MyLyrics 0.14 - Comments and bug reporting (1 Viewer)

[mackey]

Hi all

Once again I have redesigned the LyricsEngine and this time you will really notice the changes made. The big new thing is that this and future versions of MyLyrics won't make use of the Google webservice anymore! I have thought about this change for a long time and now I have finally completed the move to complete lyrics search engine without any dependencies to the webservice.

I have done this for several reasons. In large the changes have resulted in:
- a significiantly quicker access to lyrics sites
- no longer requirement for a Google webservice to access all lyrics sites
- a smoother and simpler lyricsengine

Many users - who weren't fortunately to obtain a license key before Google stopped issuing them - will now be happy to be able to access more sites than just the one before.

All users will notice an improved time in the lyrics search. In MyLyrics most lyrics in be fetched within 1 second, and similar in Configuration mode, e.g. a group of 60 lyrics (that all can be found on the supported lyrics sites) takes less than one minute to fetch on my computer. It takes approximate 5-10 seconds to conclude that a lyric can't be found. The times may vary depending on your Internet connection, computer and the load on the supported lyric sites.

Finally, please report all the discovered bugs and comments to version 0.14 in this thread. In this way I hope the My Lyrics Plugin subforum will have a limited number of threads and wont become too messy. I will likewise write the bugs I find since the release at the end of this message.


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My Lyrics - version 0.14

Download here

Basic features:
- Dynamic search for lyric matching currently playing music file
- Batch search for lyrics matching songs in music database
- Add/delete/edit lyrics to database
- Reading of lyrics in music tags
- Support for lrc-files.
- No longer Google ws dependencies; heavily improved performance and no Google license key required to gain full support!

Changes from version 0.13 to 0.14:
- Add: Added three new lyrics sites, all with non Google webservice dependencies.
- Del: All Google related dependencies have been removed in the plugin (for better performance and support)
- Fix: Even if all lyric search threads had ended the complete search wasn't terminated due to bad validation.
- Fix: LRC-text saved in music tags wasn't formatted correctly and accordingly shown as regular lyrics.
- Fix: Fields weren't reset before interpreting a new LRC-fields resulting in wrong timestamps and non-empty status field.
- Fix: Catches error when accessing displosed treeview due to application shutdown
- Fix: An improved configuration setup with various smaller bug fixes.
- Fix: Due to lack of options with the MP scroll-control the default textcontrol is uses once again in the MyLyrics screen.

This version holds dll's for both a clean MP 0.2.2.0 install (default) and the latest SVN build. See the readme.txt for install.

Bugs to be sorted out in next release
#1 - In the MyLyrics screen: if turned to page 2 (or higher) on the lyrics textbox for the previous title, the lyric for the new title will likewise start on page 2. It should on load of lyric be reset to 1 to show start of lyric.
#2 - Lyrics from Lyrics007 should be trimmed for <br> occurencies.

 

[mycrow]

Hey mackey!

First of all thanks for the great plugin!!!

Unfortunately, after upgrading from 0.13 to 0.14, the plugin stopped working altogether.

I am using the latest SVN and installed your SVN version yesterday.
When entering the setup and trying to search for lyrics, "total songs" goes instantly to the # of songs in the music database (no counting up as in previous versions). After that nothing happen, no network activity, mylyrics.log is empty.
Resetting the database worked, but it didn't help for a later search....

Also, within mediaportal there are no lyrics retrieved or displayed. The logfile only contains:
MyLyrics Start: 0 : 000.0: MyLyrics opens

Any idea ??

M

 

[tomtom21000]

mycrow: probably the same problem I had at first.
Look through the mp folder for double files for mylyrics. I had both, files from 0.13 and 0.14. After deleting them everything worked fine.

tomtom

 

[mycrow]

Thanks tomtom!!
You came up with the right idea...

Works great now!

 

[trojkolka]

the 14 version of my lyrics gives an version error with the 12-02-2007 0100 SVN version going to plugins and clicking configuration on my lyrics right mouse menu gives an error then configuration.exe shuts down.... anyone had this problem/

 

[hwahrmann]

works perfect for me

 

[inverbon]

Nice Job Mackey! My lyrics works indeed fast...and i certainly like the pages buttons for multi-page lyrics instead of the scroll in the previous version. I'll test a bit more upcoming weekend. (didn't test if it works now with cd's....would be nice if it was there or comes in future releases )

Keep up the good work

 

[bigj]

Worked great for me too.
Good job.
Regards,
BigJ.

 

[inverbon]

ok, mackey...hate to say it..but time for a bug (or maybe a wrong lyric...don't know how to check that)

I have a album where the lyrics show up with no line-breaks, the different phrases are separated by a </br> An empty line (between two parts) shows up as </br></br>

further on a special character --> ' shows up as

'

any idea what this can be?

Iwan

 

[mackey]

ok, mackey...hate to say it..but time for a bug (or maybe a wrong lyric...don't know how to check that)

I have a album where the lyrics show up with no line-breaks, the different phrases are separated by a </br> An empty line (between two parts) shows up as </br></br>

further on a special character --> ' shows up as

'

any idea what this can be?

Iwan

Hey iwan.

Thanks for the report. Just let them keep rolling, if you find similar issues... hopefully there isn't that many

The error is in the formatting of the lyric. At the moment the plugin accesses four sites which all have different methods to set the lyrics up in html. I format the pages and e.g. convert the line breaks from html to text, however at times the html linebreaks differs at a site, and I may only have caught the type of line breaks that I find in the titles I have tested with. I must have missed the one you mentioned which explains there is no linebreaks in the text and a lot of <br>'s.

Please check at which site the specific lyrics was fetched. I would guess It was fetched at lyrics007, since I have fixed a formatting-error in the current development version. Also please enter the artist- and title-string of the song for ease of testing. Thanks!

I will test the newly added sites intensively before the release of the next version.