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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
January 21 2009 22:20 GMT
#1
I have this issue that when I'm studying I start thinking about Team Liquid and I want to share an idea with all of you. At that point I can't concentrate on what I'm doing so I figured I could get this out of the way real quick.

As a fledgling computer programmer I think that it is only right that I have a pet project. I personally am a big stickler about my digital music library when it comes to thing like track names, artwork etc.. (After this I'm going to recut an album I got off the NPR website because they seperated the tracks in the wrong place.) I realized a second ago that you could attach song lyrics to tracks, and I though "Oh Shit! What if I went through and attached lyrics to 4000 tracks! that would be crazy!" Of course that would take way to fucking long. So here's my idea: A program that uses a search engine to find lyrics and attach them to tracks. That would be cool.

Of course I don't even know how ID3 tags work so this could be really difficult. What do you think?

PS To all of you that read that as "Progamming Idra" and came here thinking it was going to be awesome, sorry.

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Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
January 21 2009 22:25 GMT
#2
We all know that ultralisks and protoss are imba.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
yB.TeH
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Germany419 Posts
January 21 2009 22:27 GMT
#3
its going to be awesome too, if you get it done
eth0x
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada208 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-21 22:33:26
January 21 2009 22:32 GMT
#4
If you get it done, you could easily sell it for $5 and make a killing.

Of course, you'd have to release it to TL.net for free.

Because he is Mantoss, the incarnation of masculinity and awesomeness.
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
January 21 2009 22:36 GMT
#5
I use Media Monkey for tagging large numbers of mp3s, and Leo's Lyrics plugin for Winamp to search for lyrics while playing and storing them in the mp3 tag.
MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
January 21 2009 22:36 GMT
#6
As long as you don't do it like MS and destroy the file in the process...
LiquipediaOne eye to kill. Two eyes to live.
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
January 21 2009 22:40 GMT
#7
Yeah That would suck
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-21 22:46:12
January 21 2009 22:43 GMT
#8
About the ID3 tag: There's this neat website that has a lot of file formats listed, not being one of those ugly knowledge stealing places.. Wotsit's format?

from the top of my head I know it's a simple format, just a bunch of junk added to the end of an MP3 file. (It originated as an ad-hoc method that would not break existing players that didn't support the tag. Those players just ignored the extra data (or played the almost soundless bytes? not sure).)

But ehm, the thing that you are looking to create, already exists. Of course you can still go ahead. In case you want a pointer to an example of what I mean.. Leo's Lyrics is a big database that uses ID3 information in the same way. It's an online service, that I used once in a blue moon via a plug-in for winamp. The site, btw, is ridden with ads of course.. Long time ago that I used the plug-in, but it might be 'ad-supported' as well. Of course you could send queries to the leo lyrics server, as your means of searching, basically creating a local backup of the database for your files.

Edit: Scorch, you thunder stealer!
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Eti307
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
Canada3442 Posts
January 21 2009 23:53 GMT
#9
winamp already has an addon which does that
Deleted User 31996
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
843 Posts
January 21 2009 23:57 GMT
#10
On January 22 2009 07:32 eth0x wrote:
If you get it done, you could easily sell it for $5 and make a killing.

Of course, you'd have to release it to TL.net for free.



Then no one would buy it, instead make a crack for it, or get more experienced programmers to write a better program (no offense to op)

Software should be free.
miseiler
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States1389 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-22 00:23:01
January 22 2009 00:19 GMT
#11
Every single linux media player does this and is open source. I suggest you take a look at Sonata (requires zsi for lyrics fetching support) because it's simple and written in Python.

Others:
Exaile (Python)
Banshee (.NET [mono])
Amarok (C++ I think, complex)

etc etc etc
"Jinro soo manly wearing only a T-Shirt while the Koreans freeze in their jackets" -- Double_O
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CrimsonLotus
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Colombia1123 Posts
January 22 2009 00:22 GMT
#12
Even Windows Media Player does this with an addon.
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 22 2009 00:35 GMT
#13
its still a good project though even if its redundant
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
January 22 2009 00:37 GMT
#14
teamliquid needs something to make telling the difference between programming and progaming larger... i always get confused when i read it wrong and i start reading a thread
UNFUCK YOURSELF
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 22 2009 01:03 GMT
#15
On January 22 2009 09:37 Nitrogen wrote:
teamliquid needs something to make telling the difference between programming and progaming larger... i always get confused when i read it wrong and i start reading a thread


the r is too hard to spot, so I just look for the double m
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
LeperKahn
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Romania1852 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-22 02:54:53
January 22 2009 02:54 GMT
#16
iTunes does this if you import it from a CD or have all of the correct Album, Artist, and Song Name information. You have to jump through a few hoops to get it to work though. (You might even require 3rd party software. If I've done that I don't remember doing so... It's been a while.)

However, many people hate iTunes or some reason and I think many would have use for this. Plus a good project if you're looking to have some fun. (Fun I guess is the right word. <.<)
CJ Entusman #14 • http://soundcloud.com/discodinosaur • https://discosaur.bandcamp.com/
miseiler
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States1389 Posts
January 22 2009 04:09 GMT
#17
The fact is the open source software would actually help him >_> the others are just...there.
"Jinro soo manly wearing only a T-Shirt while the Koreans freeze in their jackets" -- Double_O
"He's from Sweden, man. We have to fight polar bears on our way to school." -- Yusername
overpool
Profile Joined April 2008
United States191 Posts
January 22 2009 05:00 GMT
#18
On January 22 2009 08:57 liosama wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2009 07:32 eth0x wrote:
If you get it done, you could easily sell it for $5 and make a killing.

Of course, you'd have to release it to TL.net for free.



Then no one would buy it, instead make a crack for it, or get more experienced programmers to write a better program (no offense to op)

Software should be free.

Why? Because you don't want to pay for it?? The people who write code do a lot of it for fun, but they've gotta eat too, you know. What are you going to tell the folks at Wolfram and Microsoft and Apple and any other company that produces software?
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
January 22 2009 05:13 GMT
#19
On January 22 2009 09:35 fusionsdf wrote:
its still a good project though even if its redundant

^ agreed :D
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
January 22 2009 05:15 GMT
#20
On January 22 2009 14:00 overpool wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2009 08:57 liosama wrote:
On January 22 2009 07:32 eth0x wrote:
If you get it done, you could easily sell it for $5 and make a killing.

Of course, you'd have to release it to TL.net for free.



Then no one would buy it, instead make a crack for it, or get more experienced programmers to write a better program (no offense to op)

Software should be free.

Why? Because you don't want to pay for it?? The people who write code do a lot of it for fun, but they've gotta eat too, you know. What are you going to tell the folks at Wolfram and Microsoft and Apple and any other company that produces software?


Lol maybe this?
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But yeah I think making new program takes time and effort and should be rewarded by money.
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
January 22 2009 05:43 GMT
#21
On January 22 2009 14:15 evanthebouncy! wrote:
But yeah I think making new program takes time and effort and should be rewarded by money.

Yeah like MasterOfChaos's launcher or the thousands of map editors...
Duke
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States1106 Posts
January 22 2009 15:15 GMT
#22
Shit, thought idra was an android
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