Lyrics fetch not working

[pcscarpa]

Hello

Lyrics fetching was working fine yesterday (15 oct 2010) but stopped fetching lyrics now. I went into the irc channel and more people had this error (trying to check if it was merely something wrong on my end first)
I refer here to the lyrics wiki plugin (lyrics fly never even worked at all to begin with).

Using Exaile 0.3.2.0 / Ubuntu 10.10
Thanks

cheers

[marco-peroverde (marco-peroverde)]

Hi!

Same problem here though I think wiki lyrics plugin stopped working a few days earlier.
I)'m running exaile 0.3.2.0-0ubuntu3~ppa1~lucid1 from ppa.

Thanks
bye

[Philippe Eidelman (philippe1194)]

Hello!

Exactly the same problem here, i think it stopped working on 11 oct 2010

i'm running exaile 0.3.2.0 and using ubuntu 10.04

Thanks, good luck

[Philippe Eidelman (philippe1194)]

Hello!

I just found out that the plugin works with SOME songs. The plugin was able to fetch lyrics for a couple of songs of a Stratovarius' album, however the rest of the songs' lyrics were fetched incorrectly. I also tested a couple of albums from different artists where the plugin fetched it's lyrics correctly before the bug, Unfortunatetly, the lyrics weren't fetched at all, not even a wrong result.

I hope this works, good luck!

[gojkok (gojkok)]

Same way here, possible reason, Lyrics Wiki changed their page, and maybe way that they marked songs!

[Hvannentir (hvannentir)]

It's caused by Beautiful-Soup 3.1. It's a messy version.
I tried to correct the "bad end tag" problem it caused by parsing with html5lib, lxml, ElementTree bla bla bla.. Nothing.
So I switched back to Beautiful-Soup 3.0.8 ( thanks Archlinux for the easy operation by the way ).
Now it works as expected.

[Hvannentir (hvannentir)]

Little reference of that for records and reference :
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html

The exact error ( raised line 58 of plugin but hidden by default LyricsNotFoundException ) :
bad end tag: u"</scri' + 'pt>"
Or something like that.

[pcscarpa (pcscarpa)]

Anyone have easy instructions on how to downgrade to 3.0.8 then? Been trying to find some online but no luck.

[Hvannentir (hvannentir)]

@pcscarpa : Specify your distro if you want help.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

@pcscarpa, @hvannentir: Please don't use these bugs for discussing side problems like downgrading that are not directly related to fixing this bug in Exaile. That sort of request is better suited to a distro-specific support channel, NOT Exaile's bugtracker.

@hvannentir: Thanks for finding the problem. Unfortunately, we cannot make the choice for our users that they have to downgrade their beautifulsoup, so we NEED to find a way of making it work with all variants of beautifulsoup. (Unless upstream is going to come out with a new version very soon we can use....)

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

The problem oddly seems to be fixing itself. Fetching started working for more and more tracks which a few days ago weren't working. It may have been just something wrong with the lyrics wiki API.

[marco-peroverde (marco-peroverde)]

Can confirm that fetching works again.
Maybe there has been an update on beautifulsoup.
I'm currently running 3.1.0.1-2build1 on ubuntu 10.04.

[Hvannentir (hvannentir)]

@Aren Olson : You should not spent time on this I think.
Beautiful Soup 3.1 is abandoned :
"The 3.1 series has been abandoned. The 3.0 series is still under development; use it instead"
Cf http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html

It's so a distro/package problem.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

As Hvannentir noted, this is more an issue with beautifulsoup 3.1 sucking than anything in exaile. Plugin is working correctly with beautifulsoup 3.2 on arch linux, users should upgrade/downgrade beautifulsoup if they encounter this problem.