If anyone knows another lyrics source that offers an API let me know and I'll look into the possibilities to integrate that instead of musixmatch. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience this is causing all lyrics lovers, but unfortunately there isn't anything I can do about it. So if you want to continue enjoying lyrics on your Squeezebox you now have to put the lyrics in the LYRICS tag of your music files, the advantage of that is that it's going to continue to work in the future since you aren't dependent on an online service or plugin. I suspect we shouldn't blame musixmatch for this, it's probably the music industry that requires them to charge people who want to view lyrics, I think it's great that musixmatch could offer lyrics for free for non commercial usage as long as they did. The reason is that musixmatch have informed me that they can no longer support free API access, their minimum fee for a commercial agreement is currently $20 000/year which is unrealistic for me to take out of my own pockets and it's also totally unrealistic to get anywhere close to this amount if I would try to start charging people for the Song Lyrics plugin and give everything to musixmatch. “We’re now empowering creators to make awesome video clips with their music and their favorite lyrics with Clip app.Just for information to anyone using my Song Lyrics plugin, the Song Lyrics plugin is likely going to stop working good very soon. “Lyrics provide feelings, memories and help users to catch their life’s moments,” said Ciociola in a statement about Clip. Right now it’s only available on iOS, but the arrival of an Android Clip app is imminent (Musixmatch was voted one Google’s top Android apps of 2014). They can then share it on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. This sense of community building permeates the basis of Clip, which allows users to take 20-second videos of themselves and set it to song on the iTunes charts or in their music library with lyrics, effectively creating their own lyrics video, as you can see from the above preview. That’s the other thing: Musixmatch has a crowd-sourced component, so other users can add lyrics or corrections. “If we scan your library and you don’t match anything - maybe you have a niche library - we ask the community.” If they don’t have the track, “the platform continuously learns,” explains Ciociola. Somewhere between Shazam and Genius, Musixmatch offers users the option of entering the song they want to find the lyrics to, listening to a song that’s already in the application’s database, or letting Musixmatch scan whatever they’re listening to on a streaming service or in their own library. Musixmatch, which has raised $10 million in two rounds of funding since it was founded in 2010, counts over 10 million monthly users that use its website (which launched last month) and mobile app to listen to its 9.3 million-strong library of songs with synced lyrics in 39 languages. These kinds of deals in the publishing industry are a mess, because one single lyric could be co-owned by all of them.” “We literally had to structure a licensing deal because they didn’t have any for these kinds of things before. All websites, excluding a few of them, were illegal,” says Ciociola, who struck deals with all the entities including Sony, Universal, Warner/Chappell, BMG, Kobal, and the Harry Fox Agency he also counts David Israelite as a supporter of these deals and Musixmatch in general. “At that time, they weren’t getting anything from lyrics sites. Rap Genius, Warner/Chappell Ink Licensing Deal The experience, Ciociola noticed, was “crap.” It was clunky listening to a song on one service such as Spotify or YouTube and then leaving that app to Google song lyrics in a different browser window even then, he adds, it was possible to get a different result every time because there was no singular, properly licensed database of song lyrics (this was before Genius, formerly RapGenius, had been sued by the NMPA for failing to license their own lyrics databse, not to mention raised $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz). People were searching more for lyrics than for sex, which is unfortunate - more than soccer, more than football, more than any other thing.” “We were asking anyone we know, ‘Do you really search for lyrics? Why you do that?’ Lyrics are one of the top five Google terms searches. “We saw that the music was starting to grow on mobile in 2010, and we were seeing how big the demand of this lyrics site content was,” Ciociola, who goes by Max, tells Billboard.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |