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dypsis wrote:The wife just bought a cam that also plays mp3s.

The manual says that it can read lyrics if it has lrc files. Is this the best option to get lrc files for her tracks? I don't know much about lrc files.

What is your OS?
I do not believe that Mini Lyrics can save .lrc to tag under Vista.
Unless, this has been fixed in current version of Mini Lyrics - I run an older version that will not save .lrc to tag... maybe that has been fixed, tho.

drjboulder wrote:

dypsis wrote:The wife just bought a cam that also plays mp3s.

The manual says that it can read lyrics if it has lrc files. Is this the best option to get lrc files for her tracks? I don't know much about lrc files.

What is your OS?
I do not believe that Mini Lyrics can save .lrc to tag under Vista.
Unless, this has been fixed in current version of Mini Lyrics - I run an older version that will not save .lrc to tag... maybe that has been fixed, tho.

Yeah. I am running Vista.
Are there any other lrc tools to do this? It appears that lrc is becoming very common now. But I haven't seen many tools around.

dypsis wrote:

drjboulder wrote:

dypsis wrote:The wife just bought a cam that also plays mp3s.

The manual says that it can read lyrics if it has lrc files. Is this the best option to get lrc files for her tracks? I don't know much about lrc files.

What is your OS?
I do not believe that Mini Lyrics can save .lrc to tag under Vista.
Unless, this has been fixed in current version of Mini Lyrics - I run an older version that will not save .lrc to tag... maybe that has been fixed, tho.

Yeah. I am running Vista.
Are there any other lrc tools to do this? It appears that lrc is becoming very common now. But I haven't seen many tools around.

Had a quick look at the Mini Lyrics website and I could not readily tell if newer versions will save to tag in Vista...
Maybe NoHitter will pipe in soon, he is the local un-official MiniLyrics expert.
Course you could always just try it.

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Oh wow, i feel like such an idiot. Thank you SO much for the rapid response MoDemetia. That's sorted me out just brilliantly


Thanks again Steegy - great plugin.


WHOOOP !

drjboulder wrote:

dypsis wrote:

drjboulder wrote: What is your OS?
I do not believe that Mini Lyrics can save .lrc to tag under Vista.
Unless, this has been fixed in current version of Mini Lyrics - I run an older version that will not save .lrc to tag... maybe that has been fixed, tho.

Yeah. I am running Vista.
Are there any other lrc tools to do this? It appears that lrc is becoming very common now. But I haven't seen many tools around.

Had a quick look at the Mini Lyrics website and I could not readily tell if newer versions will save to tag in Vista...
Maybe NoHitter will pipe in soon, he is the local un-official MiniLyrics expert.
Course you could always just try it.

Yeah, newest version of Minilyrics supports .lrc tagging to Vista, but you have to skip to the next song or stop its playback before the song can be tagged.

nohitter151 wrote:Yeah, newest version of Minilyrics supports .lrc tagging to Vista, but you have to skip to the next song or stop its playback before the song can be tagged.

Yeah. I just found that out.
But I couldn't get it to sync with the lyrics properly. It would read the wrong lines. And in some display options, it wouldn't work at all.

dypsis wrote:

nohitter151 wrote:Yeah, newest version of Minilyrics supports .lrc tagging to Vista, but you have to skip to the next song or stop its playback before the song can be tagged.

Yeah. I just found that out.
But I couldn't get it to sync with the lyrics properly. It would read the wrong lines. And in some display options, it wouldn't work at all.

What do you mean, when you manually synced your own lyrics?

nohitter151 wrote:What do you mean, when you manually synced your own lyrics?

No. Do I need to do this? If so, then how? Seems like an arduous task.

I am only new to MiniLyrics.

dypsis wrote:It would read the wrong lines. And in some display options, it wouldn't work at all.

Is this not possibly because the .lrc was not created either properly or was created for a version of the song that is different then the one that you own?

You have to recognize that the .lrcs' that you are downloading are uploaded by users and are not 100% of the time going to match up with the file that you have on your machine.
Sometimes this is because the uploader is uploading a .lrc for a rarity or a re-mix and sometimes it is just an .lrc that should not have been uploaded in the first place..
This is why I have never recommended that you enable automatic download of .lrcs.
There are simply to many variables involved. Often there will be several versions of the same song available to download and it takes several tries to get one that synchs.
The exception being, if you are DLing an .lrc for Ben Folds created by Nohitter, you are pretty much guarantied that it will be spot on.

But, bottom line is that the .lrc that you download through Mini Lyrics is user uploaded... so, it is up to you to determine if it works.
Also, you can create your own .lrc... think that if you click somewhere in NoHitters sig, that there is a fairly comprehensive how to.

@Nohitter, Welcome back...
Let us know next time that you decide to take a three day holiday!!!

drjboulder wrote: @Nohitter, Welcome back...
Let us know next time that you decide to take a three day holiday!!!

Will do . Good explanation of Minilyrics btw, and thanks for the compliment


Also, I had to remove the guide to syncing your own lyrics (which is useful when the lyrics aren't available from the Minilyrics server or you aren't satisfied with the choices available) from my sig because I've run out of space, but the guide is still available here.

Whever I run the download, I receive the following error:
11004 - The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resoolved for.

Here is my connection test:

22:17:45 MiniLyrics 5.7.3418 for MediaMonkey
22:17:45 Your internet setting:
22:17:45 No Proxy is used.

22:17:45 Starting to test online search...
22:17:45 Online search server is www.viewlyrics.com, port: 1212
22:17:45 Connect to server: www.viewlyrics.com, port: 1212 ...
22:18:00 Connected FAILED, Error: 11004, The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for.


It does this for every song. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
MPG

Probably the minilyrics server was down. Try it again today and see if its working.

Tried again tonight, May 29th at 9:54 MST, and it still doesn't work.

MPG wrote:Tried again tonight, May 29th at 9:54 MST, and it still doesn't work.

Ok. Its working for me tonight, so it's not that the server is down. I'm not sure I can really help you with Minilyrics connection problems though... perhaps try contacting the ML developers.

Thanks for trying.

I sent them an email earlier this evening. I don't think it is even get out past my router, as i don't see any lights flashing. I did open port 1212 on the windows firewall. Are any other changes required?

MPG