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Lyrics, play counts

There are a couple of lyrics plug-ins, but I've been avoiding them because they save the lyrics in the file (using a tag like LYRICS). There is nothing really wrong with this, I just like to keep track of my file modification dates. I'm still waiting for a plug-in that just retrieves the lyrics from the internet whenever you play a song.

The latest version (0.9.3 I think) of Foobar does support automatic play counts (including remembering the last time played for each file, and the number of times played). Unlike previous attempts at doing this via plug-ins, the new official version saves the data in a seperate file somewhere, so it doesn't need to modify your music files every time you play them (in order to update the data). The trick is getting at this data...I added it to my TrackInfo by using the new %play_count% and %last_played% tags.

I'll try to e-mail a pic of my interface.


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