SyncLyrics

Displays the lyrics of the currently played song on the Spotify. Works for Linux

Features

• Automatically retrieve the lyrics of the current song
• Pin the window so it doesn't fall back of other programs
• Change light/dark color modes

Installation

Flatpak installation

If you don't have flatpak, you need to install flatpak first.

Also you need to add flathub.

If you don't need the org.freedesktop.Platform/20.08, install with:

flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//20.08

Download the application from latest release

Run

flatpak install --user io.github.onsah.SyncLyrics.flatpak

You can launch from app launcher or run

flatpak run io.github.onsah.SyncLyrics

From Source installation

Flatpak

First build with flatpak then install.

Meson

Warning: This is not the preferred way because the application may behave differently outside the sandbox environment. I don't recommend installing this way.

Build with meson then run:

ninja install

Building

Note: To build manually you need to provide an access token from here. Then put it in a file named secret in the project root.

Flatpak build

Build the project and create the repository

flatpak-builder --repo=repo build-dir io.github.onsah.SyncLyrics.json --force-clean -y 

Bundle the repository

flatpak build-bundle repo io.github.onsah.SyncLyrics.flatpak io.github.onsah.SyncLyrics

Now you have installable binary. To run refer to here.

Meson build

Dependencies

Make sure these are installed before building from meson

• cargo (>= 1.45)
• rustc
• meson
• libgtk-3-dev
• libglib2.0-dev
• libglib2.0-dev-bin
• libdbus-1-dev
• libssl-dev
• libcairo2-dev
• libpango1.0-dev
• libatk1.0-dev
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
• build-essential

Sometimes cargo may be out of date therefore build may fail. If you want to get latest cargo and rustc as debian package you can add the ppa from here

Building

If you are on an Ubuntu based distro, you can just run the following

sudo apt install meson build-essential libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin libdbus-1-dev libssl-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev cargo rustc

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

Run with

./com.github.onsah.sync-lyrics

TODO

• Cache the lyrics
• App icon

Credits

This application uses Genius api. It is only used for personal interests and I don't have any commercial profit from this application.

This project is inspired from Lyrics source code and design.

License

GPLv3

Authors

Onur Şahin, [email protected]