Suggestion on where to get lyrics from... they have an API

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how about http://lyricsfly.com they have an API @ http://lyricsfly.com/api/

this website also has a lot of resources to use!
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/02/21/25-music-apis/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Jaro...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2009 at 6:17

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Great find, I'm really msising my iLyrics goodness, maybe multiple system could 
be 
selected in preferences, so if one goes down or doesn't have the song you could 
use 
another or something like that
Anyway, glad to see someone's looking at it

Original comment by dennis.m...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2009 at 3:33

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Hey guys,

I just downloaded this and saw that it didn't work with iTunes 9.0 and 
lyricwiki went
away, so I set about fixing this.

I've got it integrated with http://leoslyrics.com/

What I'm doing is:

http://api.leoslyrics.com/api_search.php?auth=cricket&artist=green%20day&songtit
le=song%20of%20the%20century
taking the first result, in this case
http://api.leoslyrics.com/api_lyrics.php?auth=cricket&hid=sOb9YMyki88=

and grabbing the lyrics that way.

It's not perfect, the auto-update isn't done yet, etc, etc, but I think it's 
not bad
for about 2-3 hours of work.

I'll be posting an exe probably tomorrow or Tuesday.

Original comment by shahm...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2009 at 5:35

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waiting for an exe to test (:

Original comment by douglasp...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2009 at 1:36

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I'm attaching a zip of both the source and the exe.

Original comment by shahm...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 2:22

Attachments:

• iTuneslyrics.zip
• iTuneslyrics-src.zip

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shahmirn - It's working, but isn't very adept at finding the lyrics. It found 
the
lyrics for 1 song and said No Result for about 20 others.

Still, thanks.

Original comment by rkri...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 2:40

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Works perfectly for me! Really helpful
And rkris, check if the name of your songs are correctly written!

Original comment by douglasp...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 3:22

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@rkris13,

Yeah, what douglaspriester said, and also why I said it's just a start.

Currently, it's doing an exact match on song name and artist. For the next one, 
I'd
like to show a window of the results for close matches and let the user pick 
from the
list.

Original comment by shahm...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 4:44

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It seems to work pretty well.  

Original comment by jay.flam...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2009 at 4:52

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Great it works :-) !!!

Original comment by asaf.lin on 9 Oct 2009 at 5:23

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Works great. I'm totally stoked.

Can you consider resizing the listview columns or the border as well as making 
a 
square border for typical album art aspect ratio.

Also your comment about a selection box for possible fits for unfound songs is 
an 
awesome idea as I have a few songs that may not have the 'correct' title.

Excellent work, man.

Original comment by tun...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 12:47

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good work, hopefully you can tweak it so we can get the one's it missed.  But 
solid
performance so far thanks!

Original comment by dankem...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2009 at 2:42

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fantastic! thank you! :)

Original comment by nathanie...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2009 at 3:46

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great/awesome/perfect/gorgeous work dude!
waiting for the next one!
you rock! (:
thanks
:*

Original comment by misskan...@hotmail.com on 23 Oct 2009 at 9:27

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:p.. i made a new program to work with lyrics wiki (more of a concept) -- it 
rips the
lyrics from the actual pages by parsing the html pages.. so it uses a 'tad' bit 
more
bandwidth i guess.. but hey

Original comment by XTJoe...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 4:58

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http://www.ifun.de/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,14/topic,150063.30

Original comment by alexande...@googlemail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 8:53

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/jmtz0xqmoxw/iLyrics 1.2.exe
http://www.mediafire.com/file/rjdjbtjqynl/iLyrics 1.2-src.rar

I should have checked before modifying but anyway:

This works with Lyrics Wiki; connects to the API, gets the URL, then it browses 
to
the URL and downloads the lyrics.

You'll notice that it is "slow" that is because I added a 2 second timeout 
after it
goes to the wiki page. Didn't want to spam lyrics wiki. 

I attached the source too; if you want to modify, feel free.

Original comment by spamAb...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2009 at 2:43

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• [iLyrics 1.2-src.rar](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/ilyrics/issue-51/comment-19/iLyrics 1.2-src.rar)
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sorry but ilyrics 1.2 just crashes, 

and the previous version from comment 4 works partly fine...the automatically 
update doesn't work, just pops up a box "completed" but nothing on the list, so 
I 
have to update it one by one.

is there anyone else has the same issue?

Original comment by manikin....@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 12:58

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by the way, forget to tell

i am running xp with .net 2.0, don't know doesn't it matters?

Original comment by manikin....@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 1:00

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ilyrics 1.2 works after i up to .net 3.5, but still the update automatically 
doesn't work, 
could anyone help?

Original comment by manikin....@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 2:08

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I downloaded iLyrics 1.2 and it works great, with one problem. It maintains 
some of
the HTML code when transferring lyrics. I'm getting alot of "<i>, </i>, &"s. Is
there any way for you to weed some of that stuff out?

Original comment by BillyWil...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2009 at 2:09

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I downloaded iLyrics 1.2 and it works great, with one problem. It maintains 
some of
the HTML code when transferring lyrics. I'm getting alot of "<i>, </i>, &"s. Is
there any way for you to weed some of that stuff out?

Original comment by BillyWil...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2009 at 2:10

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Well since the author is no longer looking at this. I'll try to update it. I 
created
a new project on CodePlex http://ilyrics.codeplex.com/ (so I can use visual 
studio
and team foundation server--sorry but this makes it easier for me).

Post any issues there; I'll address them whenever I can. If any one wants to
contribute, please email me and I'll add.

I'll also try to add the changes from shahmirn in to this.

Original comment by spamAb...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2009 at 10:54

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The code in comment #4 worked okay for me, but I wasn't quite satisfied with it.

The code mentioned in comment #28 didn't work at all. I posted an issue, which 
has
yet to be answered 
(http://ilyrics.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11469). 

I ended up finding a different solution - Zortam. It batch tagged my 8500 track
collection in a matter of hours. Here's the rundown on my blog:
http://loveyourmusic.tv/content/adding-lyrics-your-tracks-why-you-need-do-it-and
-how-get-it-done

Original comment by nick%fac...@gtempaccount.com on 14 Jan 2010 at 10:39

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Comment #19, top stuff, works with itunes 9.2

Original comment by mattntho...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2010 at 10:51

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Please note that this no longer works on iTunes 10+, it seems to crash 
immediately in Win7 at any rate.

Original comment by alexande...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2012 at 2:58