Re: [Muine] Idea for a lyrics plugin

[Yo'av Moshe <bjesus gmail com>]

Well, I thought we are in a state we can relay on a stable internet
connection...

There are lyrics databases out there with an API, but I just think
that using Google and rendering the pages we'll be much easier to
code, and will offer a much larger "lyrics database".

Yo'av.


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:23:19 +0200, z <nostalgiafed gmail com> wrote:
> dumb me..i forgot to mail it to the muine list too...sorry about that
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: z <nostalgiafed gmail com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:21:36 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Muine] Idea for a lyrics plugin
> To: Yo'av Moshe <bjesus gmail com>
> 
> last week i was thinking about a lyrics plugin about muine and was
> going to suggest it here because i'm no coder just a user and
> translator.
> i'm not sure if i got you right but you're suggesting that for each
> song no matter if it has been played you'll need internet connection
> and everytime when a song is played to use google. i don't think
> that's very convenient. the databes method is surer. a little database
> just like the db of the covers where a lyric is linked with a song
> title and performer.
> something along those lines..
> however saying that i'm having in mind that i have no idea how this is
> going to be implemented into muine's interface.
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:54:39 +0200, Yo'av Moshe <bjesus gmail com> wrote:
> > Some hates it and some can't do without it - a Lyrics Plug-in.
> >
> > While I was on my way home today I thought of a way to implement it.
> > We tend to think that we'll need a database for it, or at least
> > connect to one. But why? Here's my suggest:
> >
> > Under 'Song' menu there'll be a 'Show Lyrics' entry. Choosing it will
> > open a pretty small window, something like Muine's size (there should
> > be a GConf key so we can remember the size). This window only need's 2
> > parts:
> >
> > 1 - The Lyrics - what we're actually doing is displaying (using
> > Gecko#) Google's "I'm feeling lucky!" for '"%title" "%artist" lyrics'.
> > This browser thing takes almost all of the window's size. There's no
> > need for button like "back" or "forward" of course. Nothing at all.
> >
> > 2 - Next Button - under the browser view there'll be a small button,
> > "Show next found", just-in-case the first result wasn't it. Doesn't
> > really happen most of the time, but I think we'll need it. It does
> > what it says - displays the second result on Google's results page for
> > the query.
> >
> > 3 - Close Button.
> >
> > Although we could end it all here, I believe the Gecko# thing should
> > do a bit more than just following Google's result. It should (1)
> > remove all of the images on the page, and if possible, we'll want to
> > (2) connect it to a custom CSS (it can be hard-coded into the plugin,
> > it doesn't quite matters) that we'll help us remove most of the
> > unneeded parts of the popular lyrics websites.
> >
> > What you think?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Yo'av.
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