OSD Lyrics: A multi-player lyrics finder for Linux

Do you like singing along while a song is playing and sometimes miss out on lyrics. You might face this more so on Linux as Windows has fairly good options for a lyrics finder. OSD-Lyrics tries to fill this gap by allowing you to download lyrics. More over it supports a large number of media players.

OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in Linux.

Following is a list of players supported:

• Amarok 2.0 and 1.4 (1.4 are disabled by default, use –enable-amarok1 to compile)
• Audacious
• Banshee
• Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3)
• JuK new!^
• MOC 2.5 (High CPU Usage)
• Qmmp (with MPRIS plugin enabled) ^new!
• Quod Libet
• MPD
• Rhythmbox
• Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed)
• XMMS2

You can install OSD Lyrics using the following commands at the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osd-lyrics/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install osdlyrics

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