The following script adds as many panels as defined to the MediaMonkey screen. Eeach of these panels performs a specific web search on Artist, Title of Album.The script needs a XML file as a configuration file.
Screenshots
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Installation
Using the Installer
You can download and use this installation program Note: If you already have a site configuration file, this file won’t get overwritten!
Manual installation
Installing script
Copy this script code, paste it to an empty text file and save it to „%MM_DIR%/Scripts/Auto/WebSearch.vbs“.
Setting up the configuration file
The configuration file needs to be named WebSearch.xml and must be located in the same directory as the script.
For each site, you need a entry in this file with the following parameters:
| parameter | description | example |
|---|---|---|
| name | a unique name for the site. This is used internally only, but must really be unique… | <name> GoogleMusic </name> |
| caption | The caption of the panel | <caption> Google Music </caption> |
| description | The desription is shown in the „Search“ menu bar | <description> Search current Artist in Google Music </description> |
| start | the start page that is shown when no title is played | <start> http://www.google.com/musicsearch?q= </start> |
| url | The „url“ parameter is the Web Search URL, and the placeholders %artist%, %title% asd %album% are replaced accordingly. | <url> http://www.google.com/musicsearch?q=%artist%&res=artist </url> |
As an example, see this file. You can use it as a starting point. Copy the xml code to an empy text file. Throw away the entries you don’t want or don’t need. Add new sites if you want.
Using the script
Start (or re-start) MediaMonkey. For each <site> entry you put in xml file, one panel will be opened. You can close those you don’t want to be open at the moment. To re-open a panel, in the Search Toolbar click on the „Search The Web“ button and choose desired site.
Saving Lyrics and Comments
Let’s suppose you want to save the lyrics fetched from lyrics-songs.com site to ID3 tag. Just play a song a wait for the panel to show the lyrics. Select the lyrics text and press „Lyrics“ button. Done! No CTRL+C is needed in this case. Same procedure to save a text to Comment field.
If, for some reason, the text you want to paste is outside the panel (a text file, for example) do the following: DO NOT select any text inside the panel itself, just open the file, select the text and copy it (now CTRL+C is needed). Come back to MediaMonkey and press the „Lyrics“ or „Comment“ button. Done! Your text is saved in corresponding field.
Working with local html files
This method works with local files as well. As a POC use the following HTML file, save it somewhere and make an entry to WebSearch.xml for the file like
SongInfo
SongInfo
Displays Information on the current song
about:blank
file:///C:/Programs/MediaMonkey/Scripts/Song.htm
The corresponding HTML file:
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">Artist: Title: Album: Known errors
Error #424 – Microsoft VBScript runtime error
You’ll get this error without a valid configuration file in place
Support
Support is given at the MediaMonkey support forum.
Jörgs, I just installed Web Search Panels and just can’t believe how good this is. Fantastic thank you for all your hard work. I have only one problem that I can’t figure out and that is getting the lyrics from website to fix to the tags. You mention a Lyric’s BUTTON? Am I just stupid (LOL) I can copy simply by copying and pasting to the tags but if there is an automated way of doing this …. well easy is always better. But for the life of me I can’t find a Lyrics Buttom anywhere on MM3!
If you have the time and can help me I would be very appreciative.
Great work mate
Cheers from Oz
Brett
Brett,
you should have two buttons, one named „Lyrics“ and the other one „Comments“ (as seen on th escreenshots). Clicing one of them will copy the marked text into the respective field.
Jörg
This is an awesome script, but it is sadly out of date. Is there any chance that you will update this to v0.3 of the Lyrics Plugin?
Really nice script !
As James said, an update for the v0.3 of Lyrics plugin would be really great, as this latest version allow to configure the size (and color) of the lyrics pages.
Thanks for your work !
JaneAir (Fanny 😉 )
Really good script. Thanks for it!
Hi,
i’ve have modified your code so it’s not performing a search if the panels are not open. I had some problems because of the huge list of panels I have created so it was hanging for a few sec between each track.
I’m not sure it’s the best way (i’m not a programmer) but it seems to work.
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if Panels(Key).Visible Then
Panels(Key).GoSearch
end if
Jörgs,
Using WebSearch for lyrics is fantastic! Coolest things since sliced bread!
Max
Very, very appropriate script, always wanted to create your own MP3 online archive.
Do you not see the images, correct please.
I’ve been using the WebSearch script with MediaMonkey and lyricsplugin.com for almost 3 years now without any problem. Recently though the plugin window only shows a blank page. I think it is a problem with the lyricsplugin.com servers (the pages are blank in internet browers too), but I figured you would probably want to know about the issue anyway.
The only substitute site I can find with similar text formatting is lyricswiki.org, but that site truncates the full lyrics.
I really hope something can be done to fix the issue with lyricsplugin.com. That site was PERFECT. If not, thanks for the script, jn, it had a great run.
Lyricsplugin.com no longer returns a blank page – now it’s this:
Escape From Monster Isle
Monsta Island Czars
USING THIS SERVICE FOR THIRD PARTY PROJECTS IS PROHIBITED. WE APPRECIATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU.
[ Search Google ]
Hi,
have the same problem. Lyricsplugin only returns „upgrade to 0.4“ or something, ither lyrics sites Ive found have different formatting, and so no lyrics ;-( would be nice if there were a fix available! It was really a great tool!!!