Category Archives: Lyrics

Software which downloads or displays song lyrics

Clementine ~ Modern Player & Library Organizer

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Clementine is a multi-platform music player. It’s inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

  • Search and play your local music library.
  • Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Groovesharks, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm (radiotunes), Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
  • Search and play songs you’ve uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
  • Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  • CUE sheet support.
  • Play audio CDs.
  • Visualizations from projectM.
  • Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
  • Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
  • Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organize your music.
  • Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
  • Discover and download podcasts.
  • Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
  • Cross-platform – works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
  • Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OSX (Growl).
  • Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  • Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
  • Queue manager.
Clementine Version 1.2-1
Playlist tab, while listening to songs from multiples Internet services

www.clementine-player.org
www.clementine-player.org/downloads
github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
flathub.org/apps/org.clementine_player.Clementine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(software)
Clementine Music Player Tutorial

F-Droid

An Android remote control for Clementine

f-droid.org/packages/de.qspool.clementineremote

Audacious ~ Open Source Audio Player

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Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

Audacious

audacious-media-player.org
audacious-media-player.org/download
VU Meters

Nightingale ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Nightingale chirps your favorite tunes! A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, Last.fm and multi-platform support!

nightingale-windows-screenshot

getnightingale.com
Add-ons

* A descendant of Songbird

Foobar2000 ~ Extensible Audio Interface & Player

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An advanced and evolved freeware audio player for Android, Mac, Windows and Wine. Foobar2000 can be extensively extended, modified and themed.

This is the basic Default User Interface or DUI. You will need to configure and extend the DUI Foobar2000 interface according to your preferences and requirements.

Foobar2000 v2.16 Default User Interface
Foobar2000 Default User Interface

Features:

  • Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
  • Gapless playback.
  • Easily customizable user interface.
  • Advanced tagging capabilities.
  • Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
  • Full ReplayGain support.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend functionality.
  • Multiplatform: Android, Mac, Windows 32|64-bit and ARM (ARM64EC).

Interfaces:

foobar2000 is not limited to the Default User Interface (DUI). Over its history, foobar2000 has had several complete user-interface modules, as well as newer technologies that extend the modern interfaces with highly customizable panels.

Core and Historical User Interfaces:

  • Default User Interface (DUI) — The standard interface included with foobar2000. DUI uses configurable UI Elements to construct the player layout and remains the default interface in current versions of foobar2000.
  • Columns User Interface (CUI) — A popular alternative user interface with interchangeable panels and toolbars. CUI provides extensive control over the arrangement and appearance of the foobar2000 interface and is widely used for customized layouts and themes.
  • Classic User Interface — A recreation of the Default User Interface from early versions of foobar2000. It remains available as a component for current foobar2000 versions, primarily for historical and nostalgic purposes. The component intentionally does not attempt to reproduce all functionality of the modern DUI.
  • Panels UI (PUI) — A discontinued historical user-interface module that allowed the entire foobar2000 interface to be constructed from configurable panels. Panels UI was an important interface in the foobar2000 customization community before being discontinued. It should be regarded as a legacy interface, not a current alternative to DUI or CUI.

Modern Web-Based User Interface:

foobar2000 also supports web-based interface components. These should not be confused with complete UI modules: they operate as panels or UI Elements within the DUI or CUI.

  • WebView — Provides a Microsoft Edge WebView2 browser control as a foobar2000 UI panel. HTML, CSS and JavaScript can be used to create interactive panels and visualizations. It supports both Default UI and Columns UI.
  • WebView2 — A newer WebView-based component that exposes Microsoft Edge WebView2 as a foobar2000 Default UI Element or a Columns UI panel. It allows HTML, CSS and JavaScript to interact with foobar2000 and can access the visualization stream. The current component supports foobar2000 2.0 and newer, Windows 10 and newer, and x86, x64 and ARM64/ARM64EC builds.

WebView and WebView2 represent a web-based UI technology rather than separate core foobar2000 interfaces. A WebView/WebView2-based design is still a DUI or CUI layout with a web-based component incorporated into it. The official component repository explicitly identifies WebView2 as a Columns UI panel / Default UI element, rather than as a user-interface module.

The Interface Landscape

In practical terms, foobar2000’s interface history can be divided into:

Complete user-interface modules

  1. Default User Interface (DUI) — current
  2. Columns User Interface (CUI) — current
  3. Classic User Interface — current component, reproducing the historical DUI
  4. Panels UI (PUI) — discontinued historical interface

UI extension and panel technologies

  • WebView
  • WebView2
  • JScript Panel / JScript Panel 3
  • Other DUI UI Elements and CUI panels

This distinction is important when describing foobar2000 themes. A theme designed for CUI is a theme for a different complete UI module than a DUI theme. A theme that incorporates WebView2, however, is still a DUI or CUI theme that uses WebView2 as one of its UI components.

For this reason, foobar2000 themes and interface collections identify the Intended User Interface separately from individual panel technologies and components.

Links:

Packages & Store Versions:

Official Foobar2000 Forums At Hydrogenaudio:

References:

Foobar2000 ~ The First Steps