Lyrics Plugin Doesn't Work Properly

[MetaIronic]

When using the lyrics plugin I seem unable to get lyrics from genius or musixmatch, despite the documentation page claiming it can. An example of such a song is Sick and Tired - Denzel Curry. This song has complete lyrics on both genius and musixmatch yet when I run "beet lyrics Denzel Curry Sick and Tired" I get the result "lyrics: lyrics not found: Denzel Curry - Imperial - Sick And Tired". This is deeply vexing as I downloaded beets due to the fact it would solve my music lyrics problem in what seemed an elegant manner, with added tag checking benefits.

I have also tried enabling the custom google search by adding an api key. This has the same result as above

I am on Windows 8.1
Running python 2.7.7
with beets 1.3.18

These are my config.yaml options excluding the library and directory

plugins: embedart fetchart lyrics
art_filename: albumcover

import:
    copy: no

lyrics:
    sources: google lyricwiki lyrics.com musixmatch genius

embedart:
    ifempty: yes

fetchart:
    cautious: yes
    minwidth: 480
    sources: coverart itunes amazon albumart google

[sampsyo]

As suggested in the issue template, can you please include the output of a verbose run (i.e., beet -vv lyrics)?

[MetaIronic]

Sorry I misread that section.

Thank you for the prompt response
[with redacted config and data paths]

plugin paths:
Sending event: pluginload
library database: C:\Users\Luis\Documents\mystuff\beets\library.yaml
library directory: C:\Users\Luis\Music
Sending event: library_opened
lyrics: google lyrics backend error: accessNotConfigured
lyrics: lyrics not found: Denzel Curry - Imperial - Sick And Tired
Sending event: cli_exit

[sampsyo]

Hmm, it looks like this search is striking out on each source for different reasons:

• The Google backend needs more configuration—due to their API restrictions, you need to set up an API key with them. (See "activate google custom search" on the docs page for the plugin.)
• Sadly, I think the API we use to fetch Genius lyrics, genius-api.com, may be down—or perhaps shut down for good?
• I don't quite see why we're not finding them on Musixmatch. Do you have a link to where you see the lyrics for that song there?

[MetaIronic]

I have set up a google api key as detailed on the lyrics plugin doc (http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/lyrics.html)

Here are the lyrics https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Denzel-Curry/Sick-And-Tired

[sampsyo]

OK, cool—did you enter the key and custom search engine ID into your config, and did that change anything in the verbose output?

Here's the weirdest part: I seem to be able to fetch those lyrics from Musixmatch just fine. Here's what I see after setting up a track to look like that one:

$ beet -vv lyrics -f denzel curry
[snip]
Sending event: library_opened
lyrics: failed to fetch: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Denzel_Curry:Sick_And_Tired (404)
lyrics: got lyrics from backend: MusiXmatch
lyrics: fetched lyrics: Denzel Curry - Imperial - Sick And Tired
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: cli_exit

[MetaIronic]

Ill try adding the custom id. Which ID should this be?

[sampsyo]

Sorry, I'm not the right person to ask about interacting with Google—you'll need to sort that out on your own.

I'm suspicious about why your version isn't even attempting to use LyricsWiki at all, though. Can you try removing google from your sources and seeing what changes?

[MetaIronic]

Sorry I had removed lyrics wiki upon recommendation by the aforementioned documentation when using the custom beets search.

[sampsyo]

Ah, OK. FWIW, it helps us developers to know exactly what config went with what output from beets.

Maybe it's worth trying a run with only musixmatch enabled?

[MetaIronic]

My current config.

plugins: embedart fetchart lyrics
art_filename: albumcover

import:
    copy: no

lyrics:
    sources: lyricwiki lyrics.com musixmatch
    google_API_key: [snip]


embedart:
    ifempty: yes

fetchart:
    cautious: yes
    minwidth: 480
    sources: coverart itunes amazon albumart google

The Resulting verbose output

C:\Python27\Scripts>beet -vv lyrics denzel curry sick and tired
[snip]
plugin paths:
Sending event: pluginload
[snip]
Sending event: library_opened
lyrics: failed to fetch: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Denzel_Curry:Sick_And_Tired (40
4)
lyrics: lyrics not found: Denzel Curry - Imperial - Sick And Tired
Sending event: cli_exit

[MetaIronic]

No avail with just musixmatch in sources either

[sampsyo]

That's really strange. Any chance you could try the latest source to see if we've fixed something recently? There are instructions in the FAQ.

[MetaIronic]

Also would it be possible to see the lyrics config you were able to access those lyrics with?

[MetaIronic]

No, updating to the latest version via the tarball did not help

[MetaIronic]

I tried adding the custom search URL ID that lyrics plugin purports to use and it is apparently a 403 error

[sampsyo]

Hmm… did you get the latest release (1.3.19) or the latest git source (1.4.0, in development)?

That was actually with a completely blank configuration; just the defaults.

[Davide-Resigotti]

how do you resolve, i have the same problem using lrclib

[snejus]

@Davide-Resigotti see #5102