OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. It is a third-party lyrics display program, and focus on OSD lyrics display.
Media Player Support
OSD Lyrics communicates with music players through IPC. OSD Lyrics currently supports following media players:
Amarok 2.0 and 1.4 (1.4 with High CPU usage) 
Audacious 
Banshee 
Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3) 
Rhythmbox 
Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed)
Download Lyrics
OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from following web sites:
You can switch the download engine in preference dialog.
Get Involved
- If you would like to translate OSD Lyrics to other languagues, please visit our translation site
- If there is any feature request, suggestion, or bug, feel free to report them to http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/issues/list
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 has help one of the author on the implementation of OSD
- easy designed our beautiful icon.
- RPM packages are provided by liangsuilong.
OSD Lyrics是受lrcdis的启发而开发的一款第三方歌词显示程序，它重点在于提供类似桌面歌词的OSD歌词显示。
播放器支持
OSD Lyrics是独立程序，通过播放器提供的接口对播放器进行支持。目前OSD Lyrics支持下列播放器：
- Amarok 2.0 和 1.4 (1.4 CPU占用率较高，不推荐)
- Audacious
- Banshee
- Exaile (支持0.2和0.3)
- Rhythmbox
- Songbird (需要安装MPRIS扩展)
歌词下载
OSD Lyrics目前支持从如下网站自动下载歌词：
可以在首选项中选择要使用的下载网站
帮助我们
- 如果有任何功能上的建议和改进意见，或者在使用过程中遇到了bug，欢迎提交到Issue列表
- 如果有兴趣将OSD Lyrics翻译为其他语言，请访问OSD Lyrics在launchpad上的翻译站点
致谢
OSD Lyrics的开发离不开开源软件的帮助。没有它们的代码作为参考，不知要摸索到何年何月。在此感谢以下对OSD Lyrics的发展提供过帮助的软件和个人：
- Gnome OSD：OSD模式的实现很多参考了它的代码
- lrcdis：第三方支持的创意和歌词下载的分析
- Cairo-Dock：各种播放器支持的实现参考自它的musicPlayer插件
- 全局快捷键的实现取自 Gnome Do，代码可追溯到Red hat和Tomboy
- TuaratriX同学也曾在OSD的实现上帮助过作者
- easy同学为我们设计了美丽的图标
- liangsuilong同学提供了RPM打包
