GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 473973
Lyrics plugin
Last modified: 2013-01-13 17:05:09 UTC
Hi, would be nice if banshee also had a lyrics plugin like Rhythmbox. Rhythmbox can query leoslyrics.com, astraweb and lyrc. The first one has a simple xmlrpc API: http://leoslyrics.com/posts/list/15869.page The others would need manual HTML parsing, shouldn't be too hard either. Porting the Rhythmbox code is no solution though because of the license :) Does anybody have an idea how to integrate this best into the UI? The Rhythmbox approach is a new menu entry for lyrics that opens a new window with the lyrics of the current song. I don't like this very much, would be better to have it integrated into the main window somehow. If I find some time I'll create this plugin, if someone else wants to do it that's even better ;) Apart from the UI question it should be rather simple with all those powerful .net classes.
Lyrc also has an XML interface, nice. So adding support for Lyrc and Leo's lyrics should be very very easy ;)
OK, I'll care for this and base it off http://battleaxe.net/projects/banshee/plugins/lyrics/
any chance to add this to banshee-1 shipped plugins?
No... I'm waiting for a new feature until I can port the plugin to banshee-1. The "now playing" source will show the lyrics but currently there's no general way of putting things in there.
Anything new on this end? It would be nice to see a new banshee plugin for lyrics.
Any news? I've made a mockup for the plugin :) http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bansheelyricsextensionqr9.png
Grazie! Molto bene! :P But personally, I think it's best in it's own window or subpane..not obscuring the playlist or Now Playing screen. For instance, viewing the lyrics of a music vid. Otherwise, I like it!
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(In reply to comment #6) > Any news? > I've made a mockup for the plugin :) > http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bansheelyricsextensionqr9.png Please don't link to crappy popup spawning websites when you want to show a picture. That's what Bugzilla has attachments for.
Created attachment 123314 [details] The image linked to from comment 6.
Imho, lyrics plugin should be very customizable: a shorcut+menu entry to display lyrics in another window, another entry in the sidebar (like the mockup, I don't understand italian at all so I assumed it was an entire entry for the lyrics) and, why not, the lyrics smoothly scrolling at cover art's side in now playing. "Subtitle effect" would also be nice for music videos but I don't know if this is doable since there are no subtitle file (with timing data), only some floating text..
I won't have time for this in the next months so it should probably be done by someone else, sorry
fwiw, I'm been hacking a bit on the existing BansheeLyricsPlugin (got it from http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?content=64837). I modified it to work with the latest banshee and changed the display to a separate pane instead of a window. The code is pretty messy though, so I wouldn't feel comfortable with "officially" releasing it and supporting it etc, but if anyone is interested, I could put the source online for other to take a look.
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The lyrics plugin is now part of Banshee Community Extensions [1], its release will be synchronised with Banshee starting with 1.5.4 (planned to be released on Feb 24) [1] http://gitorious.org/banshee-community-extensions
would be great to allow user manual add/edit lyric
Fedir: can you open a separate bug for that please? This bug is resolved. Thanks