lyrics-in-terminal 1.2.1

Command Line Lyrics fetcher from mpris media player like Spotify, VLC, Audacious

Lyrics-In-Terminal

Shows lyrics of songs from your favourite music player in terminal.

Supported Players

Almost all of the mpris specification compliant media players are supported, including -

• Spotify
• VLC Media player
• Rhythmbox
• Audacious

Requirements

• Python >= 3.6
• dbus-python
• curses

Installation

From PyPi

pip install lyrics-in-terminal

If pip install fails, then try installing python-dbus package from your distribution's repository first.

From Source

First install dbus-python from your distribution's repository.

Debian and Ubuntu

sudo apt install python-dbus

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S python-dbus

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/Jugran/lyrics-in-terminal.git
cd lyrics-in-terminal
pip install . --user

Updating

Warning!: if updating from version <= 1.1, please backup your custom config file as it will be overwritten.

pip install -U lyrics-in-terminal

Usage

$ lyrics

Default player is Spotify, if you want to show lyrics from some other then pass player name as an argument

$ lyrics {playername}

$ lyrics vlc
$ lyrics audacious
$ lyrics rhythmbox

Default Keybindings

Action	Keybinding
Scroll Up	Up Arrow | ↑ / Mouse wheel Up
Scroll Down	Down Arrow | ↓/ Mouse wheel Down
Scroll Up (5 steps)	Left Arrow | ←
Scroll Down (5 steps)	Right Arrow | →
Align Text Right	l
Align Text Center	k
Align Text Left	j
Update Lyrics (from Azlyrics)	r
Update Lyrics (from Google)	R
Delete lyrics file	d
Show Help page	h
Quit Program	q

• Update Lyrics: Deletes local cached lyrics and fetches lyrics from the internet.
• Delete Lyrics: Deletes local lyrics text file from ~/.cache/lyrics/{trackname}

Configuration

Config file is located in ~/.config/lyrics-in-terminal/lyrics.cfg

File Format

# config structure
[SECTION]
option=value

---------------------------------------------------------------
#DEFAULT OPTIONS
[OPTIONS]
alignment=left
source=google
interval=1500
player=spotify

[BINDINGS]
#scroll
up=arrow_up
down=arrow_down
step-up=arrow_left
step-down=arrow_right
step-size=5

#source switch key
google=R
azLyrics=r

#text alignment
left=j
center=k
right=l

delete=d
help=h
quit=q

License

MIT

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