Any music lover likes to know what he is listening to. And it is that, sometimes, the melody is only part of the work, being an important part of it what they are telling us. Nowadays, many players for Linux have the option of displaying the lyrics, but within the application itself. If we want something independent there are options like Lyrics, a kind of widget that will show us just what we want to see.
Lyrics is a small application that it will show us the lyrics of any song we are listening if it supports MPRIS-2. Using the MPRIS protocol, this floating window searches and downloads song lyrics to display them fully in sync. This means that what we will see will be similar to a Karaoke: above what we have just sung, marked what is being said and below what is to come. Simple and effective.
Lyrics moves with the music
In some graphical environments (not in KDE) it offers us the possibility of using the night mode. On the other hand, it can also work if we listen to songs from YouTube, but for this it will be necessary to use a browser based on Chrome and have the extension installed browser-playerctl.
The main functions of Lyrics are:
- Simple and neat interface.
- Transparent option.
- Control buttons.
- Night mode.
- Automatic synchronization and scrolling.
- It works on YouTube with the appropriate extension.
The Lyrics code is available at GitHub and we talk about a software open source. They offer us three installation systems: AppCenter by elementaryOS, .deb package for Ubuntu-based distributions or flatpak package for systems that have it as an option. As you can see in the images on GitHub, in elementary OS it is very different than what is in the image that heads this post. In Kubuntu the options that do appear in GNOME and Pantheon do not appear, so for KDE it is not the best option.
What do you think of Lyrics?