the artist and track in one query. Is there a way I can alter that process to just search for the track. I know this would return lots of results and that could be a problem. But that ability would be handy. Usuall I go to lyricsfly.com and search-copy-paste into SB.

In your help file it shows an option for lyric databases. My preference pane has no options available.

Thanks for your time.

Macbook pro Leopard
SB 1.4.3

DivinityCycle

@Sanathan How do you even get MashTape to display lyrics?
@leodbil one of the two service providers turned off third party access to lyrics, and no one has looked at adding any new services to the extension.

ohdediku

nice inpho gan... :)

robbie.x

When listening to shoutcast radio, LyricMaster does not refresh the lyrics automatically.
The title of the actual song is displayed correct, but the lyrics do not renew.
Even right-clicking and "Refresh Lyrics" has no effect.
What helps, is first right-clicking and "Clear Lyrics" and then right clicking and "Refresh Lyrics". Now I can see the lyrics of the playing song.

I'm sure, that this is a very small bug only.. (?)

By the way: Thank you very much for this plugin

P.S:
LyricMaster Version 1.7.5
SongBird Version 1.4.3 Build 1483
Windows Vista 64 Bit

robbie.x

Me again:

Today the problem (directly above) suddenly has disappeared.

I don't know why (no updates were made), but now everything's fine.

:-)

Sanathan

@DivinityCycle: It looks like I was confused. I don't recall asking for the Lyrics Plug-in (only selected the option for Mashtape) when I downloaded Songbird. I thought that the lyrics I saw to the right were related to Mashtape, but I just checked and LyricMaster is actually installed. My version of Songbird is: Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438

Sanathan

Does this actually save the lyrics in the ID3 tag info? When I access the .MP3 files in iTunes, and look at the Lyrics tab there, I don't see the lyrics that are saved with Songbird / LyricMaster.

g.sharanya

i cant seem to find the lyrics...i downloaded this add on around 5 times...n yet i cant view the lyrics....wats the problem here.???

PogoLoops

Definitely the best add-on. That's what got me to switch from itunes to songbird, thanks!
Yet: Doesn't find many french songs lyrics.

SongBirdLover

If I save the lyrics inside the mp3 (on my Win7, 64bit, ultimate) the properties in win-explorer will be shown empty.
After opening this mp3 in Mp3tag and save it again, everything works fine.
Could it be, that the lyrics are saved with a 'too old' ID3 tag-version?

SongBirdLover

Is there any possibility to save the lyrics outside the music-files, without changing the metadata?

4thvanishingpoint

hi
lately I had problem with this great plugin by far one of my favourites
After the last Songbird update it doesn't downloads the lyrics anymore, I tried very popular stuff nothing obscure and still no luck, I checked firewalls and everything and everything looks alright..
any idea?
thanks

yiyi

I'm also among the people who have problem with Lyricmaster when it concerns Asian language.

It never find the lyrics when the title is in, we will say, Japanese but if the lyrics are in english then it find it.

Plus, If I want to add it manually, when refreshing the lyrics, it only shows "?" or irrelevant characters instead of the true lyrics. I try to copy past from different sources and it's always the same problem. (but at the same time, it does no do this for all of the songs and sometimes Japanese character are properly shown but not most of te time.)

(by the way, nothing does change when I click on the "fetch button" and I have the Lyricmaster 1.7.5)

I also adressed the issue here with screenshot: http://code.google.com/p/lyricmaster/issues/detail?id=8

I hope something will be done about this problem because this add-on is particularly good and it's one of the reason why I'm so fond of Songbird!

ManChicken

How does one actually correct lyrics this plugin pulls up and submit it back? I have several songs that the lyrics couldn't be more wrong, but from Songbird it's apparently read-only.

The lyricsplugin.com website is useless and has absolutely nothing there except 2 download links. I even tried installing their plugin for Windows Media Player but it seemed just as read-only.

dadrivr

Quote from robbie.x: "When listening to shoutcast radio, LyricMaster does not refresh the lyrics automatically. The title of the actual song is displayed correct, but the lyrics do not renew. Even right-clicking and "Refresh Lyrics" has no effect. What helps, is first right-clicking and "Clear Lyrics" and then right clicking and "Refresh Lyrics"."

Could someone update this bug, PRETTY PLEASE?!

waffull

Great add-on.... FYI, the 'scan entire library for lyrics' button does not work.

Running on Win7 64bit, but also tried on WinXP w/SP3 (32bit) and Vista w/SP1 (32bit), didn't work on any.

Is there a bug tracker for this extension?

thanks..

OsCarry

Hi, I Need Help for this, I have to Versión: Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438 (20091223030259) and his Add-on don´t work ... Can you help me ?? Thanks

precipitous

Using version 1.7.7 with Songbird 1.7.2, Build 1667 (20100509171754). Ever since updating to these versions, the lyrics pane closes after each song. It used to stay open at all times. This new behavior is extremely annoying. Please let me know if this is a known issue, or is due to a setting I missed.

MrX

I am using Lyric Master 1.7.7 with Songbird 1.7.3.
But the Lyrics Pane does not open automatically when starting a song. Must be opened manually.
When I stop playback, the Lyric Pane gets closed again.
Would be better if the Lyrics Pane would always be open (like in previous versions).

evolutionemi

i have the same problem,in the last version always,i must restart every time and doesn't install it.

lorddevi

This is what a person gets for upgrading these days. Songbird 1.4 was working just fine! Why oh why did I bother. Lyrics pane is missing, and I can't even figure out how to bring it up manually like you folks seem to be doing. "View -> Show Right Pane" does not exist in my Songbird 1.7.3. How is this done?

voyagerfan5761

waffull, I believe http://code.google.com/p/lyricmaster/issues/detail?id=5 is related to your issue. The button in the settings seems to be for scanning the whole library for existing lyric metadata, though it's quite confusingly labeled if that's the case.

honkerdown

I love(d) this plugin, that is until I noticed that all of the lyrics downloaded have a bit of HTML tacked on the end. This plugin never used to do that, but I just noticed it today. :(

This is the HTML that is tacked on:
www.tunerankings.com

DivinityCycle

I cannot confirm that "ALL" the lyrics tag this.
I CAN confirm this on any lyrics that return no results. Instead of getting no lyrics, we get that link. This can be fixed pretty easily.

honkerdown

I know that all of the lyrics that were found for the songs I played yesterday (8/2/2010) had this tag in it, including when the lyrics are found & downloaded.

rsjtdrjgfuzkfg

Seems that lyricsplugin.com stopped working and returns a link only. Not directly an issue of LyricMaster, but it would be great it there are other sources in new versions, and if you disable lyricsplugin.com until it works again (http://www.lyricsplugin.com/wmplayer03/plugin/?title=Something&artist=Something -> result is always a link to http://www.lyricsvip.com/, no matter what artist and title I use)

telseth

It looks as though, after a bit of digging... that instead of pulling the lyrics straight up like it used to; it now pulls the page with the link, then does a javascript call to replace the link with the lyrics. This just needs to be updated with a different source or updated to handle the refresh.

ihaveanissue

I have the same problem. Im just getting lyricsvip link whenever it fetchs new lyrics. Any idea to solve this?

youthb

怎么不能用了，不能下载歌词了，只返回来的一些歌词信息和文件的链接。是不是该更新了？
 it can not work now. it can not get the lrcs.please check to grade up.

alsticky

Yep. It's dead, Jim. Same symptoms as everyone else: No lyrics, just the lyricsvip.com URL whenever it tries to fetch.

And yes: Before it died, all of the lyrics downloaded have the tunerankings.com url as HTML tacked on the end. ALL of them.

I'm also reporting this fustercluck for > eight other users in my WoW guild ;)

FreekH12

Doesn't work for my anymore also. Anyone know anything to replace it? I kinda used it often

DivinityCycle

Yeaaah the LyricsPlugin.com people apparently have changed stuff on the server side of things. I have never been able to get a response from them about how I would go about changing the lyrics on their site or details on their site's API. So, I don't expect we'll be able to get an explanation about what is happening or how to fix it.

This unfortunately may mean finding one or more new sources for lyrics and then developing the stuff to search, retrieve, and process the resulting lyrics, which could take a while. Lame!

telseth

I was working on a way for it to use chart lyrics... but, my nested ajax is failing for some reason, but if you want to work off of it and fix it here's how it (is supposed to) work:

1. var url = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/SearchLyric?artist=" + _artist + "&song=" + _search_track;

(example: http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/SearchLyric?artist=Animal%20Collective&song=Did%20You%20See%20the%20Words )

2. parse out the first lyricid and checksum

3. nested ajax calls: var urltwo = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=" + _lyricid + "&lyricCheckSum=" + _checksum;

(example: http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=9414&lyricCheckSum=433485501b20d408f770e92aadffa887 )
4. Parse out the lyric.

since, i'm neither the creator or a maintainer, if i get it working this way... i guess it doesn't help, but hopefully the maintainer can use this.

nickhivon

HELP!! i've used this add-on before, however it was on a different computer. both are macs, (the ld one and the one i'm on now) but for some reason, whenever i play a song, lyricmaster gives me this as the lyrics: "http://www.lyricsvip.com" for every single song in my library. it's shown as a link, and when i click it nothing happens. refreshing the lyrics does not help, it keeps giving me that same link. HELP!??!?!?

lol768

From this javascript file: http://www.lyricsplugin.com/winamp03/plugin/content.js it looks like the javascript creates a time code and a few other variables and then passes them on to the content.php file.

If there was somehow a way to redirect the traffic (a proxy maybe or a host file redirect?) and add a timecode this would start working again.

Here is the code the javascript uses:

var ts = new Date().getTime();
var url = "content.php?artist=" + art + "&title=" + tit + "&ts=" + ts;

and then this url is grabbed using Ajax. This seems like a deliberate attempt to shut out programs which scrape their site for lyrics.

alsticky

DivinityCycle, I don't see you listed as a Contributor. Are you one of the coders or do you just play one in these Comments?

muzena

I`ve found some solution!
Download this file lyricmaster-1.7.7.rar from

http://sites.google.com/site/songbird18b3/songbird

remove old lyricmaster add-on unpack and install this file. in liricsmaster options change plugin to lyricwiki.org

alsticky

Wait a second...Patrick Simonds? Since you're a committer on this, what did Ryan say when you asked about this going FUBAR? And did you already fwd this issue to stevel for his possible assistance in negotiating LyricsPlugin.com?

Just seemed strange you went from "fixed pretty easily" to driving a stake in it. Please keep us updated?

FreekH12

@muzena
It works partially for my. I get the lyrics, but just a part of it. Mostly the first 5 lines ending with [...]

But it's more then nothing. Thanks!

alsticky

@muzena
Same here...Just first 5 lines ending with [...]. (And it appears lyricswiki doesn't have a very robust library, either).

But yes, thanks! Hey, at least we know that adding additional databases is in LyricMaster's future.

@DivinityCycle
We all have 1.7.7 already -- Is this google site download a hack job?, or just an improperly (mis)versioned beta?

DivinityCycle

@ alsticky I'm Patrick Simonds. I contributed some fixes / improvements to search handling and mostly have been filtering what people say on here through to Stephen Lau, who's pretty much running this project now. Ryan Winter is the original author of LyricMaster but he's been off the project since December of 09.

DivinityCycle

The Google beta was a temporary thing until my contributions could get added back into the mainline release here. Steve is currently the only guy with access to do that.

DivinityCycle

Gotta look at this stuff more once I get off work (busy day at the office ;P)

Lukas_Skywalker

I got a fix for this. Will be online in the next 24 hours (also busy). Stand by.

ihaveanissue

Hey Ive found some useful information posted on getsatisfaction.

Mmm, let's see. If you try to search Crazy by Aerosmith (for example) with the URL http://www.lyricsplugin.com/wmplayer03/plugin/?artist=aerosmith&title=crazy
You first get the "www.lyricsvip.com" text, after 1 second the lyrics shows up! Songbird use some ajax call to lyricsplugin.com to get the text, so we get the first "lyricsvip.com", but when the website change it's content, songbird don't update is content.

lol768

Here's my contribution, however I haven't tested it:

var lyricmasterFetcher= {fetch_lyr: function (artist, track, cbFn) {

var prefs = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService).getBranch("extensions.lyricmaster.");
        prefs.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch2);
        var lm_libStyle = prefs.getCharPref("libStyle");
        var lm_webLoc = prefs.getCharPref("webLoc");

if (lm_libStyle == "DOEJ"){
var edit_artist = artist.split(", ");
artist = edit_artist[1] + " " +edit_artist[0];
}
edit_artist = artist.split(" (");
var search_artist = artist;
if (edit_artist.length>0)
{
search_artist = edit_artist[0];
}
var search_track = track;
var edit_track = track.split(" (");
if (edit_track.length>0)
{
search_track = edit_track[0];
}
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
var _artist = encodeURIComponent(artist);
var _search_track = encodeURIComponent(search_track);

if (lm_webLoc == "LWIKI"){
var url = "http://lyricwiki.org/api.php?artist=" + _artist + "&song=" + _search_track + "&fmt=text";
}

if (lm_webLoc == "LPLUGIN"){ var ts = new Date().getTime();
var url = "http://www.lyricsplugin.com/wmplayer03/plugin/content.php?ts=" + ts + "&title=" + _search_track + "&artist=" + _artist;
}

req.open("GET", url, true);
req.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState != 4)
{
return;
}
if (this.status == 200)
{
var respLyr = this.responseText;

if (lm_webLoc == "LPLUGIN")
{
            respLyrResult = respLyr.split("

lol768

I've tried to modify this with some updated code but in never seems to make any difference. Still displaying the link.

Lukas_Skywalker

@lol768 That's what i tried. But I keep getting a blank page; must have pulled something out of the cache yesterday when it worked.
The only change *they* made is making an XMLHttpRequest on their own site and adding the timestamp argument. I more or less copied their XMLHttpRequest and pasted it into LyricMaster, but somehow i'm getting an empty page... Gotta try this again.

telseth

this sorta works (lm_fetcher.js) someone needs to take it and tweak it to be faster and more reliable:

var url = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/SearchLyric?artist=" + _artist + "&song=" + _search_track;
var _checksum = "";
var _lyricid = "";

req.open("GET", url, true);
req.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState != 4)
{
return;
}
if (this.status == 200)
{
var respLyr = this.responseText;

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<lyricid>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</lyricid>");
_lyricid = lyrDiv[0];
_lyricid = _lyricid.replace(/\n/, "");
_lyricid = _lyricid.replace(/
/g,"");

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<lyricchecksum>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</lyricchecksum>");
_checksum = lyrDiv[0];
_checksum = _checksum.replace(/\n/, "");
_checksum = _checksum.replace(/
/g,"");

var urltwo = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=" + _lyricid + "&lyricCheckSum=" + _checksum;
var reqtwo = new XMLHttpRequest();

reqtwo.open("GET", urltwo, true);

reqtwo.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState != 4)
{
return;
}
if (this.status == 200)
{
var respLyr = this.responseText;

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<lyric>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</lyric>");
respLyr = lyrDiv[0];

if (respLyr.length < 10)
{
var lyrics = "";
cbFn(lyrics);

}
else
{
cbFn(respLyr);
}

}
else
{
var response="";
cbFn(response);
}
}
  reqtwo.send(null);

}
else
{
var response="";
cbFn(response);
}

}
req.send(null);

rdsbc

reinstalled everything, but still get no lyrics for any songs.
great addon btw.
hope a fix is on the way soon. any suggestions?
thx

rubend824

I've tried to find a workaround, but i just can't seem to get it.
First, i tried with lyricsplugin, but they've protected their data with an MD5 string and an unixtime parameter. So, no way to get it like this, cuz, while i'm parsing the data, everything changes and I receive nothing back.

Next, I tested the code posted by telseth, changed some things, but that source (chartlyrics) isn't reliable. At times it responds, at times it doesn't. Anyway, if somebody wants to give it a try, this is the code I got (pane.js)

function updateLyrics(artist, album, track, mediaItem) {
  // Don't proceed if we don't have valid metadata
  if (!artist || !track)
    return;

  var edit_artist2 = artist.split(" (");
  if (edit_artist2.length>1)
  {
    artist = edit_artist2[0];
  }
  var edit_track = track.split(" (");
  var search_track;
  if(edit_track.length>1) {
    search_track = edit_track[0];
  } else if(edit_track.length<=1) {
    search_track = track;
  }
  if (lm_libStyle == "DOEJ"){
    edit_artist = artist.split(", ");
    artist = edit_artist[1] + " " +edit_artist[0];
  }

  var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
  var _artist = encodeURIComponent(artist);
  var _search_track = encodeURIComponent(search_track);

  var url = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/SearchLyric?artist=" + _artist + "&song=" + _search_track;
var _checksum = "";
var _lyricid = "";

  searchURL = "http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+\"" + _search_track + "\"+by+\""+ _artist + "\"";

  window.scrollTo(0,0);
  req.open("GET", url, true);
  
  req.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState != 4)
      return;
    if (this.readyState == 4 ) {

var respLyr = this.responseText;

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<LyricId>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</LyricId>");
_lyricid = lyrDiv[0];
_lyricid = _lyricid.replace(/\n/, "");
_lyricid = _lyricid.replace(/ /g,"");
if(_lyricid==0 || _lyricid =="") {
cb("No Lyrics Found");
return;
}
respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<LyricChecksum>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</LyricChecksum>");
_checksum = lyrDiv[0];
_checksum = _checksum.replace(/\n/, "");
_checksum = _checksum.replace(/ /g,"");

var urltwo = "http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=" + _lyricid + "&lyricCheckSum=" + _checksum;

var reqtwo = new XMLHttpRequest();

reqtwo.open("GET", urltwo, true);

reqtwo.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState != 4)
{
return;
}
else if (this.readyState == 4)
{
var respLyr = this.responseText;

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<Lyric>");
lyrDiv = respLyrResult[1].split("</Lyric>");
respLyr = lyrDiv[0];
if (respLyr.length < 10){
var lyrics = "";
if (curMediaItem == mediaItem){
buildPage(artist, album, track, lyrics);
if (lm_noLyrFound == "NOTIFY"){
if(lm_showNotifs)
{
addNotification("infobar", 3,"","");
}
}
}
}
else{
if (curMediaItem == mediaItem){
parseLyrics(artist, album, track, respLyr, mediaItem);
}
}

}

}
reqtwo.send(null);

    }
  }
  req.send(null);
}

rubend824

I finally got it, i've played their game.

Im_fetcher.js

var lyricmasterFetcher= {fetch_lyr: function (artist, track, cbFn) {
var prefs = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService).getBranch("extensions.lyricmaster.");
        prefs.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch2);
        var lm_libStyle = prefs.getCharPref("libStyle");
        var lm_webLoc = prefs.getCharPref("webLoc");

if (lm_libStyle == "DOEJ"){
var edit_artist = artist.split(", ");
artist = edit_artist[1] + " " +edit_artist[0];
}
edit_artist = artist.split(" (");
var search_artist = artist;
if (edit_artist.length>0)
{
search_artist = edit_artist[0];
}
var search_track = track;
var edit_track = track.split(" (");
if (edit_track.length>0)
{
search_track = edit_track[0];
}
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
__artist=ucWords(artist.toLowerCase()).replace(/ /g, "-");
__track=ucWords(track.toLowerCase()).replace(/ /g, "-");
window.scrollTo(0,0);
url="http://www.lyricsvip.com/"+__artist+"/"+__track+"-Lyrics.html";
req.open("GET", url, true);
req.onreadystatechange = function()
{

if (this.readyState != 4)
{
return;
}
else if (this.readyState == 4 && this.statuss==200 )
{

var respLyr = this.responseText;

respLyrResult = respLyr.split("<td class="\"td1\"">
/g, "").replace(/
/g, "").replace(/
/g, "").replace(/

/g, "").replace(/<\/h1>/g, "").replace(/

/g, "").replace(/<\/h2>/g, ""); if (respLyr.length < 10) { var lyrics = ""; cbFn(lyrics); } else { cbFn(respLyr); } } else { var response=""; cbFn(response); } } req.send(null); } } function ucWords(string){ var arrayWords; var returnString = ""; var len; arrayWords = string.split(" "); len = arrayWords.length; for(i=0;i < len ;i++){ if(i != (len-1)){ returnString = returnString+ucFirst(arrayWords[i])+" "; } else{ returnString = returnString+ucFirst(arrayWords[i]); } } return returnString; } function ucFirst(string){ return string.substr(0,1).toUpperCase()+string.substr(1,string.length).toLowerCase(); }

rubend824

Hey, something went wrong with the last post. (clearly, you can see) I've zipped and uploaded the Im_fetcher.js and panel.js files i modified so that you can replace the ones you have with these new ones. I hope I'm allowed to do so, and that it works for you too.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wbchirj7lr7o5ce

alsticky

rubend824, you're brilliant! THX 1M

Now I can spend the entire day meticulously lyric-embedding my collection as planned instead of doing something enriching, healthy, or productive. Yay!

alsticky

Uh oh! Congratulated you too soon.

You're definitely onto something, but this mod works only randomly and rarely. Batch doesn't work at all. And when playing individual tracks it'll pull lyrics for maybe 1 or 2 of them for each album. (Curiously, those specific successes can be repeated, after the lyrics are cleared, while the failures remain repeatable as well).

The good news is, for the low % of lyrics it WILL pull, (1) They're complete, (2) There's no offending tunerankings.com url tacked onto the end.

Great, now I have to go outside and breathe fresh air instead... ;) Keep us posted, guys!

Nyxius

Rubend for us script noobs hanging around, where exactly do we place these 2 files I scowered through the files but I couldn't find where to place them.

rubend824

I have windows 7 as OS and i put the files in

C:\Users\MyUSER\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2\Profiles\k3regev0.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

However, I'll keep on looking for another solution.

rubend824

I've been working today and I changed the source of the lyrics, now I'm fetching them from metrolyrics. I hope this is not a problem.

It works better than my last attempt, however, I haven't figured out yet how the batch process works.

I mean, I didn't even know the add-on could do that, so, if somebody could explain that to me, I'd appreciate it.

Anyway, this are the new files, zipped like the last time.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?k5tbuidvw5buijc

In my last comment, I explained where i put the files. Hope this works for you.

rubend824

We should be allowed to edit our comments.

Anyway. I've gotten the batch process to work (I'd never seen the button to do it, XD), plus some tweaks to get better results, y'all know the process. (The scan-library function doesn't work yet by the way).

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w10xb333r6wfa02

donnyjenkins

It never show me any lyrics. I have songbird v 1.7.3 and lyric master v 1.7.7

gazouillis

Thank you very much
tested with Windows 7 and Songbird 1.7.3 no problem

I wrote an article for the French community

http://www.gazouillis-songbird.info/lyric-master-ne-fonctionne-plus/

rdsbc

works ok windows 7 - songbird 1.4.3
thx - much appreciated

MarioAandewiel

Hi guys, installed the workaround from rubenend824, but alas, still no lyrics
Using XP and Songbird 1.7.3 build 1700

Caldrumr

I installed the workaround in the folder, but there are still no lyrics being fetched. Did I miss something? Is this working for anyone else? I liked having it grab lyrics when I listened to a song, and I miss it now that it doesn't work. =-(

MatthewAds

Workaround works for the most part in Ubuntu Lucid with Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438. (With files extracted to 'home/user/.songbird2/76wcy4ya.default/extensions/{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}/chrome/content'.) Very good job. However sometimes the fetch takes an annoyingly long time. Anyone else getting that?

Foxtrot42

I have utilized rubend824's solution WHIT LINUX. That is running ! The transaction is similar. The files are in the folder : ~/.songbird2/9saobsle.default/extensions/{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}/chrome/content
There is not many lyrics that lyricsvip, but it is running !
I hope lyricsvip will run again.
Thank you rubend824 ;)
Have fun whit LyricMaster.

rubend824

@MatthewAds
The problem is that metrolyrics has encoded their lyrics to an ASCII-like format (i think it's latin-1, something like HELLO only to say HELLO), so I had turn that into something we could all read. I guess it depends on the speed of javascript.
Another problem is that i listen to very popular music, which means that the lyrics i want are quite easy to find, so, when i test it, it works ok; but, if any of you finds a better source, I could try to change it.

ihaveanissue

It works thanks ruben. However it has less lyrics that the former source.

C-Adriann

I think that this website has more lyrics.
http://www.versuri.ro/

I know that is in other language but I think that they have more lyrics.

kuster

Sorry to bother, but I can't find the folder to put those archives in. I manage to go to the roaming folder, but there is no songbird folder in it. It's not hidden, it's just not there. Anyone can give me a light?

rubend824

@C-Adriann
I tried that. There are some issues. First, some lyrics are returned in some strange language (to me that I'm mexican); then, my ip got blocked after several requests (I'm getting "Service Unavailable", but my friend can visit the site normally), I guess they didn't like me taking their lyrics XD.

Any other alternative?

rhgh

It does not work. following error message comes.
 "http://www.lyricsvip.com

rhgh

It does not work. following error message comes.
"a href="http://www.lyricsvip.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lyricsvip.com

laila

eey I have the same problem! lyrics master is not working... the message that show is the same of lyricsvip.com, i don't know if the problem is about the source or if is about the recently update i did on songbird :/

FreekH12

@Rubend824
Your solution is working fine for me. Indeed, their database isn't that large. But it covers allot of my music!

A thousand times thanks!

thevan

This recently stopped working for me. Says the title and artist followed by "http://www.lyricsvip.com" instead of lyrics.

shurikn

@rubend824
ty dude...ur workaround works in XP 2...ppl remeber 2 restart songbird aftr copyin da files

adamclayton

@shurikn
Where did you put those files? I don't know in which directory put them...

Thanx!!!

kuster

"Sorry to bother, but I can't find the folder to put those archives in. I manage to go to the roaming folder, but there is no songbird folder in it. It's not hidden, it's just not there. Anyone can give me a light?" Posting again. I hope the author doesn't take too long to solve it.

rubend824

In XP I have put them in

C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Datos de programa\Songbird2\Profiles\kl0qa85u.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

And, in W7

C:\Users\MyUSER\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2\Profiles\k3regev0.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

adamclayton

Sorry Ruben, but in XP there aren't those directories.

Matek

I'm sorry, but I made everything that you told ruben824, but now it shows nothing, not the lyricsvip.com and not even the name of song and artist...help please

MarioAandewiel

Adamclayton, there is such a directory C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Songbird2\Profiles\9v9gi6lz.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

Some filenames may differ.
But unfortunately it didn.t work for me/
Waiting for another solution, the Lyricsplugin seems to work ok with WIndows Mediaplayer, but i prefer to use Songbird

adamclayton

Thx Mario. I think so. Workin' with WMP, but I also prefer Songbird. Waitin' for solution.

pjople

Heya folks, I've posted an update to the add-on that should fix the www.lyricsvip.com issue. Let me know how it goes!

Marko

thx 4 Update.

but some probs:
when playing a song, www.lyricsvip.com doesn't get removed automatically.
I have to click: REmove lyric
then the following lyric is displayed: null
after playing the song once again or pressing "refresh", lyricMaster gets the correct lyric, but the artist is wrong:
instead of "The Viper & G-Town Madness" i see: "The%20Viper%20%26%20G-Town%20Madness".
when clicking on "clear" there is again the correct artist name. this concerns only the artist. not title or album.

excellent work. keep going :)

ManChicken

Workin' great for me, thanks! Glad to have it back!

maicasajusta

got this two issues: http://www.ilwebmaster.biz/me/lyricsmaster.jpg

adamclayton

THANX THANX THANX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God bless You!

honkerdown

Remove www.tunerankings.com link appended to lyrics

Actually it looks as if that text is just not displayed, but it is still embedded in the lyrics when they are saved to the metadata, so I would consider it not fixed.

The reason I would consider it not fixed is the scenario where your music collection is used in another application, say a home media server or the like. The non-lyrics (hyperlink) is still polluting the metadata in that case.

MarioAandewiel

It's working again, thanks

pjople

Hey folks, thanks for all the responses! It looks like there's an issue with displayed encoded artist names (i.e. including "%20") so I'll definitely look into getting in a fix for that.

@honkerdown: regarding stripping the www.tunerankings.com link, I'll take a closer look. The updated logic definitely clears out any of those links but it's possible that another place might've slipped through the cracks.

Thanks!

MarioAandewiel

Except for the %20 thingy, but i'm seeing lyrics again, that's the main thing

xand

can you please make this fixed new version available to Songbird 1.4 because it insists installing version 1.7.5 of your plugin.

nhojar

Same comment as xand, I have Songbird 1.4.3 and the only version being offered for download is v1.7.5 of the plugin ... can anything be resolved - this is a great plugin !!

kuster

Same problem here, I can only get the v1.7.5. and the v1.7.8 to all platforms can't be opened. I don't think it's too hard to be done, right?
Thanks in advance.

alsticky

Broken again! Incomplete lyrics problem, same as before: Just first 5 lines ending with [...] gets retrieved.

@pjople: Is this a lyricplugin.com issue? Are they intentionally blocking Songbird or the LyricMaster plugin from downloading the complete lyrics?

Hpr222

LyricMaster doesn't have the lyrics for any of my Daft Punk songs it just displays this link:
www.lyricsvip.com

Hpr222

Okay i updated my addon and now instead of it showing a link to a website it is displaying lyrics to all different kinds of songs, i mean songs I'm not even familiar with also when i refresh it it will pop up random lyrics and some are in different languages.

JamieGuy

I've been following this situation with interest. I was thrilled to find you'd fixed it, so I downloaded the latest version 1.7.8. Lo and behold, lyrics are showing up again, hooray!

But wait. The lyrics are for an entirely different song. I tried a few songs, and there seemed to be no rhyme nor reason for the discrepancy (e.g. songs with similar names).

So I cleared the lyrics on a song, and retrieved them again. It appears to be picking a different random song each time!

At this point I gotta wonder if lyricsplugin is messing with things intentionally. Has anyone contacted them to see what's up? For that matter, does LyricMaster have permission to be using Lyricsplugin's database?

0ctrl

Heh.. well there's lyrics again, but they seem to be completely random lyrics every time (i.e. no relation to the song playing). In fact if you right click & "refresh lyrics" you get a different set of lyrics every time, never the right ones and often in different languages.

EliasCury

Hello everyone.
Yeap, the fix worked for a while but now it's getting random lyrics...

I've changed lm_fetcher.js to get Lyrics from another site (terra.letras.com.br), it's a brazilian site but it have a huge database, try it and let me know of any parse issue...

Here's the link to the file, just overwrite the old one:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M8SL85NL

I have to do some tweaks so it will find more lyrics... will do it tomorrow.

It would be nice if the author add TERRA as a source for lyrics since the parse is pretty easy.

Thanks.

EliasCury

errr site is "letras.terra.com.br"

EliasCury

I have also forgot to mention, if you want to stop getting lyrics from TERRA and get it from LYRICSPLUGIN again, just comment line 37:

//lm_webLoc = "TERRA";

mjones41

I am getting random lyrics in different languages too, and it is not asking me if these are the correct ones that I want to save. Thankfully it is not saving them, but it is very strange behaviour.

Please to be fixing soon :)

buZybaZzz

Something went terribly wrong with the new version 1.7.8! Semi-random* lyrics appear with every song. The previous version worked like a charm, but now it's kinda useless. Please fix ASAP, I can't live without LyricMaster! (Okay, that's a bit over the top, but you get the idea...)

* By 'semi-random' I mean that it is consistent when displaying the lyrics of a song. So if you have a different version of the same song, it will display the same lyrics for all versions.

rdsbc

really broke now - displays lyrics for totally different songs + in wrong language.
please fix
thx

mybestcognomen

Same problem here. Lyrics unrelated to songs. Other than fetching useless lyrics right now, LyricMaster is excellent. Thanks in advance for fix

MarioAandewiel

Yep, the fix seemed to work for a while, but as the others have mentioned above, completely different lyrics now.
Ok waiting for the next fix now and thanx in advance

tsantana

The problem seems to be with the timestamp and the checkid generated by lyrics plugin. By the time LyricsMaster issues it to lyrics plugin it teh checkid already belongs to a different song/lyric. My suggestion is to use either a new lyrics search engine or adapt the lyricsplugin function that retrieves the lyrics from lyricsvip into lyric master. I would help on this but it has been a crazy day here at the office and I haven't got no time to look into it. You mantainers should improve the version provided by rubend824, that worked well partially and an improvement could have made that just perfect. Think about it.... cya!!!!

tsantana

Hello,

I've made a little fix to it.

http://filebase.to/files/1802661/tsantana_fix.zip

It works if you have your artist name right (captalized and everything). A-Ha must be a-ha and and metallica must be Metallica, etc.

I tested it with a viriety of songs and it worked. Just unzip it under the chrome/contents folder...

It might be improved.

Thanks folks!!!

rdsbc

@tsantana;
- still kinda hit + miss. some display lyrics, some don't.
thx for your help.
keep em coming
cheers!

andajo

Thanks, tsanta! That got the lyrics downloading again. Unfortunately it seems to have broke the "Save" function, but better to have correct lyrics that you can't save than entirely wrong lyrics.

EliasCurry, I tried your fix but I was still getting random lyrics. I noticed that tsantana's fix requires the new panes.js to work, perhaps that's a crucial part of the fix?

I'll take a look at the pane.js and see if I can figure out why I'm not getting the save action, but I'm not a Javascript programmer.

andajo

OK, fixed the lyrics not saving issue. To fix it, replace line 372 of tsanta's pane.js with the following:

_checkResponseAndBuildPage(artist, album, track, respLyr, mediaItem);

For reference and to be sure you have the right line, his contains:

buildPage(artist, album, track, respLyr);

Alternately, you can download a new pane.js from https://sites.google.com/site/quintilluscfc/files-1/pane.js and replace the existing file

tsantana

@rdsbc

Unfortunately lyricsvip is case sensitive and my fix, later improved by Andajo, does not make the appropriate case conversion for artist name because there my be cases such as a-ha, for which LyricsVip expects to be all lower case, while for most others it is expected to be proper case. So, one very important thing here is that your library contains the correct artist information so that the plugin can work. If you're sure your library contains the correct information for the songs you were unable to retrieve the lyrics too, then just give me an example(artist name and song name) and maybe I, or some else may come up with a solution.

I am sure it wont take long for the mantainers of this add-on provide us with a better/official solution though.

Thanks,
Tsantana

rdsbc

@tsantana;
really appreciate your help. it is working for almost all songs.
a few just don't seem to be available.
ie - AC/DC - Highway To Hell album.
all songs except Highway To Hell have lyrics.
not a big deal. just a few quirks
nice to have the addon working again.
thx again

tsantana

Hi,

It was querying the lyricsvip database for "Highway To Hell"(captalized To) so I've changed it to lower case "to". It should work now. However more such problems may occurr, I noticed this with words "the", "in" , "on", "for", "as" and now "to", not sure what similar cases may arise.

http://filebase.to/files/1803906/tsantana_fix_2.zip

Thanks,
TS

Eden_Fire

Hi,
the plugin gets the wrong Lyrics. I have this problem with most of my songs. English, german and other languages.
thx

xand

@eliascury
tried your fix on sb1.4.2 but same issue again

pjople

All rightey folks, I've updated the add-on so that it now returns correct lyrics from the default lyricsplugin.com provider. It appears that they made a minor tweak on their end which needed to be updated on our side.

As for the theory that lyricsplugin.com is intentionally making these changes, I can't say for sure whether or not that's the case. We're actively trying to reach out to them to see what we can do but in the meantime, it looks like we'll be playing a game of catch up whenever there are changes. Apologies in advance for the headaches!

Moving forward, we'll look into extending the support so that it supports other providers. A lot of folks here have been suggesting other sources so we'll try to get those incorporated into the add-on itself.

Thanks for all of your patience and all of the feedback!

rdsbc

just updated to version 1.7.9.
working once again. great addon. one of the reasons i stick with songbird
thx to all for the help
cheers!

xand

@pjople
can you please make this compatible with sb1.4.3 ? It's the last linux supported version and my favorite as well !

nullcool

All the lyrics are wrong whith this new update :(

kuster

Excuse me, but whenever I click download on my songbird it downloads the 1.7.5 version, also when I click to find updates for the add-ons there is no update for lyricmaster. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance.

pjople

@xand
I'll take a look into it and see what we can do! :)

@nullcool
can you confirm whether you're using the latest version (1.7.9) that was posted earlier today? The previous version may show incorrect lyrics.

pjople

@kuster
It looks like you're running a 1.4 version of Songbird. All of the LyricMaster updates since then have been for versions 1.7 and higher. If you're on Linux, then 1.4.3 is the last Songbird release we officially released for that platform. We continue to build Songbird on Linux regularly but no longer push out official releases. If this is what's going on, then you're in the same boat as @xand above and we'll see what we can do! Otherwise, you should be able to just upgrade your Songbird application to the latest 1.7.3 version and you can immediately get to LyricMaster happiness.

EliasCury

@everyone that tryed my fix
IDK why it didn't get my changes for you guys... I'm running SB v1.7.3 and LM v1.7.8. with my updates and it's working perfectly.

Maybe you guys are overwriting the wrong file...
Anyway it seens that LK is fixed again..

@pjople
If you want me to add support to TERRA LYRICS just let me know. I'll glad to help!

Sorry about my broken english.
Thanks.

EliasCury

Anyway, I have added new parse to TERRA LYRICS, it will now 'guess' a lyric for the music based on the artist name.. So if your song has the wrong name but the artist name is correct, TERRA will guess the lyric for it and the script will parse the result...

Please, take a time to test it and let me know of any parse issue.

Remember to upgrade SB to at least 1.7.3 and LM to 1.7.8 before test it...

Link for the file is:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JNXOOIYW

I had to overwrite the file located in (Windows Seven):
C:\Users\Elias\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2\Profiles\4da8ubyd.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

So make sure you are overwriting the correct file, you need to restart songbird to the script take effect.

Thanks.

jkinyua

@pjople good job on the windows fix, but I'm mostly on Ubuntu 10.04 and there are never any songbird updates there. Please look into it. Thanks

jkinyua

Solution for Linux users
Download the latest songbird at...
http://skyzim.com/songbird-1-7-3-installer/
Double-click to install. Update all add-ons after the application starts. LyricMaster is updated and works perfectly! Enjoy

bert12

Thank you for the fix pjople! I am also waiting for an update to 1.4.3. (I am a windows user, but I don't want to update my songbird to 1.7.x)

Hpr222

Thanks for the Fix rcw003, lyric master is back and better than ever!

shadyabhi

@jkinyua
I am using Songbird 1.8.0b3 on Arch Linux 64. I have the updated lyricmaster addon but then also my lyrics are not being fetched..

What do I do? Do I need to do anything special?

jkinyua

@shadyabhi
Songbird 1.8.0b3 is still a beta version hence not fully supported. I am not sure if beta versions are compatible with the latest lyricmaster, but I would suggest for you to work with 1.7.3 which is the latest stable version, and I am currently using it and it runs perfect. Cheers!

ntsp00

I am running Songbird 1.7.3 and Lyricsmaster 1.7.9 but no lyrics are showing for any songs?

ntsp00

Nevermind it's just really slow..

anjeshv4

I use songbird 1.7.3 and lyricmaster 1.7.9. But, i am still getting wrong lyrics. Most of them are not even in english.Please help.

Necrowizard

Hey, I'm new to this, but um... the Display Pane is not showing up :/
I do have a column that says Lyrics, but when I click on an icon nothing happens

rdsbc

it's not working here either. wrong language. when it is right language - english - wrong song.

rdsbc

i am running songbird 1.7.3 and lyricmaster 1.7.9 also

ManChicken

Yup, 1.7.9 is back to showing totally wrong lyrics after working for a few days. Grrph.

pjople

Heya folks, it looks like something might've changed on the lyricsplugin.com side again! I'll take another look and hopefully see what we can do.

bert12

@pjople - when you fix it this time, can you please make sure that it updates also for songbird 1.4.3? I'm gonna scan my entire library and get the lyrics into the tags this time around, so I don't have to worry if they keep changing this.

dub

@EliasCury

cara, nao consegui identificar esse arquivo q eu deveria substituir, tentei na versao 1.7.8 e 1.7.9
a versao q tenho do songbird eh a 1.7.3

a nova versao do LM funcionou perfeitamente para mim, mas puxar as letras do terra é bem mais conveniente p nós né?

agradeço desde já

dub

@EliasCury

desculpe o comentario antecipado, e como nao tem como deletar comentarios aki...

bem, achei o arquivo lm_fetcher, substitui pelo seu alterado, mas mesmo assim nao funcionou. tentei analisar as mudancas q vc fez no codigo, mas realmente nao entendi como vc conseguiu converter o endereco do letras terra (q sao numeros) ainda usando o mesmo lyricsplugin.
(lembrando q tentei em ambas versoes do LM 178 e 179).

salermi2

Hola! Alguien podria ayudarme. Xq he instalado y desinstalado LM varias veces y nada que aparecen las letras de las canciones! SOlo dice: "seleccione una extension desde el menu o visita el Sitio de Extensiones para explorar extensiones". El antes me funcionaba muy bien y desde hace una semana no quiere funcionar! :S

pjople

An update - it looks like the default source site lyricsplugin.com has taken things a step further and is now returning incorrect lyrics based on IP. Some testing appears to show that once you've done a query via Songbird, any subsequent lyric lookups coming from the same IP address do not work properly. Since they're tracking based on IP, this means that any lookup to lyricsplugin.com from an offending IP will return wrong lyrics including when using the actual Lyrics Plugin (for Windows Media Player and Winamp, available on their website) or by simply doing a web search through the browser.

We've tried to reach out to the lyricsplugin.com folks but haven't had any luck yet.

It looks like the next LyricMaster release will use a different source (or sources) so please bear with me while I toss in the updates. Thanks for your patience!

jkinyua

Back to square one, sigh.
Waiting on you @pjople, good luck mate

Amak

@pjople

The plugin Ultimate Lyrics (I believe) for Amarok has the functions you are looking for , I believe. It can poll many sources and if you fetch again it uses a different source. Maybe you can convert this to LyricMaster and ditch lyricsplugin... seems they are just being morons.

bert12

a tip for changing the source (if indeed that must happen) would maybe be to use LyricsWikia ( http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page ) ... LyricsMaster supported this earlier, but it was removed becouse it only showed part of the lyrics. Same thing happened to a greasemonkey script ( http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25208 ) but it somehow worked around it... perhaps a solution is in its code? Wikia has a decent lyrics database.

Picto

When (and if..) there is a fix, will it be updated for Songbird 1.2? I'm sure I'm not the only one using this version as it's the latest that is compatible with the iPod support addon, and LyricMaster is the next best thing to have with Songbird.

Jeslimak

@Picto: Get yourself SharePod and just use Songbird to organize your library into a single folder.

hammacks

Just finished some pretty extensive testing of some of the latest proposed fixes, applied to multiple LyricMaster versions. Good news is tsantansa's fix works great for me. I think it with just a little more work it could be incorporated into a new version of the add-on so everyone's can be fixed with an easy update. Can anyone do that?
I tested the fixes on the last three LyricMaster revisions (1.7.7, 1.7.8, and 1.7.9) running Songbird 1.7.3 . Here's a quick summary:<dl>

hammacks

Shit... wrote all that and put the wrong address in that first hyperlink in the first paragraph, it goes to EliasCurry's. Oops. Use the second "tsantana's Fix" link to get it (The one going to FileBase.to)

xand

@pjople
i know that we linux users can update unofficially to sb1.7 but as i told you, sb1.4 still is my favorite version for a number of reasons, so if that does not bother you a lot, i'd appreciate a sb1.4 version of this plugin a lot.

@hammacks and @tsantana
the link to filebase.to does not contain any files

dcarlo

Looks like 1.7.9 started working again!

hammacks

@xand

Try here: tsanatana's fix

faust-nt

how to update plugin to 1.7.9?
ubuntu 10.04 songbird 1.4.3 plugin 1.7.5

xand

@hammacks
thank you. unfortunately it did not work for me displaying that nothing is playing. :/

kuster

This add-on started getting random lyrics again. Anyone else with this problem?

jimk830

Yes, I am also getting lyrics that are not correct again. version 1.7.9
It worked for a while immediately after this version was installed.

teland

I'm in the same boat as jimk830. I thought it was back to normal...

elninoo

same problem.poooof

titus27

Me too, it get lyrics randomly.

KeepTalking

This worked for me for a few days, but then would only display the lyricsvip link. I updated to the newest SB 1.7.3, and now it only displays random lyrics. None of the links for tsantana's Fix work either, though from the comments here, it looks like that would not help me either. Is there another decent add-on for displaying lyrics in SB 1.7.3?

remali

same problem here on 1.7.9, keep getting weird spanish lyrics

hammacks

Sorry about the bad hosting for the fix. Can someone recommend a good way to host the file?

3PointJ

Look, I'd like to say that this plugin is a god send.

It works quite well, however, I'm finding it is retrieving bizarre lyrics. Lyrics in Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Lyrics from a Rap Song for a Metallica song?

Any chance this weird behaviour will be addressed in the future?

kpuck34

Hammacks, use mediafire.com to host it. Megaupload should work too.

This plugin was working fine for me for a few days, but now it's back to showing the wrong lyrics.

forestWalker

Neither SongBird or LyricFetcher is the responsible for the random lyric fetching, but lyricsplugin.com.

The solution is really simple:
get a text editor, and open:
/home/[username]/.songbird/[profiledir]/extensions/{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}/chrome/content/lm_fetcher.js
at line 66 you will find something like this:

var url = "http://www.lyricsplugin.com/wmplayer03/plugin/content.php?"
+ "artist=" + returnartist
+ "&title=" + returntitle
+ "&time=" + timestamp
+ "&hash=" + id;

now at the line
+ "&time=" + timestamp change time to timestamp

[SAVE]
now open the pane.js from the same dir and do the same somewhere at line 370.
[SAVE]
[restart songbird]

Voilá!

forestWalker

windows (XP) users can find it under
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Songbird2\Profiles\[profile_id]\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content\

bluenose

Still getting no joy with fetching the correct lyrics even after the changes to the .js files. I'm still getting random lyrics and sometimes in english sometimes in Spanish. Any other suggested fixes?

manfeed

Thank you forestWalker!!! It worked like a charm for me. I'm getting the right lyrics again. By the way I'm using windows XP SP3...

mano_lamas

Thanks forestWalker!! It worked for me too :o)
I'm using windows 7

manfeed

Bad news... it's stopped working correctly after a while... I don't feel like checking in the files again... I'll wait and see if the developer makes a definitive solution...

forestWalker

It seems that lyricsplugin.com f*cks up something again. They use a javascript code to change the original call and verify that only a javascript capable browser or the original plugin tries to access the site.
Maybe lyricsvip can be used directly instead of lyricsplugin.com...

titus27

I have followed instruction of forestwalker and unfortunately, I am still getting Spanish lyrics. On windows 7.

hammacks

@forestWalker
Yes I think a different source is the right way to go.

For those looking for it, I've hosted the modified files for fetching from lyricsvip again here:

tsantana's fix

kuster

Bah, I can't find the files you're telling us to edit. I'm using Windows 7, and there is no such thing as a songbird folder in the Application data one. I gave up. I just hope they get this add-on updated as soon as possible.

eYeKey

man, the lyrics fetchin' for lyricsvip is not as good as the old one :-)

Diddl

Thanks forestWalker!!!

Changing this two files works perfect form me!
Windows Vista

Path for Vista is: C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\Songbird2\Profiles\sos4ghrs.default\extensions\{248e3e8b-5a5c-4e7e-9bef-6720255e36e0}\chrome\content

Hpr222

@hammacks
Thanks for the info. i was able to fix my Songbird ver. 1.7.3; Lyric Master ver. 1.7.9; on my vista machine, with tsantana's fix

forestWalker

Good news: yesterday there was something wrong at lyricsplugin.com . Today it works again with the modified "timestamp" parameter.

MrX

I am using Win7, SB 1.8.0, LyricMaster 1.7.9 - and I also got wrong Lyrics (in spanish etc.).

But forestWalker's solution works like a charm :-)
Hope this fix will become part of the next LyricMaster update.
Thanks :-)

dub

@forestWalker

perfect fix!

ManChicken

I made the timestamp patches but still get wrong (and quite bizarre) lyrics. I think I've been banned :) Why are the lyricsplugin people being such douches about it?

SagaLhan

Same for me. I've tried swapping to the lyricvip fix and I tried the timestamp parameters, but with lyricvip I get nothing (appears like the HTML isn't really being scraped correctly) and the timestamp parameter doesn't fix the random lyric problem.

I would suggest switching over as well.

willowchat1981

the lyrics keeps bringing the wrong ones to each song :?

MrX

Confirming that meanwhile even with forestWalker's fix LyricsMaster displays the wrong Lyrics again...
Very strange. Worked for a while. But now doesn't work any more :-(

Ursusmaritimus

Hey man,

So this was one of my favorite add-ons for a while. Had to disable it while I was abroad because it sucked up bandwidth, but now I'm back in the states after 8 months. Anyway, re-installed it, updated and the whole nine yards but something is seriously messed up.

The lyrics are not the right ones. Started off with Coldplay and it had some rap shit up. Now I'm trying Jefferson Airplanes and it isn't even English. These aren't obscure bands either.
What is up?

cardpunchprogrammer

Great idea, but all I get are lyrics in Spanish or some other language and they are not even the correct translations of the song lyrics!

syrupmasin

why my lyricmaster give a wrong lyric??

forestWalker

I don't understand why they're doing this...
for some strange reason the lyricsplugin.com guys are messing sometimes.
Here's a link (I think you can figure out how it works ;)
http://www.lyricsplugin.com/wmplayer03/plugin/?artist=Michael Jackson&title=Billie Jean
This is, what the lyricsmaster plugin uses. If the above link doesn't work in a regular browser, our beloved plugin won't work either.
I think, that the url's nature (using http get and the artist and title params) won't change, because their own plugin uses it. The only thing that can change is the javascript protection under it. So if your browser shows the lyric correctly, and the plugin don't, then they changed something in the js code. If your browser shows exactly the same garbage as lyricmaster, then you have to wait, because the lyricsplugin site messes again.

As I experienced, they ruin in a 2-3 days period for 1/2 - 1 day. :( I hope that they're developing something and they will stabilize soon.

detrimidexta

tsantana's fix is really working! But another lyrics provider doesn't have lyricsplugin.com abundance... :(

halfdeafman

Works nice with tsantana's fix. Thanks man!

Just one thing that maybe is not a big deal to fix: it can't find lyrics with a comma in the name.
Just an example of lyricsvip url with commma:
http://www.lyricsvip.com/The-Doors/Hello%2C-I-Love-You-Lyrics.html

I'm not a coder, but maybe someone could make a fix to add the "%2C" when needed.

xand

tsantana's fix link down again :/

Malnilion

tsantana's fix link is back up, but in case it ever goes down again, forestWalker's fix a little bit further up also works and presumably makes the two files exactly the same as those in tsantana's fix. Hopefully they stop changing stuff soon.

the_metalgamer

I have to say that since it´s fetches the lyrics from lyricsplugin.com ( or lyricsvip.com ) , it always gets the wrong lyrics for every song, so maybe use another this, as i saw there is a rudimentry lyricswiki thing in the sourcecode so maybe enable it to use it in songbird

deOmega

The help from you guys is really appreciated, but I am also finding that neither of those fixes are working properly. :(

Malnilion

As of this very moment, I can vouch for two things: first, forestWalker's fix is the one I used and, second, the lyrics plugin is definitely working at this very moment. Ensure that you right click and clear any saved lyrics that say "lyricsvip.com" or whatever incorrect lyrics are present and then right click and fetch the lyrics again. Other than that, if you have any questions about the procedures to replace or edit the two js files, don't hesitate to ask.

Hanzl

Hi,
Lyricmasters, please update this great plugin! A lot of users are still singing to the right song, but the wrong lyrics. Our voices are enough torture, so please give us the right lines to yodel to!

hammacks

@Malnillion
The two fixes are different. tsantana's uses lyricsvip and forestWalker's is a tweak to match changes made at lyrics plugin.

giando

Hi,
Lyricmasters was a very good plugin, but with rel 1.7.9 on SongBird 1.8.0 the lyrics are always downloaded and are always wrong. Maybe it's due to lyrics non really store on the web server

deOmega

@Malnillion
Thank you for your feedback. Maybe it is also related to the scope of genre. Whatever the case, I have done the same as you have and still have issues. Some lyrics are good, some are not.

MethosCR

LyricMaster just rules! However, latest versions had a bug in which displayed a link (which has been corrected). Now it shows the incorrect lyrics. After this fix this bug was corrected, but now if there is no lyrics embedded in the properly tagged song, the add-on shows blank.

I'm confident this can be corrected soon. Thanks in advance.

ihaveanissue

Something weird is happening to my forestWalker's fix... Initially I did the fix at my home and it worked perfectly, but later at my school I noticed that it was fetching wrong lyrics. The weird thing is that back to my home it worked again and then again at school it failed. I'm not sure if this is caused by the IP or the time (I'm back at home at night).

deOmega

@ihaveanissue
I am so pleased to see you post a good example of how it may or may not be working for whatever reason. I am sure it will be resolved, just hope the gifted folks here do not give up, assuming user error. I have tried so many things, but just cannot get it to work... maybe I should do a clean install of Songbird with that Fix. Doubt I will though.

the_metalgamer

I use also Ubuntu on my laptop and there I use rhythmbox as mediaplayer. This mediaplayer has also an lyrics plugin wich use 5 differnet websites for fetching the lyrics: Lyrc (lyrc.com.ar) Astraweb (www.astraweb.com) Leo´s Lyrics (www.leoslyrics.com) WinampCN (www.winampcn.com) and TerraBrasil (terra.com.br). Maybe it is possible to include these as well because they are working very good and then it is possible that the user can choise from whcih site he will get the lyrics

Malnilion

One of the problems with the plugin is that it's really only set up right now to get results from a single source. That used to work really well about a year ago using LyricWiki until they closed their api for lyrics retrieval. Restructuring the plugin to be able to fetch lyrics from multiple sources and possibly have the user decide which to save will require refactoring the code a bit. However, adding multiple sources would help guard against any one site changing their api and rendering the plugin useless.

alas.away

Am, this started showing wrong lyrics. The song name is correctly displayed but the lyrics are wrong. I'm on a mac. +

Malnilion

Yeah, it's not working currently even with forestWalker's fix.

Arziraphale

Hi guys. This fixed the problem for me:

" Gazouillis replied 7 days ago
Pending a change module Lyric Master Tsantana we provided a solution to the problem from new changes in the home base LyricMaster. You must download the file of corrections on the following link for the patch for the extension of LyricMaster de-zip.

Replace the 2 files in the extract file extension in your profile. (Lm_fetcher.js - pane.js)

Let C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Roaming \ Songbird2 \ Profiles \ votreprofil.Songbird \ Extensions \ (248e3e8b-4e7e-5a5c-9bef-631720255e36e0) \ chrome \ content.

Restart Songbird Lyric Master and your extension working again."

Found on: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/wrong_lyrics

While Lyric Master has been malfunctioning I've loaded wrong lyrics for many of my songs. These won't just be overwritten with this fix. I have to manually "veiw metadata" -> "clear lyrics" -> "get lyrics" for each song.

FiSa67

I can't configure my LM of this way.. my lyrics still with this malfuncion... somebody?