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An open-source lyrics plugin for foobar2000 that includes its own UI panel for displaying and sources for downloading lyrics that are not available locally.

~ https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics (https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics)

https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/mm70rb/i_made_an_opensource_alternative_to/

OpenLyrics v0.9 released:
https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/releases

Foo_uie_lyrics3 works with radio streams, is there a way to make this component work with streams as well?

Thank you.

Foo_uie_lyrics3 works with radio streams, is there a way to make this component work with streams as well?

Thank you.

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/49

Quote from: Paaufo on 2021-09-07 07:15:51

Foo_uie_lyrics3 works with radio streams, is there a way to make this component work with streams as well?

Thank you.

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/49

Cool, thank you.

Thanks for this - finally trying it out and seems far more resource friendly than lyricsshow.

A couple requests.
-Ability to edit the default display when no lyrics are present?
-Ability to (mouse-wheel) scroll lyrics?

It's definitely better than Lyric Show Panel 3 0.5 which hasn't been updated for 5 years and never seems to have worked for me. Not even any English songs. I wonder if it requires some special configuration that I am not aware of?

Back to OpenLyrics, it's much better and a godsend. But it doesn't seem like NetEase is a good source for any lyrics. Could the source of lyrics be diversified? I was referring to this album Various.Artists.The.Best.Of.Bond....James.Bond. Not all the songs has lyrics. But this is not even a new album. So I am just curious.

Maybe I am just picky. Hopefully this is available on the mobile app version too. I highly appreciate it.

Thank you 2tec for this plugin. It works great!
One easy improvement is to add the BOM (byte order marker) to the saved lyric files. It makes these files more compatible with other software. Thanks!

Another nice addition in the lyric editor would be a second “Synchronise selected line” button that, instead of replacing the current timestamp, rather adds another timestamp to the current line. Many songs have lines that repeat.

Thank you 2tec for this plugin. It works great!
One easy improvement is to add the BOM (byte order marker) to the saved lyric files. It makes these files more compatible with other software. Thanks!

Please optional. "Compatibility improvements" are only true in badly coded software within windows ecosystem  ::)

It's definitely better than Lyric Show Panel 3 0.5 which hasn't been updated for 5 years and never seems to have worked for me. Not even any English songs. I wonder if it requires some special configuration that I am not aware of?

https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/o7ua73/lyric_show_panel_3_lyrics_from_genius_musixmatch/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/o7ua73/lyric_show_panel_3_lyrics_from_genius_musixmatch/)

Quote from: Parole on 2021-09-30 20:31:04

Thank you 2tec for this plugin. It works great!
One easy improvement is to add the BOM (byte order marker) to the saved lyric files. It makes these files more compatible with other software. Thanks!

Please optional. "Compatibility improvements" are only true in badly coded software within windows ecosystem  ::)

regor, why do you say that? Is there any situation where the presence of the BOM breaks any compatibility or creates any problem? Not to my knowledge and it’s just a few bytes… Of course it’s for compatibility with other software that can’t be easily updated; not everything is perfect or up‐to‐date in this world… Besides, the old Lyric Show Panel 3 had it, if I’m not mistaken.

Not against adding the feature, but against about it being forced just for the sake of patching windows problems who should be solved at the root. About compatibility... well most things outside windows world don't use BOM at all and have been working without problems since years. There is [windows only] software which has problems with files without BOM the same there is software everywhere which has problems with files with BOM (starting with any unix based SO and software, like Kodi).

From cue files, to playlist files, to all html, php and server related files.... BOM is a nightmare. Just google it, the list of problems by those few bytes is endless. For some users it may not be a problem if we talk about lyrics files, but it's for others as soon as those files are used outside foobar.

A simple switch covers all use-cases. Forcing BOM perpetuates the error.

A bug: if the timestamp marks have only seconds and no fractions of seconds ([1:23] instead of [1:23.45]), then the whole .lrc file is interpreted as text, the timestamps as text as well.
Some of the downloaded .lrc files are encoded this way. The old Lyric Show Panel 3 didn’t mind about this format alteration.

A bug: if the timestamp marks have only seconds and no fractions of seconds ([1:23] instead of [1:23.45]), then the whole .lrc file is interpreted as text, the timestamps as text as well.
Some of the downloaded .lrc files are encoded this way. The old Lyric Show Panel 3 didn’t mind about this format alteration.

Doesn't Right Click on the panel > Auto-edit lyrics > Fix malformed timestamps fix this?
If it does, you can also go on Preferences >Tools > OpenLyrics > Editing and set it to automatically try to fix it when saving lyrics.

Quote from: Supermansaga on 2021-09-29 03:44:28

It's definitely better than Lyric Show Panel 3 0.5 which hasn't been updated for 5 years and never seems to have worked for me. Not even any English songs. I wonder if it requires some special configuration that I am not aware of?

https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/o7ua73/lyric_show_panel_3_lyrics_from_genius_musixmatch/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/o7ua73/lyric_show_panel_3_lyrics_from_genius_musixmatch/)

Thanks. So this additional multisource component changes the behavior of the Lyric Show Panel component? Can't the LSP author just update his? Would the multisource component contain sources that Open Lyrics don't tap into? Appreciate it.

Thanks. So this additional multisource component changes the behavior of the Lyric Show Panel component? Can't the LSP author just update his? Would the multisource component contain sources that Open Lyrics don't tap into? Appreciate it.

It adds additional new sources to the Lyric Show Panel and fixed sources for the LSP ones that don't work anymore.  After adding it, put all the "NEW DB:" prefaced ones on the left "search order" list and move out the old ones.  The LSP author hasn't updated his in a long time and may have moved away permanently from this project.

I don't use Open Lyrics because it is not (yet) compatible with radio stream metadata which is 70% of my listening, so I don't know what sources it has, but I doubt if it includes metal-archives for example.

Although I've configured the plugin to autosave synced lyrics to the tag, a LRC file gets created when I play a track. Is this a bug or am I overlooking something? Thanks!

Quote from: Parole on 2021-10-10 20:01:46

A bug: if the timestamp marks have only seconds and no fractions of seconds ([1:23] instead of [1:23.45]), then the whole .lrc file is interpreted as text, the timestamps as text as well.
Some of the downloaded .lrc files are encoded this way. The old Lyric Show Panel 3 didn’t mind about this format alteration.

Doesn't Right Click on the panel > Auto-edit lyrics > Fix malformed timestamps fix this?
If it does, you can also go on Preferences >Tools > OpenLyrics > Editing and set it to automatically try to fix it when saving lyrics.

I don’t know what kinds of timestamps are considered malformed, but the function you mentioned doesn’t change the format I described.

I don’t know what kinds of timestamps are considered malformed, but the function you mentioned doesn’t change the format I described.

Ah, it worked for me on some timestamps that were interpreted as text. Maybe you should report this as a bug on the github issue tracker:

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics

Not against adding the feature…

OK, according to Wikipedia, although not necessary for UTF-8, BOM is necessary for UTF-16 to decide the byte order of the file (I reckon it’s better than to implement an algorithm to guess it).
regor, I’ve just noticed the old Lyric Show Panel 3 can’t display UTF-16 content without BOM.

Bug: OpenLyrics 0.9 doesn’t show UTF‐16 content (regardless of its BOM).

Quote from: regor on 2021-10-05 21:56:20

Not against adding the feature…

OK, according to Wikipedia, although not necessary for UTF-8, BOM is necessary for UTF-16 to decide the byte order of the file (I reckon it’s better than to implement an algorithm to guess it).
regor, I’ve just noticed the old Lyric Show Panel 3 can’t display UTF-16 content without BOM.

Byte order marks in UTF-16 are a totally different thing which has nothing to do with BOM breaking things in UTF8 outside windows ecosystem.
https://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html

Anyway I  am not sure that is a "bug", I mean... I would have never expected the plugin to read UTF-16, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE files. But I have not seen anything about codepages support on the documentation, so who knows.

Quote from: Supermansaga on 2021-10-11 03:58:23

Thanks. So this additional multisource component changes the behavior of the Lyric Show Panel component? Can't the LSP author just update his? Would the multisource component contain sources that Open Lyrics don't tap into? Appreciate it.

It adds additional new sources to the Lyric Show Panel and fixed sources for the LSP ones that don't work anymore.  After adding it, put all the "NEW DB:" prefaced ones on the left "search order" list and move out the old ones.  The LSP author hasn't updated his in a long time and may have moved away permanently from this project.

I don't use Open Lyrics because it is not (yet) compatible with radio stream metadata which is 70% of my listening, so I don't know what sources it has, but I doubt if it includes metal-archives for example.

Many thanks for the nuance. I have figured out how to "After adding it, put all the "NEW DB:" prefaced ones on the left "search order" list and move out the old ones." LSP and Open Lyrics have two identical database: QQ Music and Netease. The author is likely Chinese. Appreciate it.

I didn't expect I would need the musixmatch feature, but I am glad that I did try it. It's only MusixMatch that turns up Japanese lyrics for LiSA's theme song for Demon Slayer Mugen Train.

Hi
beautiful component !

could be possibile skip streaming data?
for example i have a playlist with some nice radio (with radio paradise ) and the component keep downloading lyrics of songs I haven't on my computer
thanks again for the component

could be possibile skip streaming data?

Actually the reason that I have NOT tried this component is that it never was compatible with streaming metadata;  are you saying the current version now is (the release notes do not indicate this)?  Streaming radio is 70% of my listening and I enjoy the lyrics display of the songs that for example foo_multisource has provided all along.  However an optional "on/off" for displaying this would cover both your request and mine.

Quote from: francesco on 2021-11-15 09:42:11

could be possibile skip streaming data?

Actually the reason that I have NOT tried this component is that it never was compatible with streaming metadata;  are you saying the current version now is (the release notes do not indicate this)?  Streaming radio is 70% of my listening and I enjoy the lyrics display of the songs that for example foo_multisource has provided all along.  However an optional "on/off" for displaying this would cover both your request and mine.

Hi
i have added radio paradise mp4 320bit and while i was listening ,foo_openlyrics downlaoded the lyrics
i have disabled to save txt form file but only tag , it should stop to download them
yes it does download lyrics with foo_multisource , and it's very quickly and fast

I have just tested version .10 of Open Lyrics and looking at the console it is not searching on the dynamic metadata being sent by radio streams.  Instead it attempts to treat the station as a fixed file, using the station URL, my External Tag terms, etc. and predictably fails.  The Github discussion shows the developer is aware of this and attempting to add the feature, but it is definitely not present in the current release version.

Another annoying bug: in a Windows 1252: Western European encoded file, when there is an ASCII character in the latter half of the character table (e. g. è or ’), that line is trimmed from that point on. It makes lyrics unusable.

Thank you 2tec for this plugin. It works great!

It's not my release, all I did was post the topic. Here's where all the credit should rightfully go.

www.buymeacoffee.com/jacquesheunis (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jacquesheunis)

Is it possible to add:
https://www.songtexte.com
?

Hello, I installed this component V1.0 but I am having it displaying "&eapos;" instead of the expected "'" char.
Do you know how to fix this problem?
Regards, Andrea

Hello,
up to now i could not add OpenLyrics to foobar v2.0 beta 8 64bit. The error: only x86 supported.
Regards, oldfashioned

Hello,
up to now i could not add OpenLyrics to foobar v2.0 beta 8 64bit. The error: only x86 supported.
Regards, oldfashioned

Read "Compatibility with old components"
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Version_2.0_Release_Notes

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/183

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/183

Thank you, I haven't found it yet. I'll wait for V1.30 of OpenLyrics!

Why does Openlyrics scan for results even if the component is not active (visible)?
Can be easily confirmed using the console.

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/183

Many thanks for the intel. Auto-updating components should still work, right?

Quote from: marc2k3 on 2022-09-20 08:51:44

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/183

Many thanks for the intel. Auto-updating components should still work, right?

All components listed on official Foobar2000 page work with auto update.

Foo_openlyrics 1.3 has been released with support for 64-bit, as well as other improvements:

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/releases/tag/v1.3 (https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/releases/tag/v1.3)

Still no support for dynamic radio stream metadata, but this feature has been earmarked by the developer for the next (1.4) release.

I have configured it to write tags to file. Now I use FLACs with embedded CUESHEET. When I do bulk lyrics, I think it writes the complete FLAC file on every single track it adds Lyrics for. This seems highly inefficient. So I guess when FLAC files have no decent padding area, writing to tags is rather offputting...?

The webservices are surprisingly slow, what's your experience? On real common music, starting with Genius.com, Lyric download is like 1 track in 5 seconds.

You should split your files with embedded cuesheets. The only person you're inconveniencing is yourself. Why?

Today I'm using foobar2000 V2.0 beta 12 and it works fine with openlyrics V1.3
I like it!

You should split your files with embedded cuesheets. The only person you're inconveniencing is yourself. Why?

You're right. Reasons. But I am slowly and steadily converting my FLAC sources to single files, because there's some very specific disadvantages.

I am a bit in doubt about the search, it often finds the wrong lyrics.

Example.

Artist: IC3PEAK
Album: СКАЗКА
Track: Полчаса

Server order is "Netease", then "Genius".

It does not auto find the track on Netease. It then finds the wrong lyrics from a track called "Яд", from genius.com, but the wrong text is a mistake on Genius.

I am especially interested in the Netease results.

Why doesn't it find the track here?


But when I cut the track name to "Пол" it is amongst the results:


Why is this? I'd love to avoid as much manual search as possible.

Same is for the track "Пламя" - hard to find. It is on Netease, but I only find it there if I just search for "Пл"
Maybe some encoding issue?

a) Another problem. "Manual search" only operates if a track is playing and it searches for this track. I cannot use search for a non-playing track in the playlist. When I use a keyboard shortcut, artist/album/title aren't populated.
b) It did not auto remove "All Blank lines" (Artist:"Radiohead", Album: "Kid A Mnesia", Title: "If You Say The Word", Source: Netease)

So when I set the options to NOT auto save. When I now express my wish to manually bulk download lyrics - it does that, but it was for nothing, because it is nowhere applied. When visiting one of those tracks, it just again downloads lyrics.
IMO when I explicitely say "Search for lyrics" on multiple tracks, it should save the lyrics to the desired place (depending on the settings).

...made similar observation than squeller.
A lot of thing can be improve... this project is still in developpement after all.

I'm just not sure... here... is the best way to report those issues... I'm not even sure the dev is aware of this thread.

...might be worth checking out his github.

o/ developer here.

The webservices are surprisingly slow, what's your experience? On real common music, starting with Genius.com, Lyric download is like 1 track in 5 seconds.

Bulk search is deliberately rate-limited to avoid spamming the servers we're making requests to. The intention for bulk search is that you get it started and then leave it and it just chugs away in the background so speed is not at a goal.

Why is this? I'd love to avoid as much manual search as possible.

Me too, but the automated search is necessarily imperfect (it assumes the first result is correct and relies entirely on the ordering and search accuracy of the source being searched) and manual search exists specifically to solve this problem. Not much I can do to improve the search results of 3rd party websites.

a) Another problem. "Manual search" only operates if a track is playing and it searches for this track. I cannot use search for a non-playing track in the playlist. When I use a keyboard shortcut, artist/album/title aren't populated.
b) It did not auto remove "All Blank lines" (Artist:"Radiohead", Album: "Kid A Mnesia", Title: "If You Say The Word", Source: Netease)

These both sound like bugs. Please open an issue on github (https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues)

So when I set the options to NOT auto save. When I now express my wish to manually bulk download lyrics - it does that, but it was for nothing, because it is nowhere applied. When visiting one of those tracks, it just again downloads lyrics.
IMO when I explicitely say "Search for lyrics" on multiple tracks, it should save the lyrics to the desired place (depending on the settings).

This also sounds like a bug, although I do vaguely recall something like this being intentional (although off the top of my head I'm not sure of the details and I could always be wrong). Please open an issue on github.

...made similar observation than squeller.
A lot of thing can be improve... this project is still in developpement after all.

I'm just not sure... here... is the best way to report those issues... I'm not even sure the dev is aware of this thread.

...might be worth checking out his github.

Correct. I am aware of this thread but I almost never check it. If you'd like to report a bug or request a feature, please open a ticket on github. :)

Unrelated side-note for anybody wondering: I usually publish updates on github a few days earlier than publishing them to the fb2k component registry (and by extension making them available to the fb2k auto-updater). This is to give it a little time to be used by what I assume is a smaller group of people that are more likely to report any glaring issues that I might have missed, so I can fix them quickly/before updating the component registry.

Thanks @D3zmodos - Re: "Bulk search is deliberately rate-limited to avoid spamming" - Good!

I created proper bug reports.

Does not find results: https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/207
Manual Search only works when playing: https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/208
Does not auto remove all blank lines: https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/209
Bulk download issue when auto save off: https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/210

Hi

Is it possible to add sources to the avaialble ones?

Regards
szabi

Hi

Is it possible to add sources to the avaialble ones?

Regards
szabi

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=01-feature.md

Still no support for dynamic radio stream metadata, but this feature has been earmarked by the developer for the next (1.4) release.

Turns out the 1.4 release did NOT contain this desirable feature, but at GitHub the Developer states it has not been abandoned:

"Just to update those watching & waiting for this feature: I know I said this would be done for v1.4 but I've moved it to v1.5 because 1.4 is a bugfix-only release that I wanted to get out soon (because it fixes a bug that could cause data loss for some lyrics) and supporting internet radio streams requires some significant changes to the way openlyrics manages things internally. On top of that I'm unlikely to have any time to work on openlyrics for the next little while so I didn't want to release a new version with higher-than-usual potential for bugs and then not be around to fix it if anything critical came up.

On the upside, I have made a start on supporting this and indeed the new APIs provided by the recent fb2k updates do make this much easier to do. So this will get done, you'll just need to wait for a slightly higher version number. Thank you all for your patience!"

Hello,

openlyrics is really useful, thanks for sharing your work.

I have one question or rather request, seeing that the 1.3 update added something similar I thought I should bring this use case up:
I use the SYNCED LYRICS tag for all my songs, but for them to show up in iTunes and on my iPhone, I have to use the LYRICS field instead, and only unsynced lyrics are supported (why apple why) so I like to mass copy their SYNCED LYRICS field to LYRICS and remove all of their time stamps. I can already do the first part with masstagger, and it would be very convenient to add Auto-edit lyrics > Remove timestamps to the playlist context menu as well so that I won't have to play each song one by one and remove time stamps that way. Please let me know if there's already a way to do this that I'm unaware of?

Thanks for your time.

Can anyone tell me what Custom Highlight Colour is supposed to do? I check it and nothing happens. The others (font, text colour,etc) work fine. Thanks

Can anyone tell me what Custom Highlight Colour is supposed to do? I check it and nothing happens. The others (font, text colour,etc) work fine. Thanks

It is used so that in the file types that support it, the verse that is playing is illuminated.

Quote from: Fizbin on 2023-01-11 08:17:56

Can anyone tell me what Custom Highlight Colour is supposed to do? I check it and nothing happens. The others (font, text colour,etc) work fine. Thanks

It is used so that in the file types that support it, the verse that is playing is illuminated.

I would like my foobar to look like the image you posted. Could you tell me how to achieve that look. I really would like the dark background and the open lyrics panel out on the right. I am mostly using Columns UI, but could switch over to default. Right now my openlyrics window is floating.

Is it possible to get larger fonts in the openlyrics window?

I would like my foobar to look like the image you posted. Could you tell me how to achieve that look. I really would like the dark background and the open lyrics panel out on the right. I am mostly using Columns UI, but could switch over to default. Right now my openlyrics window is floating.
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I'm using foobar2000 v2.0 beta 24, 64-bit and Columns Ui 2.0.0-beta 1

   - To change the font of the Openlyrics window: (image1)

   - To place Open Lyrics in the right paneI leave you my layout: (image2)

   - For the dark mode: (image3)

   - To place Open Lyrics in the right paneI leave you my layout: (image2)

Very cool.

How did you get image2?

Is that a sort of text version of your layout/scratchbox?

Yes, it is a simple montage made with Paint3D.

simple

Thanks but, er ... how do you get the list of UI element names in the first place?

I do not speak English (I use google translator).
I did not understand the question. Try to redo it to see if I can understand it.

Thanks but, er ... how do you get the list of UI element names in the first place?

That is part of Columns UI (https://yuo.be/columns-ui) - that is how you create the layout in a tree structure. It can be found in Preferences > Display > Columns UI > Layout.

(Columns UI is a completely different user interface that allows more customization but also more advanced to setup. Default UI and Columns UI are mutually exclusive - you can only use one or the other at a time. Also some components may not support both)

Quote from: InchPerfect on 2023-02-06 09:29:33

Thanks but, er ... how do you get the list of UI element names in the first place?

That is part of Columns UI (https://yuo.be/columns-ui) - that is how you create the layout in a tree structure. It can be found in Preferences > Display > Columns UI > Layout.

(Columns UI is a completely different user interface that allows more customization but also more advanced to setup. Default UI and Columns UI are mutually exclusive - you can only use one or the other at a time. Also some components may not support both)

Thanks very much, I did actually know the second part in brackets. I've just never dared to try Columns UI so wasn't aware of that layout method and Columns UI didn't cross my mind. Much appreciated.

I'm sure I'll take the plunge into Columns UI one day; just too involved in other things at the moment.

I do not speak English (I use google translator).
I did not understand the question. Try to redo it to see if I can understand it.

No problem. Forget about it 😀. anamorphic has answered my question.

In image2 you have a list of things like "Vertical Splitter" and "JScript Panel3" and all the panels / windows that you've added to your layout / view.

I wanted to know how you made that list.

But anamorphic tells me that that is how we create the layout in Columns UI. In a 'tree' view. The Default UI (that I use) is different. That's why I didn't recognise it.

I would like my foobar to look like the image you posted. Could you tell me how to achieve that look. I really would like the dark background and the open lyrics panel out on the right. I am mostly using Columns UI, but could switch over to default. Right now my openlyrics window is floating.

I'm using foobar2000 v2.0 beta 24, 64-bit and Columns Ui 2.0.0-beta 1

   - To change the font of the Openlyrics window: (image1)

   - To place Open Lyrics in the right paneI leave you my layout: (image2)

   - For the dark mode: (image3)
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Thanks that worked

Extract lyrics from selected songs to clipboard.

I was wondering if it was possible to extract lyrics from selected songs to clipboard, using openlyrics. I know I can get the lyrics by simply double clicking on the openlyrics panel. But I was trying to get lyrics from a high number of selected songs in to one text document, preferable without the the time-code. Is this possible?

Since I'm in a major update of both tags and fb2k component usage ... this one looks quite good indeed.
 * Is there any way to add a source? foo_ui_lyrics3 has that, and SDK for it. The Metal Archives is quite extensive in the genre.
 * Best practice for mass-populating tags? Download from internet, migrate from tags files, ... ? 

Hm, ... a test raises a few questions:

Seems that the autosave option doesn't affect a search I set up. I get UNSYNCED LYRICS populated anyway, and I get tags like the following image:
(https://firealpaca.com/images/get/AlpacaGET_G1SaeY3A.png)

What I was trying to achieve by Autosave: Only synced lyrics, was to (first) populate whatever has synced lyrics available, and not touch UNSYNCED LYRICS at all.

Question 1: Is that even possible? I probably can populate some UNSYNCEDOPENLYRICS tag and clean up afterwards, but apart from that?
Question 2: Alternatively, limit myself to sources that have only synced lyrics - do such exist?
Question 3: This kinda-unwanted information that just lists composer ... that could be used to populate a COMPOSER tag. But then I have to be able to identify them. Which sourc(es) got information on this form?

yeap, please, help us filter out those servers that only feed two lines as if they were lyrics - or are these ads finding a hole in the plug-in?
I guess a simple rule should work. May be identifying the server that provided each result would be even nicer.

Actually, that wasn't too hard to get ... it is NetEase. Likely they simply don't have too many lyrics, but quite a lot of writer credits.

👍

Seems like this post by the dev needs repeating

I am aware of this thread but I almost never check it. If you'd like to report a bug or request a feature, please open a ticket on github. :)

Quote from: sveakul on 2022-10-15 22:29:25

Still no support for dynamic radio stream metadata, but this feature has been earmarked by the developer for the next (1.4) release.

Turns out the 1.4 release did NOT contain this desirable feature, but at GitHub the Developer states it has not been abandoned:

"Just to update those watching & waiting for this feature: I know I said this would be done for v1.4 but I've moved it to v1.5 because 1.4 is a bugfix-only release that I wanted to get out soon (because it fixes a bug that could cause data loss for some lyrics) and supporting internet radio streams requires some significant changes to the way openlyrics manages things internally. On top of that I'm unlikely to have any time to work on openlyrics for the next little while so I didn't want to release a new version with higher-than-usual potential for bugs and then not be around to fix it if anything critical came up.

On the upside, I have made a start on supporting this and indeed the new APIs provided by the recent fb2k updates do make this much easier to do. So this will get done, you'll just need to wait for a slightly higher version number. Thank you all for your patience!"

I just saw this (haven't tested it yet): https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/releases/tag/v1.5

"New features:
* Add basic support for network music streams..."

I've only been fiddling with this component for a very short while. I've been using LSP with Multi-source for a long time. I use Foobar to listen to online radio 99% of the time.

Some differences that I see:

1. If you open the panel after a track is already playing it doesn't do a search for the lyrics. It waits until a new song title is received (or, until you hit play again, for that stream, with the panel open).

2. It doesn't seem to have an option to show you from which site it downloaded the current lyrics (only shows website names when searching).

3. No "Next" option (in case the current lyrics aren't good).

4. I wish it had Songlyrics available as one of its sources (hard to find, un-synced lyrics). But, it works well as it is. Deezer and Minilyrics (working?) were popular, too.

5. Apparently, there's no way to select "Only (un)synced" lyrics. (Can you do that under "Source-specific options"?)

6. There doesn't seem to be a way to scroll down when an un-synced lyric is shown. You have to open the editor. Or, change "Automatic" to "Manual" under "Scroll type".

Overall, it works quite well. A good substitute for LSP + Multi-Source. I guess it's time to move on to this new component, for those of us who hadn't done so, yet.

Thanks a lot to the author!

Seems like this post by the dev needs repeating

Quote from: D3zmodos on 2022-10-23 12:04:55

I am aware of this thread but I almost never check it. If you'd like to report a bug or request a feature, please open a ticket on github. :)

::)  ::)

Just repeating again, if someone has suggestions, they would be more useful at github.

No, I get it. I already knew he said he almost never checks. But, I'm commenting because some people have explicitly mentioned, here on this website, that they hadn't made the transition to this component because of the lack of support for online streams. I didn't know what to expect coming from LSP.

Also, I quoted him above: "* Add basic support for network music streams..."

I guess if he's interested in these features, at all, he's probably going to end up implementing most of the stuff available with the other comp. eventually, anyway. They are very similar.

Misunderstood you! The dev had some discussion some days ago about not knowing which features were really being needed by users, so maybe if more people ask for things on github they get finally implemented.

1. If you open the panel after a track is already playing it doesn't do a search for the lyrics. It waits until a new song title is received (or, until you hit play again, for that stream, with the panel open).

That seems like a bug? It works fine on my side.

2. It doesn't seem to have an option to show you from which site it downloaded the current lyrics (only shows website names when searching).

Like an auto-edit new option adding the source?

3. No "Next" option (in case the current lyrics aren't good).

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/211

4. I wish it had Songlyrics available as one of its sources (hard to find, un-synced lyrics). But, it works well as it is. Deezer and Minilyrics (working?) were popular, too.

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/151

5. Apparently, there's no way to select "Only (un)synced" lyrics. (Can you do that under "Source-specific options"?)

It works for auto-saving though. Do you mean globally?

6. There doesn't seem to be a way to scroll down when an un-synced lyric is shown. You have to open the editor. Or, change "Automatic" to "Manual" under "Scroll type".

It's the same for synced lyrics. Automatic mode overrides any mouse action, which feels wrong, since you should be able to manually scroll too.
https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/239

Glad to see the addition of stream metadata searching in version 1.5!  My first impressions are that the searches are very fast, and all lyrics found so far were correct--though I did miss the ability to both see the source displayed, and to be able to "next" through other sources.  The supplied sources for streams are Genius, MusixMatch, AZLyrics, Dark Lyrics, QQMusic, and NetEase.  My vote would be to add SongLyrics, Deezer, and Metal Archives.  My own interests are only unsynced lyrics.

It should also have the ability to turn off automatic searching, as ESLyric has, to avoid collisions with the latter when both are installed.

If you are using 32-bit Foobar I don't see any reason to add this if you are already using the terrific Lyric Show Panel/foo_multisource plugin combo, but for 64-bit versions it is a welcome addition to the sometimes confusing ESLyric lyric plugin.

While I realize the developer has stated he almost never checks here vs. GitHub for user comments,  I don't understand why a plugin developed for a specific application would not want the majority of user/developer interaction in the official user forum of that application.  I don't even have an account at GitHub which is probably the same case for 90% of Foobar users.  Although I may acquire one now though  ;)

I'm new to displaying lyrics in foobar2000. I just downloaded this component. It seems great, I've been having fun with it!

The majority of music in my library is instrumental, so a lot of the time the panel will be redundant, nonetheless I'd like to keep it visible in my interface at all times so that I can use it more passively - this is necessary for fetching lyrics anyway. However, that results in Artist/Album/Title metadata being displayed, which I already have covered by an Item Details panel.

Would it be possible to add an option to disable these from being displayed/only display lyrics and lyric-fetching info?

Thanks!

I'm new to displaying lyrics in foobar2000. I just downloaded this component. It seems great, I've been having fun with it!

The majority of music in my library is instrumental, so a lot of the time the panel will be redundant, nonetheless I'd like to keep it visible in my interface at all times so that I can use it more passively - this is necessary for fetching lyrics anyway. However, that results in Artist/Album/Title metadata being displayed, which I already have covered by an Item Details panel.

Would it be possible to add an option to disable these from being displayed/only display lyrics and lyric-fetching info?

Thanks!

https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/202
Request it here.

Hi :)

OpenLyrics 1.6 (2023-04-12)
foobar2000 v2.0 32bit 64bit

Dark Mode settings screen is not normal.
Columns UI, Default UI, 32bit 64bit

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Thanks.

The Musixmatch source seems to be no longer working in version 1.6.  Removing all other sources except Musixmatch never returns any results, despite the same tracks being found there with other applications like MusicBee's LyricsReloaded and Lyric Show Panel 3 with Multisource.  The authentication key is known working.  Shame to lose this from an already spare list of sources.  Can other users confirm?

Why is that this so often doesn't work, then you search manually and bam!  Results.  Sometimes removing the album field helps.  Genius never works unless I shut off my VPN - which sucks, since they have a good selection.

Quote from: D3zmodos on 2022-10-23 12:04:55

I am aware of this thread but I almost never check it. If you'd like to report a bug or request a feature, please open a ticket on github. :)

Just repeating again, if someone has suggestions, they would be more useful at github.

Just repeating again, if someone has suggestions, they would be more useful at github.

I did post the Musixmatch bug at GitHub before posting here.  This forum is a lot more accessible with its discussion format when seeking comments from other users, whether the developer bothers with it or not.

Edit:  I can verify what KLR posted--results from Musixmatch ARE found if using manual searching, but are only being returned to the manual list with an album field included.  Results from Genius and AZLyrics show even with blank album fields, which in searches from radio streams is almost always the case (no album name).  Now if I can find time today to tie this all up into the formal Q/A/Example fields required at GitHub I will post it over there.  In the meantime, users should know that with radio streams no results will ever show from Musixmatch if doing automatic searches, only manual.

Indeed there seems to be something wrong, I just let Musixmatch do a manual search to find lyrics that an auto-search (on the same track and nothing but that) did not find.
Said track had a Musixmatch lyric already, and most likely it was auto-retrieved. So ... maybe yes.

I did post the Musixmatch bug at GitHub before posting here.  This forum is a lot more accessible with its discussion format when seeking comments from other users, whether the developer bothers with it or not.

Well, to be honest... it's the developer the one who can fix it XD I mean, we can talk anything we want here, but unless someone reports the problem to them it will never get fixed. So I think the communication channel choosen by the developer is in fact more relevant than the user's choice.

Also I don't fully agree with the forums being more helpful... but maybe it's me seeing things from the other side. Both formats have their drawbacks. Anyway if you opened the issue at github, then there is nothing more to say ;)

Hope it gets fixed.

Indeed there seems to be something wrong, I just let Musixmatch do a manual search to find lyrics that an auto-search (on the same track and nothing but that) did not find.
Said track had a Musixmatch lyric already, and most likely it was auto-retrieved. So ... maybe yes.

Thanks for verifying this.  From my testing this is the only source that fails to react automatically.  Of course the Dark Lyrics site is so bereft of content it's almost like "not working"--agree with you 100% on the need for Metal Archives as a new source, and appreciate it that you posted in GitHub about it (and Bandcamp, another good one), hopefully that will be implemented soon.

I did add a console de-bug shot at the request of the developer over at GitHub about the Musixmatch issue today.

No actually, I cannot confirm. Indeed, it finds that track in Musixmatch auto-search too - as long as I fix the album title.
Then I am not sure how it got into there in the first place.

But anyway:
Manual search is apparently broader. It can find the same song on a different album. Thus likely too it is less sensitive to spelling or "(special edition)" etc.

And:
Reading your Github issue, it doesn't seem to answer your question, as you got it also in the "plain" album title?

No actually, I cannot confirm. Indeed, it finds that track in Musixmatch auto-search too - as long as I fix the album title.
Then I am not sure how it got into there in the first place.

By "fix the album title", do you mean originally you had the wrong album title in the file?

My point is, it shouldn't be looking at the album title field AT ALL during auto-retrieval, which is how it handles the other sources except for Musixmatch.  If it actually did depend on album title being present/correct, people would never receive any results from radio stream metadata, which 99% of the time send only track title and artist.  Am using it right now with various SomaFM stations where poor Genius and AZLyrics are doing a fantastic job picking up all the slack.

By "fix the album title", do you mean originally you had the wrong album title in the file?

Yes.
Well not "wrong", but the song was on two different albums.

My point is, it shouldn't be looking at the album title field AT ALL during auto-retrieval, which is how it handles the other sources except for Musixmatch.

For synced lyrics, I beg to differ. Timestamps get wrong if you don't retrieve the correct version of the song.

Quote from: sveakul on 2023-05-25 23:04:15

My point is, it shouldn't be looking at the album title field AT ALL during auto-retrieval, which is how it handles the other sources except for Musixmatch.

For synced lyrics, I beg to differ. Timestamps get wrong if you don't retrieve the correct version of the song.

Well, if Album Title is ever required in the search field, that will K-O any use of the plugin for radio stream lyrics, which as I mention do not include it.  Of course, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good feature for SYLT fans to have it togglable when using on non-radio streams.

Just a FYI I noticed just today when using the plugin:

The setting "Exclude text in brackets at the end of artist/album names and track titles (for internet searches)" will also exclude text in parentheses, not just brackets.  For example, when checked, an automatic (but not manual) search will not return the song Serpent (Black Sun) by Lapis Lazuli;  when unchecked, the lyrics from Genius are immediately returned.

I like the ability to toggle this so am not arguing for a change, just be aware that both () and [] are affected!

For those who don't read the GitHub site, the developer will be adding Metal Archives to the next release (thanks Porcus for bringing it up there) and also a fix for the issue affecting MusixMatch.  Many thanks to plugin creator Jacques Heunis for his continuing work.

A very simple fix would be to merely fix the text. "Exclude text in parentheses/brackets [...]" - have you reported it?

Nope didn't feel like bugging the guy while he's working on more important things.

Hello folks, does anyone know if it is possible to save the lyrics in LRC format instead of TXT? I want this because ESLYRIC Desktop Lyric displays only LRC files.
So it happens that sometimes ESLYRIC fails to find lyrics for some songs but OpenLyrics manages to do so but the lyrics are saved in TXT format and they can not be displayed while playing the song.

Version 1.7 was released today.  It has added Metal Archives as a source (YES!), but the rest remain as before for a total of seven (vs. 22 for the latest ESLyric).  Musixmatch searching has been fixed.  While seven sounds few nowadays, choosing Genius and AZLyrics along with Metal Archives and Musixmatch do not leave many lyrics unfound.  If Bandcamp and Song Lyrics had been included, part of the existing choices with ESLyric, it would have rounded it off perfectly.  Hopefully the developer will add those in the future but seeing as the last release was in April and the request process relies on what is (to me) an unnecessarily formal procedure on GitHub don't look for that to happen soon.

This release adds a background artwork feature where selected images or album covers can be used as a lyric backdrop, but I'll leave that for another to test right now.  Glad to see this FAST lyric grabber finally see a new release in any case.

Hi there,

is there a way to show (and save) only synced lyrics.

On my 1.7 it shows always unsynced lyrics., In the manual search there are lots of synced ones.

thx bkh

I recently upgraded to 1.8, and no longer see lyrics for any song. I can see them in search, I can see them in tags, but they simply display blank or (if I click "search") read "parsing..."

Anybody else having this behavior?

Hi there,

is there a way to show (and save) only synced lyrics.

On my 1.7 it shows always unsynced lyrics., In the manual search here (https://kazecon.kz/aviator/) are lots of synced ones.

thx bkh

For this, you can use the Lyric Show Panel 3 plugin. This plugin allows you to search and display song lyrics from various sources including Google, Musixmatch and Genius.

I recently upgraded to 1.8, and no longer see lyrics for any song. I can see them in search, I can see them in tags, but they simply display blank or (if I click "search") read "parsing..."

Anybody else having this behavior?

I got an issue when upgrading to 1.7, not resolved in 1.8: https://github.com/jacquesh/foo_openlyrics/issues/315
It seems to be due to a second panel.

Is there a way to change the format of the saved local file name?  I see the default, but it was not clear to me if that could be modified.

I'm trying to make the file names compatible with my Sony Walkman.

Thanks

What is this fix malformed timestamps? How does it work?

When I use Album Art for the background, it disappears on track change.   Any clues?

fb2k 2.1 / CUI 2.1 / Open Lyrics 1.8

Hey, I don't know if I'm missing something, but how do I access the customization settings? When I right-click the panel I can select Edit lyrics, or Preferences which takes me to a black page that has a checkbox for Debug logging enabled and nothing else.
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and

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@aelklirion  The little arrow on the left to unfold the menu?

@aelklirion  The little arrow on the left to unfold the menu?

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🤦‍♂️ thanks, dunno how I missed it