pyLyRSS 0.4.1 review

pyLyRSS is a tool to convert RSS feeds to lyrics files which can be displayed on a MP3 Player. Many MP3 players have the ability t

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 14K Developer: Michael Gschwandtner

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pyLyRSS is a tool to convert RSS feeds to lyrics files which can be displayed on a MP3 Player.

Many MP3 players have the ability to display lyrics to the songs. I believe that this feature is not used by many people but it can be really useful. Why not read your daily news on your player. I got this idea and found it very interesting.

You can use my tool pyLyRSS to automatically fetch one or more RSS feeds and create .lrc files for mp3 files. an RSS feed can be spanned over several files but not more than one feed can be added to a single mp3 file. If you fetch more than one feed then you have to assure that you have enough mp3 files or you wont be able to read all feeds.

Usage:

./pyLyRSS.py -f feed1,feed2,... (-os | -of | -od) [-ml ] [-ct ]

-f one ore more RSS URLs
-os output ti stdout
-of output to one or more files
-od output to files in a directory (recursive)
-ml maximum length of a lyrics line (default:14)
-ct how long to display a character in 1/100 of a second (default:20)
-v print version information
-l print license

Example:

./pyLyRSS.py -f http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot,http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases-global.xml -od /mnt/usbstick/

What's New in This Release:
A bug with -os was fixed.
Two features were added to allow you to not only download the RSS title, but also the description, and to allow the program to mount and unmount the MP3 player before and after execution.