I don't know if there is any solid way to turn off lyric lookup.
You can turn it off in Tools > Options > Library > Metadata, as you say, but this seems to get overridden in some circumstances.
The lack of clarity can be seen in
the help text.
Note, that MediaMonkey will still lookup Artist images, Album Artwork and Lyrics even when the option to do is disabled. This takes place in certain locations when the information is displayed. It won't happen in the Grid views (for Artist and Album Artwork) or the Preview window (for Artwork and Lyrcis), or for the Playing node set to Album Art (for Lyrics) in which case a lookup button will be presented. The results of these lookups are not stored in the files or the MediaMonkey database or saved in any way.
The only thing that is clear (to me), from that, is that it's complicated.
FWIIW:
- I have lyrics lookup turned off.
- I see that the "lookup button" is displayed in the Playing panel ... before I turned the option off I saw the Lyrics being looked up and displayed into the Playing node ... so far, it looks ok
- but if my layout has the Lyrics panel on display, I can see lyrics are still being looked up .. ?
My guess (hope?) is that if the Lyrics panel is on display, this overrides the option settings.
But I am not sure whether or not they are being still being looked up when no one is looking, ie. Lyrics panel is not on display.
MM5 sometimes seems to think that it is an AI. eg. maybe I have lyrics stored for some tracks that are significant to me. Where available I want to see those lyrics, but don't want MM5 looking up lyrics on the fly. ... We should be able to that.
boober wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:21 pm
I'm finally digging into the big mess that has been the update to MMW5.
BTW. My overall view of MM5 is that it is a great update.
It takes some getting used to to, and the migration documentation sux, but I like MM4 a lot better than MM5.
I don't know if there is any solid way to turn off lyric lookup.
You can turn it off in Tools > Options > Library > Metadata, as you say, but this seems to get overridden in some circumstances.
The lack of clarity can be seen in [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:Getting_Track_Information_from_the_Internet/5.0#Auto_Metadata_Lookup]the help text[/url].
[quote]Note, that MediaMonkey will still lookup Artist images, Album Artwork and Lyrics even when the option to do is disabled. This takes place in certain locations when the information is displayed. It won't happen in the Grid views (for Artist and Album Artwork) or the Preview window (for Artwork and Lyrcis), or for the Playing node set to Album Art (for Lyrics) in which case a lookup button will be presented. The results of these lookups are not stored in the files or the MediaMonkey database or saved in any way.[/quote]
The only thing that is clear (to me), from that, is that it's complicated.
FWIIW:
[list]I have lyrics lookup turned off.[/list]
[list]I see that the "lookup button" is displayed in the Playing panel ... before I turned the option off I saw the Lyrics being looked up and displayed into the Playing node ... so far, it looks ok[/list]
[list]but if my layout has the Lyrics panel on display, I can see lyrics are still being looked up .. ?[/list]
My guess (hope?) is that if the Lyrics panel is on display, this overrides the option settings.
But I am not sure whether or not they are being still being looked up when no one is looking, ie. Lyrics panel is not on display.
MM5 sometimes seems to think that it is an AI. eg. maybe I have lyrics stored for some tracks that are significant to me. Where available I want to see those lyrics, but don't want MM5 looking up lyrics on the fly. ... We should be able to that.
[quote=boober post_id=499028 time=1657246891 user_id=89446]
I'm finally digging into the big mess that has been the update to MMW5.
[/quote]
BTW. My overall view of MM5 is that it is a great update.
It takes some getting used to to, and the migration documentation sux, but I like MM4 a lot better than MM5.