
Lyrics Plugin
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The "lyrics" plugin fetches and stores song lyrics from databases on
the Web. Namely, the current version of the plugin uses Lyric Wiki,
Lyrics.com, Musixmatch, Genius.com, and, optionally, the Google custom
search API.


Fetch Lyrics During Import
==========================

To automatically fetch lyrics for songs you import, enable the
"lyrics" plugin in your configuration (see *Using Plugins*). Then,
install the requests library by typing:

   pip install requests

The plugin uses requests to download lyrics.

When importing new files, beets will now fetch lyrics for files that
don't already have them. The lyrics will be stored in the beets
database. If the "import.write" config option is on, then the lyrics
will also be written to the files' tags.


Configuration
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To configure the plugin, make a "lyrics:" section in your
configuration file. The available options are:

* **auto**: Fetch lyrics automatically during import. Default: "yes".

* **bing_client_secret**: Your Bing Translation application password
  (to *Activate On-the-Fly Translation*)

* **bing_lang_from**: By default all lyrics with a language other than
  "bing_lang_to" are translated. Use a list of lang codes to restrict
  the set of source languages to translate. Default: "[]"

* **bing_lang_to**: Language to translate lyrics into. Default: None.

* **fallback**: By default, the file will be left unchanged when no
  lyrics are found. Use the empty string "''" to reset the lyrics in
  such a case. Default: None.

* **force**: By default, beets won't fetch lyrics if the files already
  have ones. To instead always fetch lyrics, set the "force" option to
  "yes". Default: "no".

* **google_API_key**: Your Google API key (to enable the Google Custom
  Search backend). Default: None.

* **google_engine_ID**: The custom search engine to use. Default: The
  beets custom search engine, which gathers an updated list of sources
  known to be scrapeable.

* **sources**: List of sources to search for lyrics. An asterisk "*"
  expands to all available sources. Default: "google lyricwiki
  lyrics.com musixmatch", i.e., all the sources except for *genius*.
  The *google* source will be automatically deactivated if no
  "google_API_key" is setup.

Here's an example of "config.yaml":

   lyrics:
     fallback: ''
     google_API_key: AZERTYUIOPQSDFGHJKLMWXCVBN1234567890_ab
     google_engine_ID: 009217259823014548361:lndtuqkycfu


Fetching Lyrics Manually
========================

The "lyrics" command provided by this plugin fetches lyrics for items
that match a query (see *Queries*). For example, "beet lyrics magnetic
fields absolutely cuckoo" will get the lyrics for the appropriate
Magnetic Fields song, "beet lyrics magnetic fields" will get lyrics
for all my tracks by that band, and "beet lyrics" will get lyrics for
my entire library. The lyrics will be added to the beets database and,
if "import.write" is on, embedded into files' metadata.

The "-p" option to the "lyrics" command makes it print lyrics out to
the console so you can view the fetched (or previously-stored) lyrics.

The "-f" option forces the command to fetch lyrics, even for tracks
that already have lyrics.


Activate Google custom search
=============================

Using the Google backend requires BeautifulSoup, which you can install
using pip by typing:

   pip install beautifulsoup4

You also need to register for a Google API key. Set the
"google_API_key" configuration option to your key. Then add "google"
to the list of sources in your configuration (or use default list,
which includes it as long as you have an API key). If you use default
"google_engine_ID", we recommend limiting the sources to "musixmatch
google" as the other sources are already included in the Google
results.

Optionally, you can define a custom search engine. Get your search
engine's token and use it for your "google_engine_ID" configuration
option. By default, beets use a list of sources known to be
scrapeable.

Note that the Google custom search API is limited to 100 queries per
day. After that, the lyrics plugin will fall back on other declared
data sources.


Activate On-the-Fly Translation
===============================

Using the Bing Translation API requires langdetect, which you can
install using pip by typing:

   pip install langdetect

You also need to register for a Microsoft Azure Marketplace free
account and to the Microsoft Translator API. Follow the four steps
process, specifically at step 3 enter "beets" as *Client ID* and
copy/paste the generated *Client secret* into your
"bing_client_secret" configuration, alongside "bing_lang_to" target
language code.
