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beetbox / beets

music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
http://beets.io/
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Import Lyrics from Genius #1626

Closed mxmerz closed 8 years ago

mxmerz commented 8 years ago

Might it be possible to add http://genius.com as a source to the lyrics plugin? They have an API, documented at https://docs.genius.com/ and a vast collection of song lyrics (eg. for “Neongrüner Auswurf” by German group Trailerpark: MusicBrainz, RapGenius).

(It appears that Musixmatch has the lyrics as well, but the plugin doesn’t seem to find them.)

sampsyo commented 8 years ago

Seems like a great source. I can't quite tell from the docs whether the API actually exposes lyric text, but it's worth exploring.

I vaguely recall someone on IRC talking about workin on getting lyrics from Genius. It might be worth searching around to see if they made any progress.

mxmerz commented 8 years ago

Wow that was fast! Thank you @sadatay and @sampsyo! Just tried it out, works like a charm!