Osd-lyrics - Best lyrics Finder tool Ever

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to the best lyrics finder tool I have ever used, osd-lyrics. Just imagine, while you are listening songs and facebooking or whatever you usually do, an application is fetching and displaying lyrics "in sync" with the song being played. "Well, many player plugins do that, nothing new ". Alright then, "well" first of all these plugins don't display the lyrics in sync and secondly this software supports more than 10 different music players, yup! its player independent.

Here is a list of the media players it supports.

• Amarok 2.0 and 1.4 (1.4 are disabled by default, use --enable-amarok1 to compile)
• Audacious
• Banshee
• Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3)
• JuK 
• MOC 2.5 (High CPU Usage)
• Qmmp (with MPRIS plugin enabled) 
• Quod Libet
• MPD
• Rhythmbox
• Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed)
• XMMS2

Not just this, you can easily customize the whole look and feel of the lyrics bein displayed. The default lyrics display was a bit sluggish, lyrics in Serif of font-size 30, being displayed at the center is not liked by everyone, but the app no doubt rocks.

Pardon me if I am being too excited about this s/w but I have never actually used such an application - so easy to use and does the job brilliantly. In case you know something better, do let me know . Anyway, I won't waste your time anymore, go ahead and try it out to try it out.

Install OSDlyrics on Ubuntu

This application is not present as default in your system, you will have to add the osd-lyrics team launchpad ppa to download and install this app. Just run the three set of commands and you are all set to go.

[shredder12]$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osd-lyrics/ppa

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get update

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install osdlyrics

In order to run it go to Applications->sound & video->osdlyrics. It will automatically fetch the song being  played on any of the above listed players and will ask you to select a lyrics to download, from the fetched list.

Install Osdlyrics on Fedora/RedHat systems

The best way is to download the rpm from the project website and run the following command to install it.

[shredder12]$ su -c 'rpm -ivh package_name.rpm'

Others can download the source code to compile and install it.