New Lyrics plugin using musixmatch.com
I recently came across this cool new service called musixmatch.
They provide lyrics that are actually licensed. Coding a plugin for their alpha API was a breeze.
After installation you will see a new task in the Analysis Options dialog - the one that is shown after you selected some songs and clicked Analyze. This allows you to batch-fetch lyrics.
For the time being, you may run into daily request limits, i.e. after X number of requests you may see 401 or 402 errors. You might want to try again the next day.
Also, please note that this plugin may cease to work, once their service goes into official production or the (not yet completely stable) API is changed. That aside, it probably won't work after 11/2010.
People interested in coding plugins for beaTunes, might want to look at the provided source code. Anyhow - here it is:
Enjoy!
(installation instructions for beaTunes plugins)
Update 9/29/2010
Due to changes in the musixmatch API, the 1.0.0 version of the plugin broke (well, that's what happens when using alpha APIs). I fixed the issue and updated the links above to point to a new version, 1.0.1. When updating the plugin, please make sure you remove any older versions of the plugin.
posted at 15:47
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