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<p>Xesam has been unmaintained for a while now (you could probably
say the same for MPRIS, though, for all that mirsal and i are
still monitoring the list!). It's one of my regrets about MPRIS
that we picked a metadata format that didn't last very long.<br>
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<p>That said, xesam was originally developed for the desktop search
use case, so the metadata should generally be thought of as
applying to files. That means it should contain the full lyrics. I
don't think even xesam specifies the format beyond that - it's a
general field for the "text version" of the file, whatever that
means. I would generally assume it would contain a "human
readable" version of the lyrics (in a similar format to what you
might find on most lyrics websites).<br>
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<p>If you want to provide lyrics in a format that allows syncing
with the song text, it's probably worth using a different (custom)
metadata key that you define to be in a specific format.</p>
<p>Alex</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2023 17:18, mirsal wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hello,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">MPRIS
does not define a format for xesam medatada. there is a <span><a
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
href="mailto:xesam@lists.freedesktop.org"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">xesam@lists.freedesktop.org</a></span>
list at <span><a target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam</a>
although it does not seem active. Maybe try asking there
nonetheless, see if anyone replies?</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>Cheers!<br>
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<div class="protonmail_quote"> On Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at
11:22 PM, 北雁 Cryolitia <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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<div dir="ltr">To whom it may concern,
<div> I'm trying to develop a lyrics OSD. I have found the
filed <i>xesam:asText </i>in MPRIS, but have some
arguments about it.</div>
<div> I wonder whether it should be the full lyrics of the
whole song or the lyrics of the sentence currently
playing.</div>
<div> If it should be the full lyrics of the whole song, is
there any format standard to parse it. For example, should
it be <i>.lrc </i>or .<i>src </i>?</div>
<div> More exactly, it's <a target="_blank"
href="https://github.com/go-musicfox/go-musicfox/issues/202"
rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/go-musicfox/go-musicfox/issues/202</a>
(In Chinese sorry).</div>
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