[WS] Import lyrics from websites

For some songs, the musixmatch script combines the 3rd & 4th lines without a line break. @dano, would you consider modifying?

Examples:
Willard Grant Conspiracy Beyond The Shore
Washington Phillips You Can't Stop A Tattler Part One

I've changed things a bit, also added cover art support.
It's diabled by default, to enable it put a # before set "coverurl" at the end of the file.
&Lyrics#Musixmatch03.rar (941 Bytes)

Lyrics on separate lines, writer and new cover all working great for me. Thanks!

I just tried this and some of the links don't seem to work. I don't even see a listing for Musicmatch in the dropdown menu?

I noticed that I often get no results with Musixmatch if there is an ampersand in the artist tag,
e.g.
Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino You were born to die.
I therefore changed the "serach by"-line for the part of %artist% from
[SearchBy]=%Artist%
to
[SearchBy]=$replace(%Artist%, &,)
and it works here.

I don't know if Musixmatch generally does not want these ampersands or if it is just that some artists are listed different in Musixmatch.
Anyway: Maybe the script should be changed this way.

Does the Musicmatch script work still? And if so can someone explain how I install it please?
Once it’s in I might need more advice because I don’t know any coding :frowning:

Please see the links in the first post of this thread that explain how to install a script.

I've just tried it and it looks like musixmatch requires registration now and the script returns HTTP 403 Forbidden.

If you're looking for a working script, consider [WS] Genius (Lyrics) (use v0.52 or later)

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This isn't a method for downloading lyrics directly in Mp3tag. Instead, I recently found a different app that successfully downloads lyrics, both individually and in bulk, saving them into the UNSYNCEDLYRICS field. It's free and available for Mac (which I use), Windows, and Linux, supporting several lyrics sites that you can sort by preference. I downloaded lyrics for my entire library of about 4,500 tracks in about 6 hours, and it seems to have worked pretty well. Hope this helps.

Lyrics Finder