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Questions / Re: Remove embedded (or linked) cover artwork from files

« on: August 13, 2019, 05:25:51 PM »

I have a related question.  I have also decided that embedding the artwork was not the way to go for me.  On an individual album basis I followed what frankz suggested and it worked great.  However, I have over a thousand albums and doing them one at a time will be a very long process.  Is there a way to un-embed the artwork for all tracks on all albums at one time?  That would be a great time saver for me.  I don't even care if I save the cover to link to afterwards.  I would be happy just doing the auto-tag for missing artwork afterwards.

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: August 09, 2019, 05:43:07 AM »

Understood.  That is why I prefaced my original posting with "What am I doing wrong?". 

I figured it was probably something I was doing wrong rather than the plugin.  It just took me awhile to figure out what I was doing wrong.  Thanks to you I now know to look in the log to see what is being looked for and comparing that to what I search for in Google.  This really helped me out on the ones I've checked so far. 

Just as an aside, i would guess that less than 1% of my songs didn't find lyrics when I auto tagged them, but that was still probably several 100 songs.

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: August 09, 2019, 05:02:20 AM »

That said, I find it slightly hard to believe that you were unable to find lyrics for (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannonball by Van Morrison through any of MB's facilities.  They do not all work for everything, that's why there is a large variety.

The plugin doesn't use album names for any provider I've seen. You can look through them all here:
https://github.com/mbfrankz/LyricsReloaded/tree/master/LyricsReloaded/Configs

None appear to use album names.

Do you have an example?

I'll take a look at creating a custom YML.

Well... don't I feel a bit stupid.  I ripped Tupelo Honey a long time ago in iTunes.  When it got the track names it got the wrong name for that song.  It mis-spelled cannonball as canonball.  When I was looking at it tonight I wanted it to say cannonball so that is what I saw.     After changing that it worked fine.  I found at least 5 or 6 other songs where this was the problem.


I also feel a bit stupid.  I misread the log.  There was no album title in the log.  The song name and album title were the same.       I'll have to look a bit closer to see what the problem was for these songs.  

As for Album Artist vs. Artist, I guess I'll try changing the Artist temporarily, get the lyrics, and then change the Artist back.

Thanks for all your help.

Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: August 09, 2019, 03:11:31 AM »

Thanks for the reply.  It looks like some of the errors are due to my having changed Artist to match who is actually performing a song rather than the person the lyrics are tied to on the providers web sites.  For example, for the album Are You Passionate?, I have the Artist as Neil Young & Booker T. & the M.G.'s.  I have the Album Artist as Neil Young.  The providers all tie the lyrics to Neil Young.  Is there a way to have the plugin use the Album Artist field instead of the Artist field?

On some the song is on a compilation album of some sort instead of on the original album.  It looks like the plugin is sending the album name as part of the search and it isn't being found as the providers have the lyrics tied to the original album name.  Is there a way around this problem?

On one of my tests this is what happened.  The URL from the log:

The constructed URL: http://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/van-morrison/like-a-canonball

The URL from the site:

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Van-Morrison/Straight-to-Your-Heart-Like-a-Cannonball

The name of the song is (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Canonball.  The artist is Van Morrison.

Even if I search for just Like A Cannonball it is found on Musixmatch.

This is not the problem I was reporting, but t looks like the plugin is dropping the beginning of the song, (Straight To Your Heart).  This same problem happens to me on any song with part of the name in ().

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: August 09, 2019, 01:01:53 AM »

Another question.  What am I doing wrong? 

Often MusicBee and the plugin cannot find the lyrics for a song despite the fact that when I search using Google search in my browser, the lyrics are found on one of the sites listed in the list of lyrics providers in preferences.

I just tried finding lyrics for the song So Many Times by Manassas.  When I searched for the lyrics inside MusicBee they were not found.  When I searched using Google search outside MusicBee the lyrics were found on Genius.  This is one of the providers listed Preferences > Tags (2) > Auto Tagging > Lyrics.  It is the 5th provider listed.

Thanks,
Bill

96

Questions / Re: background image for Now Playing

« on: August 06, 2019, 05:26:52 PM »

Freddy,

Sorry about that.   I guess I didn't explain myself very well.  I did mean only in the Artist Picture and Album Color Mix modes of Now Playing that I was looking for the solid background color.  Your suggestion changes the background in Music and playlists which I don't want, but doesn't change it in those modes of Now Playing.

Bee-liever,

I tried large album mode and that works OK, but I turned off the album picture because for me it is too large and distracting.  This gives me the lyrics in the right main panel but the left main and main panels are white which is a lot of white and quite bright.  Is there a way to change the background color to something other than white?  If not I can live with the white.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Bill

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Questions / Re: background image for Now Playing

« on: August 05, 2019, 08:52:22 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  I didn't see an option for changing the background for the Now Playing mail panel.  How would I do this?

Thanks,
Bill

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Questions / background image for Now Playing

« on: August 05, 2019, 05:41:51 AM »

In Now Playing I would like to be able to set a solid color background.  When using Artist Picture, I sometimes have a very hard time reading the lyrics or artist biography depending on the picture.  When using Album Color mix I have the same problem depending on the color.  If I could set the background image to a solid color I would be able to more easily read the lyrics.  MB has so many options and settings that I was hoping I am just missing something that would allow me to do this.

Thanks,
Bill

99

Questions / Re: right sidebar not always showing

« on: July 26, 2019, 09:42:03 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  Those settings are already set to show the right sidebar, not to hide them.  

They were set this way and it was working fine for a few weeks and then the right sidebar just disappeared only in Music.  The right sidebar was showing fine in playlists.  I usually use playlists so I probably had not gone to Music for several days.  

I tried everything I could think of and couldn't get the right sidebar to re-appear.  So... I deleted the latest custom view that was having the problem and reverted to one from a couple weeks ago.  The right sidebar is displaying fine using that custom view.  I have no idea what happened, but it is working fine now.  I think the only thing I changed between the two custom view were which columns were displaying.

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: July 26, 2019, 01:24:01 AM »

BillH:  Try what frankz says above--do your Lyrics downloading through the Now Playing window and look for the grayed-out "Lyrics Source" at the top of the right-click box.  If the lyrics are wrong (almost never happens for me), hit "Search next provider" and see if the right ones come up then.  I've seen it cycle through 4 providers, all with the correct lyrics just some variation in spacing or punctuation.  As he said, the actual source will show if it's from a MB built-in provider.  Be sure of course your music is accurately tagged..

Thanks for the suggestion.  I don't normally use Now Playing.  Can I download the lyrics for all songs on an album using Now Playing or do I have to do them one track at a time?

Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: July 26, 2019, 01:19:53 AM »

@frankz

That hint to look in Now Playing is great.  I can now see where the lyrics came from without having to plow through the log.  

In this case the lyrics were coming from chartlyrics.com.  I disabled that provider and redid the search and it was marked as an instrumental according the MusicBee Plugin.  

Now I will be able to tell where any bad lyrics come from and will keep the plugin enabled.

Thanks for all your help.

Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: July 25, 2019, 11:52:22 PM »

@frankz

I looked at the log and couldn't see any evidence of any lyrics being downloaded for any songs so it looks like they were downloaded prior to my having installed the plugin.  That is good news, it isn't the plugin providing the bad lyrics.  Even so I'd like to know how to tell in the plugin where the lyrics are downloaded from.

So... before deleting the DLL I re-enabled the plugin, picked a song, and used the right click option Delete Lyrics and Redo Search.  Lyrics were downloaded successfully.  I looked at the log in Appdata and see where the lyrics were requested and each provider tries to load the lyrics.  I still am having a hard time figuring out which provider was actually downloading the lyrics.  I see a lot of [INFO] lines saying a provider tries to download the lyrics, but no line that says the provider actually did download the lyrics.  

I pared down the providers and ran a test on a song by J.J. Cale that I know is an instrumental.  Lyrics were downloaded from somewhere.  I'd like to know where.  Here is the portion of the log.

25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - A-Z Lyrics Universe
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] A-Z Lyrics Universe tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jjcale/cloudyday.html
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - Genius
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] Genius tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://genius.com/jj-cale-cloudy-day-lyrics
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - LyricWiki Reloaded
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] LyricWiki Reloaded tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://lyrics.wikia.com/J.J._Cale:Cloudy_Day
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - LyricWiki Gracenote Reloaded
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] LyricWiki Gracenote Reloaded tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Gracenote:J.J._Cale:Cloudy_Day
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - MetroLyrics
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - Musixmatch
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] Lyrics request:  - J.J. Cale - Cloudy Day - Shades - Song Lyrics
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] MetroLyrics tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.metrolyrics.com/cloudy-day-lyrics-jjcale.html
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [INFO] Musixmatch tries to load the lyrics...
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/jjcale/cloudy-day
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/jjcale/cloudy-day
25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.musixmat25/07/2019 04:19:09 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: http://www.songlyrics.com/jj-cale/cloudy-day-lyrics/
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [INFO] No lyrics found.
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] no lyrics found
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] gzip compression detected
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [WARN] The pattern 'lyricbox'>.*?</div>(?<lyrics>.*?)<!-- didn't match!
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [INFO] No lyrics found.
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] no lyrics found
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [INFO] No lyrics found.
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] no lyrics found
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [INFO] No lyrics found.
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] no lyrics found
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] gzip compression detected
25/07/2019 04:19:10 [DEBUG] lyrics found

Can you help me understand from the log how I can tell which one is the provider that the lyrics actually came from?  What should I be looking for?

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: July 25, 2019, 11:14:18 PM »

@frankz

Ok... thanks I'll delete the DLL.

@sveakul

The plugin seemed to be working fine, but I was getting quite a few songs where the lyrics that were downloaded were not the correct lyrics for that song.  I was just doing some debugging trying to figure out where the incorrect lyrics were coming from.  Is there a way for any particular song to determine where the lyrics were downloaded from?

Thanks,
Bill

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: July 25, 2019, 08:38:50 PM »

I tried to uninstall Lyrics Reloaded using Preferences > Plugins > Uninstall and got the following error so it wouldn't uninstall.  Is this the right place to report this? 

Thanks,
Bill


MusicBee v3.3.7138.38094 (Win10.0), 25 Jul 2019 12:22:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MusicBeePlugin.Plugin.Uninstall()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at #=zEyMFOXBpDOX3Eq6A4w==.#=z9yeueks=()

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Questions / right sidebar not always showing

« on: July 25, 2019, 05:48:44 PM »

I need some help.  I set MB up to show the right sidebar and to have it contain the lyrics.  This was working fine for about a week for both Music and all playlists.  Now today, when I go to a playlist and play a song it still shows the right sidebar with the lyrics.  When I go to Music and select an album and play a song, the right sidebar isn't there.  I double checked and it is still set to Show Panel.

Any ideas on why the right sidebar isn't showing in Music but is showing in playlists?  How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Bill