OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in Linux.
=Compatible Media Players=
- 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)
- MPD
- Rhythmbox
- Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed)
- XMMS2
=Download Lyrics=
OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from following web sites:
- Sogou http://mp3.sogou.com/
- Qianqian http://www.qianqian.com/index.html
You can switch the download engine in preference dialog.
=Have Trouble?=
- Read our FAQ: http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/wiki/FAQ
- Post to our discussion group(http://groups.google.com/group/osd-lyrics) or send a mail to [email protected].
- You can also fire an issue to http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/issues/list.
=Get Involved=
- If you would like to translate OSD Lyrics to other languagues, please visit https://translations.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics
- If there is any feature request, suggestion, or bug, feel free to report them to http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/issues/list
*If there is any Grammar mistake in both documentation and software interface, please let me know :)
=Acknowledgement=
Some open source projects help the authors to develop OSD Lyrics, as well as some people. The authors would like to thank you:
- Gnome OSD: OSD implementation
- lrcdis: The idea of third-party lyrics program, and the analysis of LRC download protocols
- Cairo-Dock: Its musicPlayer plugin helps the authors to implement most music player support
- The global keybinding implementation is taken from Gnome Do, which is originally from Red hat and Tomboy
- TuaratriX (http://imtx.cn/) has help one of the author on the implementation of OSD, and is maintaining the Ubuntu PPA repository.
- easy designed our beautiful icon.
- liangsuilong(http://liangsuilong.co.cc/) maintains the Fedora RPM repository.