Hello everyone, I have a GSoC Idea. Please let us know what you think and whether it will be a nice feature. :
Brief explanation: Amarok's support for fetching and displaying of lyrics is very limited. It just fetches from a single provider and many times no results are fetched, sometimes due to minor errors in track/album/artist name. I want to add some more providers of online lyrics databases. If no results are found I can couple this the better tagguessing feature (and even if the tags are not saved), the the lyrics providers can be searched with these guessed tags. Then, I want to better the lyrics display. Currently it just scrolls at a constant rate, generally that's inconsistent with the actual playback of the song. All .lrc files have timestamps, that can be followed: probably by highlighting the line playing. Also, karaoke support can be added, if the .lrc file permits. Expected results: Greatly increase the probability of fetching of the lyrics for any song. In the lyrics display, a highlighted line will display the current line being played. If time permits, add karaoke support. Knowledge Prerequisite: Knowledge of the Amarok code base (hence of Qt, C++). Basic knowledge of webservices. Mentor: I want to take part in GSoC as a student so I won't be mentoring, but probably Mark Kretschmann (markey) would be interested as I remember discussing this idea with him for Season of KDE 2013. Also, it would be wonderful if anyone else would volunteer to mentor :) Regards, Vedant
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