Soloution to batch .lrc (syncronised lyrics)

[m.standish]

Having LOVING the lycics plugin and wanting to tag ALL my artist/albums (approx 12500) tracks
Ive ben searcing in vain to batch tag all of the with .lrc files and have come up with the following soloution

You will need:

WMP 10/11
Minilyrics
Journal Macro (free trial, enough to do what you need tho)


* Install Minilyrics & Journal Macro
* Index ALL the files you wish to tag in Media Player
* List them by songs in library by artist view (so you can see ALL the songs in order *may help later to track progress)*
(select all the songs, in the bottom corner it will say how many track, make a note!)
* run minilyrics
*play one of the songs from WMP, you should see it starts downloading the lyrics, GOOD
*in minilyrics > preference > lyric download

auto download lyric ON
show lyrics download dialog OFF
do not download text lyric automatically OFF

save downloaded lyrics in:
save lyrics in C:LYRICS
save lyrics into MP3 as ID3v2 SYNCRONISED

rename:
KEEP THE FILE NAME

* to test settings play A DIFFERENT track in wmp, check c:lyrics, there should be the TrackYouPlayed.lrc (or poss *.txt, if so, play some more well known till you see the.lrc
When these appear delete all the files in c:lyrics (just to clean them up before major d/l)

*make sure WMP is open in fullscreen and the minilyrics window is showing
*play the 1st file in the list (can you see lyrics? Yes?, Carry on........)
*run journal macro, record a macro to press next track once every 2-3 seconds (give it chance to DL the lyric, you will have to play with this depending on the speed of your connection & PC. mine is set at 2.5 seconds per click and a 1000mhz pc with 8mb connection. IT IS IMPORTANT to get this correct alse you will miss lyrics. too slow is better than too fast)
* when you have it running as wanted, repeat the macro the same amount of tracks you have

Each time it finds a lyric, it will d/l a .lrc/.txt file for use importing into MyLyrics AND also save it into the mp3 as a syncronised lyric

This is THE ONLY batch processing way i have found and is taking me approx 8 hours to process 12500 tracks but i thought i would share my experience
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[lider]

Hi m.standish,
I would like to try your procedure; however, I am running into a higher level trouble, namely I am trying to edit on the fly a lyric to get a .lrc file but it didn't work: no text appeared in the LRC editor menu (while text was ok with the Lyric menu). Then, I have (succesfully) tried to import a .lrc file, but when playing the song no text appears (even if the menu was switched to LRC). I'am using MP 1.0.0 RC1 (no SVN yet), with Bluewo skin.

I saw that a previous thread reported on some bugs realted to this topic (.lrc are not displayed anymore?)
Are you able to see (scrolling) .lrc file with no problems?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Lider

[m.standish]

yep running the latest stable mp release and no probs, lrc files show as as different type of lyric in mp and scroll
the latest minilyrics install also runs ok

not sure what to say

[lider]

Thanks a lot for your answer. For "latest stable mp release " do you mean MP 0.2.3 or MP 1.0.0? I am actually using MP 1.0.0, which is still a RC... This could make difference

[sdf]

I can confirm that with the latest Mp and My Lyrics 1.0 plugin is not possible to view .lrc files (song words scrolling).
There's only a blank page instead of words.
This has nothing to do with minilyrics.
Bye, sdf