Handle "lyrics not found" gracefully

Bug #893601 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
BeatBox
Fix Released
Low
Scott Ringwelski

Bug Description

Currently if BeatBox fails to find lyrics, it prints an error to terminal and that's it. Instead, it should inform the user that it failed to locate lyrics and provide a way to solve it, e.g. show a button to search "%artist% %songtitle% lyrics" in google.

Tags: lyrics
tags: added: lyrics
Changed in beat-box:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 0.3
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Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe) wrote :

Solution: Set lyrics to "Lyrics not found". I don't want to add the search button, as that is already very easy to do in most browsers/OS's.

Changed in beat-box:
assignee: nobody → Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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andre_luis_13@hotmail.com (andre-luis-13) wrote :

Scott, just a suggestion:

Beatbox could also print the name of the music and it's artist at the LyricsNotFound message. Coz sometimes the problem with the search it's that the song tags are messed up.

E.g., sometimes the tags are like that: [Artist: MySong - MyArtist] [Artist: Empty]. If Beatbox displays: "Lyrics Not Found: MySong - MyArtist by Unknow", I would understand that if I change the song tags, it will search correctly.

I know I messed the example, but some musics have very messed up tags, and when you see what the search is actually looking for, it's easy to solve the problem. And if the message says "Lyrics not Found: Mysong by Myartist" you know that this lyrics really does not exist...

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Scott: well, looking up the song, opening song properties, copying the artist name, switching to web browser, pasting it into the search box, switching to BeatBox, copying song name, switching to web browser, pasting it and hitting enter doesn't sound that easy when compared to 1 mouse click.

I guess we should consult Dan on this.

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Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe) wrote :

andre: invalid metadata tags is a much bigger and broader problem then just lyric searches.

sergey: unless you are suffering heavily from memory loss, i think it's more of 1. switch to browser, 2. google song.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

I do agree that it would be helpful to specify that lyrics can't be found for a specific song. I would structure it as music like a normal sentence as possible "Can't find lyrics for %song by %artist"

I'm not sure it's necessarily to add a "search in google" button, but at least displaying the info here would make searching much easier if you decided to do that ;)

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