How to display lyrics of songs?

Question

When I was using Windows, I had an application called MiniLyrics which let me display the lyrics of the music files played. The application automatically downloads the lyrics and displays them while the song plays. Is there a similar application in Ubuntu that I could use?

Solution 1

There is also a screenlet lyrics (works great with Banshee), all you need to do is to install Screenlets(widget applications):

Note: Installing software from PPA may pose a security risk.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install screenlets

And then add Lyrics widget to the desktop.

Solution 2

After a bit of Google researching, I ended up with this article on OMG!Ubuntu. The OSD-Lyrics they suggested works like the way Minilyrics used to work. So, I am delighted.

OSDLyrics can be installed by the following steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osd-lyrics/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install osdlyrics

Comments

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This PPA does not work on 13.10 => askubuntu.com/questions/207073/… | Also; It does not work properly: askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/lyrics