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Lyrics Dashboard Widget? Is Harmonic dead?
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Wow I just noticed it right now. It changed the lyrics for a lot of my music with that note.
That really sucks. Wonder what really happened.
That really sucks. Wonder what really happened.
I've been hearing good reviews about PearLyrics but it was shut down a while ago because of some dispute. I just found the application and downloaded it and it works great.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Music/pearLyrics-Widget.shtml
EDIT: Nevermind, it doesn't pull any lyrics for me. It doesn't work I guess.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Music/pearLyrics-Widget.shtml
EDIT: Nevermind, it doesn't pull any lyrics for me. It doesn't work I guess.
I'm having the same problem. I wonder how long it was replacing my lyrics with that PSA type thing? Blah. Post if you find any good lyrics widgets; Harmonic was the best I ever found.
I've seen that message too, but only on certain songs like from Pink and Michael Jackson, lyrics work fine on Lily Allen, Sunrise Avenue and more...
Did anyone find anything? I've been searching a lot but looks like Harmonic was the best one. I've tried searching and found a couple of alternatives like Sing that iTune or PearLyrics but they don't work either.
Sorry about double posting but I found a replacement for Harmonic.
Harmonic is officially dead because of licensing issues that affected lyricswiki which is pretty dumb, I know. It isn't really Harmonic's fault at all.
But in the meantime, TunesText works for me and you can get it here: http://www.cyanworks.net/dboardTunesTEXT.html
Just be sure to click the little "i" and select to search only from sing365.com. It works just as well as Harmonic and it also had a little editor built in so you can edit lyrics.
Also, I didn't create this application and I'm not affiliated with it either. I'm just posting this so people who used to use harmonic will have one other alternative to fall back to. And trust me, this is the only app for now that does work.
Harmonic is officially dead because of licensing issues that affected lyricswiki which is pretty dumb, I know. It isn't really Harmonic's fault at all.
But in the meantime, TunesText works for me and you can get it here: http://www.cyanworks.net/dboardTunesTEXT.html
Just be sure to click the little "i" and select to search only from sing365.com. It works just as well as Harmonic and it also had a little editor built in so you can edit lyrics.
Also, I didn't create this application and I'm not affiliated with it either. I'm just posting this so people who used to use harmonic will have one other alternative to fall back to. And trust me, this is the only app for now that does work.
Sorry about double posting but I found a replacement for Harmonic.
Harmonic is officially dead because of licensing issues that affected lyricswiki which is pretty dumb, I know. It isn't really Harmonic's fault at all.
But in the meantime, TunesText works for me and you can get it here: http://www.cyanworks.net/dboardTunesTEXT.html
Just be sure to click the little "i" and select to search only from sing365.com. It works just as well as Harmonic and it also had a little editor built in so you can edit lyrics.
Also, I didn't create this application and I'm not affiliated with it either. I'm just posting this so people who used to use harmonic will have one other alternative to fall back to. And trust me, this is the only app for now that does work.
Thanks for the suggestion, I prefer it to Harmonic as it happens!
Problems Persist
I used to use Harmonic as well, and am thankful for this! However, it seems that the lyrics already saved are what TunesText prefer to display... most of which (like we established) were just two lines or so of the text then " [...] "
Is there anything I can do here?
I used to use Harmonic as well, and am thankful for this! However, it seems that the lyrics already saved are what TunesText prefer to display... most of which (like we established) were just two lines or so of the text then " [...] "
Is there anything I can do here?
I've been using PearLyrics for a long time, even after it failed to find any lyrics about a year ago (occasionally it wil turn up lyrics from leolyrics.com).
I've written an Applescript to scrape lyrics off the LyricWiki wikia website BUT it's tailored for the way my songs are tagged (all my songs are meticulously tagged).
But if anyone wants it you can PM me or post back in this thread. BUT I warn those who don't know now the slightest bit of Applescript that if it doesn't work any you don't know how to fix it, don't bother with this script.
I forgotten to mention...the script works flawlessly for me
I've written an Applescript to scrape lyrics off the LyricWiki wikia website BUT it's tailored for the way my songs are tagged (all my songs are meticulously tagged).
But if anyone wants it you can PM me or post back in this thread. BUT I warn those who don't know now the slightest bit of Applescript that if it doesn't work any you don't know how to fix it, don't bother with this script.
I forgotten to mention...the script works flawlessly for me
Lyric Wiki
I've got a ton of these programs on my computer (Get Lyrical, GimmeSomeTune, Harmonic, TunesText, ItunesLyricsLocator) and all of which are pulling from lyricwiki, and it's because of this program, it seems, that the lyrics are abridged after a few lines.
Any answers to that one?
I've got a ton of these programs on my computer (Get Lyrical, GimmeSomeTune, Harmonic, TunesText, ItunesLyricsLocator) and all of which are pulling from lyricwiki, and it's because of this program, it seems, that the lyrics are abridged after a few lines.
Any answers to that one?
They either need to get updated by the author of the program/widget to get around the copy protection enforced by Gracenote on LyricsWiki. I guess contact the author/s and see if they have a working version.
Otherwise I have a working script that I mentioned above, but all it does is scrape on request from within iTunes.
The app's used to use an API to access all this but they got rid of it, now all you get is that a short message.
script sounds perfect. could you send it to me? can't figure out how to send a pm on this site...thanks!
Check this place, there are a few solutions under discussion as well as mine.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/543339/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/543339/