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If you self host music and want synced lyrics (github.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I self host all my music via Plex and for some artists and albums Plex (via Plex pass I believe) pulls lyrics and can show you like Spotify etc but some artists are not supported/popular. I found a couple apps that 'worked' to download lyrics but the best one was this https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget

Just thought I would share for others who would want to do the same I have a large library and adding lyrics was not hard at all and found most out of the gate. If you have other solutions I would love to hear about them maybe they are better lol

It adds the file as same name in same folder that song is located

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

just found out there is an "Experimental" setting for it to "Try to embed the lyrics to the track files when possible" setting have not tried it myself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I tried it but in my case it set all the MP3s to 0 bytes. Luckily, I was able to get them back through snapraid. But then I noticed something in snapraid where I needed to run a sync.

What I didn't see is that it set all the FLAC files to 42 bytes, so they didn't get restored when I checked for 0 bytes filea, which means that it synchronised all those 42 byte files.

So I just lost all my FLAC files. I can't be mad at the dev, it's an experimental feature. This is just a word of warning for others to do a proper backup before you try it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LRCGET author here, I'm really sorry to hear about this issue. Could you let me know which platform you're using (Windows, Linux, or macoS)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm running Arch Linux, using the 0.5.0 AppImage.

I have my music collection on a NAS running Debian which I use NFS to mount it to /mnt/NAS. I then have a symlink to that in ~/Music/NAS. That symlink is what I added as the scanning library for LRCGET.

From what I can tell, the files that were corrupted were the ones that found synced lyrics. If it matched plain lyrics, the file was okay, but I don't think it embedded the plain lyrics either.

I'll setup a couple test folders, trying to test all the combinations of FLAC and MP3 files, synced and plain lyrics, and through the NAS symlink and on the local machine.

I do want to add that LRCGET has been great. It was dead simple to setup and use, and with the exception of the experimental feature, has worked exactly as intended. I personally just like to have everything in one file which is why I tried out the embedding feature.

The FLAC files that I care about, I was able to partially restore them from high-quality MP3s that I had converted from the FLACs. And I have a bunch of other FLAC copies from a folder I had yet to clean out (hooray procrastination), I also still need to check an old drive that should have a copy of my whole collection from a couple years ago, I'm sure that will have some more, too. Nothing was lost that can't be recreated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Weird. I just made two folders, one remote and one local, with one of each FLAC and MP3, with Synced and Plain lyrics. All of them successfully have embedded lyrics. I'm curious if it would have anything to do with the scanned folder size. It worked with a folder with only 4 tracks in it, but not in first case with 9000 tracks in sub directories.

The only odd thing is that the mp3 with synced lyrics downloaded the .LRC file but the embedded lyrics are plain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, I still suspect the symlinked NAS drive might be the culprit here, as it was the setup I didn’t test with. Directory size should not be related to this.

For MP3 files, synced lyrics are embedded in the SYLT tag. Unfortunately, not many music players support this across platforms. For example, MusicBee supports reading SYLT, but tools like MP3Tag and PuddleTag do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

For MP3 files, synced lyrics are embedded in the SYLT tag. Unfortunately, not many music players support this across platforms.

That could be the case. I used ffprobe to see the tags and figured it would just display the tags it sees. I'll look more into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Damn... I am so sorry I know how much it sucks to loose a music collection it's happened to me before. Hope you can rebuild your collection.