Bug 406568

Summary:	Automatically fetch lyrics from the internet
Product:	[Applications] Elisa	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alej0hio2007, antonios.hazim, gbcox, ivan.planinar, johnmaverick74, kimiblock, manuavazquez, p92, postix, public, smart2128vr
Priority:	HI
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401969
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Nate Graham 2019-04-15 15:28:29 UTC

Elisa now displays lyrics embedded in the file's Lyrics tag, which is fantastic.

It would be even more fantastic if, for songs without this tag, Elisa could fetch lyrics from the internet like Amarok, JuK and Lollypop can.

Bonus points if it can show a button to write the lyrics into the tag. :)

Comment 1 Matthieu Gallien 2019-04-18 15:09:27 UTC

I have started preliminary work to register Elisa on Musicbrainz.

Do you know which services allow fetching lyrics and is usable by a free software application ?

I would like the usage of web services to be an highlight of the future next stable version.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2019-04-18 17:38:55 UTC

Thanks Matthieu! I'm really looking forward to this. As for providers, lyrics.wikia.com has an API you can use: http://lyrics.wikia.com/api.php

Here is how JuK does it, for reference: https://cgit.kde.org/juk.git/tree/lyricswidget.cpp#n68

I wonder if this code should be in a framework, so both can use it...

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-21 20:50:02 UTC

Updated link to the place where JuK does it: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/juk/-/blob/master/lyricswidget.cpp#L69

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-11-09 17:50:39 UTC

*** Bug 428837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 ivan.planinar 2020-11-09 18:45:37 UTC

Lyrics wikia site is abandoned for good. 

Some other lyrics website with API has to be found.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-11-09 18:50:21 UTC

Darn, that's a shame. Where does Lollypop get its lyrics from?

Comment 7 ivan.planinar 2020-11-09 18:54:50 UTC

Besides Wikia that is no more Lolly gets it from:

1. Genius
2. Metro Lyrics
3. Bing

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2020-11-11 18:12:17 UTC

*** Bug 426781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2022-01-26 18:33:24 UTC

*** Bug 446140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 John 2022-08-22 14:42:07 UTC

I would also like this a lot!!!

Anyone knows where did Amarok use to get his lyrics from?

Comment 11 p92 2022-11-13 10:55:21 UTC

you can look at lyrics sources from clementine application.

Comment 12 Vincenzo Reale 2022-12-31 18:24:58 UTC

Clementine uses a list of providers:

https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/master/src/songinfo/songinfoview.cpp#L89

Comment 13 Nate Graham 2024-04-10 20:02:10 UTC

*** Bug 483726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Gerald Cox 2024-05-01 17:42:08 UTC

Take a look at the way the excellent player qmmp accomplishes this via a plugin.
qmmp uses: letras.mus.br