Offline Lyrics Plugin

[Miles Seventh]

Very few people know that there is special field inside of ID3v2 tag (which is a part of most MP3 files) capable of storing song lyrics, synchronized or not.
I, being (obviously) one of those people, had written a little utility that loads song lyrics from lyrics.wikia.com and then embed fetched lyrics inside file's tag, so I can watch these lyrics on my Android device using third party player.
Now I want to do so on my PC, but I can't even check embedded lyrics in file info. I want to see some kind of window in Winamp that shows selected/playing song lyrics from file's tag, if present. I don't need no online lyrics fetching.

Is there any plugin available, or I better make it myself?

[Sensei Le Roof]

I use MiniLyrics myself.

[PeterK.]

Originally Posted by Miles Seventh

...Is there any plugin available, or I better make it myself?

In my skin Quinto Black CT there is an option called "Lyrics (Offline)", which basically is an additional window showing saved text lines. It is not a plug-in. You have to create text files in the song's folder, grab the lyrics from an internet page and paste them into those text files. I know, it is not the way user would use it, but for some of us the only way to have song lyrics while being offline.

If you could create an "Offline Lyrics plug-in", which would grab song lyrics from the internet, save them as a text file (you cannot save them in a song's tag) this would be a nice stuff to have.

[Miles Seventh]

Originally Posted by PeterK.

(you cannot save them in a song's tag)

Why so?

[PeterK.]

Originally Posted by Miles Seventh

Why so?

More info here.

[Miles Seventh]

Originally Posted by PeterK.

More info here.

Still not sure if it's not possible at all. I'll check it and message you if there will be news

[Miles Seventh]

Oh, and writing data into tag is simple, my app already does it, the main problem is reading it

[PeterK.]

Originally Posted by Miles Seventh

... and writing data into tag is simple, my app already does it...

Are we getting a working Offline Lyrics plug-in?

[Miles Seventh]

Originally Posted by PeterK.

Are we getting a working Offline Lyrics plug-in?

It can be easily modified to save fetched texts wherever it is needed, but I don't see any reason to implement this as plugin rather than standalone app. But at first I would try to let the skin read file's tag lyrics. I'm not quite familiar with API, though