Providers not open sourced?

[imhemish]

I saw there are endpoints /get and /get-cached

/get may retrieve from external sources/

but there are no such providers in code??

I assume they are hidden and not open sourced

If lyrics are retrieved from external sources, there should be an update mechanism too. Like for some tracks, tracks have already been fetched and might be wrong, on musixmatch or other sources, they are then updated later, then they are not refetched and wrong lyrics remain in database

[DejayRezme]

AFAIK you can download the recent 12GB sql3 database snapshot from lrclib.net

I'm not affiliated with this project, I've just been wondering for a while about truly open source databases for lyrics, music tags, movies and tv shows, books and comics etc. They would have to be shared P2P (IPFS) and also version controlled, compressed well and split into the most frequent data that can be cached locally, and more rare chunks that is mirrored by clients. So author or groups and users can submit, authenticate, fork and merge data. I can't quite wrap my head around how this would work. I think "DefraDB" or "OrbitDB" provide some of those functionalities.

[eadmaster]

here they are storing the whole db as a bunch of jsons, it makes contributions easier, since you can use the gitlab interface directly:
https://gitlab.com/karaokemugen/bases/karaokebase/

[tranxuanthang]

First of all, I’m sorry for the delayed response. I’ve been a bit busy with life, so I haven’t been very active in maintaining the project or answering questions lately.

It’s true that the providers aren’t open-sourced, but for good reason. If they were, the project might face a higher risk of being taken down due to DMCA claims. Other than that, I have no motivation to keep the source code to myself. If you’re interested in seeing the implementation, feel free to email me, and I’ll share the code with you. ;-)

[jing-ghg]

Thanks for the amazing job of maintaining this huge lyrics database.

Just curious, is it ok for us to get the lyrics from lrclib for commercial usage? (such as displaying in the app)

[tranxuanthang]

@jing-ghg It's generally OK, but make sure to put a correct User-Agent or X-Lrclib-Client header in your requests, so that I'm able to contact you when anything goes wrong. Though it is not required, please consider making a recurring donation if/when your app/service becomes more popular and generates income.