MiniLyrics Plugin Info

Introduction

MiniLyrics is an 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.

It is developed by a company called Crintsoft, and they offer both a retail and a trial version. The trial version is free, but presents a nag screen when MiniLyrics is first opened, and embeds links within the lyrics display to encourage you to purchase.

For more information and to download it, go here: [1]

MediaMonkey Integration

In order to integrate MiniLyrics as a dockable panel into the MediaMonkey skin, you first need to run the Embedded MiniLyrics script.

Sample screenshots are here: [2] [3] [4]

Installation

1. Make sure that MiniLyrics is installed and configured to start together with MediaMonkey. See MiniLyrics's website.
2. Download and execute the installer (v1.4b) from here: [5]
3. (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.

Configuration

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...

• Choose View>MiniLyrics
• Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Skin>Quintessential.(Colours are particularly good with the Glided skin, IMHO)
• Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Skin>Have Nothing On
• For best text quality, right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Display Options>AntiAliasing
• Right click on MiniLyrics pane and choose Preferences. Then...
  • 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)
  • If you don't like the font and text color that temporarily selecting the Quintessential skin got you, choose Lyrics Display>Font & Color. Change the font, colors and size here.
  • 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

Troubleshooting

The MiniLyrics Embedder script is discussed here: [6]