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Minilyrics - Now You Can't Stop Yourself From Singing!
MINILYRICS
Overview
Ke$ha, Eminem, Katy Perry, David Guetta, Rihanna.......you dance, you swing, you move, you sing........"SING"! I feel like humming to the rhythm of these singers but oops.. obviously I need the lyrics!
Tired of copy-pasting lyrics from the websites into notepads and/or memorizing them and being fagged out by doing the same for 100 of your most favourite songs? Ever wondered how life would have been much easier if you could just read the lyrics that gets synced with the music as and when you play the songs in your library. Cheer up!? Now Minilyrics does just that for you.
With Minilyrics, singing has now become amusive. It's a fancy synchronised lyrics viewer and a powerful standalone lyrics search engine. It acts as an add-on for your music player, retrieves and displays the synchronized scrolling lyrics for the song you are playing. Best of all, it does this automatically for you. This helps you follow the artist and catch every word. The lyrics for a particular song will be downloaded and displayed for you as rapidly as songs change in your playlist. It has an impressive database of lyrics that's expanding every day. Moreover it's not just for English but for many other languages too! It hasn't failed to find lyrics to any of the English, Spanish, Hindi, German, French or Japanese songs in my library and it supports even more. You can position the flowing lyrics anywhere you want on your desktop. So you can follow and sing even while you work! ;-)
Currently it supports around 24 players and even works great with the latest addition MusicBee, my default music player and manager. The users can create and submit their lyrics, edit the downloaded lyrics using the built-in Lyrics Editor or even save the lyrics to mp3 in three formats—ID3v2 synchronized (supported by Windows Media Player), unsynchronized (supported by Windows Media Player and iTunes) and Lyrics3v2. Registration is now required to upload and edit lyrics files. If it fails to find the lyrics to match any of your files (may be due to wrong tags), you still can type in the name of the song and the artist, and it will search and download the lyrics for you from its database. Multiple lyrics submitted by various users may be available for each song and you can select the one that suits you most based on their ratings and number of downloads. If the lyrics don't synchronize with the song being played, there is an option to choose whether to increase or slow down the tempo of scrolling or you might want to try the lyrics provided by a different user.
Moreover, Minilyrics has an attractive design. It comes with a variety of skins and color schemes that you can play around with and choose the one that matches with your player's skin. It has three display modes (Normal, Floating and Lyrics Bar), various lyric styles (Vertical scrolling, Single line and Static), movie subtitles, options to change the font format, size and color, set the Karaoke mode, Fade-in and Fade out displays and many other features.
The Good:
- Automated lyrics search and scrolling lyrics
- Visually stunning and customizable interface
- Free Trial Version that never expires
- Huge lyrics database submitted by users
- Supports all common lyric tag formats
- Very good support from the creator
- Support for over 20 different players.
The Bad:
- Registration nag screen when you launch it
- Editing and uploading lyrics available only after registration.
Verdict:
There's nothing that can stop me from using this software as I'm able to follow and sing nearly more than 2000 mp3's on my computer. The software gets its job done perfectly and that's the one that you'll be satisfied with and rejuvenate yourself the next time you sing. Here's how I rate it:
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Supported players:
AIMP, AlbumPlayer, BSPlayer, foobar2000, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, J. River Media Center, J. River Media Jukebox, jetAudio, KMPlayer, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic Home Cinema, Musicmatch Jukebox, MusicBee, Quintessential Player, RealPlayer, Silverjuke, Songbird, Spotify, VLC media player, Winamp, Windows Media Player, XMPlay, Yahoo! Music Engine, Zune.
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Worked perfectly for me. I have many, many backing tracks and with this I can even use my backing tacks like karaoke! Great for learning songs. Thanks for the recommendation and to the developers for such a terrific product.
Now they have removed the registration reminder on startup but that's been replaced with pop up messages when playing music. Could be worse
I don't usually indulge in these kinds of apps, but I like this one! Runs seamlessly with my media player and loads the lyrics to a variety of music - even to many of my old school tunes! Neat little app - thanks!!
Doesn't work with Jaangle though, despite my contacting both Minilyrics and Jaangle themselves to try to share APIs and work together.
Minilyrics requires a certain "popularity" (from a Google search) before they will consider supporting a player, which unfortunately rules out Jaangle. This is a shame, as nothing beats Jaangle for me, at least for now.
Yes,that's 500,000 Google search results required for any player to be supported by Minilyrics. Unfortunately for Jaangle its only 104,000 right now.
JetAudio has built in lyric viewer, however, it does not seem to work with all songs.
You have RealPlayer listed up there. I don't see where this supports RealPlayer.
Regards-
Rick Fithen
Yes Minilyrics does support Real Player. http://www.crintsoft.com/foobar2000-lyrics.htm
I'm not seeing how/where to implement the RealPlayer plugin.
thanks,
Rick Fithen
When you install MiniLyrics, you get the option to select the players for which you want the plugin to be installed. You will find RealPlayer there :).
Actually, I don't find RealPlayer anywhere. I see installations for iTunes, VLC, Windows Media Player, Winamp, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, Songbird, XMPlay, AIMP2, AIMP3, KMPlayer, Quintessential Player, Quintessential Media Player, Silverjuke, MusicBee, BSPlayer, J. River Media Jukebox and J. River Media Center.
I see built-in plugins for Media Player Classic HC, Zune Software, Spotify, Helium Music Manager, JetAudio and AlbumPlayer.
But I see nothing for RealPlayer.
What am I missing? I have a paid subscription to version 7.2.880.
Thanks,
Tim
Does it have the lyrics of songs in other languages? Like German or French?
As i have mentioned in the review, Minilyrics supports multiple languages and its database is astounding. I tried even the latest songs like Danza Kuduro-German and French songs like A Nos Actes Manqués and you have atleast 3 or more lyrics submitted by different users :-)
oK. so i have underlined in my review that it supports many other languages other than English because many users are asking me the same question.
Guys, I have used a mp3 player called Spider player pro (the pro version is free :p). In that lyrics are shown by default. (or u may need a bit of tweaking) and of course u need to be connected to the internet.
May I ask for a review from the Admins?
this is the link.
http://spider-player.com/download
I dont know if I can post the link. So if seems inappropriate,I am sorry. But plz post reviews.
Thanks guys .
P.S.-> Need I tell you that u all rock? ;)
Rizar is the now the editor of BF Music Player and Organizer http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-music-players-and-orga... . You might want to post this over there to get his attention and review the software.
BTW, Minilyrics provides lyrics by default too. Any song you have in your library and any language, just play the song and you'll have its lyrics floating on your screen in a split second :-)
Thanks. Informed Mr. Rizar
Does there exist any program or Internet place that allows to know the lyrics of arias of operas? Thank you and greetings to George. J.
Minilyrics provides lyrics of multiple languages. I don't know about the song you mentioned here, or the which language it is. If there's any lyrics provided in google search results then most probably minilyrics should have it in its database
I've used lyrics plugin for years. Simple, no frills.
http://www.lyricsplugin.com/
tyvm - I like minimalism
Good for you :-) . Tried the software. Its simple and cute, but its nowhere near to Minilyrics in terms of features/support or database strength and user involvement.
George - I tried it anyway, just to see what I was missing.
It does appear to be a nice choice. Unfortunately it crashes after every 2 or 3 songs played. I haven't the inclination ATM to puzzle out why. But the interactive controls on the window disappear and it stops all function.
At least the simple one always works even if it lacks the fancy stuff.
Minilyrics is a stable application. Doesn't happen for me. What music player are you using and system specifications?
Great article, George, and a great product for sure. Got spooked by just one item: the two points that you mention under 'The Bad':
HEY HO - are these bad, or are you spoiled? I'm a cheapskate, too, but expecting to receive all great products unconditionally with all the pipes and whistles unlocked, gee, I've never heard of such a business model.
How much did I, today, contribute to mankind's quests and joys for nothing in return?
The cons have been prepared keeping the users in mind. Though you don't expect to get everything for free, sometimes its quite disturbing when somebody shouts at you to pay for the software, but you can forget this fact because its still a great product .
Thinking about it over again, the music player won't automatically start for you, haha, so closing the nag screen is similar to loading the player.
Comment 2: I did go back to webpage to see if I did miss something. I did. It is a Free Download; and the owner does state that the program will not expire and gave permission to ignore the nag screen. I guess you could call this program "NAGWARE". I think it is taking advantage of the programmer not to pay if you really like and use the program. (BTW - I'm am NOT a programmer, just a user, and I do like free programs.)
Went to webpage by way of your link and the program is not FREE. It requires a purchase of $9.00 for upto 3 computers. That is why there is a nag screen to register.
The unregistered version is unlimited trialware, free to use and never expires. Its equivalent to freeware
Very useful, was looking for something like this.
Thanks George...another great new toy to play with. It's a shame that it doesn't work with my favorite player, Jaangle But, then again, my Jaangle screen is already busy enough without scrolling lyrics.
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