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It’s fun to sing along to your music, unless you happen to be unfamiliar with the lyrics. It can get especially annoying if you’re not a native English speaker and can barely hear what the artist is saying.

LyricsX is an open source application that can help you with this situation. It can find lyrics for almost any song from a variety of services and display them on your desktop in a few different ways. It’s easy to use, unobtrusive and very customizable.

Get lyrics from multiple services and all major music players

Whether you use iTunes, Spotify, Vox or Audirvana, this app has you covered. It can automatically detect playback in any of these applications, search for lyrics online and display them on your desktop.

Now, of course, lyrics are provided by a wide range of services, some only found on specific sites. Lyrics X relies on 163 Music, QQ Music, Kugou Music, Xiami Music, Spirited Away and Geshe Mi. It can automatically choose the best source, but you can also set a preferred source.

Lyrics in desktop and menu bar

Once the song starts playing, the app grabs the lyrics and displays them through a transparent overlay above the Dock, karaoke style. This overlay can be customized in many ways as you can change its position, font and color.

You can also view lyrics in the classic window, which sits on top of all other applications and is freely resizable. This mode is useful if you want to see everything at once or search for a specific verse.

Finally, LyricsX can display lyrics in the menu bar to the left of the app icon. While they can be difficult to understand because only one line is shown at a time, they are not distracting.

Support bilingual lyrics

This app should be especially interesting for Chinese users, as it can display Chinese and English lyrics at the same time. In addition, it can automatically convert between Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Overall, LyricsX is one of the best apps of its kind we’ve come across, and it’s definitely worth checking out. Not only does it support a large number of media players and lyrics services, but it also has extensive customizability and ease of use. Best of all, the app is also open source.