Re: [emms-help] Lyrics

[William]

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

[sorry for the late reply]

> The lyrics functionality of emms seem pretty cool, but is there a
> repository of lyrics in the proper form?

I've updated the docs string slightly.

,----[ C-h v emms-lyrics-dir RET ]
| emms-lyrics-dir is a variable defined in `emms-lyrics.el'.
| Its value is "~/music/lyrics"
|
|
| Documentation:
| Local lyrics repository.
| `emms-lyrics-find-lyric' will look for lyrics in current directory(i.e.,
| same as the music file) and this directory.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----

> Also, I haven't noticed anything in the emms documentation about emms
> getting the lyrics for the songs itself; some music players, such as
> gmusicbrowser, will do that.  (Not in emms's format, of course.)

It can't grab lyrics automatically at present. The main problem seems
finding a good lyrics repo.

Currently I'm thinking(this's how i myself do now) that user himself
could write some lyrics crawler and run externally, then by customizing
`emms-lyrics-find-lyric-function', and with the help of
`emms-lyrics-catchup', one could sync just downloaded lyrics with
the playing track. This is still in development though.

> If no such thing exists, I tossed together something that will get the
> lyrics for the currently playing song from Lyricwiki that I could put
> on the Emacs wiki (or somewhere).

That would be nice. One thing i'm concerned is that is it legal to
gather lyrics from internet first then redistribute them?

--
William

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