Re-enable LyricWiki applet in Amarok 2

Written on August 3rd 2009, 18:08 by Neakro

As you might have noticed LyricWiki disabled their API on 08/02/2009. Because of this every request will return something like this:

Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of the major music publishers we can no longer return lyrics through the LyricWiki API (where this application gets some or all of its lyrics).

The lyrics for this song can be found at the following URL:
http://lyricwiki.org/Rise_Against:The_Good_Left_Undone

(Please note: this is not the fault of the developer who created this application, but is a restriction imposed by the music publishers themselves.)

Luckily there is a workaround available that can be applied without recompiling Amarok: Patch main.js Sadly this workaround does not re-enable all features of the applet but it will display the lyrics of a song if they are available.

In Debian Sid I had to change the path of the main.js to /usr/share/kde4/apps/amarok/scripts/lyrics_lyricwiki/main.js.

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  1. Bjørn Panyella Pedersen
    August 13th, 2009 at 15:42 | #1
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    Nice work! Thanks.
    Your patch worked perfectly for me.
    I just had to learn how to use the patch-command first. Maybe you could add a line explaining it to other newbies?

  2. Firefishe
    August 25th, 2009 at 05:14 | #2
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    Bjørn Panyella Pedersen :
    Nice work! Thanks.
    Your patch worked perfectly for me.
    I just had to learn how to use the patch-command first. Maybe you could add a line explaining it to other newbies?

    Bjorn, could you please give me what syntax you used for the patch command on this please?

    Thanks,
    Firefishe (sabrownATinboxDOTcom)

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