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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008
- Date added: June 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 17,536
- Downloads last week: 350
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A newer version of TuneWiki for Windows Media Player is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 38 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on June 22, 2009
TuneWiki's Windows Media Player plug-in is part licensed lyrics spooler for your own songs and for streaming YouTube videos, and part social project. TuneWiki's interface reskins Windows Media Player's "Now Playing" window. As the music from your library plays, TuneWiki checks its online wiki database for song lyrics--which members mostly contribute, Wikipedia-style--and plays them in time with the music. If you search for YouTube videos through TuneWiki's plug-in, it will similarly serve lyrics, if available. The lyrics tools include support for language translations, the ability to manually scroll through lyrics rather than stream them, and a process by which you can easily manually reset the timing between a song's audio track and its associated lyrics.
In addition to TuneWiki's primary visual lyrics experience is a secondary social one. TuneWiki displays music maps on which other TuneWiki users are plotted. You'll be able to see who in close proximity is playing which song, or where in the world others are playing the same song as you. Clicking an individual's name can pull up the YouTube video of the song they're rocking so you can watch along, or can show the song's real-time influence on the globe.
While TuneWikie's lyrics database especially enriches the basic Windows Media Player experience, it harbors some flaws. Some tools aren't immediately intuitive, like the resyncing process, and the fact that only TuneWiki-approved editors can edit existing lyrics. A text notice on the editor-only area would wipe away potential confusion and frustration. Also, we'd like the size of the YouTube video to be adjustable. If the YouTube video stops, as it did once during testing, we want to refresh it without closing and reopening the app. When searching for songs, we'd like a more elegant display of the artist and album information returned in the results.
TuneWiki's plug-in is good enough to use now--the lyrics and music maps adding utility and interest--but will benefit from a few more development iterations.
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Publisher's description
From TuneWiki :TuneWiki brings its technology for mobile social media players to your PC. The free TuneWiki plug-in converts that boring solitary experience of Windows Media Player to a social networking and entertainment tool. TuneWiki adds lyrics scrolling as subtitles for your music, and allows you to contribute missing lyrics and timing to the community. TuneWiki includes foreign-language translations and allows you to contribute and correct translations for your preferred language. TuneWiki displays who else is enjoying the same music as you and where they are. It also shows what music is being played by other community members around the planet. TuneWiki displays what people are playing in your city as a default.
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Moved to the plugin category.
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User reviews of TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 38 votes
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Version: TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
Pros: Lyrics !!!
Cons: Scroll simply doesnt work
Summary: Scroll simply doesnt work
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Version: TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
Pros: I really liked the way that it automatically loaded the lyrics for the song
Cons: The syncing didn't work
Summary: Although I would like to be able to add lyrics for some songs this is a great program as an add on for wmp
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Version: TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
"I like this tool very much it works well good selection"
Pros: Works well very quick to find tune required. Good all round selection. Excellent fun and if in music business invaluable.
Cons: None to worry about at present.
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Version: TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
"besides windows having to shut down a few time it's OK"
Pros: It does have most of the lyrics.
Cons: sometimes windows has problems with the plug in or you have to scroll down the lyrics yourself when most of the time it's scrolls with the music.
Summary: Mind you I use it basically for the lyrics to find out what the singer is saying
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Version: TuneWiki for Windows Media Player 0.1.01.5
Pros: Doesn't seem to affect WMP at all
Great way to have your lyrics on hand at any timeCons: the synching doesn't always work
Summary: If you like lyrics with your music, this product is great. It doesn't have every song, but is very convenient.
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