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Hi-

I just oý¢º¬qœA¡Saving lyrics to HTML fileplusnonereed.shea@verizon.net68.6.103.184
ùe some help:

I want to have an embedded webpage on my desktop (easy enough to do with Active Desktop) which shows the lyrics for the currently playing song.  Using v0.1.7, I can get the lyrics to save to the nowplaying.htm file, and show that on the desktop.  Unfortunately, the page on the desktop doesn't refresh automatically.

You say here  that with more recent builds it's possible to save the lyrics into an HTML file without deleting the entire contents. What I wish to do is make an HTML file that includes a metatag telling it to refresh ever 5 or 10 seconds, so that the lyrics will be automatically updated on the desktop.  With the lyrics updated like this, I should also be able to choose how they're displayed, i.e., font, colors, etc... (correct?).

From what I can tell, this seems possible, but on the page linked above, I can't understand what to do.  Please explain what tags to place in the webpage, and how.  

Also, when I had build 135 create HTML files with the lyrics, they were absent formatting.  With v0.1.7, the title was bold, and the different stanzas were seperated.  The newer versions only display a block of text.  I'd appreciat a fix in future versions.


Thanks for your help, and for a great software program.

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[Marek]

hi ... i just fixed the faq you mentioned (tags for inserting lyrics were missing from it) .. just try to read it again, maybe it will make it clearer ...

you can put lyrics and title in different spans with different text formatting so you can apply bold colors or whatever you want to

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Hi Marek,

Taý¤ºl}œA¡Saving lyrics to HTML fileplusnonereed.shea@verizon.net68.6.103.184
;I gather from the FAQ (quoted below) that I insert tags into the .html file; EL will see them, and insert the lyrics.  Is that correct?  If so, what are the tags (what is the code) that I need to insert?

I apologize if I'm missing something really simple, or if what I'm saying is way off of what I'm supposed to do.

If you only want to insert lyrics into existing file without removing it's original content, select the file you want and insert a tag where you want to have lyrics and a tag where you want to have artist's name and song title (as they appear in EL search bar, usually in the form "Artist - Song"). Every time new lyrics are displayed in EvilLyrics (or with manual posting every time you hit Post button) tag is replaced by "lyrics of the song played". Same applies to SONGTITLE. You can use any tag in your file, or both of them.

Thanks for your help,
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[Marek]

sorry again .. it's some bug in our faq system ... try to open faq page again ... and then choose "view source" of the page .. and you'll see actual tags (they use "<" and ">") so browser assumes they are html tags and doesn't dispaly them ... i'll try to fix it ... until then try this temporary solution

[Marek]

faq article should be fixed now

[plusnone]

Alright, its working!  Thanks!  

One more thing:  as I mentioned before, the lyrics aren't formatted in any way.  I don't really have any HTML skills; canyou tell me if there's a way to put a <br> in front of each line?  The source shows that each line of the lyrics is on its own line, but that doesn't translate once on a web page.

Thanks
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[Marek]

try putting tags like

<PRE style="font-family:tahoma">
and
</PRE>

around the lyrics


and if you manage to create some working template, you can post it here so also other people can use it ...

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Well, I managed to change the style of the text with the <pre> tags, but the problem of the lyrics not being on separate lines remains.  From what I can tell, v.0.1.7 outputs the lyrics to an HTML file, including <br> tags in front of each line.  Build 135, however, seems to ouput them on separate lines of HTML code, but without <br> tags.  Is this something that can be change from the user end, or, if not, could you fix this in the next update?

Thanks,
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[Marek]

<PRE> is supposed to display preformatted text, so even if you don't have <br>'s, normal line breaks are considered and dispayed in your browser. I just checked ... for example such template works for me as supposed

<html>
<body>
<SONGTITLE>
<br>
<pre style="font-family:tahoma">
<LYRICS>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

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Marek-

The oýÁºÁ±¦A¡Saving lyrics to HTML fileplusnonereed.shea@verizon.net68.6.103.184
ï what I had before, but it works now.  

If anyone wants it, here's the code I use:

<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="30">
<body>
<pre style="font-family:tahoma">
<SONGTITLE><SONGTITLE END>
<br>
<LYRICS>
<LYRICS END>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

To use it, just paste it into notepad, then save the file somewhere as .htm (or .html).  Then on the Advanced tab of EL, set it to save the lyrics to that html file.  (if you understandw

I now have ActiveDesktop display the webpage on my desktop, refreshing every 30 seconds.  To change the refresh time, change the "30" in this: <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="30"> to however many seconds you want.  I found that each refresh causes an annoying flicker on my desktop, but I can handle it every 30 seconds.

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