What happened with 3.2.5?

At 6:20PM on 17/06/16 I was contacted via email by someone claiming to be Massimo Ciociola, the CEO of MusicXMatch.

The email content is pasted below.

Dear Samuel,
this email is to inform you that we found out you're crawling Musixmatch.com for showing lyrics for Google Play Desktop App. We inform you that if you're not taking down ANY lyric from Musixmatch we'll proceed legally against you. We've informed the NMPA too so you should expect a claim by them too.

We reserve all the legal rights

Best Max.

That is a direct copy-paste from GMail.

Now although the email in itself didn't make much sense I got the general idea, stop using our website to display lyrics or bad things will happen. So rather than risk anything unfortunate happening (like this player disappearing) I immediately patched the 3.2.4 release with a single commit to bump to 3.2.5 but removing the MusicXMatch searching module.

This of course will have a negative impact on displaying lyrics, from my own stats approximately 34% of successful lyric requests came from MusicXMatch.

However this is unavoidable so unfortunately we will not be able to support MusicXMatch lyrics inside GPMDP anymore. Admittedly I am still confused as to how information publicly available for free on a website can't be fetched automatically and displayed (for free) somewhere else, but until I receive clarification from someone who actually knows what's going on this is the way it is going to be.

Apologies for the lowered lyrics support, I am constantly looking for better free sources for lyrics.

Cheer, Samuel