My Lyrics don't scroll... (1 Viewer)

[King-S]

Hi,

I installed the MyLyrics-Plugin and it works fine. The lyrics were downloaded and displayed. But the text doesn't scroll. Can somebody please tell me how I have to configure my Plugin so I can see the complete text by scrolling (manually or automatic).

Thanks

 

[rekenaar]

Hi there

1. Do you have the lyrics with a timestamp in front of each line? If not you can edit it to comply.
2. Does your skin fully support MyLyrics? Try with B3 or B3W

If you need more help, just let us know.

 

[mackey]

Yup, rekenaar told the most of the story. The rest you can see in the release notes.
To sum up:
- You can simple skip to the next part pressing the up/down buttons of the spinbutton
- You can convert the plain lyric into a LRC lyric by entering the Editor mode (press 'E' on your keyboard or '*' on your remote)
- The automatic scroll text was abandoned some versions ago. It didn't work well.

If the above doesn't help you might use a skin with an inproper mylyrics.xml file. If so, please list name and version of the skin.

 

[HappyTalk]

auto scroll?

It's a shame you abandoned the scroll as it would be a really useful feature, though I think the idea of syncing it to timestamps is unrealistic as in reality no one wil bother to add them.

If you could add a simpler version that simply calcs an average scroll speed from the song time vs lyric lines, with a button to enable disable scrolling (and jump to correct point if enabled when already part way through playing song) that would be a lot better than having to press up/down buttons. You could use up/down when in scroll mode to inc/dec the scroll speed.

I'm sure with a bit if fine tuning e.g. don't start scrolling until 10% into the song and make sure the last line scrolls into view by the time 90% of the song has played, it would probably be good for 95% of songs.

 

[Dodgy Bob]

+1 for this last post

 

[mackey]

MyLyrics 1.22 RC out for testing!

The scroll functionality have been added while it is still possible to hang on to the existing textbox style of showing a plain lyric. On the setting tab in the configuration you can choose which of the two options you prefer.

If the scroll functionality is enabled (not default) you can switch the vertical scroll speed using the 'S'-key on your keyboard. There are a total of 6 speed values and the slowest is default.

Have a testdrive and let me know if you encounter a problem or if everything is allright.

The download holds updated versions of myLyrics for the Blue3, Blue3Wide and StreamedMP skins.

cheers
Soren



For skin-makers

In the upcoming MyLyrics version I've added the scroll feature once again which basically means that all skin-makers must add a couple of new controls to the MyLyrics.xml file. The two new controls have the id's 1020 and 1021 and are basically twins of the two textbox controls with id's 20 and 21. The main difference is that the new controls are of the type textboxscrollup and also have a little smaller value for the height (due to nature of the textboxscrollup control).

Here are an example from MyLyrics.xml of the Blue3 skin:

<control>
<type>textbox</type>
<description>The Lyric area basic</description>
<id>20</id>
<posX>48</posX>
<posY>104</posY>
<width>336</width>
<height>336</height>
<image>icon-folder.png</image>
<label>-</label>
<text>6</text>
<spinPosX>320</spinPosX>
<spinPosY>400</spinPosY>
<font>font12</font>
<onleft>2</onleft>
<onright>2</onright>
<onup>2</onup>
<ondown>2</ondown>
<textcolor>ffdddddd</textcolor>
</control>
<control>
<type>textbox</type>
<description>The Lyric area wide</description>
<id>21</id>
<posX>48</posX>
<posY>104</posY>
<width>640</width>
<height>336</height>
<image>icon-folder.png</image>
<label>-</label>
<text>6</text>
<spinPosX>620</spinPosX>
<spinPosY>400</spinPosY>
<font>font12</font>
<onleft>2</onleft>
<onright>2</onright>
<onup>2</onup>
<ondown>2</ondown>
<textcolor>ffdddddd</textcolor>
</control>
<control>
<type>textboxscrollup</type>
<description>The Lyric area basic</description>
<id>1020</id>
<posX>48</posX>
<posY>104</posY>
<width>336</width>
<height>318</height>
<image>icon-folder.png</image>
<label>-</label>
<text>6</text>
<spinPosX>320</spinPosX>
<spinPosY>400</spinPosY>
<seperator>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</seperator>
<font>font12</font>
<onleft>2</onleft>
<onright>2</onright>
<onup>2</onup>
<ondown>2</ondown>
<textcolor>ffdddddd</textcolor>
</control>
<control>
<type>textboxscrollup</type>
<description>The Lyric area wide</description>
<id>1021</id>
<posX>48</posX>
<posY>104</posY>
<width>640</width>
<height>318</height>
<image>icon-folder.png</image>
<label>-</label>
<text>6</text>
<spinPosX>620</spinPosX>
<spinPosY>400</spinPosY>
<seperator>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</seperator>
<font>font12</font>
<onleft>2</onleft>
<onright>2</onright>
<onup>2</onup>
<ondown>2</ondown>
<textcolor>ffdddddd</textcolor>
</control>

 

[Dodgy Bob]

Works for me, thanks.

(Slight problem with the S key, after you've cycled through all the speeds once, the lyrics only show up on the fastest setting.)

 

[mackey]

Works for me, thanks.

(Slight problem with the S key, after you've cycled through all the speeds once, the lyrics only show up on the fastest setting.)

Glad it works.

However are you sure that the circle isn't complete? On my installations the shift from the fastest to the slowest works just fine. And the code likewise seems correct.

 

[Dodgy Bob]

Hi,

Using 'S' does shift the speed great the first time you cycle through all the speeds. I.e., start a song, go into my lyrics, lyrics are displayed, press 'S', lyrics move faster, press 'S', lyrics move faster, etc...

Once I've reached the fastest speed setting pressing 'S' again (to go to the slowest scroll speed again) causes the lyrics to disappear. I've waited and it just stays blank. After pressing 'S' to go to the next speed the display is the same, i.e. no lyrics. This is the same for each press of 'S' until you get back to the fastest speed, then the lyrics re-appear (scrolling at the fastest speed).

Any ideas?

Bob.

 

[mackey]

Hi,

Using 'S' does shift the speed great the first time you cycle through all the speeds. I.e., start a song, go into my lyrics, lyrics are displayed, press 'S', lyrics move faster, press 'S', lyrics move faster, etc...

Once I've reached the fastest speed setting pressing 'S' again (to go to the slowest scroll speed again) causes the lyrics to disappear. I've waited and it just stays blank. After pressing 'S' to go to the next speed the display is the same, i.e. no lyrics. This is the same for each press of 'S' until you get back to the fastest speed, then the lyrics re-appear (scrolling at the fastest speed).

Any ideas?

Bob.

Hi,
Oh yes, I'm aware of that. It is just how the textboxscrollup-control works. There is no perfect MP control for the job, but the textboxscrollup can be used with the flawes it has for the purpose. The lack of covenience was the main reason for the abandon of the scroll feature in the past. But by popular request it is now back. With the good and bad that it offers.

You can "reset" the textboxscrollup by shifting skin mode (w-button) twice or wait for the next song to start. Then it should be fit once again.

Soren