“Read the lyrics of your favorite song as it plays”

Singing your favourite songs aloud, especially when nobody sees you, is one of those little pleasures in life. But you obviously need to know the lyrics to the song you're trying to follow, something you can easily find with MiniLyrics.

This plug-in includes one of the most impressive lyrics database I've ever seen in my whole life as compulsive MP3 collector. It launches simultaneously with your music player, which is probably found among the 15 players supported by MiniLyrics. Then, just click on the Play button and the program will automatically look for lyrics, based on the information provided by the file's tags.

During our tests, the program found the lyrics to every single track we played, including English, Spanish, German, Italian and even Japanese songs. Also, in the few occasions the program didn't find the proper lyrics, we were able to download and display them is less than 30 seconds.

On the downside, MiniLyrics displays a nag window every time you launch it and another registration reminder on top of each lyrics file, but that's a price I'm willing to play to be able to sing almost any of the 4,300 files in my Winamp playlist.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in MiniLyrics:

New: Support outline lyrics text.
New: Support slideshow background.
New: Load album art as background picture if possible.
New: Add an options to "Display/Hide artist, album and title info of lyrics".
Fixed: Some ID3v2 unsynchronized lyrics can't be recognized by MiniLyrics.
Fixed: Sync lyrics line with F7 key on Windows Media Player.
Fixed: Press UP and DOWN key to move up/down lyrics on Winamp5.
Fixed: Several missing translation strings.
Fixed: Remove redundant blank lines of text lyrics.

OS requirements for MiniLyrics:

OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista

Pros

Supports 15 different players
Amazing lyrics database
If automatic lyric search doesn't work you can look them up manually in a very easy way

Cons

Shows nagging registration reminders

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From the publisher of MiniLyrics

Minilyrics is a fascinating mp3 tool for automatically displaying lyrics of the currently playing song. It makes your music come alive with streaming lyrics that are timed with the song.You can follow along with the artist and catch every word, and even sing along like a Karaoke machine. Mini-lyrics eliminates any possible mondegreens. After you install the software, all you need to do is to play any mp3 file in your favorite media players, and the lyrics will appear.