OliverCruzcampo

It's not really doing anything. It doesn't have any options, I can't find any information about how to use, FAQs - nothing!
I have tried to play more than 10 rather famous songs and there is absolutely nothing happening.

I am wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to apply an "scrolling lyrics" option to the add-on "LyricMaster".

awkwardsmile

Good job! Though you could work on the add on being aesthetically pleasing e.g. nicer font, smaller text, bigger box, arrange the "not this lyric (sic)", full name of artiste and more options :)

awkwardsmile

Regarding oliver's suggestion, i agree. Implement scrolling feature on lyricmaster's add on. The lyrics provided by scrolling_lyric is wrong no matter how many times i click on "not this lyric" Could the lyrics search engine be changed?

OliverCruzcampo

OK, for some reason it's working now although I haven't really changed anything.

I agree with awkwardsmile's ideas of how to improve it. Hope you'll keep working on it.

GeekShadow

good job ! maybe you should work with rcw003 to integrate that on lyricmaster.
which database do you use to get lyrics ?

deOmega

Gotta love Community driven stuff. So, now this addon has to beat out LyricMaster or Lyric master beat this one.. or, marry the two somehow, somewhere.

fukid,
You said you don't 'think' it is possible.. so, seeing how smart you guys are, looking forward to the debut of "Scrolling Lyricmaster." :)

awkwardsmile

Great to hear you're taking suggestions seriously. Hmm, i feel the lyrics suggestions are getting abit more ridiculous? Now i get mandarin lyrics for English songs no matter how many times i refresh the "not this lyric" option. Hmmmmm. Kudos, still :)

cellarmation

I like the idea, but there are still a few problems at the moment. Trying to play
"More Than A Feeling" by "Boston" and it will only give me Chinese lyrics, and sometimes it gives me a list of Chinese and English words mixed together!

awkwardsmile

Do you mind giving us a better idea/example of dynamic lyrics? If you're talking about lyrics sites there are plenty e.g. azlyrics.com, metrolyrics, sing365

runner75

Hum... I'm listening
Back in Black.. but the lisycs are conly chinese (or japanese I don't know)...

OliverCruzcampo

Maybe some of the posted links at the bottom will help you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)

Also I am wondering how the tool minilyrics works then! It is downloading the lyrics from the Internet! Maybe their own server? That program, however, is able to find lrc lyrics for almost any English song.

atreiu

Really nice idea! I hope you can find some more sites to query. :-)

For the layout, you might want to include the html.css of the current feather to get the right colors & fonts. You can do this by adding this line to the head-section of your html:
< link id="define_CSS" href="chrome://songbird/skin/html.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

shelling4ord

http://lyrics.mirkforce.net/cgi-bin/lepserver.cgi

I found this in foobar, try it! Hmm also, I think you better allow users to adjust the lyric (it's not always appear exact time).

daweb

Hi!
what about lrcdb.org integration?
It has english lyrics and also support for contribution.

Dark06

Yeah MiniLyrics have their own server

http://www.viewlyrics.com:1212/

maybe u can backwards engineer it

I doubt it would be hard to get it to connect to it

also IRCdb.org looks like it could be a winner

isismelting

i love this plugin and completely understand *that* it is not being received very well though i certainly do not understand *why* at all.

what an ambitious project - i am stunned that it works as well as it does - i cannot wait to see what it becomes.

i'm a developer myself. email scrollinglyrics@meerkat.cc if i might be able to help with the project in any way, from high-level programming to grunt work.

it is a great project. i thank you.

isismelting

fukid -- please contact me.

firstly, i am willing to supply an adequate server for this project. secondly i would be very happy, as a researcher of artificial intelligence, to write an appropriate database for the server.

what a neat feature this has the potential to be. i want to help it to manifest.

hellocatfood

You say that the lyrics need a timestamp to get it scrolling? Can this be done by adding a tag to the lyrics on lyricwiki?

Dark06

Good update man!!

at the very least I have not seen any Chinese charrectors

Its a little slow to load up a song but man it seems to working way better at least with my popular music

I listen to to much Indie shit

marcello776

Good Job!!!

it would be great using the extension also with the songbird reduced into the tray
something like a karaoke....

I would use it everytime...

Daikome

The lyrics are well formatted, and if you wait maybe a minute then they're easy to follow along with. There are some 'hick ups' with the lyrics sometimes, but reasonably less than the Lyric "Master."

I give it a 5, being a patient sole who enjoys butchering the songs that are currently playing.

Daikome

OK after reading other people's opinions I'd just like to say I'm glad you didn't find a way to combine this with lyricmaster, as I hinted at in my previous post, these lyrics are considerably more accurate, at least for my weird ass music library. This is an awesome program, and I think it's kinda cool that you can sometimes come across other languages.

jasonleakey

A popular lyrics server URL in China is as follows:
http://ttlrcct2.qianqian.com/dll/lyricsvr.dll?sh?Artist={0}&Title={1}&Flags=0

where {0} is hex format of characters of ArtistName while {1} of SongName

then you can get the ID and CODE,and access the following URL to get lyric.
http://ttlrcct2.qianqian.com/dll/lyricsvr.dll?dl?Id={0}&Code={1}

But I don't know how to achieve it with JavaScript...

Matt_NZ

Hi!

First off I have to say I love this project, When it works it works great but there are still many songs that dont come up properly

Is there anyway you could add a program to this extention so that users can add the lyrics and timing to there own songs? Then the extention could automatically add the users scrolling lyrics to your database.

Brilliant start to this extention but an updated look would be great

thanks very much for this and i hope to see more from this in the future :)

(If this extention had an upgraded look and enough working lyrics it would definatly replace lyric master for me!)

eddiewoodley

Hey, I found a website which has loads of english lyrics with timestamps and it also has an open API to access them.

The website is http://www.lyrdb.com

They have an extensive karaoke section which has lyrics in this format. The WebServices section of the website (http://tinyurl.com/cnroeg) contains info on the API, however it doesn't detail how to retrieve karaoke lyrics only standard ones.

I emailed the developers of the website and they let me know that it is possible to retrieve karaoke lyrics by querying the following URLs

http://webservices.lyrdb.com/karlookup.php?mode=(mode)&q=(query)
http://webservices.lyrdb.com/showkar.php?q=(ID)&useid=1

You just use those URLs in place of the ones detailed in the WebServices page.

If I've missed something and this site is already implemented then sorry to waste your time :P

Love the extension, keep up the good work!

eddiewoodley

sorry forgot to mention that setting mode=s in the first URL makes it only return the best result, anything else returns the top 10

musicpirate

I'm very interested in this. But it just needs to work better.

eddiewoodley

I'm very willing to contribute, I would happily create skins for this addon, I have a good knowledge of web design/development as I have worked as a web developer professionally! Let me know how I can help and contact you more directly!

Melkor

Where do you save the lyrics typed in in 'submit new'?
maybe it is a idea to crate a new database which works better with songbird?
then you can give more possibilities for responses like 'wrong lyrics', 'asynchron', etc.

avon

Think you should contact the author of the foo_uie_lyrics plug-in for foobar2000, and ask if he would share the lyric server with this plug-in(also the search algorithm i guess:). They definitely have a big scale of lyrics in their db. So don't reinvent the wheel!

BTW,the box round the lyric is a waste of space and any way you could neglect the English-Chinese mixed lyrics?

Anyway, it's a bravo job. Thumbs up!

You

Hey can you update it to 1.1.1 beta3? I accidentally updated it to the newest beta and now I can't get my favorite add-on in Songbird to work! Keep up the good working! 5/5

Jerome

Thanks ;)

Daikome

Question: I've submitted some lyrics and for some reason if I put a word like "can't" it comes out as "can\t" but I see other people who can put apostrophes, so what's the secret and will I ever be able to edit lyrics that I submitted to fix my little oopses?

birdip

Thanks for the AddOn!
I have a problem using the AddOn with NoScript.
It does work if I allow scripts globally but I dont want to do this.
I need to add scrolling_lyric to NoScript's whitelist but I dont know which URL to add.
Can you help me please?
birdip

birdip

Problem solved...
The URL is displayed when you move the cursor over the "not this lyric" link.
*HAPPY*

rreinman

humm I cant get the scroll to auto scroll. What is wrong? also, the options are greyed out.

           thanks

silver

Getting the same thing as Daikome when i submit lyrics and also I'm getting an odd error when playing songs from last.fm radio it displays lyrics from the next tack that's going to play instead of the current playing track. Other than that i like this addon.

semanet

The idea under scrolling_lyric is good, but...the LyricMaster is much more...sorry!

bob202

To put it lightly it doesn't seem to work very well. I'm getting the wrong/no lyrics even for songs by the Beatles, Interpol and The Rolling Stones. Also, the scrolling function doesn't happen.

I'm using Songbird 1.2.0 on Vista.

But I love the concept of this app!!

Tripplesixty

I love this add-on, I am addicted to making and correcting the lyrics for my library. But I have a few suggestions that I am hoping to see in the future:

1. Make current playlists editable so if certain lines are off it can be adjusted, or if there are misspelled words they can be corrected.

2. Perfect parsing of the lyric files " don't " is showing up as " don/'t " apostrophes are not parsed correctly.

3. Include the ability to save a local copy of the lyric to support offline playing, editing, and creation of lyric files. Possibly even embed in the file itself... not sure if ID3 support timestamped lyrics?

4. I know your working on this one but improve the interface. So far it looks fine and integrates well with Gonzo however the lyric creation interface is a little rusty, you have to fight it once in a while to get it to do what you want.

5. Over all I am very satisfied with this add-on and excited to see where it goes with community drive and support. This is one of those add-ons that will make Songbird an "iTunes Killer".

DevilDoc5

Ok I recently found songbird and this was one of the main reasons why I decided to download it..... Very very nice work. (well that and atreiu's guitar tab locator)

That being said I seem to be having a problem with the sidebar option as I have to use the scroll bar to get to the "not this lyric" comment. Don't know if there is a work around or what available....

Also I have a BUNCH of 'lrc files from when I used minilyrics on my other os. Is there a place that I can send these to for a mass upload? Or any way to be able to point this addon to check those first before going to the web server?

Any ways that being said nice work.

Seb

Hello,

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

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

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

Thank you for your consideration ...

k_b_arthur

Great job but this add-on does not work any more for me.
Using it with Songbird 1.20 in ubuntu 9.04.
It stopped working after installing another add-on (unfortunately i can't remember which).
Anyway after removing (including configurations files from home directory) and installing again Songbird, I've started to reconfigure-install the add-ons i previously had.
The problem is every time i install scrolling_lyric and i restart Songbird, Songbird does not start, it just freezes in background.
I must at least delete the .Songird2 folder from home or reinstall the whole package(.deb). And starting again to reconfigure everything, from language to add-ons, etc.
Can someone help cause I really love this add-on, it's way over "Lyrics master".

Thank you.

Seb

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

m0w

Same problem with the mac version of songbird after installing the plugin songbird freezes a long time, then after 2-4mins starts up (looks like some kind of http timeout) when started scrolling_lyrics won't display anything but Connection interrupted The document contains no data.

would be great to have this fixed!!!!!!

DevilDoc5

it appears that this addon has fallen by the wayside...I am going to attempt to create a temporary fix based on fukids scripts for now...will let everyone know how it comes out soon.

zebrat

yes, anybody is still working on the plugin. it's very nice. just need to be improved a little bit.

Why not find lyrics from internet directly (i.e., through google), instead from two specified lyrics website. I just found it's hard to have lyrics for new songs from the two websites.

xenotime

hi, is there still anyone working on it? i am really interested in this plugin