Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

So this is purpose of multiple timings tags :), I thought that there can be two tags and that they mean "from-to", so I now it only remove "to" tag. Whole lyrics helped me understand what's going on. - Sep 01 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

is it better in new version? - Aug 31 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Exaile started doing troubles on my GNOME system, so I tryed it on KDE and I cannot find MPRIS plugin (and any other) there, really nice. But I was able to finish support. With MPRIS it is a bit better cause Play/Pause are detected immediately, but what to do when plugins love hidding:) - Aug 31 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

hmmm, so unknown error, I don't know how to fix such thing :D, but it helped a little. Try version 0.5.4 and send me output again, it (very very) probably will not work, but should give better info about problem. - Aug 31 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Run it from terminal and send me output. And because you use Ubuntu, try install python-numpy too, if haven't yet. - Aug 31 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

Ops, I was wrong. It is possible to add support to 0.3 version, now I found what I was looking for. But anyway, MPRIS is a good thing, adding support if player implement MPRIS API is easy now, and in later screenlet releases it probably will be automatic (now it need about 4 lines of code per player :D). - Aug 31 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Isn't it installed by default? I downloaded exaile from their web page (http://www.launchpad.net/exaile/0.3.0/0.3.0/+download/exaile-0.3.0.tar.gz) and MPRIS plugin was already included.
I am not sure, but without this plugin I probably can't add support, cause I don't know detect in 0.3 version if player is playing or paused. - Aug 31 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I check it and it doesn't work now, developers made dramatic changes, unfortunately, most in renaming, not in quality :(
In the next screenlet version it can be supported - Aug 29 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

But sometimes it works :D

I noticed that when more lyrics are found, some of them haven't text, or it is not shown, maybe for unexpected encoding. If only such lyrics are found, you see nothing but screenlet doesn't think so.

I often rewriting something and not always everything what was working in older version, works in new, so thanks for reporting. For example, in 0.5.2 control panel looks better, but in some cases doesn't render properly, and in 0.4 it was good :(

But nobody comment color adaptation mode yet, did you try it? - Aug 28 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

0) thanx

1) it is long time what I let chinese language unfilered, minilirics support wasn't even implemented then. But I know that from their database can come really anything (unsynch lyrics, other lyrics or in different file formats as you wrote).
I can look at this again and maybe some minilyrics filtering will be added.

2) do not edit it manually :D, rather I change lyrics processing, but now I don't know what is (or if there is) exact lrc format.

just don't know when :( - Aug 20 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

I think answer is just above your comment. In past there was more reports of this problem and installing of python-numpy solved this. I thinked I removed this dependecy in new 0.5 version, but now it seems that not successfully :( - Aug 16 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I wrote a script whitch try several alternative approaches to download some lyrics and give some additional info. You can run it from terminal: python proxy_test.py > output. It can run for several seconds so be patient, and the result will be output file. If you send me this file to my email: dancakm@gmail.com, maybe then I will be able to find solution.

Here is the script:
http://lyrics-screenlet.googlecode.com/files/proxy_test.py - Aug 09 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I think that you have running Music Player Daemon and no other supported player when screenlet starts. In such case it connect to it (doesn't matter if its stopped and dont play any song) and it doesn't react to any other player.

I will try to add possibility to select any of the running player - Aug 08 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Do you use authentication to your proxy server? - Aug 08 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

yeah, with amarok 2 it should work. I will look on proxy much closer, but without internet in the next 2-3 days it will be a little difficult :D - Aug 04 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

yeah, with amarok2 it should work. I will look at proxy much closer, but without internet for the next 2-3 days, it will be a little difficult :D - Aug 04 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I tried to setup http proxy and test it. It worked, but I am not sure if I setup it well.

It's a little harder to detect whats wrong, as now the same icon is shown when screenlet isn't connected to any player and when it doesn't found lyrics. In the next release I add new icon, but now you should read output from terminal for more info, even if you are new to linux :-) There may be more problems then just proxy, e.g. player, d-bus comunication problem, music file format, missing library... Or one more test you can do, find some lyrics with .lrc extension and save it to the folder with music file. Name of lyrics and music file must be same, just different extension (.lrc and .mp3 or other). Screenlet search on disk first, then on net. - Aug 02 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

Hi,

you can install new screenlets throught Screenlet Manager, it's second option in menu. Or you can unpack and put screenlet's folder to your $HOME/.screenlets/ directory

hope this helps - Jul 20 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

I know my icons artwork doesn't look very eye candy :P, hope this will change one day. You can easily create totaly transparent svg image in Inkscape and replace icons in themes folder. And maybe png icon will work too, but it's without guarantee

Graphics suggestions (as well as others) are always welcomen, just needs more details. - Jul 15 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

xmms shouldn't be problem, but songbird allways crashes after I installed plugin for mpris API - Jul 15 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

When screenlet haven't what to showing, I think it is waste of space on the desktop. Of course you can change whatever you want, but now only in source code :D. However, I can make this as option in the settings. - Jul 15 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

this can happens when lyrics are downloaded from net, so if you allow saving lyrics on disk, it could be better for the next time. Now it is the only thing you can do, but I work on some improvements in searching/downloading. And lyrics timing control is planned too. - Jul 01 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Then check if you haven't older version of screenlets package (actual is 0.1.2)

You should have "plugins" folder in /usr/lib/python<?>/site-packages/screenlets/ (complete by your python version). And if you have, send me output of ls command in this plugins folder. - Jun 30 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

I omitted Listen player cause it was impossible to do (without extending by plugin) in version 0.5 whitch I have installed. After first look at source code of 0.6 and later it look promissing - Jun 30 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

try to delete first line ("from screenlets import Plugins") from file ./players/RhythmboxPlayer.py - Jun 30 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

try to delete first line ("from screenlets import Plugins") from file ./players/RhythmboxPlayer.py - Jun 30 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

now there is actualy no reason to support only mp3 format. This dependency was made in first releases, when only searching on alsong site by query based on checksum of the first mp3 frame was implemented. Unfortunately at that time I made more bad decisions :D, so dependency is even bigger, and e.g. saving lyrics on disk depends on this too. And yeah, I never programmed in python before, so some mistakes/strange code fragments may be still present:)

There are many things to improve on searching as well as on entire screenlet, and I plan to do it. - May 26 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

That's strange cause I didn't made any changes to finding/downloading lyrics since 0.2 or 0.21 version. If you installed new version on new system, check if mutagen library is installed, but even it isn't, some lyrics should be found from alsong site.

Anyway, I must improve logging for better troubleshooting, or just do less mistakes in programming :D - May 25 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I still forget something to test before new version release. I noticed and fixed this already but I think it's not enought to new version.

I'm not yet decided how to hide "Lyrics not found". Make it transparent is easy to do, but screenlet will take much more place on desktop then really need (to do nothing). Minimalizing it like when no player is running need more work as it seems and now it's not errorless, so the more it will be used, the more troubles may occure. - May 25 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

If I fix some issues with scaling text during animation and some others, I'll release new version with audacious, quodlibet, amarok, and mpd support. It will be soon - May 10 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

If you didn't changed icons resolution then I don't know whats wrog. As always, for more info you must run it from terminal: python $HOME/.screenlets/Lyrics/LyricsScreenlet.py

Control buttons in this form is rather temporary solution and was writen this way:-) They may be completely rewriten in later releases. - May 10 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Doesn't work at all? It needs window manager such as compiz or metacity. In other case you must rut it from terminal to get more info (missing library, ...)

Or, was the question meant about control buttons? - May 02 2009
Net Monitor

Conky by drxnele 78 comments

It's problem of screenlets core, Netmonitor and some others screenlets just need save configuration much more often, so this happens much more often too. You can find solution on https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/345359 where you can choose from two patchs :)

If I am not wrong, with permissions set to 555 screenlet can't rewrite your settings to default, but it can't update total downlod/upload values. - Apr 08 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Better searching is also thanks to you, for lrcshow script project link, which was very inspiratory :D

Second way to make one-line showing is setting font color of normal text to invisible. My first version (private, never released) was showing only one line, I didn't like it much :P - Mar 15 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

finally I make mpd working on my machine and it look promising with adding support. Only it will take some time, cause now I haven't much of free time. - Mar 13 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Did you installed plugin as I wrote in README file, taht is to copy LyricsScreenletInformator.py to $HOME/.quodlibet/plugins/events/ ? I get such Exception only when plugin isn't installed. Also you must first enable plugin in Quodlibet plugins settings. Thats what I forgot to write :P - Mar 11 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I finished support for Quodlibet player with plugin, try download it from http://lyrics-screenlet.googlecode.com/files/Lyrics_with_quodlibet_plugin.tar.gz

If this version will worked for you and I make more changes to current version, then I upload it here. - Mar 10 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

sooo quodlibet...
there is a one problem, I can't get filename of playing song throught dbus. And there are possible solutions:
1. nicely ask developers to change it
2. make plugin to give screenlet what it want
3. let it be and reduce functions with quodlibet player
4. combination 1. and 2.
5. ?? I don't know what, but something may exist

I today played with plugin alternative and it's allmost done. I can do this, but then I need a little pause of this project and do on school project, so other requirements and bugs must wait :) - Mar 09 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Can you send me on my e-mail: dancakm@gmail.com some mp3 with such lyrics in metatags ? I didn't find any. - Mar 08 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Today i try some window managers and under metacity it was working only with a little problem with hiding control buttons. You could try it.

If I will have some time I can do such version without transparency. Thanks for detection this problem. - Mar 08 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Ohh what a black day :D

Your output from terminal look good, versions of programs too. Installation throught Screenlet Manager I try for the first time just after your comment, and it go as you write, but it install successful and it worked for me.

Have you problem only with 0.21 version, or it's the first you try ?
Has there anybody better experience on Ubuntu ? Please, no one ?

If it don't show even background and other screenlets work without problem, I have no idea cause it not use any speci library. But I try to find where's the problem - Mar 07 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

I updated to 0.21 version, so try it now. There was a bug and it didn't have to work by some conditions, as Mauricio wrote at the comment before.
To .lrc support, the screenlet actualy search for .lrc file with the same name as mp3 in it's directory. Thanks to piratis.
To drag&drop function, this is now more for testing, cause I think it's better to have possibility to easy make lyrics then waiting, when somebody else make them and upload on some server. Now it very simple and you can only save lyrics for you, but want add upload ability. So you must find such unsynchronized lyrics on web and drag text to screenlet.
Let me know if this helps :D - Mar 07 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Start it from terminal (python LyricsScreenlet.py from installation directory) and send me result. Also you can attach info about versions of Exaile and Screenlet core package, or any new facts. It may be too long, so you can send it to my e-mail: dancakm@gmail.com - Mar 06 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

It would be interesting source, but unfortunately their software isn't free. I can install shareware version and do some packet sniffing, but first i try other possibilities. - Feb 20 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

That's nice desktop!

Such theme without background can be added, i just delete background image and it's finished :P But for really nice theme, the screenlet is still waiting for. - Feb 10 2009
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Conky by dencer 339 comments

This interfere me too, the problem is that servers with synchronized lyrics isn't so many as this with unsynchronized. But i try make some little improvement in next version.
And to the support of more themes, i could at best change the color of background :) - Feb 10 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Thanks! Lyrics are downloaded from database, which use ALSong player (windows only). Use of web browser for searching and downloading isn't probably possible. But Adding new lyrics, sechrching and downloading is possible by sending appropriate request in xml format on their server, in the same way as this player. - Feb 05 2009
Lyrics screenlet

Conky by dencer 339 comments

Now i am trying to add support for the other players, i have already fixed this. So it's looking for running players and connect only when it find some. In the next released version it will be ok.
And maybe in the case, where screenlet is running and player not (auto start-up option), it would be better to change appearance, e.g. smaller, less visible,... But this i let for some higher versions. - Feb 05 2009