cmus-lyrics

cmus-lyrics is a simple bash script that fetches the lyrics of current song playing in cmus music player.

Now with offline support! ~ukazap

Dependencies :

• Perl - Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) originally developed by Larry Wall is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. Perl is available in repositories of almost every Linux distribution under the sun. Use your distribution's package manager to install it.
• wget - wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Installation :

Very easy. Download cmus-lyrics-master.zip, extract it, and simply copy 'cmus-lyrics' file to '/usr/local/bin/' directory,

$ sudo cp cmus-lyrics /usr/local/bin/

Next make it executable,

$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/cmus-lyrics

Usage :

Run cmus-lyrics and it will fetch and print lyrics of the song currently playing in cmus music player.

Credits :

Federico Builes - cmus-lyrics wouldn't have been possible without wonderful makeitpersonal created by Federico.

License :

This work (cmus-lyrics by ukazap), which is a fork of cmus-lyrics by hakerdefo is free of known copyright restrictions.