LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song, from any artist, without being hammered by invasive ads.

At this point you are probably thinking to yourself the same thing I did “Great, but where do I start?” So today I am writing a step by step tutorial on how to use Lyric wiki in your .NET program.

Creating a simple lyric demo program:

Step 1: Create the Form

Open visual studio and setup your form to look similar to mine.

Adding the web service:

Because LyricWiki offers a web service, you will want to add it to your program as a web reference. Right click on your solution and select add a web reference, or in .net 3.5 add a service reference -> then go to advance and add a web reference. The service’s URL is http://lyricwiki.org/server.php?wsdl you will want to add it like below if you press go you should see the available methods.

Adding a Web Reference

Writing the code:

Double click on your button on the form and let’s right some code to handle the lookup.

Add this to the top of your code:

using LyricsLookup.org.lyricwiki;

Then add this to the button clicked method:

private void LyricsButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
LyricWiki wiki = new LyricWiki();
LyricsResult result;
string artist = artistTextBox.Text;
string song =   SongTextBox.Text;
if(wiki.checkSongExists(artist,song))
{
result = wiki.getSong(artist, song);
Encoding iso8859 = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
LyricsRichTextBox.Text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(iso8859.GetBytes(result.lyrics));
}else{
StatusLabel.Text = "Lyrics not found in database";
}
}

Then run and test.

Download the full solution of LyricsLookup