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12-31-11, 11:29 PM   #16
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Hard, no. Tedious, time-consuming, and not user-friendly, yes. You would have to find, copy, paste into your addon, and format the lyrics to all of your songs, or write an external script/program to automate that process. Then you would have to either:

(a) manually select the lyrics for each song that began playing, or

(b) copy all of your music files into your addon folder, rename all of those files in a specific format (eg. "Artist Name - Album Name - Track # - Title.ext") so the addon could recognize them and display information about them (since addons can't access ID3 tags), then hardcode a list of all those files in your addon, then write even more code to reimplement a music player inside WoW.

Even if you decided all of that time and effort was worthwhile, if you wanted anyone else to be able to use the addon, you would either need to:

(a) write up instructions to walk users through the process of copying files, renaming files, and listing files inside the addon, and then dedicate endless hours to helping users who did not read or simply do not have enough experience to figure it out on their own, or

(b) write an external program that would automate the renaming and listing process.

I can't imagine that anyone who actually understands the amount of time and effort required to implement this would ever choose to do so, versus simply alt-tabbing or setting up a second monitor. Besides, if you're reading lyrics, you're probably not paying much attention to what's going on in the game anyway, so why even be in the game at that point?
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