Lyrics Workshop 0.3

[Ignacio Serantes]

Name: Lyrics Workshop
Version: 0.3
Type: Amarok 2.0 Script
Depend: KDE 4.x
License: LGPL
Homepage: 
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=101465

Description:
 Lyrics Workshop is a multipurpose and multiserver
lyrics manager for Amarok 2 designed to help
overcome language barriers.

Any suggestion and bug reports are welcome and can
be sent to kde at aynoa.net. If you want translate
Lyrics Workshop to your language contact me at the
same address.

Many options are planned but current version of
Lyrics Workshop has the following features:

- multiple search engines (currently GOO, Evesta,
CIX, Sogou and Lyric Wiki)
- manual lyrics search
- search dialog with automatic close on change
song or stop play
- instrumental songs support
- basic name equivalences system (for romanized
Asian names or for diferent spellings of a name
such as "ELO" and "Electric Ligth Orchestra")
- lyrics translation (using Google)
- kanji lyrics conversion to kana and rōmaji
(using tatoeba.org)
- hangul lyrics conversion to romaja
- cache of translations, conversions and lyrics
for offline mode support
- cache can be edited and saved (lyrics cache are
read only)
- configuration dialog with save and load methods
- automatic language detection
- external translation files
- menu where you can add keyboard shortcuts

TODO list:
- method to prevent the file "Equivalences.txt" is
overwritten when you upgrade.
- improve text edition dialog (format toolbar?)
- change tatoeba.org to yomoyomo.jp and add
languages supported (korean, rusian, arabic...)
- search engines plugin system
- enable or disable search engines
- custom prioritization
- sogou search engine improvement (seems to be a
couple of render bugs)
- GLyrics engine as last search option?
- lrc basic & enhanced format support and karaoke
- improved equivalences db (sqlite, xml or plain
text?)
- automatic usage of equivalences on search fail
(configurable)
- automatic addition of equivalences on search
success (configurable)
- song name equivalences?
- other languages romanization?
- ...

Know problems & limitations:
- WARNING!!! uptate overwrites "equivaleces.txt"
file. If you added custom equivaleces you must
backup your file or you lost your data
- Downloader() don't support POST method
- Downloader() don't support pass object
parameters
- Amarok sometimes refuse save lyrics with Asian
characters
- Amarok calls two times
Amarok.Lyrics.fechLyrics() on play first song.


Changelog:
 26/03/09 - v0.3 - BoA release
- NEW: Added icons to all buttons
- NEW: Tooltip with information of cache size and
number of files in delete cache buttons
- NEW: full html entities support in html2text
function and I hope that all are supported
- NEW: button to erase associated cache in text
viewer dialog
- NEW: show lyrics dialog in read only mode
- BUG: Wrong display of Configuration form in some
systems
- BUG: New translation problem with html entities
(& < etc...)
- BUG NOT FIXED: one report of corrupted
downloaded pages from GOO

23/03/09 - v0.2 - Memory release
- NEW: configuration is now remembered between
sessions
- NEW: storage method configuration options (XML
and/or HTML) XML, HTML is de default method
- BUG: Google translation fails if character "&"
is in lyrics.

22/03/09 - v0.1 - Reborn release
- Lyrics Workshop is a reborn of GOO lyrics