Steven Arntson <[email protected]> writes: > Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> writes: > >> Steven Arntson <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hello, I'm a new emms user. I'm coming from some time using ncmpcpp, >>> which had a lyrics function that automatically queried various online >>> lyrics providers. >>> >>> I notice that emms has some lyrics-finding functionality, but am not >>> sure how it works. Does it query websites, or is it based on a >>> local file of lyrics? >> >> I've personally never used the lyrics functionality, but from looking at >> the code I see that if "M-x emms-lyrics-visit-lyric" can't find the >> lyric file on disk then it will launch a web search in a browser. > > Ah, I see--yes, it does do that! There's a difficulty, > though--in this case I have a song whose file is 07songtitle.ogg. The actual > title of the song, which ogg123 recognizes as "Song Title" would be a > good internet search, but the search that gets performed is for > "07songtitle". This behavior might be beyond my ability to fix, as I'm not > very > technically apt.
I've fixed this issue in the Savannah git repo. Now if Emms can read the metadata for the track then it will do a correct lyric search. Make sure that your Emms is setup to show track info (section 13 of the emms manual.) -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" _______________________________________________ Emms-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emms-help
