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davidw89
11-29-2007, 04:45
What is the latest version and where can i download it? If it cant find lyrics in Cowon's database how do i input it externally from another source?
I am trying to follow this guide: http://support.cowonamerica.com/supportcentral/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=126
MaxSt
11-29-2007, 13:58
I think 2.32 must be the latest version.

http://download.cowon.com/data/C08/iAUDIO_LDB20_Mgr_Setup_V2.32.zip

You can click "Edit" and then copy-paste the text from somewhere else. Then you play the song, while clicking on "Set Sync" button for every line at the right time.

When it's finished, click "Marking".
gert
04-13-2008, 03:07
From earlier posts, I deduct that iAudio does not use the standard id3tag feature to store lyrics, but has its own proprietary way for embedding the lyrics in the mp3-file.
My question then is, is it possible to play the mp3-file with the embedded iAudio-lyrics on other mp3-players (i.e. on my computer, using Amarok)?
MaxSt
04-13-2008, 13:29
No players on the computer understand that proprietary format.
davidw89
04-22-2008, 07:04
Ok great working with .mp3 files but not with .flac files? What are my options now?
wall_unit
07-24-2008, 03:28
I would like to implement Cowon's proprietary Lyrics format. Could somebody who is using LDB manager upload a file with attached lyrics so i can reverse engeneer the format, without installing windows and LDB manager in a virtual machine? As you might guess i am not a windows user. ;) Thanks.
MaxSt
07-24-2008, 13:22
I would like to implement Cowon's proprietary Lyrics format. Could somebody who is using LDB manager upload a file with attached lyrics so i can reverse engeneer the format, without installing windows and LDB manager in a virtual machine? As you might guess i am not a windows user. ;) Thanks.

Which player? I reverse-engineered one of their two formats, but it's not the same for all players.
wall_unit
07-24-2008, 14:49
For the A3. Sorry that I forgot to say this. I already created a file by myself using a virtual machine on work. There is a tag 'private-id3v2-frame', with some binary data in it. I assume that the lyrics are compressed. I am currently researching on this. If you know something. Please tell me.
MaxSt
07-24-2008, 15:53
There is a tag 'private-id3v2-frame', with some binary data in it.

Is it XLDB or USLT?
wall_unit
07-24-2008, 16:09
Xldb.
MaxSt
07-24-2008, 21:32
I only figured USLT (timestamp every line).

XLDB is karaoke-style (timestamp every syllable). I don't know the format. Even if you could reverse-engineer that thing, it would require an incredible amount of patience to timestamp every syllable in a song...

But if you could at least figure out how to read the info, it would be interesting too.
wall_unit
07-25-2008, 06:01
You are right. But I don't intend to add the timestamps manually. I just want to figure the format out and use the server LDB manager is using to get the lyrics including timestamps.

But it seems to be harder as I thought I can not find any (compressed) text in the file. Can you tell me how the text is formated in USLT? Is it compressed or decrypted? Which encoding is used and where do you found it in the file?
MaxSt
07-25-2008, 14:48
You could load USLT lyrics from their server just as you did with XLDB, and see for yourself - the format is much simplier, all strings are in open view, and timestamps format isn't hard to figure out.

XLDB is much harder. But I guess it could be done.