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Create a list of songs for which no lyrics have been imported

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SmittyDidIT

14 Aug, 2014 07:45 AM

I'm trying to populate my vocal songs with the lyrics.

Within iTunes there's no metadata flag that helps us with that.. so it is an endless manual labor (with 13k songs), abusing the category field with a "vocal" 'tag'.

Is there a way to identify songs wether songs have lyrics populated and even better also as being "vocal" songs?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 18 Oct, 2014 12:27 PM

   

   Hey,

   sorry for the very late reply—your message got stuck in a spam filter.

   Anyhow. beaTunes has no built-in way to achieve what you're interested in.
   But: I hacked the attached Jython script for beaTunes 4, which creates a playlist with all the songs that don't have lyrics yet. To use it, place it into the plugins folder, restart beaTunes and then choose the new menu item New Playlist with No-Lyrics-Songs from the Tools menu.

   The plugin won't be fast, but it should create a new playlist named No Lyrics Playlist containing only songs that don't have any lyrics yet.

   Alternatively, you might want to import Last.fm tags and search for things like vocal or instrumental.

   Hope this helps,

   -hendrik

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