Lyrics Workshop 0.5

[Ignacio Serantes]

Name: Lyrics Workshop
Version: 0.5
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 dot 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
- repeat search for local or internet files can be
configured
- 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:

- change cache options: Disabled (current
unchecked), Enabled for collection (new,
default?), Enabled to all (current checked)
- 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 and encoding problems)
- add all yomoyomo.jp languages supported (korean,
russian and arabic)
- menu option could be enabled/disabled in
configuration dialog
- lrc basic & enhanced format support and karaoke
display mode
- improved equivalences db (QWebDatabase broken in
Amarok?, sqlite, xml or plain text?)
- automatic usage of equivalences on search fail
(configurable)
- automatic addition of equivalences on search
success (configurable)
- redesing of "Text Dialog" to avoid closing on
repeat operation
- ...

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
- option to close al open forms on song change
- ...

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


Changelog:
 30/03/09 - v0.5 - Miliyah release
- NEW: "Repeat search" can be enabled for
collection files only to avoid anoing display of
"Search Dialog" on listen internet music
- NEW: a few forgotten languages supported by
Google are added to translation: Albanian, Chinese
(Traditional), Estonian, Galician, Hungarian,
Maltese, Thai, Turkish
- CHANGE: translation languages are alphabetically
ordered
- CHANGE: change GPL license for LGPL 3.0
- CHANGE: cache file names of song not in
collection uses XX as track number for easy
recognition
- CHANGE: "Search Dialog" cancel button don't set
"Not found" in lyrics for songs not in collection
- BUG: added in v0.4, save cache buttons don't
update cache
- BUG: update "Lyrics Workshop" using Amarok
erases custom equivalences
- BUG: conversion to rōmaji and kana is launched
on empty lyrics
- BUG: empty lyrics conversion to romaja shows a
text with word "false" and saves it in cache
- BUG: lyrics conversion and translation of song
not in collection with cached lyrics fails
- BUG: "Search Dialog" cancel button clears
downloaded lyrics of songs not in collection
- PROBLEM: character "]" was removed on kana
conversion using tatoeba engine, not as easy as
look like
- PROBLEM: one report of corrupted downloaded
pages from GOO, waiting for user feedback

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.jp" 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 uses custom function
objDownloader() as a first step to abandon Amarok
function Downloader()
- 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: update "Lyrics Workshop" erases custom
equivalences
- 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: new 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