Viewing Song Lyrics on the Duet

[Kim Hixson]

I use a program called miniLyrics to view song lyrics on my PC. It was a free download from Crintsoft and I have been impressed with it. Does anyone know if miniLyrics (or any other lyrics "generator") is compatible with the Duet so song lyrics can be seen on the Duet display?

[Dean100]

I beleive there is a plug in named "Lyrics".

[signor_rossi]

You can still find it under the Squeezeplay Applets in the wiki, it is just rather old and I don't know if it still works. There was a repository once for this appletwith probably a newer version, but the link to it is dead now.
A lyrics display applet for the controller should really be done again by some nice guy or even Logitech (for Lyricwiki.org for example), I am not able to unfortunately.

[kristallix]

There is indeed a plugin called Lyrics. Tried quite some time to get it to work but never really succeeded - even tried a fresh install on my QNAP TS 109 II. It did work in Squeezecenter but unfortunately not on the SBC. To me this would be a killer plugin if it would work properly. Did anyone else get it working? If so, could you please elaborate on how to set it up?

[MeSue]

Just another option for you... If you have lyrics in your song tags, they can be accessed by going into song info, then choosing Lyrics. I use a program called TagRunner which does a pretty good job of finding and tagging lyrics. For the ones it doesn't find, I use Google. It goes pretty quick with the link bar in J River Media Center.

[GeeJay]

FYI, the Lyrics applet works for me. I have to reload it every time I upgrade, but so far it's still available.

[signor_rossi]

GeeJay is right, it is still available (I used this repository URL: http://open-net.vm.bytemark.co.uk/lyrics_repo.xml).
Just remember that once you added the repository URL in the Extension Downloader page you have to select and install it directly on the Controller under Settings->Advanced->Applet-Installer (or a similiar path, as I use German as language).

SignorRossi.

[kristallix]

SignoRossi, you mentioned: "...install it directly on the Controller under Settings->Advanced->Applet-Installer..."

I did all that, the plugin then shows in the Extra's menu, but once selected with middle button, play button or whichever button, nothing happens on the SBC. In Squeezecenter I can actually see the lyrics but really also want them in the SBC. I might be missing something but haven't got a clue what.

I'm running SSOTS 3.16 with Squeezecenter 7.3.3 on a QNAP TS-109 II. Any idea's from someone?

[GeeJay]

Try running an error log and see if anything shows up from that. I just powered up my SBC specifically to check this out, and it's working fine for me. I'm running 7.3.3 on an XP machine.

[signor_rossi]

Unfortunately I can also only state that 'it works for me', SC 7.3.3 on Ubuntu-8.10 here. Might be an SSOTS specific issue (some perl stuff missing?), try what GeeJay suggested.

SignorRossi.