LyricMaster

LyricMaster

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Displays and Gathers Lyrics

Description

LyricMaster is an add-on for Songbird that will:

  • Displays the lyrics a song has embedded through metadata.
  • Fetch the lyrics if the song contains no lyric metadata.
  • Give the user and option to search the web for lyrics if no appropriate lyrics are found.
  • Allow the user to edit the lyrics a song contains.
  • Fetch the lyrics for one or more songs at a time.
  • Displays an icon next to the track in the library if the track has lyrics.
  • A help dialog from within Songbird.


Release Notes

A few extra things added. Gave a little love to the display pane which had been ignored the last few updates!

  • Added a button at the top of the display pane to suspend notifications. This is handy if you like the notifications on, but want to run with the player minimized and the notifications keep restoring Songbird. Now instead of switching the preferences, you can suspend notifications. Then when you want notifications you can enable them according to your preference settings.

  • Added the ability to not display the Artist and Track information in the Display pane.

  • Added a right click context menu for the following actions:
    • Copying selected text to the clipboard.
    • Manually refreshing the Display pane. This is helpful if you switch lyrics databases while the song is playing, and want to refresh the pane to show the new servers lyrics.
    • Open the metadata editor.
    • You can now delete a tracks lyrics from the database and the file from the Display pane.

      It should be noted that the last 3 actions in the list can only be performed on a playing song. This is to prevent manipulating the lyrics for a song unintentionally.
  • Some other random bug fixes.

  • Thanks to Joergen for the da-DK translation!



1.6.1.1 - Removed some partial translations so it doesn't default Songbird back to English as language.

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Comments (202)

  1. 6 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    A Right Sidebar that displays lyrics, nothing else.
    Uses Stevel’s code from mashtape that gathers lyrics (for now).
    Pretty simple add-on, but was the one thing I was missing, so I thought I’d share my progress thus far.

  2. 6 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003
    Here’s the direction I’ve had in mind, If anyone out there wants to help out, would be great as I’m busy and don’t always have time to work on this.


    • I would really like to be able to retrieve and save lyrics from the songbird database, before actually searching the internet for it.
    • I would like to be able to use http://www.lyricsplugin.com/ as their library is huge.
    • If no lyrics are found, I want to replace the text box where the lyrics normally are shown with a button that will open up a new google search pre encoded for the artist and song title.
    • Be able to grab the length and width of the Right Sidebar, and change the now hard coded dimensions into what the user already has for length and width.
    • Add options to be able to change colors, if the user wants to save the lyrics to the db, etc.


      Thats the big ones on my list of “eventually’s.”
  3. 6 months ago
    brunods brunods

    very nice

  4. 6 months ago
    smartn 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

  5. 6 months ago
    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

  6. 6 months ago
    smartn smartn

    ups – sorry for the doubling…

  7. 6 months ago
    liltrix liltrix

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

  8. 6 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @liltrix Should be fixed now

  9. 6 months ago
    benhparry 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

  10. 6 months ago
    benhparry benhparry

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

  11. 5 months ago
    gengnom 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.

  12. 5 months ago
    stevel staff stevel

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

  13. 5 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @ gengnom -> This should be fixed with 1.1.2. Thanks for the feedback!



    @ stevel -> Thanks!!!



    @ all -> keep the feedback coming. The 2 major things I want to work on for sure is to be able to read-write them to the Tag/Songbird DB and a preferences page to set different settings, like the way your library is set up, IE John Doe vs. Doe, John

  14. 5 months ago
    ALU 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

  15. 5 months ago
    kt_leohart 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.

  16. 5 months ago
    Brendy 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?

  17. 5 months ago
    awkwardsmile 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

  18. 5 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    http://www.lyricsplugin.com/ is currently down which is where the lyrics are gathered from.

  19. 5 months ago
    ashre ashre

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

  20. 4 months ago
    atreiu 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.

  21. 4 months ago
    szman86 szman86

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

  22. 4 months ago
    maxmaronna maxmaronna

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

    Nice job rcw2003!

    max

  23. 4 months ago
    neelance 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.

  24. 4 months ago
    golvin 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.

  25. 4 months ago
    Cloonix Cloonix

    Works great. Thank you.

    --
    SB0.7.0

  26. 4 months ago
    Tuche 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 !

  27. 4 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    First, thanks to everyone for your compliments!

    @maxmaronna - Lyrics are saved to the songbird database.

    @golvin - I can check into this, though at this point I'm not sure if it's a limitation of the plugin or the site I'm pulling the lyrics from.

    @Tuche and neelance - I will look into what it takes to update for webstreams.

    Busy working on the next version! Should have some nice stuff like preferences, and a new display format! Unfortunately synced lyrics is probably out of the scope of this project, as EvilLyrics and MiniLyrics (the only 2 synced lyrics apps I know) are both closed source applications. But I am looking at implementing a mass batch retrieval feature. But thats a ways down the road yet.

    Again, thanks for your suggestions and your support!

  28. 4 months ago
    Brendy 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

  29. 4 months ago
    stevel staff 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. :)

  30. 4 months ago
    atreiu atreiu

    Really, really, REALLY great update! :-D

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

  31. 4 months ago
    komi staff 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)

  32. 4 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @atreiu If you know CSS, you can edit one of the CSS files in the Style folder of the add-on, and send that to the email address in the release notes, If you don't know CSS, you can try to explain to me what you want I can see what I can do. =)

  33. 4 months ago
    nicolaluna 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!

  34. 4 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    Have you gone to View -> Show Right Sidebar?

  35. 4 months ago
    atreiu atreiu

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

  36. 4 months ago
    nicolaluna nicolaluna

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

  37. 4 months ago
    atreiu atreiu

    THANKS! =)

  38. 4 months ago
    nicolaluna 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!

  39. 4 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @nicolaluna - have you changed the options for it to always save? If you have, for now there is now way of changing that, until I get that added. If you haven't changed it to always save, you can change the site it pulls the lyrics from and that may have better lyrics.

    @atreiu - Anytime!

  40. 4 months ago
    Maxo 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.

  41. 4 months ago
    voxel486 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?

  42. 4 months ago
    washboardplayer washboardplayer

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

  43. 4 months ago
    boris staff 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?

  44. 4 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    At the moment, deleting saved lyrics is not possible. The Lyrics are saved to the songbird database. The next update will add this functionality, and I'm busy working on that. If you want LyricMaster to not ask you to save the lyrics you can set that in the options for LyricMaster.

  45. 3 months ago
    awkwardsmile 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?

  46. 3 months ago
    alest 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.

  47. 3 months ago
    alest alest

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

  48. 3 months ago
    alest 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

  49. 3 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @awkwardsmile this only saves the lyrics to the Songbird database, not the file, and it won't until this bug is fixed http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9091

    @alest I've never used shoutcast so I don't know how it handles things, I plan on looking into this sometime, but its a little ways down the list at the moment.

  50. 3 months ago
    alest 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.

  51. 3 months ago
    leoperbo 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.

  52. 3 months ago
    leoperbo leoperbo

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

  53. 3 months ago
    3kornepenal 3kornepenal

    great addon, just what i needed. thx!

  54. 3 months ago
    pedroducos 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.

  55. 3 months ago
    haberlah 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?

  56. 3 months ago
    slowness 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.

  57. 2 months ago
    cellarmation 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.

  58. 2 months ago
    atreiu 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!

  59. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @cellarmation that was added with the newest version, you do have to have some of the latest nightlies.

  60. 2 months ago
    atreiu 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!

  61. 2 months ago
    fcastillo 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

  62. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @fcastillo looking at this, will try to get this fixed this weekend.

  63. 2 months ago
    FilmFollower18 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.

  64. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    You can do either go to view, then show right side bar, or if you are using some of the newer nightlies, down in the lower right corner you should see a rectangle with an arrow pointing to the left, click on that, and that should bring it into view again.

  65. 2 months ago
    tacticalbread 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.

  66. 2 months ago
    tacticalbread tacticalbread

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

    I must be an unobservant idiot. -_-

  67. 2 months ago
    lonbluster lonbluster

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

    I love this pluging

    Kisses

  68. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @tacticalbread What version of Songbird are you using? This addon was developed and used by me in Ubuntu 8.04, so I don't think Linux is the issue

    @lonbluster SHOUTcast support will come eventually, but I first need to get better at understanding it, as I never use it myself.

  69. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @fcastillo 1.5.1.0 now writes to the ID3 tag.

  70. 2 months ago
    tacticalbread 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?

  71. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @tacticalbread A few internal things are switching with the release of 1.0, The current version of Lyricmaster, makes everything ready do go for the new release that should be happening sometime soon. Until then you can play around with the most recent nightlies.

  72. 2 months ago
    GeekShadow GeekShadow

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

  73. 2 months ago
    snorgplat 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?

  74. 2 months ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @snorgplat You can right click on the track that doesn't have Lyrics in the library and chose "edit metadata" then go to the Lyrics tab, and there you can paste or type in any lyrics that can't be retrieved.

  75. 2 months ago
    xplosneer 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.

  76. 2 months ago
    xplosneer 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.

  77. 2 months ago
    xplosneer xplosneer

    Confirmed: Reentering the lyrics solves the problem

  78. about 1 month ago
    jeremys18 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.

  79. about 1 month ago
    mettkea 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.

  80. about 1 month ago
    xplosneer 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...

  81. about 1 month ago
    Cairsten 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.

  82. about 1 month ago
    eyeverve 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!

  83. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @jeremys18 if the lyrics are wrong you can also go into preferences and switch which internet server LM pulls from.

    @mettkea I'm checking into if this a bug on my end or a Songbird bug.

    @Cairsten what version of Songbird and LyricMaster are you using?

    @eyeverve I believe you can submit lyrics to the lyricwiki.org which is one of the options to have lyrics pulled from, lyricpugin.com doesn't have an option to submit from the web that I'm aware of.

    @xplosneer before Songbird 1.0 there were some issues where it would remove the new lines from blocks of text, that might be what you were running into.

  84. about 1 month ago
    tshack 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.

  85. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @tshack The Lyrics tab in the Trackeditor is only available if you use Songird 1.0 (or Release Canidate 1 or higher) and LyricMaster 1.5, unfortunately version 1.5 is not backwards compatible with older versions of Songbird.

  86. about 1 month ago
    Erickejah Erickejah

    It would be great if it work with shout cast

  87. about 1 month ago
    Wr4tH Wr4tH

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

  88. about 1 month ago
    Wr4tH Wr4tH

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

  89. about 1 month ago
    Lakrits 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 :)

  90. about 1 month ago
    hi9 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!

  91. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @Lakrits & hi9 - Turn off your notifications in the preferences for both Saving Lyrics and Notification of no lyrics, and let me know if that stops it, It did on my machine, want to make sure that works to implement a fix.

    @hi9 Thanks for the compliments!

  92. about 1 month ago
    Lakrits Lakrits

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

  93. about 1 month ago
    hi9 hi9

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

  94. about 1 month ago
    Olivia_Lovag 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

  95. about 1 month ago
    Olivia_Lovag 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?)

  96. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    What server are you pulling the lyrics from lyricwiki or lyricplugin?

    What version of Songbird and LyricMaster and Operating System are you using?

    I haven't seen any of those issues at all and I've spent a lot of time pulling from both servers. What do you have your notification preferences set for saving lyrics Don't ask/Don't Save, Prompt, or Always save?

    An example of the lyricmaster.css file is in the help documentation. If you are a feather developer it goes in the base of the skin directory. I would imagine you can search your Songbird install directory and fine the current feather/skin folder and put it there for testing.

  97. about 1 month ago
    Olivia_Lovag 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...)

  98. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    I will check the always save part of the code.

    well, what I meant to say was if you wanted to try your hand at your lyricmaster.css, you could find your skin folder in your songbird install, and add the lyricmaster.css to that folder to try and switch LyricMaster to [Current Feather]. On another note, feather development is 90% css development :)

  99. about 1 month ago
    Olivia_Lovag 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!

  100. about 1 month ago
    tshack 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!

  101. about 1 month ago
    tshack tshack

    Have a screenshot for you as well ;-)

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

  102. about 1 month ago
    rcw003 author rcw003

    @tshack this appears to be a Songbird RC3 issue http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13872

  103. about 1 month ago
    ZSchrink 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!

  104. about 1 month ago
    ZSchrink 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.

  105. about 1 month ago
    Lukas_Skywalker 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.

  106. about 1 month ago
    seba seba

    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

  107. about 1 month ago
    viper.kabir 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.

  108. about 1 month ago
    viper.kabir 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.

  109. about 1 month ago
    ZSchrink 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.

  110. about 1 month ago
    shufan 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?

  111. about 1 month ago
    shufan 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.