OmniLyrics
The lyric tool I always wanted — CLI, GUI, and status-bar modes, cross-platform, built with .NET 8 and Avalonia.
Why This Exists
There is no lyric app that is truly cross-platform and works well everywhere you’d want lyrics: as a desktop window, in the terminal, and in a status bar. Every existing tool covers one platform or one surface and stops. OmniLyrics is my attempt to build the one I always wanted — CLI, GUI, and status-bar modes, on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Design
- One core, many frontends. A shared .NET core with an Avalonia GUI and a CLI; the CLI’s
--mode lineemits single-line output made for status bars — it drops straight into a Waybar module on Linux. - Knows what you’re playing. Now-playing information comes from the platform’s native media APIs — MPRIS on Linux, SMTC on Windows — and lyrics are fetched from online sources and synced to playback.
- Remote-controllable. A running instance acts as a daemon:
--control play / pause / toggle / prev / next / seeklets scripts and keybindings drive playback through it. - Why C# / .NET 8? I knew Avalonia well from earlier projects, and it’s the same .NET affinity that shows up elsewhere in my work — the private VultraEngine bets on CoreCLR for scripting.
Showcase
Windows GUI:
Windows Terminal:
Linux Waybar (line mode):
Status
Development is paused for now — I’ll return to it in spare moments between engine work.