Quoting erland ([email protected]): > > Just for information to anyone using my Song Lyrics plugin, the Song > Lyrics plugin is likely going to stop working good very soon. > > The reason is that musixmatch have informed me that they can no longer > support free API access, their minimum fee for a commercial agreement is > currently $20 000/year which is unrealistic for me to take out of my own > pockets and it's also totally unrealistic to get anywhere close to this > amount if I would try to start charging people for the Song Lyrics > plugin and give everything to musixmatch. I suspect we shouldn't blame > musixmatch for this, it's probably the music industry that requires them > to charge people who want to view lyrics, I think it's great that > musixmatch could offer lyrics for free for non commercial usage as long > as they did. > > So if you want to continue enjoying lyrics on your Squeezebox you now > have to put the lyrics in the LYRICS tag of your music files, the > advantage of that is that it's going to continue to work in the future > since you aren't dependent on an online service or plugin. > > I'm really sorry for the inconvenience this is causing all lyrics > lovers, but unfortunately there isn't anything I can do about it. > > If anyone knows another lyrics source that offers an API let me know and > I'll look into the possibilities to integrate that instead of > musixmatch. If it doesn't provide an API it's not an option because it > will require too much work and too high risk to maintain something that > parses websites to get lyrics data. Song Lyrics already supports lyrics > from chartlyrics.com but previously their data hasn't been as good as > musixmatch.com and they also have some legal issues which probably > results in that it's just a matter of time until that stops working too.
Thanks Erland for everything you do. _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
