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. :)
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.
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...
Updated link to the place where JuK does it: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/juk/-/blob/master/lyricswidget.cpp#L69
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Lyrics wikia site is abandoned for good. Some other lyrics website with API has to be found.
Darn, that's a shame. Where does Lollypop get its lyrics from?
Besides Wikia that is no more Lolly gets it from: 1. Genius 2. Metro Lyrics 3. Bing
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I would also like this a lot!!! Anyone knows where did Amarok use to get his lyrics from?
you can look at lyrics sources from clementine application.
Clementine uses a list of providers: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/master/src/songinfo/songinfoview.cpp#L89
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Take a look at the way the excellent player qmmp accomplishes this via a plugin. qmmp uses: letras.mus.br