Unable to Retrieve Lyrics for "レプリカント" by Yorushika via API

[KoukeNeko]

Description: I am encountering an issue with the swingmusic application where I am unable to retrieve the lyrics for the song "レプリカント" by Yorushika using the API. Despite the fact that I can find the lyrics on Musixmatch directly, the application does not return any results when using the API.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install swingmusic using Docker.
2. Open the application and navigate to the lyrics search functionality.
3. Enter "レプリカント" as the song title and "Yorushika" as the artist.
4. Execute the search.

Expected Behavior: The application should return the synced lyrics for "レプリカント" by Yorushika.

Actual Behavior: The application does not return any search results.

Environment:

• Installation Method: Docker
• Internet Connection: Stable

Additional Information: I have verified that the song is available on Musixmatch by visiting this link. The issue seems to be with the API call made by the application.

Logs and Screenshots:

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Please let me know if you need any additional information or if there are any troubleshooting steps I can follow to help resolve this issue.

Thank you!

[cwilvx]

Hi @KoukeNeko

So ... I downloaded the song on my computer, and was able to get the lyrics from MusixMatch

Is this issue related to this specific track or all songs all the time?

[KoukeNeko]

Hi,

I have encountered a similar issue where none of the songs are fetching lyrics correctly, as demonstrated in the screen recording. Could this be related to the file type (flac)? Additionally, I have confirmed that I can connect to the Musixmatch API, as shown in the attached nslookup results. Thank you.

https://github.com/swingmx/swingmusic/assets/111033412/a1608beb-4b2e-4aa0-b2cf-df8deed5af36

Other lyrics like "雲と幽霊" is available on Musixmatch, but not being retrieved by the application.

[cwilvx]

@KoukeNeko

The files being FLAC does not affect lyrics since only the artist, album and title tags are used.

After looking closely at the screenshots, here's what I think the problem is.

Your local music tags are written in japanese characters, but on Musixmatch, it's a combination of both Japanese and abc (or whatever they're called)

So Musixmatch receives a prompt to find lyrics tagged with the following property:

{
  "title": "レプリカント",
  "artist": "ヨルシカ",
}

But, they only have lyrics for:

{
  "title": "レプリカント",
  "artist": "Yorushika"
}

Because the artist is stored in english letters, the search fails.

So, the fix to this is to transliterate ヨルシカ into yorushika. I don't know whether MusixMatch does this for all their records, because if they don't, it would break some other lyrics. Let's go with transliteration and see if we hurt some other people :laughing:

Thanks a lot for opening this issue. Thanks for contributing to Swing Music.

In case you encounter any other issues, please feel free to open another issue.

Cheers!

PS: I have patched this on this commit, and it's now working. You'll however have to wait for the next release to get the fix.

[KoukeNeko]

But if only using unidecode "五月天" will be transliterate to "Wu Yue Tian ", but "五月天" is correct on Musixmatch

[cwilvx]

@KoukeNeko

That's the problem with unidecoding :laughing: ... breaks some, fixes some. It looks like MusixMatch does not unidecode their records.

In this case, we have no option but to drop the whole unidecode hack.

[cwilvx]

Or we can try to do multiple searches with unidecoded and the unchanged queries. I think that would probably match something.

[cwilvx]

@KoukeNeko

This seems to work. https://github.com/swingmx/swingmusic/commit/300c8eb30bd89ce0a7296fe1d756dd3e542265df

[KoukeNeko]

It's been working great, but I haven't had a chance to try it with Chinese yet.