media players fetching lyrics

rick57 · 25th October 2006, 01:55 PM

For many a year I've been puzzled by indecipherable pop lyrics. Arguably many are trite, but some must be good.

I believe some windows media players can auto fetch lyrics off the net and display them ~ has anyone used this?

Wondering how comrerhensive a service it is, if it works well in practise (is it synchronised?)

Cheers

jkeny · 25th October 2006, 03:16 PM

I use an excellent media player called MP3Toys (not very inspiring name, I know) but it has a great interface - albums are displayed by cover art - both cover art & lyrics are automatically downloaded from the internet.

If you mean by synchronised , does it do a karaoke style diplay of lyrics, then no it doesn't

Constantly undergoing upgrades - just added support for Flac & lots of other codes & ability to play songs in chosen external player (Foobar for instance)

http://www.mp3toys.net/

John

rick57 · 26th October 2006, 03:17 AM

> ability to play songs in chosen external player (Foobar for instance)

John

Why would you not play songs in MP3Toys itself??

Cheers

jkeny · 26th October 2006, 06:19 AM

You can play songs in MP3Toys itself I just was showing you the flexibility of the product -

some people think Foobar has the best sound of all the MP3 players & you can do digital room correction in it through the use of convolution plugins. In this case MP3Toys acts as a media library manager (with builtin tag editing, BTW) & a pretty good one at that.

John

rick57 · 26th October 2006, 07:13 AM

John

Does downloading work ~ as you rip the CD?

What % can it find; and does it display them as the tracks begins to play?

Cheers

jkeny · 26th October 2006, 09:18 AM

AS you rip & it stores lyrics & album art with music file. It displays as song starts over the album cover art which is washed out to a watermark image

Finds about 90% - obviously new albums are more difficult but in time the lyrics will be posted to various sites which it queries.

You can also copy lyrics from web page to song.

John

rick57 · 26th October 2006, 11:55 AM

Cool . . Can you copy the lyrics from MP3Toys to eg Word?

Cheers

jkeny · 26th October 2006, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rick57
Cool . . Can you copy the lyrics from MP3Toys to eg Word?

Cheers

Yep can do

JK

DoomPixie · 26th October 2006, 03:08 PM

on linux theres a media player called amarok that is usually bundled in with the distribution and it fetches lyrics and stuff.. it's a nice feature to have sometimes

Owen

rick57 · 26th October 2006, 09:46 PM

Have head good things about amarok, but didn't want to adopt another OS
Already too many projects . .
Cheers

25th October 2006, 01:55 PM	#1
rick57 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: dry ol Melbourne Australia	media players fetching lyrics For many a year I've been puzzled by indecipherable pop lyrics. Arguably many are trite, but some must be good. I believe some windows media players can auto fetch lyrics off the net and display them ~ has anyone used this? Wondering how comrerhensive a service it is, if it works well in practise (is it synchronised?) Cheers

26th October 2006, 07:13 AM	#5
rick57 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: dry ol Melbourne Australia	downloading & displaying lyrics John Does downloading work ~ as you rip the CD? What % can it find; and does it display them as the tracks begins to play? Cheers

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25th October 2006, 03:16 PM	#2
jkeny Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Dublin	I use an excellent media player called MP3Toys (not very inspiring name, I know) but it has a great interface - albums are displayed by cover art - both cover art & lyrics are automatically downloaded from the internet. If you mean by synchronised , does it do a karaoke style diplay of lyrics, then no it doesn't Constantly undergoing upgrades - just added support for Flac & lots of other codes & ability to play songs in chosen external player (Foobar for instance) http://www.mp3toys.net/ John

26th October 2006, 03:17 AM	#3
rick57 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: dry ol Melbourne Australia	> ability to play songs in chosen external player (Foobar for instance) John Why would you not play songs in MP3Toys itself?? Cheers

26th October 2006, 06:19 AM	#4
jkeny Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Dublin	You can play songs in MP3Toys itself I just was showing you the flexibility of the product - some people think Foobar has the best sound of all the MP3 players & you can do digital room correction in it through the use of convolution plugins. In this case MP3Toys acts as a media library manager (with builtin tag editing, BTW) & a pretty good one at that. John

26th October 2006, 09:18 AM	#6
jkeny Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Dublin	AS you rip & it stores lyrics & album art with music file. It displays as song starts over the album cover art which is washed out to a watermark image Finds about 90% - obviously new albums are more difficult but in time the lyrics will be posted to various sites which it queries. You can also copy lyrics from web page to song. John

26th October 2006, 11:55 AM	#7
rick57 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: dry ol Melbourne Australia	Cool . . Can you copy the lyrics from MP3Toys to eg Word? Cheers

26th October 2006, 03:08 PM	#9
DoomPixie diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Aberystwyth / Llanelli (wales)	on linux theres a media player called amarok that is usually bundled in with the distribution and it fetches lyrics and stuff.. it's a nice feature to have sometimes Owen

26th October 2006, 09:46 PM	#10
rick57 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: dry ol Melbourne Australia	Have head good things about amarok, but didn't want to adopt another OS Already too many projects . . Cheers

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