Re: [Gtkpod-questions] putting lyrics onto the ipod?

[Cindy <ti...@gm...>]

On 9/20/06, Todd Zullinger <tm...@po...> wrote:
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> > And if so, what s/w did you use to get the lyrics
>
> I've used eyeD3 (a command line and python based tagger) to add the
> lyrics (USLT) tags.  I just google the lyrics and add them.  I've
> automated it a little with a little python scripting, but much of it
> still involves manual labor to find correct lyrics.


Hmmm.  I have nothing against command line stuff (have done my fair share of
scripting and such), but at this point I'd prefer something gui based
inasmuch as everything else I'm using is...

 Even if I could
> automate the fetching of lyrics using something like amarok, I'd have
> to do a lot of work to go back and correct them.  It seems most of the
> large lyrics sites just copy and paste from each other, wild mistakes
> and all. :)



No kidding.  In all honesty, I would be *perfectly* happy with some kind of
addition to gtkpod (or Amarok, or whatever) that just gave me an empty text
field for the USLT tag and let me edit it myself.  No fetching, no fancy
pants.  Besides, lyrics sites seem to get shut down/modified, etc even aside
from wild mistakes. (!)

> and how did you stuff them into the ipod?
>
> I just added or updated them with gtkpod.


OK, good that's what I wanted to confirm.

A few issues that may come up:
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>     I had trouble getting my ipod (5g video) to read many mp3's that
>     were tagged using id3v2.4, so I've gone back to id3v2.3.  AFAIK,
>     amarok uses TagLib which only writes id3v2.4 tags.


OK.  I hope 2.4 is okay here, because I do want the unicode-8 option.
Besides matters of principle, I have foreign language songs and I don't want
extended latin charsets cluttering things up.

    There are times that gtkpod doesn't copy the updated track over to
>     the ipod when you select update.  It will recognize the lyrics
>     were added and update the iTunesDB to reflect this, but without
>     the updated mp3 on the ipod, the lyrics won't display.  I've only
>     worked on an ugly hack to fix this for me, but I should bring it
>     up to Jorg because I'm sure it'd be a 2 minute fix.



Wouldn't the md5sum option reduce this problem?  With a modified id3 tag on
the file, it should sum out differently?

Cheers,
--Cindy