Our repository has been moved to Github:https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics

OSD Lyrics is released under GPL v3.

Recent News

2012-01-19: OSD Lyrics 0.4.2 stable

You can download the source code tarball from download page

Important: Try this patch if you fail to compile from source code.

• UI improvements:
• Player choose dialog redesigned
• Fade out on the edge of lyric text in OSD mode if it is too long
• Drag-to-seek in scrolling mode

• Player support:
• Bring back support for Rhythmbox prior to 0.13
• Support RhythmCat
• Auto-detect the launch command for Audacious 2 and 3
• Do not require root privilege to launch MPD

• Bug fixes:
• Blurring in OSD mode will not cause a frame around lyrics
• Fix compilation issue in BDS systems.
• Fix track duration in MPRIS support
• Deal with player launch commands with %f or %U as arguments
• ttPlayer engine can search lyrics with ' in the title
• CUE sheets are supported now
• Don't show invalid search result of Xiami engine

Full release announcement

2011-11-22: OSD Lyrics 0.4.2 beta2

Download the source tarball and try it at your own risk.

2011-11-22: OSD Lyrics 0.4.2 beta1

Download the source tarball and try it at your own risk.

2011-07-08: OSD Lyrics 0.4.1 stable

• Choose player if no supported player running on launch
• Outline blur on OSD mode
• Support all MPRIS-compatible players
• New lyrics search site: xiami.com
• Fix ttPlayer search
• Search lyrics from more than one sites
• All files with the name of osd-lyrics' are replaced to osdlyrics'

2011-07-08: OSD Lyrics 0.4.1 beta2

The only change in beta2 is that the version requirement of GTK+2 is decreased.

Try the source tarball at your own risk.

2011-07-03: OSD Lyrics 0.4.1 beta1

Source tarball: Download page

2011-06-26: openSUSE support

Thanks to @hillwood, OSD Lyrics supports openSUSE now :)

You can follow our wiki page to add the repository, or download the stable version if your are under openSUSE 11.4.

2011-06-04: OSD Lyrics 0.4.0 stable

• Support more players: Clementine, Deciber-audio-player, Gmusicbrowser, Listen, and VLC.
• Display OSD lyrics as a normal window.
• Display lyrics in traditional scrolling mode.
• Add proxy support.
• Use ttPlayer instead of other lyric download sites.
• Improve performance with MPRIS-compatible players.

Documentation

• How to build from source code
• Compatible players

Screenshots

OSD Mode with single line

OSD Mode with two lines

Scrolling mode

Have Trouble?

• Read our FAQ
• Post to our discussion group or send a mail to osd-lyrics@googlegroups.com.
• You can also fire an issue.

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
• If there is any Grammar mistake in both documentation and software interface, please let me know :)

疑难解答

• 请首先查阅我们的FAQ
• 您可以到我们的讨论组发帖寻问，或者发送邮件到osd-lyrics@googlegroups.com
• 您也可以向我们发一个问题报告

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，欢迎提交到问题报告
• 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