

#Jaikoz not finding tags windows#
Maybe someone who understands how these things work can explain what potential there might be for it to be more tightly integrated with MC (e.g., to be able to use panes as well as detached windows in Standard View).My music collection is in excess of 30,000 tracks. If the tagging problem could be resolved, I think MiniLyrics would be a reasonable (and cheap) solution for MC users with a casual interest in lyrics. I don't see an easy way to save/switch configurations. The problem is the same window is not going to work for both Theater View and Standard View. Hot keys programmed to a remote could be used to for hide the window when using other views. It can be configured to overlay a music and/or playing now view so it's not covering other critical information. The nature of the MiniLyrics window, however, allows it to be used with Theater View-sort of. My workaround is to open a split pane, and place the MiniLyrics window over the second pane. It would be so much more convenient if it could be opened in a split pane.

This means one has to make screen space for it where it won't interfere with MC, set it to be "on top" and then turn this off or minimize it when using something other than MC. Unfortunately, this seems rather pointless, as they are still pretty much independent of MC. MiniLyrics opens its display, editor and other dialogs in what appear to be MC child windows. The same thing can be done using an open lyrics editor window, but unsynchronized lyrics have to be loaded first (unless that's all it can find, it defaults to synchronized).

#Jaikoz not finding tags download#
This time, I decided to take a closer look.Īs others have noted, MiniLyrics will find, download and tag MP3 files (I don't know about other types) with unsynchronized lyrics, but they are not displayed in MC's lyrics field. While it seems to come very close to satisfying my requirements, each time I try it I conclude it just doesn't "play friendly" with MC. I suppose it's one of few cheap alternatives. MiniLyrics keeps coming up as a potential solution. MC does not have the ability to do this, so another program or plugin is required to do so. The second is to display synchronized lyrics. These are useful for searching or displaying just for information purposes-whether or not the track is playing. One is to populate (hopefully automatically) the Lyrics tag with unsynchronized lyrics. While one solution would be nice, it seems important to recognize these are two separate requirements. For some time I've been looking for a way to efficiently find and download lyrics, as well as to display synchronized lyrics.
