Show the lyric of playing songs on the desktop.

很多歌消失了。 —— 汪曾祺 《徙》

The latest and supported version should only work on the most current stable version of GNOME Shell.

git clone https://github.com/tuberry/desktop-lyric.git && cd desktop-lyric
meson setup build && meson install -C build
# meson setup build -Dtarget=system && meson install -C build # system-wide, default --prefix=/usr/local

For older versions, it's recommended to install via:

• High CPU usage;
• Prefer lyrics from xseam:asText in Mpris metadata;
• The lyrics (LRC format) filename format is Title-Artist1,Artist2-Album.lrc;
• Draw at an even pace so that exact synchronization with the song is not guaranteed;

Any contribution is welcome.

For any question or idea, feel free to open an issue or PR in the repo.

To update the po file from sources:

bash ./cli/update-po.sh [your_lang_code] # like zh_CN, default to $LANG

To install GJS TypeScript type definitions:

npm install @girs/gnome-shell --save-dev

• lyrics-finder: online lyrics
• osdlyrics: some names