Lyrics Program!

Simple lyrics program that you can use for something like waybar.

Using [https://lrclib.net/] to request lyrics.

Installation

Make sure you have playerctl in your $PATH. (The package to install is usually just called playerctl).

Cargo (git)

Install this program from git by running this command.

cargo install --git https://github.com/tblelrd/lyrical

Cargo will build the lyrical binary and place it in your CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT. For more details on installation location see the cargo book

Configuration

Waybar

To have waybar show lyrics of the current song, you can create a custom module for lyrical.

"custom/lyrical": {
    "format": "{}",
    "exec": "$HOME/.cargo/bin/lyrical"
},

Then use the module by adding "custom/lyrical" to the module list.