Bugzilla – Bug 1793
show lyrics on songinfo page
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:16:15 UTC
The songinfo page on the Web interface shows already artwok, comments for each song. Would be great to see the lyrics there as well. Can that be done for 6.1? There are a lot of ID3v2 tag editors that make adding lyrics to a song a doodle (eg, Tag&Rename).
There has been some effort to create a lyrics plugin. But the problem is that these aren't easily available. Do you know of a good, reliable and legal website where lyrics can be found?
It surprises me that you'd need a plugin for that. All you'd have to do is to create an extra paragraph on the song info page. Lyrics can be stored on the ID3v2 tag. So if you can access and display the comment field, you can do the same for the lyrics. One thing about formatting though (you might want to do the same for comment). I would suggest replacing an empty line ("\n\n") with an HTML <P>. This way still a minimum of formatting can be achieved on inserting the text into the tag. I have come across quite a few sites with massive lists of lyrics, but don't know if they are legal. I find it amazing how easy it is to find lyrics with just Google. In fact, searching for a few words of the lyrics is also a great way of identifyign artist and group for an unknown song. Admittedly, from there it's for me just a copy and paste job and I have never checked copyright, or whether the information is legal on that website, as it is only for private consumption.
What you want to do is output the lyrics tag on that page? Ok, this might easily be possible. What I was referring to was a way to automatically download lyrics from a web site and display them. Because I'll never go and search the web for the >6000 lyrics I'd need :-).
Yes, just display it on the songinfo page of the Web interface. That would be great! I guess, even if we'll get more automized ways of associating songs with lyrics, these will be at least initially used to populate ID3 tags, not to display on the fly.
Could you upload a file that has embedded lyrics in it? Are you using the ULT tag?
Moving to 6.5 since no one has responded.
Added basic lyrics support in subversion change 4216.