Show lyrics with your favorite media player.
OSD Lyrics is a lyrics show compatible with various media players. It is not a plugin but a standalone program. OSD Lyrics shows lyrics on your desktop, in the style similar to KaraOK. It also provides another displaying style, in which lyrics scroll from bottom to top. OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from the network automatically.
OSD Lyrics is released under GPL v3. See COPYING for more detail.
To use OSD Lyrics, just launch your media player, then launch OSD Lyrics. OSD Lyrics will detect and connect to the media player.
The following packages need to be installed to compile osdlyrics:
libappindicator-devlibdbus-glib-1-dev
Here is a place to register some troubleshooting with the development or with the compilation.
When run the autogen.sh script or run command like autoconf or autoreconf -i:
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if have error with output containing these lines:
syntax error near unexpected token '0.35.0'andIT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.35.0), try to install intltool package. On debian like system:sudo apt-get install intltool -
if have a problem with a package dependencies, just install the needed package (particulary the development version).
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Application indicator can be enabled with
./configure --enable-appindicator=yes
The official source repository is on Github: http://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics
If there is any feature request, suggestion, or bug, feel free to report them to https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics/issues
You can contact main maintainer for support and related subjects through: [email protected]
- Help translate: https://translations.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics
- Patch: https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics/pulls
- Bug report: https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics/issues
- Any visual design is welcome :)