I would like to see lyrics instead of milkdrop visualization

by **Mac** on Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:27 pm

In the music section, I would like to see song lyrics instead of milkdrop visualization. Does anyone know how to do this?

by **Colby** on Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:20 am

all you have to do is download a plugin for winamp player to display the lyrics. http://winamp.com/plugins/browse.php?search=yes&filter=C&query=lyrics then configure winamp to show lyrics.

p.s. where are you getting the lyrics from, and how are you going to store them?

by **Mac** on Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:17 am

I think they can be stored either as a separate lyrics file (*.lrc) or saved imbedded within the mp3 file.

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:58 pm

Rescuing this old thread... cause i want some tips... i wanna add lyrics...

Is anybody doing that at moment? what is the best solution? Theres a lot of those different winamp plugins, based on use experience what is the best? and especially which one works most seamlessly with XL?

by **Mac** on Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:38 pm

I use MiniLyrics and have been pleased with that Wimamp plugin.

by **hvs69** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:00 pm

P3rv3rt B3ar wrote:Rescuing this old thread... cause i want some tips... i wanna add lyrics...

Is anybody doing that at moment? what is the best solution? Theres a lot of those different winamp plugins, based on use experience what is the best? and especially which one works most seamlessly with XL?

I think the best solution would be to embed the lyrics into the mp3 with a suitable tagger and then we can ask Steve to add the feature to import the lyrics into the music.xml

This will be the most seamless integration into XL

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:05 pm

hvs69 wrote:
P3rv3rt B3ar wrote:Rescuing this old thread... cause i want some tips... i wanna add lyrics...

Is anybody doing that at moment? what is the best solution? Theres a lot of those different winamp plugins, based on use experience what is the best? and especially which one works most seamlessly with XL?

I think the best solution would be to embed the lyrics into the mp3 with a suitable tagger and then we can ask Steve to add the feature to import the lyrics into the music.xml

This will be the most seamless integration into XL

That sounds very good to me, good integration with XL is primary objective, but also automatic retrieval of lyrics is extremely important to me, and with this aproach, would it be achiavable (without coding your own software) ?

by **dgemily** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:45 pm

we use to integrate lyrics in a french skin, but it's so far..... I will try to find some information then I will post it ....

by **C-moi** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:33 pm

yes, we used foobar2000 (0.8 version) and a plugin named lyricshow (developped by Hero.Hua specially for xlobby)
So we fixed the window with the plugin XMoveWindow.
I stopped to use .lrc files : i prefer real karaoke with .cdg + .mp3 files or .avi or .kfn and i use karafun (not easy to embed in xlobby but i hope that the new version of karafun - we can download the new version 1.10 in several days - will be easier to interface withe xlobby !

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:48 pm

C-moi wrote: i hope that the new version of karafun - we can download the new version 1.10 in several days - will be easier to interface withe xlobby !

That is very interesting keep us and rest of europe posted

by **dgemily** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:50 pm

I can't find, what I was looking for but as C-moi said, we used the plugin lyricshow by Hero.Hua ( I know that we hosted this file, but I can't find it and I don't know if it will work with foobar 0.9...) this solution will only work with foobar2000 as audioplayer. with this plugin, you can configure a lot of things like fonts, colors etc...

then when your configuration is done you can fix the lyric windows by using the plugin xmovewindow.

the second way that we used was with minilyrics, and we fixed the minilyric window using xmovewindow ...

later

by **Mac** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:12 pm

How do you configure xmovewindow to display the minilyrics screen?

by **dgemily** on Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:05 am

Mac wrote:How do you configure xmovewindow to display the minilyrics screen?

install xmovewindow in the plugin directory then in xlobby create a text zone with:
as text:

Code: Select all: plugin>XmoveWindow>MiniLyrics

and as ID:

ScreenName_MiniLyrics

by **Mac** on Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:40 am

Thanks dgemily,

I got xmovewindow to display the minilyrics. However when I change to a different screen and then go back to the lyrics screen, the minilyrics window is not seen. It's still running but underneath the xlobby program. Is there an xlobby or xmovewindow command to bring the minilyrics screen to the front? Or I could use girder to set focus and show the minilyrics window.

thanks,
Mac

by **dgemily** on Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:18 am

did you check "always on top" in the minilyrics cinfiguration ?

and yes you can also use xlobby events to lock/unlock/show/hide etc....
event : plugins--> xmovewindow---> select the fonction that you want and put in variable the classname of the window

later