Release Lyric Tagger

**liquid_smoke** · 12-06-2006, 10:53 PM

the lyrics from that site can easily be downloaded.
When you play a song in winamp, it sends the artist and track title to the site and returns a url with the lyrics
http://www.lyricsplugin.com/plugin/?...angsta%20Music

the above url is the same page thats displayed by the plugin inside winamp.

Shouldnt be too hard to write something in autoIT that would scan your music lib (already have code i wrote for that) and download lyrics for all your songs in one step. Then somehow write the info to the tags of the song. That part a little more involed. There should be something somewhere that does this already.

**deus ex machina** · 12-06-2006, 11:00 PM

Also, that OCX is ad-driven, so if it can't access iexplore.exe, it will refuse to work and throw out an error.

I think it's getting some more files on the second time around.

**JohnWPB** · 12-06-2006, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by deus ex machina

Also, that OCX is ad-driven, so if it can't access iexplore.exe, it will refuse to work and throw out an error.

I think it's getting some more files on the second time around.

Hahahah I was wondering WHY I was getting Advertising Pop-Up's when I ran the plugin! I had not seen a pop-up in a quite a long time.

**liquid_smoke** · 12-06-2006, 11:45 PM

wow thats a first, a RR plugin with popups, you gotta be kidding me.

**deus ex machina** · 12-07-2006, 12:29 AM

I still have it running on my collection. I think it's getting more songs than I initially thought because often the first script to run doesn't find the lyrics, and reports "song not found," but then the second script finds it.

The cool thing about this that it's script-based. I think I might have a better OCX lying around somewhere too. I'll look for it.

**ReflexNPG** · 12-07-2006, 03:16 AM

- the popup comes only one time @ start, and only for 2 seconds - on the other hand, this ocx is stable, and does not produce garbage with id3v2 tags (like RR, Zortam, etc), does not corrupt files and works like a charm. 4 all that i can endure the "ad".

- to get results, your files must have the proper id3v2 tag (but if somebody wants lyrics and his files but he named them track1...track2...then better think about it)

- no lyrics even with the right tags? Write your own search module!

- dont like it? stop trashing the thread and dont use it!

**JohnWPB** · 12-07-2006, 03:39 AM

Originally Posted by ReflexNPG

- the popup comes only one time @ start, and only for 2 seconds - on the other hand, this ocx is stable, and does not produce garbage with id3v2 tags (like RR, Zortam, etc), does not corrupt files and works like a charm. 4 all that i can endure the "ad".

- to get results, your files must have the proper id3v2 tag (but if somebody wants lyrics and his files but he named them track1...track2...then better think about it)

- no lyrics even with the right tags? Write your own search module!

- dont like it? stop trashing the thread and dont use it!

- The ad popped up hera and I had to manually close it.

- I have all of my tags 100% correct. I have spent many, MANY hours over the past months making sure of that. With 18,000 songs, it was a tedious task! I also I did all this in id3v2 tags, then syncronized all that information into the v1 tags.

- It still is just getting like 2% of the songs I throw at it, and adding the lyrics.

- Thanks for all your work on this, but I guess I will just have to go with "option 4"

**jeffreyd_tx** · 12-07-2006, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by ReflexNPG

- the popup comes only one time @ start, and only for 2 seconds - on the other hand, this ocx is stable, and does not produce garbage with id3v2 tags (like RR, Zortam, etc), does not corrupt files and works like a charm. 4 all that i can endure the "ad".

- to get results, your files must have the proper id3v2 tag (but if somebody wants lyrics and his files but he named them track1...track2...then better think about it)

- no lyrics even with the right tags? Write your own search module!

- dont like it? stop trashing the thread and dont use it!

Not sure if people are trashing your thread. I think it is in the effort to make imporvements, brainstorming. I would be so sensitive about it. But if your app is "as-is" and you have no intention to develop any further, you may want to state that.

**ReflexNPG** · 12-07-2006, 07:35 AM

- the app is as it is. I wrote it 4 my needs and i share it, just in case somebody is interessted.

- guess why i made it modular? if somebody is really interested in it, he can use his favorite datasource and make a module 4 it. And maybe he is so generous to post it.

@johnwpb:
no lyrics? if they are not on the site, what are you expecting? if they are and the program does not get them, maybe you've found a bug, so let me know, fix it yourself...or take option 4!

@jeffreyd_tx:
brainstorming? most posters even dont know how it's working and start complaining. (the lyric site brings up an ad popup window on the first call, so why the hell is this the fault of the program?)

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If there are serious proposals, improvements or bug reports, i am glad to know about - but just jelling "it finds only 2%..." is far away from that.
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**deus ex machina** · 12-07-2006, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by ReflexNPG

the lyric site brings up an ad popup window on the first call, so why the hell is this the fault of the program?

You'd have to using something stupid like an IE control get popups that way. I wrote a class that downloads web pages (without actually rendering them in IE) using the Winsock API, if you want it.