musixmatch don't want to handle purchases from individual users, they want to focus on selling their services to other businesses and to make it worth for them to handle a new business customer they want to be guaranteed a minimal yearly fee. It could also be that the music producers which musixmatch have licensed the lyrics from requires a minimum fee per year in their license agreement.
I'm 100% sure I can't earn anywhere close to $20k/year on a lyrics plugin for Squeezebox, based on the sales from my other plugins I seriously doubt it would even be possible for me to reach $500/year. I don't want to switch the plugin to a commercial mode if I can't guarantee that it works and I can't guarantee that without a partner agreement with a lyrics provider who officially license lyrics from music producers. lyrdb which was mentioned, is another "illegal" alternative that could be an option, but their site seemed to be really slow so I'm not sure how good it will work. However, I'll try to get some time to take a look at it in the not too distant future. Of course, if they start to work good, the music industry is likely going to shutdown their service too, it has happen to pretty much all services which doesn't officially license the lyrics from the music producers. LyricWiki had to disable their API due to complaints from music producers: http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/detail?id=273 LyricFind is another legal alternative, they have similar requirement of a minimal yearly fee for commercial agreement, it's a little bit cheaper than musixmatch but it's still far above what I could earn on a commercial lyrics plugin. If anyone like to voluntary support my related lyrics work, you can always do it indirectly by purchasing one of my other plugins or applets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98161 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
