Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:19 pm
Hi,
Please note that these limits are put there to prevent/ensure (mostly) your IP do not get black listed from services you are pulling tag data.
Hi Peke, thanks for the information.
How would we / user know if their IP address gets black listed? Is there something to look out for in the DeBugView?
Can the service provider distinguish between MMW4 and MMW5 or whether an add-on like Lyricator is used?
My approach is to use a Collection to provide a list of tracks in my library that:
1). Have no lyrics
2). Not too short or too long
3). Are reasonable quality
4). Not "Various Artists"
5). Last Played over 3 months ago (i.e. as I would have checked for lyrics previously)
The list is currently down to ~750 based on MMW4 / Lyricator - so I just set this "playing" and searching for lyrics when the PC is on but I am not at the screen. I normally do this once a month or so.
My impression is that both MMW4 and MMW5 search for Lyrics whenever a track starts playing. I think I have also seen that the same track will be "re-searched" for Lyrics if you start playing again. Is there any "flag" to stop this repetition of searching?
I recently downloaded 8 ~2021albums with just over 100 tracks and added them independently to my MMW4 library and MMW5 library. I then compared how well MMW4 and MMW5 found the lyrics using their separate copies of the files. MMW5 was around 50% and MMW4 over 80%. So there is quite a benefit from my viewpoint to using MMW4 and then "copying" the files with lyrics to the "clone" of my library that MMW5 uses.
Also, with a higher success rate MMW4 + Lyricator presumably results in less overhead "re-searching" for the resources providing a lyrics service.
Perhaps there is some optimisation that can help reduce the chance of IP addresses being blacklisted.
Happy to do some more testing and provide log / files etc.