Easily find lyrics for all your songs

What's New?

1 May 2010 - Version 0.7

Second attempt at avoiding black diamonds. It is still not perfect -- but it is better than before.
Ctrl-A now works in all text fields.
New settings properties. These don't have a user interface yet -- you can only change them by editing the LyricsFetcher.exe.config file in the application directory. Please take a copy of the original before changing it.
- AppendSuccessFailureTag - Change this value to "False" to prevent LyricsFetcher from writing a success or failure tag onto the lyrics. Without this, LyricsFetcher will not be able to tell that it has already failed to find lyrics for a song.
- MissingLyricsPrefixes - If the lyrics for a song begin with one of these prefixes, LyricsFetcher will treat the lyrics as not found. Useful if some provider starts returning strange results which are actually errors.
- IgnoredGenres - If the genre of the track is in this list, LyricsFetcher will not try to find lyrics for that track.

Removed LyricWiki as a source of lyrics. Under threat of legal action, they were forced to remove their API.
Better handle cases when iTunes refuses to accept COM commands.
Improved the cleaning up and formatting lyrics (no more black diamonds instead of single apostrophes).

[Big change] Added ability to fetch metadata.
Unbroadened the search criteria somewhat. The broadening made in v0.5.1 sometimes made some very strange (and completely wrong) matches. The new scheme still allows name only matches, but the name has to be an exact match. This can still lead to false hits, but not nearly so often.
Lyrics are now decoded into unicode, so that accented characters are now retrieved correctly.
Lyrics cache is now updated in all cases -- rather than just most of them
Now detects iTunes more reliably -- fingers crossed

Broadened the search criteria so that lyrics can be found by the name of the track alone. This does mean that some false hits will be found, that is, finding wrong lyrics to the song.
Fixed bug where LyricsFetcher would crash on machines where iTunes had never been installed.
Added LyricsPlugin as another lyrics source.
Fixed bug where LyricsFetcher would crash when using WMP as the library and trying to update meta-data on formats that it can't update (like AAC).