Hi! Unfortunately, the plugin can’t do anything like that currently. But you might be able to fake it with shell commands:
$ beet lyrics -p /path/to/file.mp3 > /path/to/lyrics.txt The `-p` flag prints the lyrics for the file to stdout. > On Sep 18, 2016, at 2:45 AM, Lorenzo Maffeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > I was wondering if it was possible to get the lyricsfind plugin to save the > lyrics externally. > Some players or media services, while supporting lyrics, do not support > embedded lyrics in ID3 tags (e.g. Plex). > Ideally, the lyricsfind plugin should give the user a choice of whether embed > the lyrics in an ID3 tag itself, or to save them as an external .txt file. > When choosing the second option, the lyrics should be saved in the same > folder and with the same name of the song file, just a different extension, > e.g.: > /Music/Rock/Black Sabbath/Paranoid/1 - War Pigs.flac <<<<<< Music file > /Music/Rock/Black Sabbath/Paranoid/1 - War Pigs.txt <<<<<< Lyrics file > > My coding knowledge is much limited, especially when it comes to Python so > I'll start working on a change in the plugin locally and eventually I might > put it on Git but I wouldn't want to mess up your work. > I really like beets (even if I just discovered it really), because of its > simplicity, speed, and text interface. Please keep up the good job! > > Best regards > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
