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Fetches and displays lyrics to currently playing song in Spotify, Tidal and VLC.
Spotify Lyrics
Fetches and displays lyrics to currently playing song in the Spotify desktop client.
The lyrics are fetched from these sites:
- rentanadviser.com (synchronized)
- megalobiz.com (synchronized)
- lyricsify.com (synchronized)
- rclyricsband.com (synchronized)
- musixmatch.com
- songmeanings.com
- songlyrics.com
- genius.com
- versuri.ro
- AZLyrics.com
How to
You can grab the latest release in the release section.
Windows
Download the .exe file.
Just double click and start playing songs in spotify.
It is possible that a warning of windows smartscreen appears. It's because the exe is unsigned (see #22). You can allow the program to open by clicking on "More info" and "Run anyway".
If you get an error about api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll missing, you need this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
If the window opens and closes immidiatly, feel free to help fxing the problem in #21.
Linux
Download the file without any file ending.
Make it executable via terminal with chmod +x SpotifyLyrics
or via you file manager.
Now you can double click the executable and start playing songs in spotify.
MacOS
Download the .app.zip file.
Extract the zip so you got a SpotifyLyrics.app directory.
Make a right click on the SpotifyLyrics.app. Click on open and and you can bypass the warning. The program should open and you can play your songs in spotify.
Running from source
If you want to run from source you need:
- Python 3.6 (probably any version greater than Python 3.6)
-
pip install -r requirements.txt
Ubuntu/Debian example:
sudo apt install python3-pip git
git clone https://github.com/SimonIT/spotifylyrics.git
cd spotifylyrics/
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
./SpotifyLyrics.pyw
How to load lyrics from hard drive
You can store lyrics on you hard drive which can automatically loaded.
You have to put them on windows in C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\SpotifyLyrics\lyrics
and on the other OS's in /home/<User>/.SpotifyLyrics/lyrics
. Replace <User>
with your username.
There you can put .lrc
files with synced text (You can make them for example on lrcgenerator.com or www.megalobiz.com) or simple .txt
files with non-synced text.
Important: The file names must include the artist and the name of the song
Theming
You can customize the design of SpotifyLyrics.
To do so create a file called theme.ini inside C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\SpotifyLyrics
or /home/<User>/.SpotifyLyrics
.
Then put some style information in it. You can find an example here.