MP3 tag lyrics [Solved]

[Mister Mint]

Hi all,

Sorry for posting in a wrong forum, but where else

When an MP3 has lyrics embedded how do you see them in Linux? In Windows you just right-click the MP3, but in Linux it seems you have to use a 3rd party application just for this. But none of the music players and MP3-taggers (Kid3, Easytag, etc) I've tried has this feature. Can you recommend a simple one? (if possible one where you'd just right-click to see the lyrics)

Cheers

[asbak]

Try audacious, it has a lyric plugin.

[Markus]

If you're using a file manager capable of user scripts like Nautilus or Thunar a simple bash script using id3v2 in combination with sed and zenity would do it.

[Mister Mint]

Thanks for your suggestions!

asbak: I have installed Audacious but can you tell how/where do I find such a lyric plugin..?

Markus: that would be great, I'm using Caja, a fork of Nautilus, but how to make such a script I haven't got a clue, and also I can't find a guide describing it. Do you have a link?

[asbak]

apt-get install audacious-plugins

Services, Plugins, General

[Mister Mint]

When I write apt-get install audacious-plugins I get this message (my translation to English):

E: Could not open the lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Access denied)
E: Could not lock the administration folder (/var/lib/dpkg/), Are you root?

Don't know about root, but I'm the only one using the computer..

[Luc]

When I write apt-get install audacious-plugins I get this message (my translation to English):

E: Could not open the lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Access denied)
E: Could not lock the administration folder (/var/lib/dpkg/), Are you root?

Don't know about root, but I'm the only one using the computer..

Try this:
$ sudo apt-get install audacious-plugins

If you still get that error, you might have some package manager/installer running. You can't install anything from the command line while any such program is running. You can use such program instead of the command line, though.

[Markus]

If there are links to topics you already know I'm sorry about but I'm not aware of your level of knowledge.

Start with a standard bash script:
http://linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial

Here's a question on StackOverflow about getting the contents of id3v2 tags:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5285 ... sing-id3v2

If there's no content:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-6.html

...you might want to display a simple message with a Zenity --text message dialog to display the error:
https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/sta ... en#dialogs

...and quit your script with the "exit" command.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html

Get the content of the correct tag entry and write it to a file in /tmp:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-scr ... ickly.html

Then use Zenity with the --text-info dialog to show the contents of the file:
https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/text.html.en

If the script runs fine, make it a Nautilus context menu entry:
http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/faq.php

...

Profit!!1

If you need to search for more information on how to bash-script, use "bash" as the first search query followed by what you want to achieve. If you need any help, please let me know.

[Mister Mint]

Hi Luc, thanks very much. I have installed the audacious-plugins now. However, when I open Audacious and click on "Services", there's only two options: "Play CD" and "Add CD". I see no plugins..

Thanks a lot, Markus, I've got some lessons before me Nice with this overview, or else I'd be lost!

[Luc]

Hi Luc, thanks very much. I have installed the audacious-plugins now. However, when I open Audacious and click on "Services", there's only two options: "Play CD" and "Add CD". I see no plugins..

Are you sure? Don't you have this?

[Mister Mint]

No. The "Plugins..." field is not there.

84 sudo apt-get install audacious-plugins
85 history

I'll remove it and install it again, and see what happens..

[Mister Mint]

Still no plugins.

88 sudo apt-get remove audacious-plugins
89 sudo apt-get install audacious-plugins
90 history

But never mind. My first wish is to get the general viewing tool Markus talked about installed. That way I won't have to open a player first to see the MP3 tags.

[Luc]

What distro and version are you using?

[Mister Mint]

Linux Mint MATE 17.1 Rebecca

[Luc]

Hmm. I use plain Debian. Perhaps you should contact Mint's forum or their Audacious package maintainer, or submit a bug report.