Lyrics Downloader not fetching lyrics

[Matt Layman]

In the upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy, the lyrics downloader no longer fetches tracks for things that I know for certain was able to get before the upgrade.

Possibly related is the following backtrace (although this looks to be more associated with a clutter issue, but it comes up with the audio_play_screen.py):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/matt/branches/cover-fix/src/frontend/gui/screens/audio_play_screen.py", line 204, in _update_progress_bar
    current_pos.set_text(self.player.get_media_position_string())
  File "/home/matt/branches/cover-fix/src/frontend/media_player.py", line 296, in get_media_position_string
    ns = self.playbin.query_position(gst.FORMAT_TIME, None)[0]
gst.QueryError: query failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/matt/branches/cover-fix/src/frontend/gui/widgets/loading_animation.py", line 184, in _rotate_throbber
    def _rotate_throbber(self):

[Charclo (charclo-michael)]

This doesn't seem to be a bug from Hardy, I'm getting it too in Gutsy.
I just tried to search for a lyric on Leoslyrics.com and I get an error. And I also found a thread saying the database is down for more than a week now => http://www.leoslyrics.com/posts/list/18331.page

[Joshua Scotton (joshuascotton)]

Longterm I think we should aim for more than one source of lyrics
Shortterm we need to be able to handle the lyrics website going offline or Entertainer being used offline

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

Charclo is seeing this problem too. Thanks for pointing out that it's not just Hardy. I guess this emphasizes the need for a lyrics plugin that uses multiple sources.

[Charclo (charclo-michael)]

I think it would be best to use an other source for fetching lyrics as leoslyrics.com seems to be down a lot.
I found http://lyricsfly.com/api/ as a replacement.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

Charclo, I'm going to remove the blueprint link to the bug. There is no way we're going to get a plugin architecture into Entertainer for .1. And the blueprint that is attached is dependent on that future architecture. I agree that we should implement something in .1 to replace the currently broken code, but it won't be a plugin version. I suggest we look at gutting out the actual fetching from leolyrics and replace it with lyricsfly for the time being in order to get lyrics working for .1. That way we can hopefully use most of the existing downloader, and only the fetching part will be different.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

Released and available at http://www.entertainer-project.com/download.php