A very alpha plugin to display Desktop Lyrics, Windows Only.
Store Version of Cider is unsupported due to restrictions from MS.
Cider2 is not supported either at this time.
Menu->Plugin-> Find Menu about "Desktop Lyrics" or "Follow Lyrics Panel".
Note
Follow Lyrics Penel means Desktop Lyrics only shows when you keep Lyrics Penel Open.
Menu->Plugin-> "Lock / Unlock Lyrics Window",then drag the window to anywhere you like.Then click the menuentry again to lock the position.
Note
The Position Will RESET after re-launch.
We introduce a toml-based config file to add some customized options. See the README.md of https://github.com/lx200916/desktop_plugin_server.
The binary executable untitled13.exe (Just ignore the casual name) was built to call Windows Direct2D/GDI API and then render lyrics as a transparent window on desktop. You can get the source from https://github.com/lx200916/desktop_plugin_server and build it yourself.
Calling Windows API from Rust is so painful due to the poor docs 🤯 ...but thanks to https://github.com/lujjjh/iLyrics for a brief example.
TL;DR: No Plan For Now(And Maybe Neither in Future).
Technically, Cider2 changes its architecture completely from Electron(JS+IPC) to something totally irrelevant(maybe Go or Rust ¯\(ツ)/¯ ).Thus I may have to refactor most of the codes to catch up with those BREAKING CHNAGES they made.
Most importantly: Desktop Lyrics Plugin relies on a standalone process(which written in Rust then compiled to untitled13.exe) to make Win32 syscall and display the floating window. The process(as well as the plugin) can not be loaded when Cider was installed from Windows Store.(Due to Some restrictions from MS I Guess). Unfortunately,Cider2 seems to be only distributed in Windows Store.
Personally, I have changed my laptop to a MacBook, which has made the code development and testing work for this plugin somewhat complicated and awkward. So...We'll see.
Hmmm, Sorry no. In fact, the sole purpose of me developing this plugin was just so that I could glance at the lyrics while coding.Thus this Plugin(as well as the server) is barely a side-project of mine made up with chaos and dirty codes (and only for Cider's API).
For other platforms, you should look for more professional and comprehensive options(Like Lyricify to Spotify/YesPlay or HotLyric).
Yes! Thanks to the many dedicated open-source contributors in the Issue section who have proposed many awesome features for this project and assisted in testing, the plugin works perfectly on Cider1, and I will keep tracking new API changes of Cider1 and follow up.