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get lyrics ...

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InGearX:
some of the artists that wrote the songs - can't understand the lyrics when asked in an interview :p

so helps to have lyrics if you wanna know sometimes ...

so my guide/approach for now (please help us all improve this)

#1 is there is a great software called Metatogger http://www.luminescence-software.org/ to audio fingerprint all your songs - and auto get lyrics ……

I was able to process 20000 songs in a hour

it was able to get lyrics for about 80% of songs

from 20% that failed - artist/song name was wrong - so I did an acoustic fingerprint and that helped - some

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OK now that we have that - ideally when the song is playing in ROCKbox - you can use "Open with..."

and select /apps/lrcplayer

BUT sometimes it will say:

--- Quote ---mp3 is not supported
plugin error

--- End quote ---

OR for some other files it could crash OS completely or sometimes open (and display lyrics just fine!) for the same file (so sporadic problem)
:/

any idea why it does that?

I can see that the ID3v2 has lyrics in it just fine and displayed just fine on a PC

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so my backup workaround is to also export all lyrics to /album/lyrics/song.txt

this way while the song is playing - you can safely open .txt and see the words

to export like so - I use:

Abander TagControl - http://www.softartstudio.com/tagcontrol/download.htm (it's from 2010 and a trial but works - and seems to have a dozen scripts to get lyrics from a dozen sites!! might also work)

open all mp3s
select all
right click on all
export tools > export from music files > lyrics to track \ lyrics folder (or as you want - but this keeps it clean)

BUT - encoding is "U-DOS" which I think is "ISO-8859-1" and that is what the viewer is set to and drying by default

but when I open any generated .txt in ROCKbox I am getting strange gibberish instead :/

I have tried all 15 encodings to no avail :/

this is where I am at right now ...

I did not find a way for it to export in another encoding :/
maybe another software can? anyone knows?

or I think I need to batch change the encoding on all the .txt files
any app to easily do that?


thank you ...

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