ListeningNow – Spotify Song Lyrics Plugin (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux…)
2 Dec 2010
I haven’t found any good Spotify lyric plugins for Mac OSX yet so I decided to code my own approach. It is not exactly a plugin but a web-based bookmarklet no installation required and works for any platform (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, etc.).
How ListeningNow works
You click on the bookmarklet in your browser and a popup window with the lyrics to the song you are currently listening (or just listened) in Spotify will appear.
Setting up ListeningNow
Although no software needs to be installed you need to follow this steps in order to make ListeningNow work with Spotify. You need to have a Spotify account and a Last.fm account.
- Enable scrobbling in Spotify
- Make sure Recently listened tracks in Last.fm is public
- Go to your user profile
- Click on Settings at the right of the Recently Listened Tracks header
- Deselect Make this private
- Select one of the following available ListeningNow servers:
- Type in your Last.fm username:
- Click here: Generate bookmarklet
- Drag and drop the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar:
(generate the bookmarklet first) - Click on the bookmarklet any time you want to see the lyrics for a song
If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave a line at the Comments section.
Additional information
ListeningNow tool works for Spotify and any other music player that supports Last.fm’s scrobbling real-time (Last.fm, Windows Media, iTunes, Winamp, Songbird, Amarok, Boxee, Hype Machine, Jukefly, Muxtape, PandoraFM, Squeezebox, etc.)
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11 comments to ListeningNow – Spotify Song Lyrics Plugin (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux…)
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December 2nd, 2010 at 11:52 amCould you add an a auto update setting to settings.
December 24th, 2010 at 10:31 amSo i could open ListeningNow in new tab and it would autimaticly update lyrcs to latest data.
Great work. But would you please use a more reliable lyrics engine? The lyrics shown for The Dead’s Box of Rain is Looks Like Rain, and for Looks Like Rain it shows Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall…
June 25th, 2011 at 10:27 am[...] Listening Now: Who doesn’t love to sing along to your favorite songs? For those of us not particularly adept at memorization but still like to sing (or in some cases yell), this service shows you correct the words to songs you’re playing. [...]
July 20th, 2011 at 11:34 am[...] ListeningNow – browser-based lyric plugin for Spotify Lyrify shown on the right [...]
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:13 pmThis isn’t working anymore :( Is there a way to fix it, or maybe release the code?
October 8th, 2011 at 7:31 pmHi Srećko, the script is back and working again :)
October 10th, 2011 at 10:35 amThanks :)
October 12th, 2011 at 6:24 pmThis isn’t working for me unfortunately
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December 16th, 2011 at 10:26 pm