[mb-devel] Is PicardQT able to use the Lyrics field?

Aaron Cooper cooperaa at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 16:41:28 UTC 2007


On Dec 5, 2007 11:34 AM, Lukáš Lalinský <lalinsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On St, 2007-12-05 at 11:27 -0500, Aaron Cooper wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I just had an idea for representing the various ARs we have in the DB
> > in our media devices: the Lyrics field!  iPods let you flip through
> > volume/duration/album art/rating/lyrics by clicking the select button
> > so I'm wondering if it would be possible to script PicardQT to write
> > the performance/composition/editing/cover ARs into the lyrics field.
> >
> > Perhaps Lukas would know best.  Does PicardQT have access to this
> > field?  I'm not sure which field this is, unfortunately.
>
> Yes, but currently not for MP3 files, which is probably what you want.
> I'll need to check if iTunes uses the standard USLT ID3 frame for this
> and implement it before the 0.9.0 release this weekend.
>
> Lukas

Yea, mostly MP3 and Apple Lossless files.  That would be awesome Lukas :)

-Aaron



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