LyricWiki - An Emacs mode to fetch lyrics

Update: The LyricWiki API was brought down by the awesome music labels, so we're scrapping the HTML to obtain lyrics. This fetch method is flaky for some lyrics so please open up an issue if you find any problems.

This small mode fetches your lyrics from LyricWiki.com and opens a new buffer with them.

Installation and Usage

Clone the Git repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/febuiles/lyricwiki.el.git

Or download the .tar.gz file from:

http://github.com/febuiles/lyricwiki.el/tarball/master

Add it to your load list and require it:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/some_directory/lyricwiki.el")
(require 'lyricwiki)

(Optional) If you want this mode to automatically fetch your current playing song in Amarok, iTunes or Rhythmbox then set the defalias in lyricwiki.el to whatever you want:

;; Any of these 3 will do
(defalias 'lyrics 'lyrics-itunes)
(defalias 'lyrics 'lyrics-amarok)
(defalias 'lyrics 'lyrics-rhythmbox)

Now just press:

M-x lyrics

Finally, if you want to manually enter the song details you can just call:

M-x lyrics-manual

Helping, Contact, E-T-C

• Want to help? If you find any lyrics rendering with weird characters please report them in the Issues tracker.
• You can find me at federico.builes@gmail.com
• Couldn't find the lyrics you were looking for? Go to http://lyricwiki.org/ and contribute them yourself!