Hi all,
Today I was browsing the Korean iRiver site (fun to do even if you don't understand it like me
(nice tools over there, just click a bit here and there)). I found a cool program called iRiver LDB Manager.
Some of you already found a way of using lyrics with the text viewer. I found a more 'professional' way (easier is a better word :P ). The lyrics are added to the file itself.
Pro's:
- Automatically adding lyrics
- Searches through a database on the internet
- Preview section
Down's:
- Database (probably owned by iRiver) is not very big, it will only find the popular songs.
- Some strange translated English (e.g. I don't understand the setup, I think they mean that LDB updates the ID3 tag
)
- Not very stable (e.g. If your internet connection fails while downloading or searching lyrics it will crash)
'How does it work?'
Very easy....
At first: Select your player (in the second picture marked as 1 and 2) at 1 you select H and at 2 300
Step 2: Select the files you want to add lyrics to (ctrl + click on the files or shift from the first to the last file you want)
Then press marking (the button at the top with the pencil)
Don't be scared by the picture the program is also available in English
Note: Some (or most) of the files will not be updated automatically.
Manual lyrics: You can add lyrics to files manually by pressing editor (the one with the scissor) Press Text edit and type or copy all the text (separated by RETURN) you can for example use google and search on phrases like Lyric, title, artist. Then play the file and press set sync (or press SPACE) every time you hear the next line
convinced?
Download it
here
Official H300 LDB Page
here (Korean)
When you're finished it will look something like this:
<picture will be posted tommorow, I promise>
Note: You can't see which song you're playing. If you want to see which song is playing turn of Tag information (hold NAVI untill you see the config menu go to 'display' and turn 'Tag Information' off)
Etcetera:
For mods/admins, Maybe this would fit nicer in the Software FAQ but it's not available for all iRiver players. If you want to feel free to move it but please leave a (sticky?) link here because most H300 users didn't know this feature and used the text viewer instead.
Only tested with 1.28K Firmware, I will test it soon in the E(european) version. Can someone test it with the US version?
'Help, I carefully appleid all these points and it still doesn't work!'
Probably you've turned off the Tag information, turn it on again in the Config menu (hold NAVI untill you see the config menu go to 'display' and turn 'Tag Information' on)
p.s: This won't affect other players, so don't worry that your computer or anything else could affect playing your files
Have fun
