The community Taskforce initiative has now come to a close.
Thanks to everyone who made thoughtful and genuine contributions to the website.
All submissions will be kept publically available for the forseeable future for reference purposes.

This website is part of the community Taskforce initiative

Submission details

37 +42/-5 votes

show lyrics in windows media player.

Submitted by argotera on February 9, 2009 to Usability

the older versions of wmp have an option for displaying lyrics if they exist in tags of mp3 files. however the are displayed in a really small portion of the viualization window, making it impractical.

I 'd like to be an visualization option in the wmp 12 where lyrics would be displayed covering all visualization part of course keeping the cover art and media info on the left upper part.. thanks

edit: nitrous9200 comments on a plug in with the ability to embed your own lyrics.

A plug in that would search in lyrics-sites and then embed its findings to the id tag would be great, i use iart in itunes for that and i f-king love it. it scans a whole library or playlist and adds lyrics with a great success rate, at least for english songs Sthing like that would be great but i think there might be legal complications as lyrics are copyrighted material and i am not sure how legal these sites are. If anyone know, pls comment.

Low

Medium

Not fixed

Discussion (6 comments)

RedSign wrote on February 9, 2009, 7:18pm

+ 1

I miss the lyrics plugin that I used to use but doesn't work with WMP 12.

xombie wrote on February 9, 2009, 7:25pm

I'm not sure being an visualization option is a very rewarding career choice :)

antiufo wrote on February 9, 2009, 8:03pm

+1
Or, at least, Microsoft should revamp these pages
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx
http://www.wmplugins.com

And add links to *really* popular plugins, like LyricsPlugin, instead of useless 3rd party codecs or DVD decoders.

RedSign wrote on February 9, 2009, 8:20pm

Is there a working plugin for showing lyrics in WMP 12?

011160cs wrote on February 10, 2009, 1:07am

Use google for lyrics

demoted

nitrous9200 wrote on February 10, 2009, 5:12am

Seriously, use Google for lyrics? Why not have the capability to embed your own lyrics and show them while playing your music? It would be a great feature to have and I never have been able to get it to work in any version of Media Player.

argotera wrote on February 10, 2009, 7:22pm

Changed solution description.

You might also be interested in...