DesktopLyrics is an application that displays the lyrics of the song currently playing in "iTunes" right on your desktop. The lyrics for the song have to be set in iTunes; DesktopLyrics does nothing to fetch them if they aren't available in iTunes. If you don't want to set all your lyrics manually, you can use an application like "Harmonic".
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Objective C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: A bug where DesktopLyrics would display a dash when iTunes is not running was fixed. Stability was improved. A link was added to "Get Lyrical". DesktopLyrics automatically restarts itself when turning off visibility in the Dock.


Release Notes: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.5. Do not directly upgrade from a release older than 1.0.2, or your preferences won't be taken over. The communication with iTunes was completely reimplemented based on the "ScriptingBridge" for improved performance and reliability. 64-bit support (on Intel) was added, but by default it starts in 32-bit mode. The option to change the current lyrics page with the arrow keys was added. The specified text shadow was added to the page index text. The CrashReport sending facility was fixed to only send "real" crashes.


Release Notes: Users of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" have to update manually to this release, since the update check has been disabled on this platform already. Multiple issues where the page-choose-buttons would be positioned incorrectly, possibly obscuring the lyrics display, have been fixed. A possible crash has been fixed. The update check, which would still check for updates even if disabled, has been fixed. Fonts unsuitable for lyrics display are filtered out. Font minimum and maximum size is restricted to 3 - 30 to prevent problems.


Release Notes: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.4. Users of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" have to update manually to this release, since the update check has been disabled on this platform already. Minimum font size prevents lyrics from becoming unreadably small. Lyrics not fitting in the destination area with the minimum size are are displayed on multiple "pages". The currently viewed lyrics page can be toggled with small buttons embedded in the lyrics display. This release can hide the dummy lyrics iTunes sends for Ogg files ("(null)".


Release Notes: This release disables the update check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, as those won't be supported in future releases. "Sparkle" (the framework used for version checking and automatic updates) has been updated to fix possible crashes. A problem where DesktopLyrics might display the lyrics of the previous song because iTunes was busy while being asked for lyrics has been fixed. A problem where DesktopLyrics would still display lyrics after quitting iTunes when not using the option "Hide lyrics when iTunes is paused" has been fixed.A French translation has been added.