Thank you so much. I've looked all over the web for something to automactically import lyrics into iTunes. The only ones ive been able to find were for Mac OSX, thank you for making this for windows. I found it by searching google and i found the google code page for it.
Thanks for the app! It's great. But what about some enhancements?
- option to only download lyrics only for tracks without lyrics. It will speed up the process if it could skip tracks that does not have any lyrics. - if the track can not be found, I'd like to be able to search manualyl using your app. In many cases the lyrics can not be found due to spelling of the track/band name
I have been looking for something like this. I am a 20+ year coder, and have been working with C# since 2001 so if this is something that really looks good and you can use some help perhaps I can donate a little time to the project.
Hey, this is a great program. You know, the admins at Lyricwiki would love to know about this program. I would really like to see the search function and some other things implemented here when the admins over at lyricwiki finally get them ready. I wouldn't mind telling them about this and making some improvements in the future if you are working on other things. But again, excellent work. This is great!
Hey, I love this program, this is really something I was missing untill now.
I just installed it, but I get some the "g" and ' in the lyrics I download are replaced by following string: '. Can anyone tell how I can fix this ? Thanks
Hi Ben, I love your enthusiasm towards the world of music and related. But I do not know anybody from the lyricwiki, so I do not have any control over what they do. Thanks.
Thanks for the reply. The admins at Lyricwiki seem to really let the reigns out of there. I think you can do pretty much anything but delete a page. They have a plugin page where you can go post the link to your plugin. I think a ton of people would use this. If you don't mind, I would love to post it over there and link back to you, full credit and all that. I am also getting involved with LyricWiki and I know updates are coming out all the time. If you are not interested in keeping up development on this program, I certainly am. But if you are, I will keep you informed about LyricWiki :)
Thanks a lot for the app. It is great, thought it crashes sometimes with no aparent reason. It works really fast.
I do have a suggestion thought. Some lyrics, in the wikilyric database, start with "the", and iTunes cuts it off when encoding from CDs. For example, the song "the truth beneath the rose", by within temptation is referred in iTunes as "truth beneath the rose". This specific lyric wasnt found using the importer, so you could change the app so it ignores "the" within song names and band names.
Well I keep using the importer so I can feel if there´s anything missing... and just now I´ve noticed that the Lyricwiki is still a little database. My suggestion now is that you add some other lyric source to the app, like www.reallyrics.com , www.lyricsdot.ru , www.leoslyrics.com (this particular one is very good) or lyrics.astraweb.com .
Using this 4 sources you´ll cover practically every lyric there is!
Thanks for your suggestions, the other lyrics sites that I have seen does not have clear apis to use them as a data source. Lyricswiki has very good web service interfaces, that I am using.
Hi Ben, Please feel free to make any improvements that you think are needed. The code for this is available in the Google projects site (http://code.google.com/p/ilyrics/source)
If you want, I can also add you as a project member. Please send me your details.
It would have been fantastic to have an option so manually search for an artist, album, track title. This is because there may some variations in spelling and the application can not find the correct track. I'm not sure if the API supports this, but what about: - search for an artist (partial name may be accepted. Like "Ozzy" gives both "Osbourne, Ozzy" and "Ozzy Osbourne" - list all albums by this artist - select album and list all tracks in the album - select track, and the mp3 is tagged
Very nice app. I found an issue with it and thought you might want to know about it: The application seemed to crash when i tried to get lyrics for a podcast that were deleted, but still in the library list.
Hello, I've got the software loading and running, but on every song in my library it comes up with "no result" when I click on get lyrics. I've search lyricwiki and I know it has the lyrics as well. Any thoughts on how I can get this to work? Thanks!
I figured out why your software won't work with my itunes library. I tagged every song Name to include the artist name first. Example the song name of Jump by Van Halen looks like "Van Halen - Jump" If I remove the artist name and just leave the song name it works. Too bad, I would have loved to use this software.
I'm using it atm and I've recognised some problems:
- It does not follow redirects in the wiki (Example: http://lyricwiki.org/index.php?title=Kaiser_Chiefs:Everyday_I_Love_You_Less_And_Less) I think this shouldn't be very hard to fix.
- If there are only small changes in the song's or the artist's name, it doesn't find any lyric (Example: http://lyricwiki.org/Kaiser_Chiefs:Caroline_Yes instead of "Caroline, Yes") I don't know wheter it is possible to fix this issue, but you could probably use the search function and let the program choose the first result (probably optionally, like the overwrite function).
If you could fix these little problems, the app would be perfect!
Something else: You should add your App to the Plugin page of the lyricWiki (http://lyricwiki.org/LyricWiki:Plugins)
awesome! awesome! awesome! I was begining to manually update the lyrics on all my music by cutting and pasting from lyrics sites. This would have taken months with over 10,000 songs! I think you're program will take less than 2 hours. AWESOME.
2 observations: 1. no minimize? 2. I wondered if you were updating the song files directly or if you were telling itunes to do it. I guess it is the latter because if I open the info dialog to look at lyrics while it is working it causes your program to crash. Possibly have your program do a check to see if the dialog is already open and have it pause updating until the dialog is closed, or give a popup to tell the user to close the info dialog.
So any chance we might see a version of this for Mac OS? I've tried a number of the lyrics grabbing apps available for Mac and none seem to do particularly well - the bulk of the songs' lyrics are not found. I'd love to give this program a shot - there is nothing for Macs that uses Lyricwiki (that I know of).
Great app, I've been looking for something like this for a long time, it does exactly what I want.
One problem though is that it is unable to find songs that are misspelt, or not spelt the same as those in the LyricsWiki database. The main one is if the song is named, for example, 'Track (live)'.
Considering that some tracks do usually have brackets, do you think it would be possible if, in the case that the track is not found and the title contains brackets, the brackets and contained text is removed and the search is performed again.
Also, any text after feat. or feat or ft. or ft should be ignored if a result isn't returned the first time.
Thank you very much for a very useful app.. Although, I have been encountering problems with the program lately. It updates the majority of my tracks with "no found" despite the presence of the lyrics on the wiki site.. I checked all the spelling in artist, album etc.. But it still gives me "no found" for about 70-80% of tracks.. I've been using the app for over a month now, but only in the past few days, it started to write this "no found" message.. Please help! Many thanks!
Great job! The only problem is when no artist or album is defined, a message appears saying "response is not well-formed XML", and if you have a lot of songs like this, is a little bit annoying.
heard great things about this program, downloaded, and installed it -- when I try to run it, I get an application error: "The application failed to initialized properly (0x00000135). Click on OK to terminate the application". Tried rebooting -- any ideas?
Great app! Will future versions allow getting lyrics for Chinese songs? All of my Chinese and Japanese songs couldn't be updated. Thanks for what you've done for everyone.
Thanks rot this application its made my iPod so much better. Is there any way of getting it to search more than one site for lyrics as not all of my music was updated.
Great program that did what was expected very well. However, when I sync'd about 500 lyrics onto my iPod Touch 32GB, it used an extra 2.5GB of space. Is that something to do with iTunes or the way the lyrics are stored? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I ran the program, and it found no lyrics. I realized that I have formatted the artist name as Paisley, Brad rather than Brad Paisley, and it seems that it doesn't recognize the artist and can't find the lyrics.
Thanks for making this plug-in, it's a great enhancement for iTunes !
If you're planning an update, I have this suggestions: - adding different sites (apart from lyricwiki) to retrieve lyrics - implementing "multiple queries" to question lyricwiki (or whatever site) for lyrics to a song several times, when the song title e.g. contains brackets - often titles are marked as "Titlename (feat. Somebody)", which makes it that the lyrics can't be found. A second query leaving out the addition in brackets may result in a hit. - if possible, a parsing of foreign characters in the lyrics would be great. I have a couple of German lyrics which display with the correct characters on lyricwiki but in iTunes/iPod the Umlauts are broken
Every time I try to update my libraries lyrics I will eventually get the error message "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." And the program halts until I click the ok button.
Wouldn't be such a big deal but having to hit ok every 10 songs or so when trying to add lyrics to about 8000 songs is rather time consuming. Any ideas on a fix?
Okay, I'm a dunce. Does this work on iTunes on the PC or only the iPod? I can run it, and it indicates it gets the lyrics, but I cannot figure out how to see them in my iTunes 7.5.
I try and run this app after installation and I get the ol', "CLR Error: 80004005" Any suggestions for resolution? Does it have something to do with .Net?
Great plugin! It would be helpful if it did some sort of fuzzy matching when the song has a "featuring ..." artist. When the artist says something like "Lecrae Feat. Cam" and LyricsWiki only finds on Lecrae, it doesn't have a match. Appreciate your hard work here!
lyricwiki.org is broken right now. I've got over a hundred songs selected, so I've got to OK a dialog box with each one.
It would be nice if there was a "cancel" option that would give up.
Here's the error in the dialog box, and I am getting the lower part at lyricwiki.org:
Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message: -- Host 'pedlfaster.pedlr.com' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' --.
Seem to work, except for the fact that the lyrics text is always empty and no error is displayed. I guess the culprit is that I my browser has to go through a Microsoft ISA proxy; I believe Itunes also (by means of Bonjour) uses proxy.
Awesome, I love it! Definitely annoying when I get a string of "response is not well-formed XML" though. Any way to automate it so you don't have to keep clicking through those messages?
the application failed to initialize propery click ok to terminate is the same error I am getting. I installed unistalled restarted and reinstalled and same thing happened agian. I am a PC user with XP unfortunatley
Man.. I'll to try write english here... 'cause I'm Brazilian... I've found a problem in this program....... it is VERY USUABLE!! VERY GOOD!!! but... when I find my Portugueses musics... they have characteres who come wrongs... these characteres: á à ã a ò ó õ é ç í ì ú ù...... they are came this: só... or ça....ã.. and more others.... i think this is a problem by de UNICODE, or think at the genre... so... i just telling you.... i'll be very good if you can fix this!... thanks... bye
An incredibly helpful application. Like others, I would like more abilities to manually search, but I do have one problem when lyrics are found. When I update a song with lyrics, it removes track information from the tags. For ex.: if a song tag has "track number:4 of 20", the program removes the "20". Not a big deal, but it would be nice if the program didn't remove other information from my song tags.
I have one slight problem. When I try to update the lyrics manually, the update button is greyed out. I input the lyric text but I can't update it because the update button won't work.
Thanks for this application, it's been very helpful for me.
But I'm have the same problem Gegissss mentioned before. iLyrics is not capable of transferring apostrophes or umlauts correctly. Hope you fix this bug some time.
It's a great application. However, if you have something like
The Wind Blows (feat. Homie)
Then the lyric finder won't find it. Because it has (feat. Homie) on it, which might variate from the finder. Maybe do a hit and miss. I mean, it should search for artists first, then the artists track titles. If it finds any variation of "The Wind Blows", maybe it'll auto update it, and if not, maybe a confirmation message pops up asking if you want to use the lyrics found. Other than that, a great application! Thanks
Great application. I have identified a bug - it crashes when it meets a track in iTunes which doesn't have a source MP3 (or similar) file in the iTunes library. Could you do an update to skip these when they are found rather than crashing?
Update to my above post. It looks like the crashing problem was a result of iTunes not finding a song in the library. Once I located and fix the link the crashing disappeared.
Just found this app. It is working away at my library right now. One request I would add (without reading through the rest of the blog) is to allow the app to skip the "not able to modify" message so that you do not have to attend to the program. It will not continue until you click on.
This thing worked awesome at first, but now I get "response is not well-formed XML" for about half of my songs. Did anyone ever figure out a way around this?
Like others here I am also getting the message "program failed to initialize properly (Oxc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application" when I try to start the installation. How do I fix this?
Also, I used to use a program called "EvilLyrics" but it stopped working with the latest iTunes (ver.8), does this program work with iTunes 8?
An Error keeps popping up saying "a response is not well-formed XML" what does this mean?
This makes iTunes+Ipod soo much better, not sure why apple has not caught on to this, or why they don't have anything to Auto-Tag ID3 Tags, or have anything to embed artwork, or to autofill in the disk, track number- ext ext ext. maybe you should make something better than iTunes, maybe sell music in higher quality without a crappy DRM, i don't understand apple sometimes, genius, but lacking in little things
I've previously successfully updated all song lyrics, but after updating to iTunes 8.0 I've gone the error "iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close."
I've tried uninstall/install again received the same error message.
By the way I love your software and am very grateful that you made it available for windows users.
Hey, this application is just amazing!!! thanks a lot for your work man...
unfortunatelly, as stated before, accents aphostrophes and umlauts are incorrectly updated... any workaround so far? or, are you eventually going to fix it?
Thank you so much. I've looked all over the web for something to automactically import lyrics into iTunes. The only ones ive been able to find were for Mac OSX, thank you for making this for windows. I found it by searching google and i found the google code page for it.
It worked until I upgraded to iTunes 8! I even reinstalled the program. Now I get the "iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. Any idea what's up? Thanks for the program!
Great program! The only thing I have a problem with is the fact that it seems you can't edit lyrics once they've been added to a song. :(
I tried removing the songs from my iTunes, uninstalling the program, reinstalling the program, putting the songs back in iTunes, etc. I cannot get to the point where I can change the lyrics for these songs, which is sad because there are some pretty big errors in them.
Hello there, i downloaded itunes lyric inmporter and when i tryed using the application it comes up with "itunes lyric importer has stopped working, Windows is searching for a soultion to the problem..." I have the newest version of itunes, and vista on my computer, help? i'd rather not go throug 3,000 songs and import the lyrics.
Hello Senthil, I have been using iTunes Lyrics Importer and it is a fantastic application (Congratulations!!!). I just would like to point a small problem that you could address in a future update. Let's illustrate with an example: The Metallica song named "The Unforgiven III" did not show results when searched via iTunes Lyrics Importer, although there is a page at LyricWiki.org for it. Turns out that the page is named "The_Unforgiven_III". If it was named "The_Unforgiven_Iii" the update through the application works - I created a new page with this name to be sure. Is there anything you can do to solve this problem? Thank you for your time. Best Regards. Véber Bravo.
your application is great... i think it will be usefull if selecting autosetting your software update lyrics at song change. i need to press getLyrics everytime
Fantastic Program, it was just what I was looking for. There is one problem that I have, I know the cause but it is rather irritating. The program crashes if any songs are missing in your library. If you could make it skip missing songs then that would be good.
Another (minor) change I would like to see implemented is to not put "Not Found" in the lyric box if it cannot find it, perhaps have a list of failed songs upon completion.
Grat tool, with just one bad problem. I'm from Aurtia and have also lot's of German language songs on. iLyrics can not handle "ä, ö, ü, ß,',.... ". To fix this problem would be very very nice!
I'm not sure if lyricwiki makes this possible - but you might be able to correct or add information to songs like track number, album, album art, etc, as well as adding lyrics. you'd be killing 2 birds with one stone!
Half of the ' apostrophies, get changed to "’" in the lyrics.
I have some international fonts installed, so I don't know if that changes things. But almost every song, I have to do 3 minutes of editing to change these ’ to '...
Anyway, I am using Vista 64 bit with all latest service packs, and the latest itunes.
There is a problem when lyrics are not found in the database.
The iLyrics would input "Not Found" into the Lyrics in iTunes instead of leaving it alone. This didn't happen in the past, i think it's a database issue.
Please fix it by not filling in anything if "Not Found" is returned as a result from the database.
It would be nice if the auto update window showed if the lyrics could not be found under the results heading so we know to check to make sure the song name/artist is spelled correctly. Also, if you try to view the lyrics of a song while other songs are being updated, you get an error message and the program crashes. Great App! i use it alot Chris
Just came across this. Great app. Problem I observed - if theres an apostrophe in a word like in "don't" or "can't" or "I'm", the apostrophe gets translated into some wierd "A"-looking character. This is what it ends up looking like: "ItÂ’s a downward spiral" instead of "It's a downward spiral".
If you have missing files in iTunes, it'll crash the importer.
I might also suggest using threadding to make it faster. Essentially divide the selected songs into X groups, and running the importer simultaneously on each group.
Great Program! I have noticed that if I select a lot of songs (I don't know the exact # but I started will all my A artists and it didn't like it so I had to use smaller chunks) it gives an error. Also if the title of the song has something added to it such as "(Live)" or "Extended", it won;t recognize it. Keep up the good work!
P.S. I'd love to see the same functionality for Guitar Tab!
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1 – 200 of 304 Newer› Newest»Thank you so much. I've looked all over the web for something to automactically import lyrics into iTunes. The only ones ive been able to find were for Mac OSX, thank you for making this for windows. I found it by searching google and i found the google code page for it.
please let me know if you have any issues with it.
Thanks for the app! It's great. But what about some enhancements?
- option to only download lyrics only for tracks without lyrics. It will speed up the process if it could skip tracks that does not have any lyrics.
- if the track can not be found, I'd like to be able to search manualyl using your app. In many cases the lyrics can not be found due to spelling of the track/band name
Thanks
Thanks for writing the app!
I have been looking for something like this. I am a 20+ year coder, and have been working with C# since 2001 so if this is something that really looks good and you can use some help perhaps I can donate a little time to the project.
Mr_IPod
Hey, this is a great program. You know, the admins at Lyricwiki would love to know about this program. I would really like to see the search function and some other things implemented here when the admins over at lyricwiki finally get them ready. I wouldn't mind telling them about this and making some improvements in the future if you are working on other things. But again, excellent work. This is great!
Hey,
I love this program, this is really something I was missing untill now.
I just installed it, but I get some the "g" and ' in the lyrics I download are replaced by following string: '. Can anyone tell how I can fix this ? Thanks
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
Can you please be more specific? May be can you tell me the lyrics that you were having problem with? Like the artist, album and song name. Thanks.
Hi Ben,
I love your enthusiasm towards the world of music and related. But I do not know anybody from the lyricwiki, so I do not have any control over what they do. Thanks.
Thanks for the reply. The admins at Lyricwiki seem to really let the reigns out of there. I think you can do pretty much anything but delete a page. They have a plugin page where you can go post the link to your plugin. I think a ton of people would use this. If you don't mind, I would love to post it over there and link back to you, full credit and all that. I am also getting involved with LyricWiki and I know updates are coming out all the time. If you are not interested in keeping up development on this program, I certainly am. But if you are, I will keep you informed about LyricWiki :)
hello,
very eager to try out the app but when i try to launch it i get this error:
"
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.
"
i'm running windows xp sp2 on a core2duo cpu.
Probably the .net run time is not installed.
Senthil,
Thanks a lot for the app.
It is great, thought it crashes sometimes with no aparent reason.
It works really fast.
I do have a suggestion thought.
Some lyrics, in the wikilyric database, start with "the", and iTunes cuts it off when encoding from CDs. For example, the song "the truth beneath the rose", by within temptation is referred in iTunes as "truth beneath the rose". This specific lyric wasnt found using the importer, so you could change the app so it ignores "the" within song names and band names.
Thanks again!
Well I keep using the importer so I can feel if there´s anything missing... and just now I´ve noticed that the Lyricwiki is still a little database. My suggestion now is that you add some other lyric source to the app, like www.reallyrics.com , www.lyricsdot.ru , www.leoslyrics.com (this particular one is very good) or lyrics.astraweb.com .
Using this 4 sources you´ll cover practically every lyric there is!
Thanks again.
Cya
*small database*
Hi Barz,
Thanks for your suggestions, the other lyrics sites that I have seen does not have clear apis to use them as a data source. Lyricswiki has very good web service interfaces, that I am using.
Hi Ben,
Please feel free to make any improvements that you think are needed. The code for this is available in the Google projects site (http://code.google.com/p/ilyrics/source)
If you want, I can also add you as a project member. Please send me your details.
It would have been fantastic to have an option so manually search for an artist, album, track title. This is because there may some variations in spelling and the application can not find the correct track. I'm not sure if the API supports this, but what about:
- search for an artist (partial name may be accepted. Like "Ozzy" gives both "Osbourne, Ozzy" and "Ozzy Osbourne"
- list all albums by this artist
- select album and list all tracks in the album
- select track, and the mp3 is tagged
:-)
Very nice app. I found an issue with it and thought you might want to know about it: The application seemed to crash when i tried to get lyrics for a podcast that were deleted, but still in the library list.
Hello, I've got the software loading and running, but on every song in my library it comes up with "no result" when I click on get lyrics. I've search lyricwiki and I know it has the lyrics as well. Any thoughts on how I can get this to work?
Thanks!
I figured out why your software won't work with my itunes library. I tagged every song Name to include the artist name first. Example the song name of Jump by Van Halen looks like "Van Halen - Jump"
If I remove the artist name and just leave the song name it works. Too bad, I would have loved to use this software.
Great App!
I'm using it atm and I've recognised some problems:
- It does not follow redirects in the wiki (Example: http://lyricwiki.org/index.php?title=Kaiser_Chiefs:Everyday_I_Love_You_Less_And_Less)
I think this shouldn't be very hard to fix.
- If there are only small changes in the song's or the artist's name, it doesn't find any lyric (Example: http://lyricwiki.org/Kaiser_Chiefs:Caroline_Yes instead of "Caroline, Yes")
I don't know wheter it is possible to fix this issue, but you could probably use the search function and let the program choose the first result (probably optionally, like the overwrite function).
If you could fix these little problems, the app would be perfect!
Something else: You should add your App to the Plugin page of the lyricWiki (http://lyricwiki.org/LyricWiki:Plugins)
awesome! awesome! awesome!
I was begining to manually update the lyrics on all my music by cutting and pasting from lyrics sites. This would have taken months with over 10,000 songs! I think you're program will take less than 2 hours. AWESOME.
2 observations:
1. no minimize?
2. I wondered if you were updating the song files directly or if you were telling itunes to do it. I guess it is the latter because if I open the info dialog to look at lyrics while it is working it causes your program to crash. Possibly have your program do a check to see if the dialog is already open and have it pause updating until the dialog is closed, or give a popup to tell the user to close the info dialog.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH.
Thanks for the app .. although can you add support for proxy authorization in the next version??
This program is exactly what I've been searching for for quite some time. Unfortunately when I go to run it I get a pop up box that says:
Please set registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\INSTALLRoot to point to the .NET Framework install location
I have no idea what it's asking for or even if there is something that can be fixed or changed so the program will work. Do you have any idea?
-Ty
I think probably the .net run time is not installed or not proper.
So any chance we might see a version of this for Mac OS? I've tried a number of the lyrics grabbing apps available for Mac and none seem to do particularly well - the bulk of the songs' lyrics are not found. I'd love to give this program a shot - there is nothing for Macs that uses Lyricwiki (that I know of).
Thanks!
Totally awesome software! Simple and it works! LOVE IT.
Hi Senthil,
Great app, I've been looking for something like this for a long time, it does exactly what I want.
One problem though is that it is unable to find songs that are misspelt, or not spelt the same as those in the LyricsWiki database. The main one is if the song is named, for example, 'Track (live)'.
Considering that some tracks do usually have brackets, do you think it would be possible if, in the case that the track is not found and the title contains brackets, the brackets and contained text is removed and the search is performed again.
Also, any text after feat. or feat or ft. or ft should be ignored if a result isn't returned the first time.
Thanks
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Great work. But I have many Jpop songs those can be found in the Lyricswiki well but cannot be found by iLyrics.
Thank you very much for a very useful app..
Although, I have been encountering problems with the program lately. It updates the majority of my tracks with "no found" despite the presence of the lyrics on the wiki site.. I checked all the spelling in artist, album etc.. But it still gives me "no found" for about 70-80% of tracks.. I've been using the app for over a month now, but only in the past few days, it started to write this "no found" message.. Please help!
Many thanks!
Help! Sorry to seem ignorant - but how can I view the lyrics without having to open the 'info' properties for the song i'm playing?
On the iTunes Download site, there is an image of a Lyrics Importer window - is this possible?
Thanks
Hi!
love your app, great thing!
could you please add a function to ignore text in brackets (in title and album name)? i think this would inprove the count of found lyrics...
thank you anyhow :)
crashes when it get's to digital booklets
Hi,
I'm running Vista and your program works great but after a while the program crashes for no apparent reason.
Thanks
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Great job!
The only problem is when no artist or album is defined, a message appears saying "response is not well-formed XML", and if you have a lot of songs like this, is a little bit annoying.
Thnxs!
J
Thankyou soo much! you are great!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Works great!!!
Keep it working!!!!
Fantastic!
Works like a treat
heard great things about this program, downloaded, and installed it -- when I try to run it, I get an application error: "The application failed to initialized properly (0x00000135). Click on OK to terminate the application". Tried rebooting -- any ideas?
Thanks,
This looks like a great app, but I am having trouble using it. How can you switch from Auto to Manual
This is an awesome, AWESOME program. Thanks!
Great app! Will future versions allow getting lyrics for Chinese songs? All of my Chinese and Japanese songs couldn't be updated. Thanks for what you've done for everyone.
please i really want to usethis app it seems really cool, but I already installed it and a pop up message appears:
iTunes Lyrics Importer
iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvinience.
....
Debug - Send Error Report - Don't Send
What should I do? Should I install something else? :S
Thanks and keep on the good work!
Thanks rot this application its made my iPod so much better. Is there any way of getting it to search more than one site for lyrics as not all of my music was updated.
Cheers Awesome app
Sam
Thank you!! Awesome little app. Runs quickly and does what it is advertised to do.
Cat
Great program that did what was expected very well. However, when I sync'd about 500 lyrics onto my iPod Touch 32GB, it used an extra 2.5GB of space. Is that something to do with iTunes or the way the lyrics are stored? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I ran the program, and it found no lyrics. I realized that I have formatted the artist name as Paisley, Brad rather than Brad Paisley, and it seems that it doesn't recognize the artist and can't find the lyrics.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for making this plug-in, it's a great enhancement for iTunes !
If you're planning an update, I have this suggestions:
- adding different sites (apart from lyricwiki) to retrieve lyrics
- implementing "multiple queries" to question lyricwiki (or whatever site) for lyrics to a song several times, when the song title e.g. contains brackets - often titles are marked as "Titlename (feat. Somebody)", which makes it that the lyrics can't be found. A second query leaving out the addition in brackets may result in a hit.
- if possible, a parsing of foreign characters in the lyrics would be great. I have a couple of German lyrics which display with the correct characters on lyricwiki but in iTunes/iPod the Umlauts are broken
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Nice program but...
Every time I try to update my libraries lyrics I will eventually get the error message "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." And the program halts until I click the ok button.
Wouldn't be such a big deal but having to hit ok every 10 songs or so when trying to add lyrics to about 8000 songs is rather time consuming. Any ideas on a fix?
Okay, I'm a dunce. Does this work on iTunes on the PC or only the iPod? I can run it, and it indicates it gets the lyrics, but I cannot figure out how to see them in my iTunes 7.5.
I try and run this app after installation and I get the ol', "CLR Error: 80004005"
Any suggestions for resolution? Does it have something to do with .Net?
Great plugin! It would be helpful if it did some sort of fuzzy matching when the song has a "featuring ..." artist. When the artist says something like "Lecrae Feat. Cam" and LyricsWiki only finds on Lecrae, it doesn't have a match. Appreciate your hard work here!
lyricwiki.org is broken right now. I've got over a hundred songs selected, so I've got to OK a dialog box with each one.
It would be nice if there was a "cancel" option that would give up.
Here's the error in the dialog box, and I am getting the lower part at lyricwiki.org:
Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message:
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Host 'pedlfaster.pedlr.com' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
--.
I have the same problem as Doctor Tarr.
Apparently, the entire LyricWiki site is down, so the importer can't get any lyrics from it.
Can this be fixed, somehow? I really want this thing to work.
This worked for about oh, 2 minutes, and now it just constantly crashes. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it immediately crashes :(
I LOVE this app.
No joke.
It's way better than most software that requires payment.
Thanks so much man.
Seem to work, except for the fact that the lyrics text is always empty and no error is displayed.
I guess the culprit is that I my browser has to go through a Microsoft ISA proxy; I believe Itunes also (by means of Bonjour) uses proxy.
Awesome, I love it! Definitely annoying when I get a string of "response is not well-formed XML" though. Any way to automate it so you don't have to keep clicking through those messages?
"response is not well-formed XML" all over ...
Perhaps LyricWiki suddenly changed the interface...
Really love iLyrics, but there is one huge issue. I cannot pull these lyrics using the GETid3 package.
What idv tag version are you saving the lyrics in iTunes? Any song touched by your program will not work with the GETid3 package.
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thx for the app. i'd be great if it could also find the artwork automatically for each song instead of only the lyric
Mine wont work...i download it, and then it just says
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.
what does that mean?
hi, it is a great app. for sure, u get props for this one!!! but i happened to notice that it crashes when it gets to voice recordings...thanks
the application failed to initialize propery click ok to terminate is the same error I am getting. I installed unistalled restarted and reinstalled and same thing happened agian. I am a PC user with XP unfortunatley
Man.. I'll to try write english here... 'cause I'm Brazilian... I've found a problem in this program....... it is VERY USUABLE!! VERY GOOD!!! but... when I find my Portugueses musics... they have characteres who come wrongs... these characteres: á à ã a ò ó õ é ç í ì ú ù...... they are came this: só... or ça....ã.. and more others.... i think this is a problem by de UNICODE, or think at the genre... so... i just telling you.... i'll be very good if you can fix this!... thanks... bye
great plugin. however it converts any "'" into an "ä ", at least in http://lyricwiki.org/Gnarls_Barkley:Whatever and itunes 7.6
Hi, I can't get this to run at all. Sounds great but it crashes when I open it. Is there a newer version?
Sometimes there's just something like [#redirect.....] in the lyrics?
Thanks for this sweet program, been using it for some time now, i really appreciate it. It helped me complete my library
An incredibly helpful application. Like others, I would like more abilities to manually search, but I do have one problem when lyrics are found. When I update a song with lyrics, it removes track information from the tags. For ex.: if a song tag has "track number:4 of 20", the program removes the "20". Not a big deal, but it would be nice if the program didn't remove other information from my song tags.
Thanks a lot for this application, its really helpfull.
Heylo. :)
Great application, I must say.
I have one slight problem. When I try to update the lyrics manually, the update button is greyed out. I input the lyric text but I can't update it because the update button won't work.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Thank you so much for this application! It's very helpful.
Awesome... Thanks so much for creating this. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks for this application, it's been very helpful for me.
But I'm have the same problem Gegissss mentioned before. iLyrics is not capable of transferring apostrophes or umlauts correctly. Hope you fix this bug some time.
It's a great application. However, if you have something like
The Wind Blows (feat. Homie)
Then the lyric finder won't find it. Because it has (feat. Homie) on it, which might variate from the finder. Maybe do a hit and miss. I mean, it should search for artists first, then the artists track titles. If it finds any variation of "The Wind Blows", maybe it'll auto update it, and if not, maybe a confirmation message pops up asking if you want to use the lyrics found.
Other than that, a great application! Thanks
Great application. I have identified a bug - it crashes when it meets a track in iTunes which doesn't have a source MP3 (or similar) file in the iTunes library. Could you do an update to skip these when they are found rather than crashing?
Very cool and Im glad I finally found it. One thing, the program crashes after a min or two.
Win XP/SP3
iTunes 7.7.1.11
Error report:
EventType : clr20r3 P1 : ituneslyrics.exe P2 : 1.1.0.0 P3 : 45e92788
P4 : ituneslyrics P5 : 1.1.0.0 P6 : 45e92788 P7 : ca P8 : 73
P9 : pszqoadhx1u5zahbhohghldgiy4qixhx
Update to my above post. It looks like the crashing problem was a result of iTunes not finding a song in the library. Once I located and fix the link the crashing disappeared.
Just found this app. It is working away at my library right now. One request I would add (without reading through the rest of the blog) is to allow the app to skip the "not able to modify" message so that you do not have to attend to the program. It will not continue until you click on.
I am getting
"program failed to initialize properly (Oxc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application."
Does anyone know the problem and solution? Thanks in advance!
Windows XP.
This thing worked awesome at first, but now I get "response is not well-formed XML" for about half of my songs. Did anyone ever figure out a way around this?
somehow i dont see any ilyrics or something mentioned anywhere in itunes?
i have the newest itunes installed, but nowhere can i say get lyrics or update or whatever?!
thanks
Like others here I am also getting the message "program failed to initialize properly (Oxc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application" when I try to start the installation. How do I fix this?
Also, I used to use a program called "EvilLyrics" but it stopped working with the latest iTunes (ver.8), does this program work with iTunes 8?
An Error keeps popping up saying "a response is not well-formed XML" what does this mean?
This makes iTunes+Ipod soo much better, not sure why apple has not caught on to this, or why they don't have anything to Auto-Tag ID3 Tags, or have anything to embed artwork, or to autofill in the disk, track number- ext ext ext. maybe you should make something better than iTunes, maybe sell music in higher quality without a crappy DRM, i don't understand apple sometimes, genius, but lacking in little things
Thank you.
Does it work in iTunes 8?
I tried using it, but I get a "iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem"
Do I need to downgrade to iTunes 7.7 or something?
worked for me with itunes 8
I've previously successfully updated all song lyrics, but after updating to iTunes 8.0 I've gone the error
"iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close."
I've tried uninstall/install again received the same error message.
By the way I love your software and am very grateful that you made it available for windows users.
Thank you.
Removed the old version 1.1 and installed version 1.1.1.2 but after installation still got the following error.
"iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close."
I like the new installation package, but by default it tries to create an Application folder in My Documents.
"C:\Documents and Settings\socbutter\My Documents\Applications\iLyrics"
Love this app but no iTunes 8 support? Updated .net framework and still no joy... PLEASE RESCUE this app!
Hey, this application is just amazing!!! thanks a lot for your work man...
unfortunatelly, as stated before, accents aphostrophes and umlauts are incorrectly updated... any workaround so far? or, are you eventually going to fix it?
Thank you so much. I've looked all over the web for something to automactically import lyrics into iTunes. The only ones ive been able to find were for Mac OSX, thank you for making this for windows. I found it by searching google and i found the google code page for it.
It worked until I upgraded to iTunes 8! I even reinstalled the program. Now I get the "iTunes Lyrics Importer has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. Any idea what's up? Thanks for the program!
Seems to be (itunes8) updating every song, even if there is no lyrics for it.
Would be prefer it just said "no lyrics found and moved on.
Great for finding spelling mistakes - any chance of being to download the list displayed on the screen.
22000 songs is a lot to get through.
Loaded today on Vista 64, iTunes 8. Works just fine. Thank you!
Great program! The only thing I have a problem with is the fact that it seems you can't edit lyrics once they've been added to a song. :(
I tried removing the songs from my iTunes, uninstalling the program, reinstalling the program, putting the songs back in iTunes, etc. I cannot get to the point where I can change the lyrics for these songs, which is sad because there are some pretty big errors in them.
Any help with that?
Awesome! works like a charm!
Just a suggestion: Please, do not fill de lyrics with "not found" when it's... not found :P
Thanks, and good job!
Hello there, i downloaded itunes lyric inmporter and when i tryed using the application it comes up with "itunes lyric importer has stopped working, Windows is searching for a soultion to the problem..." I have the newest version of itunes, and vista on my computer, help?
i'd rather not go throug 3,000 songs and import the lyrics.
Hello Senthil, I have been using iTunes Lyrics Importer and it is a fantastic application (Congratulations!!!).
I just would like to point a small problem that you could address in a future update. Let's illustrate with an example: The Metallica song named "The Unforgiven III" did not show results when searched via iTunes Lyrics Importer, although there is a page at LyricWiki.org for it. Turns out that the page is named "The_Unforgiven_III". If it was named "The_Unforgiven_Iii" the update through the application works - I created a new page with this name to be sure. Is there anything you can do to solve this problem? Thank you for your time.
Best Regards. Véber Bravo.
your application is great...
i think it will be usefull if selecting autosetting your software update lyrics at song change. i need to press getLyrics everytime
ty so much
i add my spec:
- vista x64
- itunes 8
i solved fast selecting multiple items.... all my lybrari.. great!
ty so much!
Fantastic Program, it was just what I was looking for. There is one problem that I have, I know the cause but it is rather irritating. The program crashes if any songs are missing in your library. If you could make it skip missing songs then that would be good.
Another (minor) change I would like to see implemented is to not put "Not Found" in the lyric box if it cannot find it, perhaps have a list of failed songs upon completion.
Thanks for the great program!
Hi!
Grat tool, with just one bad problem. I'm from Aurtia and have also lot's of German language songs on. iLyrics can not handle "ä, ö, ü, ß,',.... ".
To fix this problem would be very very nice!
BR, Andreas
Thank you so much...
Great utility!
GOOD JOB.
wow, the nice little tool I was always waiting for!
Thank You!
I love the simplicity of this program.
I'm not sure if lyricwiki makes this possible - but you might be able to correct or add information to songs like track number, album, album art, etc, as well as adding lyrics. you'd be killing 2 birds with one stone!
nice work :D
Love the program, just have one small problem.
Half of the ' apostrophies, get changed to "’" in the lyrics.
I have some international fonts installed, so I don't know if that changes things. But almost every song, I have to do 3 minutes of editing to change these ’ to '...
Anyway, I am using Vista 64 bit with all latest service packs, and the latest itunes.
Hi,
There is a problem when lyrics are not found in the database.
The iLyrics would input "Not Found" into the Lyrics in iTunes instead of leaving it alone. This didn't happen in the past, i think it's a database issue.
Please fix it by not filling in anything if "Not Found" is returned as a result from the database.
please fix the german ä,ö,ü and ß
thank you so much!
[... Alguien podria decirme como puedo ver las letras de las canciones que tengo en itunes? ..]
http://foro.applesana.es/58/16563/como-ver-letras-de-canciones-itunes.html
It would be nice if the auto update window showed if the lyrics could not be found under the results heading so we know to check to make sure the song name/artist is spelled correctly.
Also, if you try to view the lyrics of a song while other songs are being updated, you get an error message and the program crashes.
Great App! i use it alot
Chris
This app dosen't work with itunes 8, I installed it and I get an application error and my only option is tho quit the app. Any chance for a fix?
Thank you! Works great with iTunes 8.0.2
I get this error occasionally:
The underlying connection was closed. A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.
But it's okay, it just continues. Keep up the good work.
jonatj
A lot of times, it doesn't work because of the song title's like: Cruise Control (feat. Damian Marley)
If there's a "featuring" part in a song title, the lyrics are always "Not Found".
Make newer version, perhaps?
Just came across this. Great app.
Problem I observed - if theres an apostrophe in a word like in "don't" or "can't" or "I'm",
the apostrophe gets translated into some wierd "A"-looking character.
This is what it ends up looking like:
"ItÂ’s a downward spiral" instead of "It's a downward spiral".
any thoughts?
Very cool, nice and easy to use without overhead.
If you have missing files in iTunes, it'll crash the importer.
I might also suggest using threadding to make it faster. Essentially divide the selected songs into X groups, and running the importer simultaneously on each group.
It works pretty well already.
Last post by the deleveoper is 1,5 years old, is this thing still being maintained?
Great Program! I have noticed that if I select a lot of songs (I don't know the exact # but I started will all my A artists and it didn't like it so I had to use smaller chunks) it gives an error. Also if the title of the song has something added to it such as "(Live)" or "Extended", it won;t recognize it.
Keep up the good work!
P.S. I'd love to see the same functionality for Guitar Tab!
Fantastic program! Simple and accurate.
Hi! Thanks a lot!
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