OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in Linux.

=Compatible Media Players=

• Amarok 2.0 and 1.4 (1.4 are disabled by default, use --enable-amarok1 to compile)
• Audacious
• Banshee
• Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3)
• MPD
• Rhythmbox
• Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed)
• XMMS2

=Download Lyrics=

OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from following web sites:

• Sogou http://mp3.sogou.com/
• Qianqian http://www.qianqian.com/index.html

You can switch the download engine in preference dialog.

=Have Trouble?=

• Read our FAQ: http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/wiki/FAQ
• Post to our discussion group(http://groups.google.com/group/osd-lyrics) or send a mail to osd-lyrics@googlegroups.com.
• You can also fire an issue to http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/issues/list.

=Get Involved=

• If you would like to translate OSD Lyrics to other languagues, please visit https://translations.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics
• If there is any feature request, suggestion, or bug, feel free to report them to http://code.google.com/p/osd-lyrics/issues/list *If there is any Grammar mistake in both documentation and software interface, please let me know :)

=Acknowledgement=

Some open source projects help the authors to develop OSD Lyrics, as well as some people. The authors would like to thank you:

• Gnome OSD: OSD implementation
• lrcdis: The idea of third-party lyrics program, and the analysis of LRC download protocols
• Cairo-Dock: Its musicPlayer plugin helps the authors to implement most music player support
• The global keybinding implementation is taken from Gnome Do, which is originally from Red hat and Tomboy
• TuaratriX (http://imtx.cn/) has help one of the author on the implementation of OSD, and is maintaining the Ubuntu PPA repository.
• easy designed our beautiful icon.
• liangsuilong(http://liangsuilong.co.cc/) maintains the Fedora RPM repository.