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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.
TuneWiki for Windows Media Player:Publisher's Description
From TuneWiki:
The TuneWiki Desktop app brings the award-winning TuneWiki mobile app experience to your computer. Features: Listen to your music with synced lyrics. Share and comment on your favorite songs to Facebook & Twitter. Get lyrics instantly translated into 40+ languages. ANDROID USERS: sync your iTunes library directly to your phone. Use Twitter, Facebook or TuneWiki to login and access your TuneWiki mobile profile. What does that song mean? Link directly to comment on and discuss the meaning of lyrics and songs on the TuneWiki website. Discover new music in your SongBox - songs that are being played and recommended by your friends. Explore Song Maps and real-time Top Charts to discover popular songs nearby and around the world. Create, manage, and edit playlists. View and edit detailed tag info for artists, albums, and songs.
What's new in this version: Version 1.0 has a new UI, syncs your iTunes or WMP library with Android devices, and shares the songs you play with your TuneWiki followers and social networks.
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"Doesnt work for me"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
Nothing at all
Cons
Doesnt work for me
Summary
it just doesnt work !
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"Nice but wasted on WMP"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
Cool features, Love the lyrics and background info
Cons
Needs more lyrics from different music genres. Windows media player fails in comparison to just about everything so it is wasted
Summary
Nice program if you like seeing lyrics and a little something extra
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"not great but it is ok"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
it is cool.it tells what is playing.it works
Cons
slows down win player
Summary
it is nice only one con and thats it. 4 stars i would give it 5 if it dident slow win player as much (i know it will slow it down a bit no matter what)
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"nothing to judge"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
crap doesn't work on win 7 nor on 64 bit OS
Cons
desnt work
Summary
didn't work at all on win 7, even using windows xp profile.
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"Total Garbage"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
I didnt like anything about it.
Cons
Waist of time
Summary
I though this this is supposed to show you lyrics! I tired with over 20 different songs and for each one it said lyrics not avalable! This was total waist of time. Total garbage.
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"Nice program for windows media player"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
Very easy to use, good it you like to sing along with your music
Cons
no windows 7 version yet
Summary
Crap doesn't work with windows 7 at all, hurry up and make a windows 7 version.
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"It's a good bit of fun."
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
You get to see the lyrics pretty well and can sing along if the mood takes you, and geographic playlists. You can also submit lyrics if they don't appear which could be fun in many ways.
Cons
You can sing along, but nothing really, sometimes the lyrics don't appear but most of my cd's pre-date the operating requirements.
Summary
I like it, give it a go.
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"Good lyrics plugin, but a few issues affect the program"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
It find the lyrics (most of the time) for most songs. Sometimes the lyrics are wrong, but you can still follow the song.
Cons
Sometimes scrolls with the lyrics and other times doesn't even do it.
Summary
Good plugin for mostly everyone.
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"Love to see the lyrics when I want without searching."
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
Sits at the bottom of Media player.and lets you sing along to the annoyance of those around you - especially when wearing headphones.
Cons
Lyrics may always be 100 per cent correct but I don't mind that.
Summary
Great little app. Give it a try and see for yourself.
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"Lyrics incorrect"
Version: TuneWiki for Windows 0.1.01.53
Pros
I like following what everyone else is listening to in my area
Cons
Most of the lyrics I listen to are either unavailable or incorrect. Can't get map to start in my location (I don't live in Kentucky!)
Summary
Am always getting script error messages. The lyrics don't always scroll or scroll out of sync and will not adjust.
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