Hi folks,
Recently, I started to listen to music locally instead of using streaming services because I have had enough of all the annoying parts of it. I gathered a lot of Opus and FLAC files that have lyrics embedded in them. I am searching for some music players that can display them. The one I am using right now is Elisa. It is awesome, but I would still like to know if there are more alternatives, just in case. Thanks!
Sorry if this is a dumb question but how does offline lyrics work? Can you store them in the metadata?
Sayonara is the one I’m using.
I use Musicbee and just followed a forum tutorial to install it on linux
If you need it for Android, I tried quite a few. I had the same requisites, offline, lyrics for flac files, I ended up using Metro: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.Music/
Very minimalist and do the job very well. I use the field “Composer” to sort my lists.
Also Lotus is very cool!
Thank you for the recommendation! I will give it a try if I have time.
Quod Libet
Strawberry
I use Swing music player. It’s web based and plays in a browser. It’s not super featured like subsonic but good enough that it works for me.
Thank you, it look gorgeous! I will give it a try.
Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass.
I think rmpc can do this too, which is an mpd client with album art support, but it’s terminal based and requires some manual configuring. I’ve been buying CDs over the past couple of years to get rid of streaming as well, and i think i’m finally ready to cut the cord. I’ve been experimenting with different music players but ended up ditching mpd. I like to be able to switch between audio outputs easily, like alsa or pipewire, and since mpd is configured through a config file it kinda sucks for that. I also like to be able to play CDs directly, eventhough i have ripped them all, but i haven’t been able to get any terminal player to play a cd, except for mplayer, which is too minimal for my taste. At the moment i’m really liking audacious. Also tried deadbeef and strawberry, but deadbeef doesn’t have mpris support ootb, and strawberry feels a bit bloated to me. Audacious feels like a nice middleground. Audacious does support viewing lyrics but not synced from what i can tell unfortunately.
Thank you for your insight, strawberry, audacious and mpd are all amazing software. The problem is that synced lyrics is really important thing for me(a jpop listener, that don’t know Japanese). I am pretty sure that I can probably get the lyric to work with somekind of mpd frontend. Mpd seem to be really fun. I may just make a frontend for it for my own use-case.
Been using Jellyfin to host my music and Finamp to play it, Lyrics are pulled from https://lrclib.net/ using a Jellyfin plugin, certain lyrics are timestamped allowing for synchronization other are just static.
Tauon works for me, but my synced lyrics aren’t embedded.
Thank! It work really well. I may switch to it because I prefer the UI of Tauon more than Elisa.
An alternative would be to run gonic or Navidrome - both are OpenSubsonic servers, and provide synced lyrics support. Then use the ostui client which plays music and displays synchronized lyrics.
Another client that works really well with navidrome is feishin. Also capable of showing lyrics
That sound like a lot of work, but it seem really fun! I may try it when I have time.
If you’re familiar with docker you can have it up and running in ~5 mins.
Yep, but only if you familiar, otherwise it can range from 1day to a week depending how complex our setup is (OCID,Fail2ban,reverse proxy, self-signed miniCA…).
But once your setup is all ready and you get all the bell and whistle it’s just a matter of 5mins (and very fun too if you have time to spend !)
I wish PlexAmp did this so I could recommend it
rmpc ; Info: https://mierak.github.io/rmpc/next/configuration/lyrics/
Edit: It seems you need a separate file with the song lyrics. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but I hope it’s still helpful to someone.
Edit 2: DeadBeef with deadbeef-lyricbar does something similar
Thank you! Rmpc still seem to have a lot of potential. Sadly, no embedded lyric is a deal breaker for me.
