Request for showing lyrics in panel

[mojtaba82]

Request for showing lyrics in panel

[angelbruni]

Would love to see this too.
I made a concept for a floating mode if in panel if possible:

[WackyIdeas]

Would love to see this too. I made a concept for a floating mode if in panel if possible:

This kind of design could be done with a Dialog that has no background and is open when songs that have lyrics play. The hard part would be implementing a way to fetch lyrics and synchronize them to the currently playing song depending on the timestamps. Here's what I came up with as a proof of concept for the popup window to show that it can be done:

The hardest part about this was making sure the lyrics popup window follows the compact representation regardless of the orientation and changes within the panel. The text and its layout is just a fixed placeholder. Fork

[ccatterina]

Hi, thank you for the concepts, they are nice! Anyway as @WackyIdeas said the main problem is to fetch the lyrics from some external service, I did a quick search and found https://lyricsovh.docs.apiary.io/# which seems free. But it returns only the lyrics without any other information, so there is no way to sync the lyrics with the song. I will do some further research and I'll let you know

[angelbruni]

Hi, thank you for the concepts, they are nice! Anyway as @WackyIdeas said the main problem is to fetch the lyrics from some external service, I did a quick search and found https://lyricsovh.docs.apiary.io/# which seems free. But it returns only the lyrics without any other information, so there is no way to sync the lyrics with the song. I will do some further research and I'll let you know

If this fails would there be any way to read a .lrc instead or is this too out of scope for plasmusic? (As usually this would be done by the player but there's nothing in MPRIS for lyrics)

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I know nothing about how plasmoids work xD

[ccatterina]

If this fails would there be any way to read a .lrc instead or is this too out of scope for plasmusic? (As usually this would be done by the player but there's nothing in MPRIS for lyrics)

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, thinking about it more carefully, lyrics management is somewhat out of scope for this widget, whether using an external service or reading .lrc.

However, since it would be an interesting feature, if I could find a simple implementation solution I might consider adding it (using the API or lrc).

[mojtaba82]

This plasma addon work. It may help.
lyrics-on-panel