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AutoLyrix

The open-source Lyric, AlbumArt and SyncLyric searcher

Supported Players

Please, check the Wiki to check the best usage tips for each player

Winamp

AutoLyrix works with Winamp without any necessary changes.

iTunes

AutoLyrix works with iTunes without any necessary changes.

Last.FM

AutoLyrix works with Last.FM without any necessary changes.

foobar2000

AutoLyrix works with foobar2000 without any necessary changes.

WMPlayer - Windows Media Player 9/10

AutoLyrix requires a plugin on WMPlayer. You can download the plugin from here.
To install, run WMPlayer, go to Tools, Options, select the Plug-ins tab, click on "Add" and select the 'np_plugin.dll' that you just downloaded. Go through all the plug-ins categories and find "New Playing Plugin" and check (enable) it. Restart your WMPlayer and when you play a song, it should show up in the WMPlayer title (taskbar).

WMPlayer - Windows Media Player 11

AutoLyrix requires the WMPBlogging plugin (from Microsoft Fun Pack Series). You can download it from here. Download the wmpbloggin.exe and install it. Make sure you have the Blogging pluggin enabled on WMP11. Restart your WMPlayer and when you play a song, it should show up in the WMPlayer title (taskbar).

XMPlay

AutoLyrix works with XMPlay without any necessary changes.

MediaMonkey

AutoLyrix works with MediaMonkey without any necessary changes.

Quintessential

AutoLyrix works with Quintessential without any necessary changes.

VLC

AutoLyrix works with VLC without any necessary changes.

Songbird

AutoLyrix works with Songbird without any necessary changes.

OrangeCD

AutoLyrix works with OrangeCD without any necessary changes... but you might want to change OrangeCD to show the Artist(song) instead of Artist(disk) if you play discs that have various artists. Do to do, right click on OrangeCD icon, preferences, customize, and change the "Format" to %a: %D\n%d [%e] (the only change is %A to %a).

AIMP2

AutoLyrix works with AIMP2 without any necessary changes.

Spider

AutoLyrix works with Spider without any necessary changes.

Screamer Radio

AutoLyrix works with Screamer Radio without any necessary changes.

Apollo

AutoLyrix works with Apollo without any necessary changes.

wxMusik

AutoLyrix works with wxMusik without any necessary changes.

1by1

AutoLyrix works with 1by1 without any necessary changes. But you will need to have your music files on the format "Artist-Song.mp3" or you will need to change the 1by1 parser string (under Preferences).

Yahoo! Music Jukebox

AutoLyrix works with Yahoo! Music Jukebox without any necessary changes.

AlbumPlayer

AutoLyrix works with AlbumPlayer without any necessary changes.

Kantaris

AutoLyrix works with Kantaris without any necessary changes.

XMMS (Linux)

First, enable the "Support Input From File" option on AutoLyrix (inside Preferences, Advanced) and select the file '/tmp/song.tmp'.
On XMMS, go to Preferences, select the "General Plugins" tab, enable the 'song change' plugin and click on Configure. Inside the config window, change the "XMMS starts a new song" command to "echo %s > /tmp/song.tmp".

Others (Windows)

You must use the All Players method. You also can send me an email so I can try to add it to the next AutoLyrix version.

Others (Linux)

You can use the XMMS style or you can run AutoLyrix (another instance) with command-line options to change the song title on the running instance of AutoLyrix.
Example: AutoLyrix -f "My Music.mp3" or AutoLyrix -s "Artist - Song Title"