Lyrics Program!

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

Using lrclib.net to request lyrics.

Automatically romanizes chinese and japanese lyrics. Will develop a way to turn it off in the future.

Example of this program on waybar.

Installation

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

Cargo (crates.io)

Install the program from crates.io.

cargo install 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

Cargo (git)

Install this program from git by running this command.

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

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.