Sing IT! Lyric Displayer Plugin for WinAmp ---------------------- Copyright (C) IT! Software E-mail: analogue@altern.org web: http://www.altern.org/analogue Purpose: There is only one lyrics displayer plugin for Winamp and after tried it, I felt that this plugin has some lack when you use it. So, I start to read some docs and begin the code of my own plugin. This plugin is just an alterative to Kuo's one. It tried to be more presentable, bugless and easy to use. It use Kuo's lyrics format (*.lrc) so that you can find lyrics file easily. There is also the Sing IT! Editor that can help you writing new lyrics files althougth there are simple to write but I think it can be usefull. At this time, Sing IT! and it's editor are not very good-looking but I'll give them some photoshop/winamp look when they ll really run fine. Setup: 1. Copy "Sing IT!.dll" in the Winamp directory 2. Select "Sing IT!" in the plugin window of Winamp (CTRL+K) 3. Click on the "Configure" button to select your lyrics directory 3. Click on the "Test" button or press CTRL+SHIFT+K 4. Enjoy ! Lyric setup: Create a lyrics directory (e.g c:\winamp\lyrics) directory and select it in the config box of Sing IT! If the MP3 file is: C:\Songs\MySong.mp3, then rename your lyric MySong.lrc or MySong.txt and copy it in your Lyrics_Dir or in the same directory as your mp3 file. (but i'd like you to use the .LRC extension because of possible confusion with other formats) Tips and Restrictions: As default, this plugin would display a .LRC lyric file with the same filename as the MP3 file. If some of your lyric file got .TXT extensions, you can rename all those files by typing under MS-Dos prompt within their directory: "ren *.txt *.lrc" (you can keep your .txt files too) Legal issues: This plugin is freeware. But use it at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage that may appear in using this program. Credits: I'd like to thank: - Nur Ismail for his Plugin SDK for Delphi. - Rafi for his web site full of lyrics: http://lyrics.tomnet.ml.org - Kuo Shiang-shiang (Djohan) who has created Kuo's .LRC lyric file format. Updates: You can check last version at http://www.altern.org/analogue History: * v0.5 (18/03/1998) - Auto-minimize option added - the Sing IT! window is no longer rectangular ;) - X2 Zoom added - Nasty title bar removed - Center-align feature added - Show ID3 tags - Show lyrics author ( [by:xxxx] tag ) - Keep selected features for next restart - Bug fixed with [00:00] time-tag on the first line - Hebrew bug fixed * v0.4e (10/03/1998) - Multi-tags per line bug fixed * v0.4d (09/03/1998) - Empty-lines support added - Minimize/Restore bug fixed * v0.4c (08/03/1998) - Hungarian Support - Minor bugfixes * v0.4b (03/03/1998) - Now you can put your .lrc/.txt files in your mp3's directory - Display the author of the lyric near the end of the song played (You have to use Sing IT! Editor in order to sign you lyrics) * v0.4a (01/03/1998) - French support - Winamp-Mangled bug fixed * v0.4 (26/02/1998) - ID3 tags support !!! - Better Lyric-Load engine - Easy to use Config Box - Hebrew support - Small icon added * v0.3a (24/02/1998) - Added a Config Box to select the Lyrics directory - Displays helpfull information when the lyric file can't be found - Added a space char at both extremity of the Scrolling-text - Last scrolling bug fixed - another close-bug fixed - display bug fixed * v0.3 (23/02/1998) - Autosize itself with the longest sentence of the lyric - Scroll bug fixed - the line to sing is now highlighted - Some other bugfixes and optimizations (the size is smaller than v0.2!) * v0.2 (22/02/1998) - new Winamp look * v0.1e (21/02/1998) - Totally converted from Delphi to C++ (now i can make many visual effects You have to wait the next release to appreciate the new gfx) * v0.1d (19/02/1998) - Keep last window position - Close Bug fixed (but there is still one!) - Last Sentence Bug fixed * v0.1c (18/02/1998) - Added a minimize button - Added support for a Lyrics directory - Some bugfixes * v0.1b (17/02/1998) - Added a smart scrolling (you need to see it to understand what i mean) - Added support for repeated lines/several time-tags - Some bugfixes * v0.1a (16/02/1998) - First public release of the Winamp plugin - Sing IT! Editor is out ! Known Bugs: - If you close Winamp before the plugin, it may hang TODO: - x2 zoom - Remove the nasty title bar - Support for more internatinal lyrics - Installation script - Support for Drag & Drop and Double-Click with lyric files to open the Sing IT! Editor End.