Saturday, January 19, 2008

What the Hell happened to scroogle.org

So Scroogle.org stopped being a thing which means that scrooglyric stopped working in amarok. This is the best lyric fetcher ever and you should switch to linux just to discover whether or not your lyrics intereptation is correct for that song that makes you think about her or him. Maybe the artist was actualy singing about a volkswagen coupe  and not a hot red head prostitute. If its a screamo song your probally missing all the sweet vampire symbolism. 

Anyway I hope that this post helps the googlers out there trying to fix their broken amarok. 
If your scrooglyrics script fails to reach the server you need the new and improved googlyrics by the same guy on kde-apps.org.



Heres the new link

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=73850
  



As opposed to the old and busted

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=73850


By my calculation this blogpost may helpthe 295-46-1 = 248 people who downloaded the old script but have not downloaded the new one.  Thanks to ultra and his buddies for perl wizardry.

Google Bomb!

amarok script lyrics
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broken failed to reach server
googlyrics


amarok script lyrics
scroogle scrooglyrics error
broken failed to reach server
googlyrics

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Scroogle blocks all scripts and automated queries that we discover. If we don't, then Google will block Scroogle's servers. The purpose of Scroogle is for users to see Google's results without having to worry about their privacy. Any series of Scroogle queries from the same source that occur too quickly to be initiated manually, will be blocked. The more publicity the script gets, the faster we discover them.

why not mike said...

Thank You Daniel