Free lyrics software for linux

ID3v2 allows to store the lyric of a song directly in the tag. Lyrics ID3 is a script for amaroK which uses this fact.

If the writing script runs, the lyrics of the actual song are stored automatically in the mp3-tag.

The reading script, is an amaroK lyric script, which reads the mp3-tag on a fetchLyric request.

The download able file contains two scripts:

read_lyric_from_id3: amaroK Lyric Script
reads the USLT frame of the id3v2 header and sends the lyrics to amarok

save_lyric_to_id3:
Stores the lyrics, fetched from amaroK to the USLT frame in the ID3v2 header
The Lyrics are automatically saved on trackChange and Play
With the context menu saveLyrik the Lyrics are stored manually

Warning:
(1) The lyrics are stored in the mp3-File. I can not guaranty that the file is not damaged after the ID3 writing process.
(2) The files are not checked if they are a mp3. So non mp3 files may be damaged after writing.

Jamendo Lyrics is a lyrics script for Amarok audio player accessing the lyrics database for Jamendo.com music.

Wiki-Lyrics is a collection of lyrics scripts to interface with various sites and, optionally, submit content to Lyriki.com or LyricWiki.org (wikis for lyrics). All of these scripts can query the other ones when they cant provide the lyrics for a song.
Supported sites:
- Lyriki (www.lyriki.com)
- LyricWiki (www.lyricwiki.org)
- AZ Lyrics (www.azlyrics.com)
- Jamendo (www.jamendo.com)
- Leos Lyrics (www.leoslyrics.com)
- Lyrc (lyrc.com.ar)
- Not Popular (www.notpopular.com)
- Sing365 (www.sing365.com)
- Terra Letras (letras.terra.com.br)

Local Lyrics is a python based amaroK-script requires amaroK 1.4!

I wrote simple wrappers for dcop-calls (using the shell-tool dcop), kdialog and amaroKs script system while writing this script. Use them if you want (its all LGPL) See the .tar.bz2s contense and: http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/stories/22759/

This lyrics-plugin simply scans a selected folder for textfiles with lyrics. This might be usefull when you have a lot of lyrics stored on your harddisc, but they are not available on lyrc.com.ar or a simmilar service.

Installation:

Open the lyrics-filesystem-x.x.amarokscript.tar.bz2 with amaroKs script managers script install option.

Usage:

Start the script with amaroKs script manager.
Select the directory in which the lyrics are stored.
The filenames of the lyrics have to be:

"artist - title.txt"
or
"title.txt"

Now amaroK will search this folder for lyrics, when there are none in its database for the current track.

Lyrics Manager is an amaroK script that manages the song lyrcis.
Main features:
- Edit lyrics with your favorite editor
- Export lyrics to file
- Import lyrics from file
You can setup your editor (for editing) and directory with texts (for import and export) via script configuration. Script will take care of html break tags while importing and exporting lyrics text, so you can edit and store plain text with correct rendering it in amaroK.

Read Local Lyrics is a little Python script works as a lyrics plugin.

If to some audio file, a corresponding ".txt" file can be found in the same folder, this is taken as the lyrics of the song.

Lyrics::Fetcher::Google is a Perl module to get some lyrics.

SYNOPSIS

use Lyrics::Fetcher;

$Lyrics::Fetcher::gid = ;

print Lyrics::Fetcher->fetch(" "," ","Google");

This module tries to find lyrics on the web. Sometimes it works. But it probably wont.
It searches google for an initial set. It then finds the largest block of plain text in the top 5 results. Those results are then compared to one another and weighted.

The idea being that a large block of text on one site may be a bunch of poo, but a large area of similar text on multiple sites most likely is the lyrics for which you are looking.

This is my first amaroKs plugin that fetch lyrics from the amazing letras.mus.brs database. Its quite simple and can (no doubt) be improved.

Terra Letras (lyrics plugin) also store displayed lyrics in your homedir so that you can sing along even offline.

To stop fetching lyrics only in brazilian portuguese you have to change the default value of the "locale" variable in the very begining of the shell script.

Its not possible to configure it using a GUI, for now.