New LMS user here, loving it (even though miniserver is a very nice upnp
server). The material skin is great, I have one question and hope this
is the forum for it. The "Info button" (to the right of the volume
control) that shows current track info doesn't show lyrics, even though
when I use
lyrics-finder.com looks like a great tool to embed lyrics into local
music files.
However, for music played from online sources like spotty/qobuz, M
plugin still needs to go out and get the lyrics each time. I've got an
email into AZLyrics to see if they have an API interface
I have tested the embedded lyrics options for local music with material
skin Info button, and it works great (to test, I disconnected the LMS
system from the internet, and confirmed that the Info button on material
skin still returned Lyrics, even though the M plug couldn't get artist
and album
First, Michael, thanks so much for your quick updates (and all your work
in general)!
I just updated M Info plugin to v1.3.1 (not 1.3.0)? I tested some
spotify and qobuz streams, there were a couple of songs I tested (for
example, Norah Jones Stuck from the album The Fall) that did not
Thanks, when playing online songs from spotify and qobuz, I am now
seeing all the lyrics! Between the M Info plugin and Material Skin,
I'd say that LMS has one of the very best interfaces for listening to
and learning about artists and songs.
Michael, the AZlyrics website certainly does not
This may be a dumb question - I understand that the online lyrics
providers used by the plugin aren't always responsive and may not have
lyrics available. But what about lyrics that are embedded in the
metadata for a song file or in a sidecar file (that are added by a
tagging program, for
But where would that data be stored? Is there any standard defining what
tag would be used to store the lyrics?
I will research this more and get back to you. I know that Musicbee
allows you to store the lyrics either directly in the ID3v2.3 tag, or in
an external text file. Also, here is
Right now I toggle back to default skin to get to extras menu (to setup
dynamic and SQL playlists) - is there a way to access this in material
skin?
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