Ubuntu
sonata package

Sonata doesn't fetch lyrics

Bug #273422 reported by Mikhail on 2008-09-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sonata (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sonata

It is extremly untrivial to make a standard function of Sonata, which allows to automatically fetch lyrics from the Internet, to work.

The first obstacle is to correctly interpret an error message regarding missing ZSI library, and install python-zsi package. However, lyrics fetching would still mysteriously fail, presumably, because of a bug in the python-zsi package (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsi/+bug/208855 for details). Despite this bug, a patch to sonata.py, which consists of a single line, fixes the issue easily. The attached sonata.py.diff contains it. I believe, it should be applied to the ubuntu repository version of sonata.

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Mikhail (mikhail.kalkov) wrote on 2008-09-23:

A workaround to make Sonata work Edit (352 bytes, text/plain)

Jordan Bain (jbain-deactivatedaccount) on 2009-04-09

Changed in sonata (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Michal Čihař (nijel) wrote on 2009-09-25:

As the ZSI bug has been fixed, the Lyrics should again work. Anyway in upcoming release it uses html scraping and no ZSI because of lyricswiki breakage.