Incorrect Lyrics

[treboa]

Hi TT (again!), I am still enjoying greatly your Georgia-ReBORN so many thanks once more. I have a problem with wrong song lyrics being shown when playing certain tracks. Having found the file location (foobar x32\profile\cache\lyrics) I have tried replacing them in the text file but they just revert back to the wrong ones. I am obviously not editing them properly and would welcome some help (in simple terms, please). Incidentally, I have not installed any additional lyric components. Many thanks for your time and best wishes

[TT-ReBORN]

Hi @treboa,

Georgia-ReBORN uses the ESLyric component to fetch lyrics from various different servers.
When it finds lyrics of the current playing track through metadata of artist, album and track title, it saves this lyric to your
lyrics cache directory foobar2000\profile\cache\lyrics. Some saved lyrics will not match the track mostly because
of similar artist name or track title and the wrong lyrics from the server database will be downloaded.
We can not change this behavior because we do not have any access to their lyric servers and can not edit and correct the lyrics.

When you fetch a wrong lyric that is saved to your lyric cache, you can use another lyric source from a different server.
The best and fastest way would be to display the Lyrics panel via top menu in Georgia-ReBORN and
right click for lyrics context menu > Lyrics options menu > Next lyrics. Or you can manually select a different server:
right click for lyrics context menu > Lyrics options menu > Lyrics search. This will open the Lyrics search dialog and you can
double click on a different server for different lyrics.

Keep in mind that every time when you change lyrics from a different lyrics source/server, it will automatically delete your current
saved lyrics for that track in your lyrics cache and download the new one. You can edit the lyrics in the lyrics cache, but then you
should NOT fetch/change any lyrics from that track, otherwise it will be overwritten!

Also lyrics can be embedded in the music file under the %lyrics% or %synced lyrics% or %unsynced lyrics% metadata field.
When it tries to load the lyrics, it will first search for the lyrics in the lyrics cache, then checks if the music file has embedded lyrics
and finally if no lyrics were found, it will search through the servers and if available, it will download them to your lyrics cache.

To recap:

• You can edit the lyrics in the lyrics cache but do not change the lyrics sources through new fetching, otherwise it will overwrite
  your current saved one.
• Embedded lyrics can be also edited in the music file and this is actually the best and recommended way to store lyrics.
• If you collect lyrics, make backups of your lyrics cache directory. If something goes wrong, you can always copy and paste them
  back from your backup to your lyrics cache directory.

I hope that helps.

-TT

[treboa]

Hi TT
Yes, that's great and certainly does help, so many thanks for your comprehensive and straightforward reply. I'll get the hang of this one day!
All the best
Treboa