Version: 1.4.3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.3) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: gcc 3.X OS: Linux It would be really awesome if the fetched Lyrics and Album Covers could be transferred to the iPod as well as the song file. gtkPod can do both I believe, its just that Amarok is so much nicer to use and has way more features. Thanks very much for the awesome application!
we already transfer album art automatically, you need a recent libgpod
I have 0.32-r1 installed, but no album art is appearing
Could it be that you are on 64-bit or non-intel architecture? Updating libgpod to current libgpod from cvs should solve your problems then.
To view lyrics on the iPod, they need to be stored in the ID3v2 tag for MP3's (I'm don't know about other formats). It would thus be a matter of retrieving the lyrics from the database and writing them to the USLT field of the ID3v2 tag for each file.
Support for lyrics will on ipods will be automatic as soon as Amarok has support for it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85961 ***
Um, not completely. There is a flag in the iPod database which has to be set if the file contains lyrics in the USLT field. I have hacked Amarok to check if the file contains lyrics and set this flag appropriately when transferring files to the iPod. I shall attach my patch for reference purposes. The modifications to IpodMediaDevice should be fine, but the changes in MetaBundle are a bit hacky (due to TagLib not supporting USLT fields).
Created attachment 18368 [details] Patch against Amarok 1.4.4 to set lyrics flag in iPod database See my previous comment.
Do you also have an implementation for writing USLT lyrics to mp3 files?
No. I tried, but couldn't get it working. The problem is TagLib. My reading implementation also has a problem where the last character is repeated. To tag my files I've written a script which pulls the tags and lyrics directly out the MySQL database and uses id3v2 to write the tags.
Since Bug 85961, which is about writing to id3v2 tags, is considered a duplicate and is marked as wontfix, either: - Transfering lyrics to ipod is wontfix - Writing lyrics to music files would be part of this bug, so it is not duplicate anymore. - A bug should be reported about writing to id3v2 lyrics tag in TagLib (maybe other file types beyond mp3) I hope it is not the first one :)
Link to same bug in downstream Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136521
Has there been any progress on this bug at all recently? Michael Gorven had a "fix" for it already in 2006?
Me too I would like to know if there been any progress? I'd really love to put lyrics on my ipod as I do with covers. If a workaround exists please let us know! thanks