DeaDBeeF Lyricbar Plugin
A simple plugin for DeaDBeeF audio player that fetches and shows the song’s lyrics using LyricWiki.
Inspired by Infobar Plugin. If you need more functionality, check my fork of it, containing a few bug-fixes and minor improvements.
Dependencies
To use this plugin, you need to have gtkmm and libxml++ 3 installed.
While gtkmm is available in the repositories of most modern distributions (e.g. in Ubuntu you'll have to install libgtkmm-3.0-dev for the gtk3 version of lyricbar), libxml++3 is absent in many of them. If that's the case, you'll have to build it from sources (e.g. for Ubuntu: sudo apt install checkinstall libxml2-dev && wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/3.0/libxml++-3.0.1.tar.xz && tar -xJf libxml++-3.0.1.tar.xz && cd libxml++-3.0.1 && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo checkinstall).
Installation
Clone this repository and perform the following:
make [gtk2 or gtk3]
sudo cp *.so /usr/lib/deadbeef # depends on where deadbeef is installed
# OR, to install for the current user only
mkdir -p ~/.local/lib/deadbeef && cp *.so ~/.local/lib/deadbeefUsage
Activate Design Mode (View → Design mode) and add Lyricbar somewhere. Disable Design Mode back and enjoy the music :)
In addition, if you're not satisfied with LyricWiki, external lyrics providers can be used (see plugin preferences, the script launch command can use the whole DeaDBeeF title formatting power, it's supposed to output the lyrics to stdout).