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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    [noatun] New Noatun plugin - lyrics
From:       Ismael Orenstein <perdig () linuxbr ! com ! br>
Date:       2001-09-09 15:51:13
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Hey there!

I've just finished the 0.1 version of a new Noatun plugin I'm writing. It's 
called "Lyrics" and, as the name says, it allows you to view the lyrics of 
the current song.

To install it:
1) Untar the noatun-lyrics.tar.gz file in your 
kdemultimedia/noatun/noatun/modules directory
2) Edit your kdemultimedia/noatun/noatun/modules/Makefile.am file and add a 
entry for "lyrics" (or you can use the attached file instead)
3) Go to kdemultimedia/ and rebuild/install the source

Then, just load the plugin into noatun (via the configuration dialog) and you 
should have a "View Lyrics" entry in your "Plugins" (or "Action") menu (the 
same menu that has the "ID3 Edit" action)

This should open a new window, containing a KHTMLPart that will go to 
http://www.songmeanings.net and search for your song.

Current issues:
- To know what music to search for, the plugin fetches the "title" property 
of the music. However, the default value for the "title" property is 
something like "[Artist name] - Song name". AFAIK, there is no way of getting 
only the song name without changing your tag loader to display only the it in 
the title property. It would be ok if the tag loader set up a new property, 
"name", containing only the song name? Not only it would make this lyrics 
plugin a lot more usable, it would help any other plugin that must use just 
the song name.

TODO:
- Improve the UI (it should be able to Save lyrics, bookmark pages, etc)
- Add other Search engines
- Add some filters to the search engines (so that it can know if a search 
failed and go automatically to the next engine)

Best regards,

-- 
Ismael Orenstein (UIN 1293061)
perdig@linuxbr.com.br
http://ksnes9x.sourceforge.net
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["noatun-lyrics.tar.gz" (application/x-gzip)]
["Makefile.am" (text/plain)]

SUBDIRS = artseffects \
	dcopiface excellent htmlexport id3tag infrared kaiman keyz kjofol-skin \
	liszt marquis monoscope net noatunui oggtag splitplaylist systray tron \
	voiceprint winskin lyrics


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