gen_lyricfind

What The Heck ?

This winamp plugin was created in an attempt to make it easy for you to associate lyrics with your vastly growing MP3 collection. Lyricfind (www.lyricfind.com) has done an incredible job of centralizing an archive of song lyrics as well as providing a nice searchable interface into it...So, in an attempt to make the ultimate lyric plugin I created gen_lyricfind. What does it do, you ask ? Well, simply enough it allows you to browse for lyrics of the songs you play in winamp. It stores the lyrics in a local cache (max 100 entries) and associates them with the MP3s in your collection and will optionally display them when you play it in winamp. The lyrics come directly from Lyricfind's huge archive of lyrics.

Download

Get binary Version 1.0 here.

Get source code Version 1.0 here.

Better Description

Ok, so here how to use the plugin :

1. Load up your favorite playlist in winamp and start playing an MP3

2. Right click on the playlist and you should see a couple new menu items

You can see there are three new menu items,

1) Browse for Lyrics by Artist

2) Browse for Lyrics by Song

3) Generic Search for Lyrics

Let me describe what each one of these does...

Browse for lyrics by artist

By selecting this menu item the plugin will contact the lyricfind archive and popup a list of matching entries for your MP3. Simply select the correct song from the list and you have now associated the selected lyrics with this MP3. The next time you play this MP3 the plugin will open the locally cached lyric file and display it automattically (you can turn this off).

Browse for lyrics by song

This is the same as the one above, but the search results are by song title not by artist.

Generic Search for Lyrics

If your MP3 has a corrupted ID3 tag or is not named properly, then you can select this menu item...This will allow you to do a freeform search on the lyricfind archive.

Configuration Options

Well, there isn't much but these are the configurable options :

• Disable Plugin
  Turns everything off.
• Disable Lyricfind MiniBrowser Integration
  If this is enabled, then if you have associated the currently playing MP3 with a lyric already, then it will appear in the winamp minibrowser automatically.
• Cache Files Directory
  Where local lyrics are stored. You must create this directory manually.
• Max Cache Entries
  Err....the max cache entries.. :) (can't be more than 100 sorry)