Comments on: C# .NET and LyricWiki to lookup lyrics

By: blah

blah — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:38:58 +0000

They won’t allow you to get the full lyrics due to licensing issues. However with their service you can get the url for the lyrics. You can get the full lyrics if you parse the html downloaded from the url they give you.

By: tincek

tincek — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:13:25 +0000

same problem here, i get [...] at the end of every lyrics.

By: Samuel Haddad

Samuel Haddad — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:44:44 +0000

What code are you using? I thought the service was shut down.

By: omer arslan

omer arslan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:49:15 +0000

hi all, why cant i reach whole of a lyrics when i get it by getsong(). for instance i try to get the eminem – without me.
the result is below, where is the rest of the lyrics, it ends with [...], is there a problem of lisancing?…

”’Obie Trice”’
“Obie Trice, Real Name No Gimmicks…”

”’Eminem”’
Two trailer park girls go round the outside,
round the outside, round the outside.
Two trailer park girls go round the outside,
round the outside, round the outside.

”’Female Voice”’
“Ooooohhhhh!”

”’Eminem”’
Guess who’s back, back, back
back again, gain, gain
Shadys back, back, back
tell a friend
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back,
guess who’s back, guess who’s back,
guess who’s back, guess who’s back,
guess who’s back… la la la

I’ve created a monster, cuz nobody wants to
See Marshall no more they[...]

By: Samuel Haddad

Samuel Haddad — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:09:17 +0000

You right, LyricWiki discounted their lyrics service. You can read about it here: http://groups.google.com/group/lyricwiki-api/browse_thread/thread/733ccd919d654040

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:56:04 +0000

The service is no longer available. The message you get back with trying to interact with the service is that it’s been shut down due to legal issues.

Anyone have another source just like this one? I’ve been trying to create a lyrics gathering program but can’t find a good, free web service to do it with.

By: Samuel Haddad

Samuel Haddad — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:09:53 +0000

After reading your post. I played around with this a little and wasn't able to get it to work either. Interestingly though if you use Fiddler you can see that you actually do get the results back. I will investigate this more when I have a chance.

By: Claton

Claton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:02:15 +0000

After struggling a lot I was able to figure out that “Response is not a well formed XML” Error relates to Proxy setting, if you play around with your Proxy settings. The tool would work.

Hope this helps for others …

Regards,
Claton

By: FernandoJS

FernandoJS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:39:11 +0000

Hi,

This example run perfect here…but the method “getartist” is fail.

Do you tested the getartist?

Thanks

By: Claton

Claton — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:25:07 +0000

Hey..

Excellent code.. but am getting an Error in
result = wiki.getSong(artist, song);

Error: Response is not a well formed XML

I even downloaded your code..but still face the same issue..
am using VS2008 & C#..
any help is appreciated..

regards,
Claton