Search for song lyrics

[thenktor]

Hi,
when I'm listening to music on my couch I'm often interested in the song lyrics. So some button that automatically searches for >"artist name" "song name" lyrics< on Google would be nice.

[abarisain]

Oh, thought about implementing an embeeded lyrics viewer but gave up. Didn't have that idea, which is nice (not as nice as embeeding lyrics but still !)

I will do it :)

[thenktor]

Embedding would be cool, but opening the standard browser with search results is a good beginning ;)

[bigpresh]

If you do decide to embed a lyrics viewer, I run www.lyricsbadger.co.uk which fetches lyrics from a variety of sources, and could provide a simple API for you to call, so you'd not have to worry about the actual fetching, just a straight HTTP call to get them.

[thenktor]

push ;-)

[abarisain]

Sorry, I have a lot of stuff to fix (and some other projects to work on !) since the new release. Lyrics is on the roadmap :)

[ferdnyc]

If you do end up embedding lyrics at any point, tie-ins to @bigpresh 's lyricsbadger (and/or other services) are obviously the main draw, but local-server lyrics support would be nice to have too. Especially since local-server cover art is already supported.

I'd been using gmpc's local-path loading, until they switched to glyr and it stopped working right for me. (gmpc looked for a file named ${filepart}.lyric in the same directory as ${filepart}.mp3/ogg/etc, if it was configured with the local path of the mpd music directory.) Having MPDroid make the same request to the "cover-art" webserver to pull lyrics would be fairly trivial, and a nice feature to have. In fact, in some ways it would be superior to the gmpc method, whic required that the mpd server's music directory be visible/mounted on the machine running gmpc. (I found that it mostly worked over my gvfs/fuse sftp:/// connection to the server... until it didn't.)

Warning, Uninteresting Personal Backstory Follows

The bulk of my mpd library consists of DJ sets, so it's full of multi-hour "songs" consisting of several, sometimes dozens of, tracks. Since those tracklistings are often available, and it's nice to associate them with the mixes where possible, I'd taken to overloading mpd's "lyrics" feature to catalog tracklists. But, because none of the "songs" actually are, no lyrics server is going to return the proper info if queried — in fact, they shouldn't return any info, and only do in rare instances where the file is poorly tagged and collides with an artist's released work.

[avuton]

Fixed via 94fec96.