Lyrics Workshop 0.4

[Ignacio Serantes]

Name: Lyrics Workshop
Version: 0.4
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
---------------

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

WARNING!!! uptate overwrites "equivaleces.txt"
file. If you added custom equivaleces you must
backup your file or you lost your data.

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 or yomoyomo.jp)
- hangul lyrics conversion to romaja
- configurable 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:
- option to select translation language from "Text
Dialog"
- option to select conversion server from "Text
Dialog"
- enable search engine selection in "Search
Dialog"
- search engines plugin system
- enable or disable search engines and custom
prioritization
- sogou search engine improvement (seems to be a
couple of render bugs)
- add all yomoyomo.jp languages supported (korean,
russian and arabic)
- lrc basic & enhanced format support and karaoke
display mode
- improved equivalences db (QWebDatabase, sqlite,
xml or plain text?)
- automatic usage of equivalences on search fail
(configurable)
- automatic addition of equivalences on search
success (configurable)
- ...

COULD BE list:
- an engine like GLyrics as last search option
- format toolbar in text edition dialog
- external editor and viewer for cache file
- cache support for multiple language translations
- other languages romanization
- song name equivalences
- automatic search of available languages in
Google Translation service
- lrc conversion, from and to normal lyrics
- ...

Know problems & limitations:
- Amarok sometimes refuse save lyrics with Asian
characters
- Amarok calls two times
Amarok.Lyrics.fechLyrics() on play first song


Changelog:
 Changelog
---------
29/03/09 - v0.4 - Nana release
- NEW: buttons to open cache directories added to
configuration dialog
- NEW: kanji conversion engine with multiserver
support
- NEW: added "yomoyomo.org" as server to convert
kana to kanji and rōmaji
- NEW: added new options in "Configuration Dialog"
to select kanji conversion server
- CHANGE: google translation engine rewriten from
scratch using POST method
- CHANGE: creation of cache directories works in
all KDE platforms
- CHANGE: delete cache works in all KDE platforms
- CHANGE: Lyric Wiki engine are using custom
function objDownloader()
- BUG: tooltip of delete don't update on delete
cache
- BUG: character "]" was removed on rōmaja
conversion using tatoeba engine
- PROBLEM: character "]" was removed on kana
conversion using tatoeba engine
- PROBLEM: one report of corrupted downloaded
pages from GOO
- PROBLEM: yomoyomo.jp kanji to rōmaji conversion
it not accurate
- PROBLEM: "Equivalences.txt" is overwritten on
upgrade
- and a lot of refactoring and coding improvements

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 Dialog" in
some systems
- BUG: mew translation problem with html entities
(& < etc...)
- PROBLEM: 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