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Bug 710685 - Feature request: search lyrics
Feature request: search lyrics
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
needs_design
Depends on: 724021
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-22 22:06 UTC by Eddy Castillo
Modified: 2018-01-10 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Eddy Castillo 2013-10-22 22:06:59 UTC 
It would be nice if gnome-music could be able to search lyrics for current playing song. Or at least a button that open a web browser with "song - artist lyrics" to search.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-04-22 19:08:11 UTC 
I can imagine how this could be handy if you have forgotten the name of a song, but can remember part of the lyrics, for example. That said:

 * It's dependent on bug 724021 being fixed first.
 * We'd need to display the matching lyrics in the search results (this will need design).
 * We'd need to make sure that lyric searches don't create too many conflicting results.
 * I'd like to hear about how practical it is to fix this bug: are we able to search an online lyric database quickly enough, for example? Is there a database out there that we can use?
Comment 2 justcomplaining 2015-01-16 14:30:06 UTC 
I think lyrics should be saved as tags. That would solve the database issue when all lyrics have been requested once (and that should be possible without problems, I guess. It's done with covers aswell so...). Also: offline usage.
Comment 3 Maia 2015-02-11 17:40:10 UTC 
There IS A tracker property for this -- nmm:lyrics. But how are folks suggesting we populate this? That we seach for lyrics whenever a song is added? Or something else?
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-10 14:36:45 UTC 
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