Lyrics Plugin Winamp
Desiderato Merriwether
Starting a few days ago, the plugin will no longer show lyrics if Malwarebytes is running and "Web Protection" is enabled. I do recall when first upgrading to Mawarebytes v3 a few years ago that I had to go into "Manage Protected Applications" and disable Winamp there to get Winamp to work properly then. Though I don't recall whether the issue at that time was with the entire Winamp program or the lyrics plugin. But, in any event, Winamp is still set to "off" under Protected Applications, yet I now have the plugin issue.
In Malwarebytes, I've added an exclusion for my Winamp profile folder (the one is \AppData\Roaming\Winamp), but that doesn't seem to make a difference. The only way to allow the plugin to work is to exit Malwarebytes completely, or disable Web Protection.
You can also whitelist it yourself, not just the folder but the actual executable showing in the alerts connecting to the internet.
Settings> exclusions> add exclusion> in the next popup window, check radio button beside "exclude application that connects to the internet".
From there, you will need to choose the file that was showing in the alert popup. You can't choose folders here - you will need to specify the exact file. Once you've set this, OK your way out & you should be able to run the application without issues.
I am not getting an alert pop-up when the issue occurs. Nor is there a message that the plugin/website was blocked in the Notification window. However, as I said, if I exit Malwarebytes or simply turn off the "Web Protection" toggle, the issue disappears.
Please see the attached screenshots-- NoIssue.jpg was taken with "Web Protection" disabled in Malwarebytes. Issue.jpg was taken with it enabled. The window on the right labeled "Lyrics" is the one in question.
I've added the exclusion you described, excluding Winamp.exe. But the issue persists. I've also added the Winamp program folder itself to the exclusion list, but the same thing happens. The only way I've been able to get the plugin to work correctly is to exit Malwarebytes completely, or turn off Web Protection.
This is an issue with the latest version of MB3 that should be fixed in our next release. For now the best solution is to disable Web Protection when trying to use the lyrics plugin, or downgrade to the previous version.
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :)
Well it does what it says, it's simple and it will display the lyrics for the track currently playing (if found) otherwise you can add/edit your own which was nice (as long as it's not abused though).
Workd well with the the main stream tracks thrown at it and there were no apparent stability issues.
This was working great until recently, now all my songs pull up the wrong lyrics. And the edit window doesnt work anymore. Not sure whats wrong but it might need an update. - October 18, 2010 by vato76
This worked very well for me in the recent years. However, now with a Win7 64-bit machine the script cannot access the database anymore. An upgrade is highly appreciated. - April 6, 2010 by az frankie
WOW - I downloaded this thinking I would have to find the lyrics and type them in but they came right up - immediately - maybe even sooner than that - lol.Amazing plug-in - November 29, 2009 by Roger Blakley
Gud plugin..im having lrc file for some songs in the same folder, same file name.. but it didnt displays the lyrics..so made this plugin to search internet for lyrics, it not present any search for lrc or txt file in the directory.. thanks - November 3, 2009 by udhayaraagam
Wow - This is the best, and I tried them all. IT's very quick, I've thrown loads of abscure track at it, and its only failed to pick up on about 2 so far. Veyr Cool - July 10, 2009 by andyb63uk
Excellent! - It's a very useful tool, doesn't show wrong lyrics like other lyrics plug-insIf it can't find a matching lyrics it lets you search in google for the right one. - July 9, 2009 by juanjos37
Great tool! - This tool is great! To everybody that complains about the font: The function to change the font IS implemented. Just look at the bottom of the lyrics window, there are 3 functions: "edit", "search google" and "configure". You can change the font, text colour and background colour over there!!!Additional feature that should be implemented: Look for the lyrics in the songs tag! If it is there, use that one. If not, use the online one and automatically add those online lyrics in the tag so that when you don't have internet anymore, you can still enjoy reading lyrics! - June 28, 2009 by damien.decremer
'Lyrics' replicates in 5.552 View Menu - As a previous user has experienced, since my upgrade to Winamp 5.552, whenever I enter the View menu, the Lyrics list item replicates within the menu. If I click on the item, it replicates again. Soon there are many copies of the Lyrics item in the menu.I can only reset the menu by closing Winamp; but the problem continues.Since there is no link for the plugin author here, I'm adding this comment in the hopes that a fix will be listed. In the past, Lyrics Plugin has worked great for me. - May 1, 2009 by T Nedilsky
Winamp 5.551 View Drop-down leak - Hello,I am reporting it this way as I didn't find a way to contact the author directly.I have upgrade from 5.550 to 5.551 and discovered a small annoying problem. In the Main toolbar 'View' drop-down, where you have the Playlist, Dynamic Library etc. I have installed 2 additional plugs, Lyrics and Leo's Lyrics. Both of them causes that the View Drop-down keep adding and adding either Plugins into the 'View Drop-down' if you select/deselect from the 'View Drop-down'. So the 'View Drop-down' becomes Endless long with duplicate entries.I removed both plugins and all looks fine. Installing one or the other or even both causes this problem.I didn't have this problem with the previous version of Winamp, 5.550.This look for me more a bug in winamp 5.551 then with the plugins.Brgds,Bas.Response I got from Winamp Support Forum Moderatorthe plugins will need to be fixed to work correctly with 5.55x as there were changes made to the handling of that menu which fixed an issue where winamp's own plugins wouldn't correctly appear in the list all of the time and i'm going to guess they're not adding to the menu in the correct manner.point the author's at this which gives info needed on adding an item (which should also work correctly on previous Winamp versions).-daz - March 27, 2009 by Bas Caves
excellent - excellent plugin,simple and functional but lo i have a problem,when i start using vista ,i cant install this plugin to winamp,everytime i try i got error message,and conseqeuntly ,i cant use the plugin,any one can be of help ?? - February 16, 2009 by ssavass ahmet
best lyrics plugin around - I've tested all of them. This one is the most simple, effective and neat.Its database is not as huge as LeoLyrics' but for the few it misses you can easily add the lyrics for it.Recommended. - December 24, 2008 by Gabriel Klein
Best Lyrics plugin - However, it has recently stopped working, I tried a couple of other lyrics plugins but found this to be the best, so went back to it. Reinstalled and get the 'Lyrics' option in the menu, but no lyrics box. Any hints as to how to get the lyrics pane back? - October 9, 2008 by David LC
the best available - it really comes in handy when I would like to read some lyrics.the only thing missing is that all the lyrics comes up like .lrc files, but I think that would be a bit more difficult for the plug-in to search up because theres not many places on the internet were it is possible to download .lrc files. At the same time it should be a big library of lrc files - August 19, 2008 by Zig K
didn't crash-found songs - I tried several others that are highly rated here, but one froze my computer and the other couldn't find lyrics for most of my music. This one is plain and simple and functional. - August 18, 2008 by Celtic Chrys
Great, when it works! - I have had this LYRICS plugin for a long time. I recently downloaded the new Winamp version. Now, the LYRICS plugin still works except for the EDIT & CONFIGURE parts of the program. Can anyone help me get this plugin working again? - July 28, 2008 by Carl Gsell
sounded like a good idea - hit the download button and instantly my antivirus went off saying a trojan was connected to it. so therefore i cleaned the infection and did not download it. thought you should know. - May 14, 2008 by Sean Dorman
Very nice - Great for Beck or Tool. Sometimes it's nice to know what the music is trying to REALLY say. Cannot configure the colors though ohh well... It's nice anyways. - May 6, 2008 by byron drake
It's OK but.. - This plugin works fine unless you have some music which title/artist name contains non-english characters. It doesn't recognize these songs then... I'm Polish and half of my mp3s are polish artists so it's a bit problematic to use this plugin. In other case: it's OK. :) - January 15, 2008 by Przemek K.
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