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Add more Lyrics Sources API - Multi-Lingual English Hindi #385

Open AlishaPink opened 4 years ago

AlishaPink commented 4 years ago

Hi, Most lyrics fetched by the current sources are from Chinese based websites so even english lyrics sometimes have Chinese Artifacts or Translations.

So fetching lyrics from API's which have a large multi lingual collection of English and Hindi lyrics would be much appreciated. If APIs aren't available for a particular website then web-scraping is quite efficient for getting the lyrics.

A list of freely available APIs and Websites:- docs.genius.com ytvdgrabber.com lyrics.wikia.com metrolyrics.com hindilyrics.net lyricsmania.com lyricsmasti.com azlyrics.com

I really wouldn't even mind buying this app if it has such functionality. If you need any help testing it do let me know.

ddddxxx commented 4 years ago

New lyrics source is always welcome. However, currently LyricsX only accept time synced lyrics. I can't really make use of these plain text lyrics sources.

AlishaPink commented 4 years ago

Oh right!! That makes complete sense... I'll try looking for synchronized lyrics sources.

I did find a few:- Letras.mus.br (this one is pretty good) megalobiz.com (any response from the owner for the API? 😋) Lyrics Wikia (not 100% sure about this one though)

ddddxxx commented 4 years ago

Letras.mus.br looks great. They don't show time tag on their website thus web-scraping is not sufficient.

I'm curious how they synchronize lyrics. When I click "send lyrics" they don't ask me to synchronize lyrics. When I click "correct lyrics" I don't see any time tag at all. It loos like these plain text lyrics magically get time synced.

AlishaPink commented 4 years ago

Yeah I had a look as well and you're right. Letras seems to handle time tags on their backend only accessible for their official apps, it might be possible to capture network traffic of their app and figure out the GET requests but it's a long shot. I might give it a try when I get some time.

I do understand the time-sync concept of LyricX but for Lyrics which are simply not available on time-synced sources, it makes sense to implement a web-scraper which just displays plain text lyrics (in the window) and scrolls it according to time/length of the song (not accurate but acceptable).

kahboom commented 2 years ago

Bumping because this would be such a cool feature. Or at least some way for users to add their own lyrics with timestamps? Would be cool if we could specify a custom repository from a GitHub repo.

akulgoel96 commented 2 years ago

@ddddxxx any update from megalobiz.com owner about the API?