OSD Lyrics: A multi-player lyrics finder for Linux

October 6, 2017

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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
Once installed you can find it under Applications > Sound & Video > OSD Lyrics.
Enjoy the Karaoke experience on your Linux System.