LyricMaster

very nice

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

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

ups – sorry for the doubling…

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Nice job rcw2003!

max

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.

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.

Works great. Thank you.

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SB0.7.0

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 !

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

Really, really, REALLY great update! :-D

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

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!

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

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

THANKS! =)

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!

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

great addon, just what i needed. thx!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

@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!

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

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.

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.

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

I must be an unobservant idiot. -_-

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

I love this pluging

Kisses

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?

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

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?

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.

**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.

Confirmed: Reentering the lyrics solves the problem

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.

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.

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...

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.

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!

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.

It would be great if it work with shout cast

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

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

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 :)

[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!

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

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

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

"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?)

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...)

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!

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!

Have a screenshot for you as well ;-)

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Is this addon going to support .lrc files?

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

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.

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

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???

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!

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"

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.

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

Good work!!

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.

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();" />"}]


Can you add an option to change the font size?

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.

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

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

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

@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!

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 ^^

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.

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.)

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?

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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 :)

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

@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.

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. =]

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

@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

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!

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

I have to check first guys .

Thanks a lot from Athens Greece

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.

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?

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

i had install.but how to use

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

greetz ALU

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

@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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

very good!

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?

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.

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!

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"

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

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

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.

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.

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

@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.

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!

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!

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

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

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

Keep on coding,
Stefan

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

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

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

Thanks a lot for this plug ;)

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 ;)

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)

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!

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

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.

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

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?

A version for Songbird 1.1.1b3 please ;)

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

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

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

Oh, a manual install is required. Thanks!

...you're welcome? ;-)

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?
チケットを握り ゲートをくぐれ

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
濡れたシャツ光る It's showtime!!

虚しさに嘖まれる キミが欲しかったのは臨場感
人の気持ちつかめない ボクに足りないのは想像力

十人十色の想い かかえこんで
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!!

=====================================

After Save the lyrics, I play again the music and I have :

ri’|sˆ[‹ˆFk µüÁé¤ÈLz’g‰Y
c_a‚rO Sðo¢êüÊú‰Y

^OchY‹`? ,ýLFZO`?
Á±ÃȒአ²üȒOPŒ

|±xnۅ SSXƒYyfLLive
‹_Sh‚jD êkH‹
·`‰QnU’ ØO/ŠBRf
͂゠×QdQ‰ŒjD
”DnjDB“LAŒf
áŒ_·ãÄI‹ It's showtime!!

ZWUk~Œ‹ ­ßL2WKc_noè4
ºnadKjD ܯk³ŠjDnoóϛ

AºArnóD KKHS“g
¹âü¯n-g~Œ ‹

|±xnۅ SSXƒYÙfLLive
‹_Sh‚jD êkH‹
ªê¸Êën¢¤Ç£¢g ;y’jDhŒ
“’ûMS€ &’wS]F
”DnjDB“LAŒf
Û‚ØŒ‹ It's showtime!!

î’]‰UZ Sca’‹fˆ
­ß`QL ܯ’ H‹

|±xnۅ SSXƒYyfLLive
‹_Sh‚jD êkH‹
·`‰QnU’ ØO/ŠBRf
͂゠×QdQ‰ŒjD
”DnjDB“LAŒf
²Œå‰Zn It's showtime!!
)•å‰Zn It's showtime!!

 
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Why????!!!!????

I'm on Linux Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

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.

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

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. =(

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.

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

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"

urology nephrology

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

뭐하자는거야.....

----> 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.

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.

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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!

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.

@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...

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.

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!

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?

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

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

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! :)

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!

So many bugs!

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

woowww good

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?

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

+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.

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.

Thank you for this

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.

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?

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 ^_^

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?

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

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

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?

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

Great enhancement!

It cannot display Chinese lyrics.
Please fix it.

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

Thanks!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 :)

Any idea when we receive an upgrad for Songbird 1.2?

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...

^^Same thing that sauntimo said.

hello to all

Hello to all

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

thank you, juvenal!

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

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

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

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?

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!

Version update foe 1.2?

:)

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.

Thanks, for the 1.2 compatibility, Lyric Master Rules!

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

Can the lyrics be made to scroll down automatically?

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 />
------------^

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

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

How can I localize this plugin?

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

please fix this for the new version T.T