Editing lyrics (1 Viewer)

[rjh4242]

I just installed MyLyrics and it looks great. However, I found that sometimes the lyrics downloaded from the web are not quite correct, which irritated me. So I looked in the configuration for the plugin and found that it looked like I could edit the lyrics. So I changed them, pressed save, ok'd out of config, restarted MediaPortal, but when it started playing the song, it looked at the web again for lyrics, so they were wrong again. I went back into the plugin and re-edited the lyrics, saved again, and this time also exported to MP3 tag. Tried playing the song in MP again. Same problem. What am I missing here? Why doesn't it pick up my edits to the lyrics?

 

[mackey]

Hi,
I'm currently on vacation with no MP access, so cannot verify if there is an error. Please upload a screenshot of your settings (just the 'Setting' tab). I might suspect that you haven't set the option to save lyrics to tags. That may be the problem since the plugin when run inside MP always checks the tag first and secondly the lyrics database. I believe that may be the cause to the issue, so please try it out.

 

[rjh4242]

Found the settings

What dedication - helping me while you're on holiday! I really appreciate the quick response.

I checked the settings tab and noticed that the settings under MP3 tags - to always check the tag first for lyrics and to save lyrics into the tag - were not ticked, so I changed them. That seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

By the way, is there some kind of "quick start" guide that I've missed? I'm sure that I haven't really realised how to use the plugin to its best advantage, but I haven't found anything to tell me how it's designed to work. For example, is there some hotkey or remote control key that will take me directly to the lyrics when I'm playing a music track?

BTW, enjoy your holiday, no rush for the answer to the above!

 

[briegel]

Hello mackey,

I also wondered about the permanent Internet look-up for lyrics of the actual played song.
If there is a Lyrics database, why permanently the internet look-up?

I would appreciate if the lyrics-engine would act as follows:
If there is no lyric: Internet look-up
If there is a lyric in the database or songtag than the lyrics-engine shall fetch one of these lyrics without internet-look-up.
In this case i can use the songtags or database if i don´t want to save the lyrics in the songtags.

Greetings
Briegel

 

[mackey]

What dedication - helping me while you're on holiday! I really appreciate the quick response.

I checked the settings tab and noticed that the settings under MP3 tags - to always check the tag first for lyrics and to save lyrics into the tag - were not ticked, so I changed them. That seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

By the way, is there some kind of "quick start" guide that I've missed? I'm sure that I haven't really realised how to use the plugin to its best advantage, but I haven't found anything to tell me how it's designed to work. For example, is there some hotkey or remote control key that will take me directly to the lyrics when I'm playing a music track?

BTW, enjoy your holiday, no rush for the answer to the above!

No, problem. However my dedication is apparently not strong enough to write a proper "quick start" as I should have. Their are dedicated wiki pages for this but I and most other plugin developers have failed to fill this pages with useful informations. I hope to do this some time in the future, but currently there isn't a wiki page for MyLyrics.

It is the responsibility of the skin to feature a key and/or shortcut to MyLyrics. there is unfortunately no way a plugin can interfere with e.g. MyMusic or other parts of MP-I.

 

[mackey]

Hello mackey,

I also wondered about the permanent Internet look-up for lyrics of the actual played song.
If there is a Lyrics database, why permanently the internet look-up?

I would appreciate if the lyrics-engine would act as follows:
If there is no lyric: Internet look-up
If there is a lyric in the database or songtag than the lyrics-engine shall fetch one of these lyrics without internet-look-up.
In this case i can use the songtags or database if i don´t want to save the lyrics in the songtags.

Greetings
Briegel

MyLyrics does exactly that. It first checks the tag, then the lyrics database, and finally performs a internet search if no matching lyric was found in neither tag nor database.

However note, that if you have selected LRC search only and only a plain lyric is find in tag and/or database, then an internet LRC lookup is performed.

cheers,
mackey

 

[briegel]

Hello mackey


thank you for the fast response.

I will check the plungin and my settings again.

cheers
Briegel

 

[briegel]

Hi,

i made some tests:
Mediaportal 1.02
My Lyrics 1.32

The Settings are:
- lyrics mode
- always use lyric in music tag
- move lyrics from marked to lyrics database when updated
The lyrics are not stored in the tags.


In my system:
- The plugin always makes an internet-lookup, if there is no LRC in the database.
- If there is a LRC in the database, the plugin mostly makes no internet-lookup.

- If there is a lyric in the database the system mostly uses the lyric in the database. It seems to make no difference if it has an internet-connection or not.
This database-lookup takes place after the LRC search was not successful.


And now something confusing:
Although the lyrics are stored in the database the plugin makes an internet-lookup and updates the database in some cases (not always!).

I tried to find out the reason for this, but I got no real explanation.
In all cases the title has more than 20 characters. It makes no difference if it's a Lyric or LRC. The Plugin doesn't find the lyric in the database.
(e.g. : Iron Maiden, "The Number Of The Beast" has 23 charakters. It woun't be found).
Than i shortened the title to 19 Charakters "Number of the beast". I also changed the title in the tag an the filename. I added the lyric manually, but the plugin also doesn't find the lyric in the database.
This is a plain lyric.

The Tilte "Can i play with madness" is a LRC. It also woun't be found by the plungin in the database and so it makes in internet-lookup.


What is wrong?

cheers
Briegel

 

[mackey]

Thanks Briegel (and rjh4242)!

You are right, there was an error in version 1.32 which I just found investigated your report. It was introduced by the changes I made to support streaming media and is due to an inproper capitalizing of strings.

I've uploaded a version 1.34 were this issue is fixed. It should be accessable from the plugin repository soon.

cheers
mackey