deadbeeflyricssound
The solution should be the Infobar plugin – but in my case it doesn't look properly.
It should look like this (from the author's site)
but instead it looks like this, with a large empty space above the tabs:
Does anybody knows a solution or has the same problem?
There is also a screenlet lyrics (works great with Banshee), all you need to do is to install Screenlets(widget applications):
Note: Installing software from PPA may pose a security risk.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install screenlets
And then add Lyrics widget to the desktop.
how to
First install deadbeef - you should check the authors launchpad website for precompiled versions of deadbeef. At the time of writing this, no 12.10 or later version was available:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexey-smirnov/deadbeef
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef
add deadbeef to sound indicator
Using dconf-editor you can add deadbeef to the sound indicator:
add volume control options
To add the volume controls you need to compile from the MPRIS plugin from source.
important note - this was highly unstable for me on 64bit ubuntu causing deadbeef to continually crash and I dont recommend you do so.
sudo apt-get install deadbeef-plugins-dev git
Next download the mpris plugin source from github
git clone https://github.com/kernelhcy/DeaDBeeF-MPRIS-plugin.git cd DeaDBeeF-MPRIS-plugin ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install
If you want to remove Rhythmbox from the sound indicator then the linked Q&A will help
Linked Questions:
Best Answer
The latest DeaDBeef 0.5.5 doesn't seem to have this problem - the empty space disappears and the player looks fine with lyrics: but only as long as the File Browser plugin (or maybe some other plugin) is not used. Similar problems with other plugins are very possible. The cause of this is explained by the author of infobar (here) as follows:
"Unfortunatelly, deadbeef doesn't provide API which allows to integrate third-party UI plugins into its interface (situation gonna be changed with release of version 0.6.0). In this situation infobar and filebrowser plugins use hacks to integrate themselves into deadbeef's interface and can't work together."
In v. 0.5.6 the Filebrowser and the gtk2 version of Infobar have the same incompatibility. But there is a gtk3 version of Infobar, and Deadbeef v. 0.5.6 has a gtk2-gtk3 GUI switch.
Installing Infobar gtk3 and the File-browser, which is gtk 2, will result in using the two plugins alternatively: in the gtk2 GUI of Deadbeef only the file-browser will be visible, in the gtk3 GUI, only the Infobar. Switching between GUIs will switch between plugins too.
When lyrics are not found by Deadbeef/Infobar, use Foobar in wine and install the lyrics grabber addon.
But usually would not need that (the difference with Foobar is that it embeds the lyrics into the file: Deadbeef displays them from internet)