LyricsFetcher is a free utility that can search and store the lyrics of our songs automatically. What it does, is examine the music libraries from iTunes or Windows Media Player, retrieving all the available information from the songs stored there. After this analysis, the program will search for lyrics on the Web and will write them in the music library selected, saving the lyrics in its own database. Using this program we can have our music files with complete information, avoiding the inconvenience of searching for lyrics on the web and adding them manually.
After the program examines the selected library, it will show all the discovered songs in its main window; then, using different criteria, the program will fetch the lyrics for the selected items. Surprisingly, the fetching process takes no more than a couple of seconds per song to complete, and the results are accurate. For the program to provide for precise results, it is important to check that our files have the correct names and details. As a bonus, the program provides its own music player and also a search button that takes us directly to Google to look for lyrics which for any reason it failed to find. In spite of its simplicity, the program does its job. However, the fact that it only works with iTunes and Windows Media Player loses it some points.
v0.7 [May 4, 2010]
- Second attempt at avoiding black diamonds. It is still not perfect -- but it is better than before.
- Ctrl-A now works in all text fields.
- New settings properties. These don't have a user interface yet -- you can only change them by editing the LyricsFetcher.exe.config file in the application directory. Please take a copy of the original before changing it.
- AppendSuccessFailureTag - Change this value to "False" to prevent LyricsFetcher from writing a success or failure tag onto the lyrics. Without this, LyricsFetcher will not be able to tell that it has already failed to find lyrics for a song.
- MissingLyricsPrefixes - If the lyrics for a song begin with one of these prefixes, LyricsFetcher will treat the lyrics as not found. Useful if some provider starts returning strange results which are actually errors.
- IgnoredGenres - If the genre of the track is in this list, LyricsFetcher will not try to find lyrics for that track.
