Display song lyrics

I use the “lyric” feature in Plexamp a lot. Would appreciate a similar “get lyrics button” that opens the lyrics up in a popup/sidebar of some sort.

Cursory research shows that while Genius (by far the optimal source in my opinion) has a free API they do not offer any actual lyric content over it due to legal issues. However, there seem to be a number of maintained clients that fetch Genius lyrics by scraping the web page directly, such as https://github.com/zyrouge/node-genius-lyrics.

Plex uses https://www.lyricfind.com/ but that costs money and the song availability, at least in Plexamp, is very substandard compared to Genius.

Obviously when the implementation options are as problematic as they seem to be I would understand that this feature may not be feasible for the project. Maybe something like node-genius-lyrics could be implemented in the desktop version only, set to default as off depending on performance?

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Planned

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Date

7 months ago

Author

Violet

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