

is light on soul and blues songs, which is unfortunate, because my library is heavy on them.Scanning through the list, I’ve noticed several things: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Flood Down In Texas

Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly: Reconsider Me Steve Cropper, Albert King, Pop Staples: Water Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers: Maggie's Farm

Stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo: Can't Leave Her Behind The output has lines that look like this: Spencer Davis Group: Stevie's Blues I’ve also sorted the list by artist (Line 12), because I thought it would be easier to scan the list that way. You’ll note in Line 9 that I’ve tried to prevent jazz and classical tracks from cluttering the output. I call the script lyricless.py, and I’ve saved its output into a file that I can scan for songs that need lyrics. How did I know which songs were still missing lyrics after running GetLyrical? With the following script, written in Python and using the appscript.py library. After I changed that to “Buddy Holly,” GetLyrical added lyrics to all those songs. Not believing that wouldn’t have “Peggy Sue,” for example, I looked at my library and found that several Holly songs were saved with “The Crickets” in the Artist field. I’ll have to look at other sites to find lyrics in the second category, GetLyrical could work for tracks in the third category if I’m willing to change some of the metadata in my library.Īs an example of the third category, I had some Buddy Holly songs that GetLyrical didn’t add lyrics to. Obviously, there’s nothing to be done about the first category. Tracks that has, but which are stored under a title or artist than differs from what’s in my iTunes library.Tracks that doesn’t have in its repository.Most of my jazz and classical tracks fall into this category, as do lectures from iTunes U. The 40% that didn’t get lyrics added fell into three categories: When I returned the next day, GetLyrical was done, having added lyrics to about 60% of the tracks. GetLyrical uses, a community-edited repository, as its source for lyrics.
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I downloaded GetLyrical and set it up to scan my Music library and install lyrics on all the tracks it could. Shortly after writing this script for showing radio show song lists in a popup window, I thought it would be nice if the songs in my iTunes library included lyrics along with the title, artist, and album information. Next post Previous post Lyrical scripting
