MiniLyrics Plugin Info
Embedded Minilyrics
integrates MiniLyrics in MediaMonkey.
MiniLyrics is a nice and advanced lyrics player that supports all major lyrics formats, has various options to display timestamped lyrics, and has a huge online lyrics database. It is skinnable and can automatically download lyrics and save them to the tags of mp3 files, or to separate text files. --> more information and download: [1]
The purpose of this script is to integrate MiniLyrics in MediaMonkey, as dockable panel. Sample screenshots:
How to install: - Make sure that MiniLyrics is installed and configured to start together with MediaMonkey. See MiniLyrics's website. - Download and execute the installer (v1.4b). (Re)start MediaMonkey and the script will automatically start. It will create a dockable panel and will embed MiniLyrics in it (if it is running). A menu item (microphone icon) will be added to the View menu, so you can show/hide the MiniLyrics dockable panel.
The MiniLyrics window automaticly resizes if you resize the dockable panel. The script also repositions and resizes the embedded MiniLyrics window every second (1000 ms), by default.
Here are some tips for getting a clutter-free minilyrics interface that integrates with your skinned player better:
These steps will get rid of all superfluous buttons and bars. You don't need them - all options are on the Right-click. And use the keyboard arrow up/down keys to sync up the display with the sound.
Presuming that you have installed the Embedder...
1) Choose View>MiniLyrics 2) Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Skin>Quintessential.(Colours are particularly good with the Glided skin, IMHO) 3) Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Skin>Have Nothing On 4) For best text quality, right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Display Options>AntiAliasing 5) Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Preferences. Then... a) Choose Lyrics Display>Background picture. Untick Use album art if possible (this prevents ugly outlined fonts; and having the incorrect previous album art under a song that has no album art) b) If you don't like the font and text color that temporatily selecting the Quintessential player skin got you, choose Lyrics Display>Font & Color. Change the font, colors and size here. c) If you've no use for the ML system tray icon, select None in Setup>Options>Show MiniLyrics In.
You may also want to change the default c:\Lyrics folder for downloaded lyrics in Preferences>Lyrics Download
