Re: [Banshee-List] New year and new lyrics plugin

[christian <christian martellini gmail com>]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:34 +0000, s0l1dsnak3123 wrote:
> Hi Christian, firstly I'd like to congratulate you on a great
> improvement to banshee's lyrics functionality! I have installed it
> from subversion (for the record, you need to have mono-gmcs installed
> as well as libwebkit1.0-cil) and it works really well.
> 
> Some suggestions:
> - Add a scrolling lyrics marquee to the "now playing" section of
> banshee? (I'm not sure how you could detect the speed at which the
> text would have to be scrolled at though)

I think it's a good idea to show lyrics inside the "Now playing"
section, I worked a little on that but with poor results.. :)

> - An option to add the lyrics automatically to ID3 tags when Batch
> lyrics is performed (does this happen already, or is it stored in the
> database?)
> 
Sounds goods. Currently lyrics are written in separate files, but it is
probably better to store it inside id3 tags. I'm working on it right
now.

> Good luck, and thanks once again for contributing to the banshee
> project and making my linux experience even cooler.
> John.
> 
> 2010/1/11 Christian Martellini <christian martellini gmail com>
>         Hi guys a new version of the lyrcics plugin (0.8) is next to
>         be released
>         but I need your help to test it.
>         
>         What's New:
>         - Lyrics Batch: Download lyrics for all songs in your music
>         library
>         automatically.
>         - Context page Lyrics: For people who don't like lyrics in a
>         separate
>         window :)
>         - WebKit: now lyrics are displayed inside webkit
>         - No more lyriki support: Seems that lyriki is dead for legal
>         problem...
>         - A lot of bug fixing and code refactor (see lyrics plugin on
>         code.google for the entire list).
>         
>         To test it (remember to install libwebkit1.0-cil):
>         go at
>         http://bansheelyricsplugin.googlecode.com/files/bansheelyricsplugin-0.8.tar.bz2
>         or check it out from svn
>         svn checkout
>         http://bansheelyricsplugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
>         bansheelyricsplugin
>         
>         Any help/suggestion to improve the plugin is welcome.
>         
>         Known issues:
>         - Activating or deactivating the lyrics plugin when banshee is
>         playing
>         leads to a crashes. I seems that there is a multi-threading
>         problem when
>         updating the webkit content. I'm still working to fix it, if
>         you have
>         any suggestions on that problem I really appreciate it.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Christian
>         
>         
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