Comments on: Massive iTunes lyrics update

By: admin

admin — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:24:29 +0000

Ray, thanks for the insight. Rather than matching the gritty details of lyricwiki naming scheme I’d rather explore new lyric providers for the next update, that way the accuracy will get a greater boost. You know the 80/20 law… What do you think?

By: ray

ray — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:17:43 +0000

The massivelyrics app needs to have to the artist and song title to match what lyricwiki has. I could see that lyricwiki has the artist and song but in iTunes it was spelled slightly different.

eg., John C Doe in iTunes but lyricwiki will have John C. Doe. That little “.” period messes the whole thing up. This little rule also applies to song titles. Seems to work with the “&” symbol so “Simon and Garfunkel” or “Simon & Garfunkel works”.

Once I matched artist name and song title to lyricwiki it worked. massivelyrics needs to have some additional smarts built in.

I guess the rule is, if the lyrics are on lyricwiki and it won’t update, match the artist name and song title to lyricwiki and then give it another try.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:03:33 +0000

The script is no longer maintained, and it’s in need for some recoding since lyricwiki changed its policy for lyrics fetching.
Head over to massivelyrics app for a more user friendly solution!

By: Lex

Lex — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:31:46 +0000

Hello, this script can’t find any lyrics for my tracks, but i see this lyrics on lyricswiki website :(

By: dade

dade — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:29:54 +0000

Sorry man, I had to take down the script for maintenance.
Lyricwiki has changed again, and I am struggling to get appscript working again in leopard 10.6… it is just the last step towards a workable script.
Anyway I will reactivate the link on the post, if you or someone else wants to figure out things on its own!

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:30 +0000

Hi!

Maybe I’m blind, but I don’t see a link to download “MassiveLyrics.rb” file. Please give a link.

Thanks!

By: luca

luca — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:02:15 +0000

I’ve made a few improvements on the script.. here they are:
1. not require curb, using require ‘net/http’ from the standard library
pagecontent = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url)).body
2. to handle any special character I convert everything to hex representation
def str_to_url_hex(str)
out = “”
i = 0
while !str[i].nil? do
out += ‘%’ + (“%02s” % str[i].to_s(16)).gsub(‘ ‘,’0′)
i+=1
end
out
end
song = str_to_url_hex(song)

3. the liricswiki website moved to http://lyrics.wikia.com/ and the paged didn’t get parsed correctly… so I modified that too.. it’s a bit hacky so I won’t put it here

thanks for the appscript part, I didn’t know about it!
bye

By: 0x3333

0x3333 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:53:03 +0000

Hi!

I used your script some time ago.

Now I’m trying to use it, it exits OK, but no lyrics has been updated in iTunes! No files get updated.

Stdout:

[01:43:28] user@station:[~/Downloads]:ruby massivelyrics.rb
“Found: Michael Jackson – Jam”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Why You Wanna Trip On Me”
“Found: Michael Jackson – In The Closet”
“Found: Michael Jackson – She Drives Me Wild”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Remember The Time”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Can’t Let Her Get Away”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Heal The World”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Black Or White”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Who Is It”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Give In To Me”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Will You Be There”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Keep The Faith”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Gone Too Soon”
“Found: Michael Jackson – Dangerous”
“lyrics already present 0″
“updated 14 song(s)”
“not found 0″

Thanks!

By: Vilela

Vilela — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:45:43 +0000

Does this works with windows?

If yes could you tell me how?

thnks!

By: Eric Van Tichel

Eric Van Tichel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:05:24 +0000

Got everything installed but I’m getting this error:
Black_Eyed_Peas:Rock_That_Body
CANNOT FIND any lyrics for Black Eyed Peas – Rock That Body
===============================================================
lyrics already present for 0 song(s)
lyrics not found for 1 song(s)
updated 0 song(s)

for every song without lyrics. When I look at lyricwiki.org I’m getting forwarded to lyrics.wikia.com and I’m able to find the lyrics. But somehow the script seems to fail…
Thanks in advance.