To activate the function, mobile service users have to tap on the ‘Current Playback View’ of a song while listening to it, swipe up and they can see the lyrics of the song in real time.
To build from source you’ll need a couple of non-standard dependencies.įirst install everything you need to run the app: sudo apt install python-gi python-dbus gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 python-pipįollowed by everything the app needs to run: pip install requests beautifulsoup4 lxmlįinally, download the latest snapshot of source code from Github:ĭownload Instant Lyrics Source Code (.Zip)Įxtract the zip archive. To make this tool possible, the service has partnered with the Musixmatch lyrics catalog, with which the function will be available in 28 Spotify markets, including Spain.
There’s no easy-squeezy installer package ready to download, so you’ll need to run it from source or use an AppImage: Now for the dropout: Instant Lyrics is not the easiest app to install.
Here you’ll see a search box where you can enter the artist and track name of the lyrics you seek, hit ‘Get Lyrics’ and start singing along! In this video, I will show you how to play Spotify with lyric in your PC.Dont forget to like, comment, and subscribe.Subscribe. Just click the ‘Get Lyrics’ menu option to open the lyrics window. Not using Spotify? No worries you can still use the applet to fetch lyrics. Some lyrics on certain songs were featured in collaboration with Genius in a feature known. And unlike the integrated Spotify web player solution we mentioned before, you can keep using the official Spotify for Linux app. Most Spotify users have impatiently waited for the app to include the lyrics to all its available songs, and it had been available in few countries but not in the United States. Unlike Lyricifier (an Electron app), CoverGloobus (a desktop widget), Instant Lyrics keeps squarely out of your way. When a song you want to know the words to comes on, just click the menu item followed ‘Spotify Lyrics’. Instant Lyrics then fetches the lyrics to the song currently playing in Spotify and displays them in a separate, scrollable, resizable window. Instant Lyrics is designed to work with the official Spotify for Linux client, with which it is able to automatically detect the current playing track and fetch lyrics for it. It works on most Linux desktop environments, including Unity, GNOME Shell (where we tried it), Cinnamon and Budgie. This simple indicator applet is written in Python and runs out of the system tray area. Instant Lyrics by Bhrigu S., offers up a quick way to get song lyrics for the currently playing Spotify track. Also Read: How to install the official Spotify Linux app on Ubuntu