Feature Request

[Nate Graham]

Hello Umar,

Looks like an interesting idea.

I suspect the feature is infrequently used right now, which it's also 
infrequently-developed. I actually don't have any songs with automatic 
lyrics myself, so if you can point me to one, I'd be happy to take a look.

Nate


On 5/15/23 05:41, Umar Farooq wrote:
> Hi there,
> Awesome KDE guyz!
> 
> I'll try to make it brief.
> I'm an audiophile, a linux user for about 2 years and have tried many 
> music players recently. One's UI isn't that good, the other's UX is 
> terrible, One has got music suggestions then doesn't support lyrics 
> (many of em don't). Juk doesn't have much. Rhythmbox was good enough, 
> but.. . Deepin music's snap didn't go well. Lollypop didn't cut it.
> 
> Amberol <https://flathub.org/apps/io.bassi.Amberol> and G4music 
> <https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music> both have decent 
> UI, first one having adaptive colors while latter with blurred one.
> I've been using Tauon Music Box 
> <https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox> for some time now and 
> recently started using Harmonoid <https://harmonoid.com/> too. An 
> addition was Sunamu <https://github.com/NyaomiDEV/Sunamu> which detects 
> currently playing music & fetches time-synced lyrics from the internet, 
> only.
> 
> Being a KDE fan and everyday user, I did try Elisa some time ago but 
> moved on. I just saw lyrics (pulling from metadata) functionality which 
> I guess was introduced recently and.. it's loveable!
> 
> Though, the lyrics experience is (saying as a user) quite horrible (I 
> know you guyz put in a lot of work, the feedback is just for improvement 
> :). In simple words, the active lyrics line is hard to distinguish from 
> the rest.
> 
> Using highlight color from the color scheme would look complex/ugly 
> (example of Tauon Box below). So, my humble *suggestion* is: it should 
> be somewhat like: active line with opacity:1,next and previous with 
> opacity:0.75 and the rest with opacity:6. You get it right? You can 
> adjust the figures, or better.. if you do some gradient-fu ;)
> A little bigger font-size (like that in Harmonoid) would be the icing on 
> cake!
> 
> Here's Tauon Music Box's approach:
> elisa1_tauon.png
> looks ew, right?
> 
> Here is Sunamu's approach:
> elisa2_sunamu.png
> Gradient-like appearance of lyrics, and adaptive colors from album 
> art 😻 (You getting it, right? :D)
> 
> And, here's Harmonoid's:
> elisa3_harmonoid.png
> 
> 
> I cloned the repo and tried to modify it myself but (as I'm not much of 
> a dev) couldn't find the relevant code 🐧
> 
> And..
> That's all.
> 
> I have also shown you (&linked) (if you haven't seen) some cool projects 
> which I've been exploring. You guyz can take things as further as you 
> can - for example: adaptive colors wherever suits, I know a lot makes 
> things messy -  after all, the goal is to make KDE awesome 🙂
> 
> What do you guys think about it?
> Whatever you guyz decide, work on these, or move on without them; I 
> would love to hear what The Developers have to say. Keep rocking awesome 
> guyz.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> Umar aka Signore
> 
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