I think the point is, why add unneccessary bloat to a music player?
You can listen to the music in AS, and read the lyrics on lyrics.com, or one of many other such sites.
Thought I’d add, I don’t know if lyrics.com exists!
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Yes… it is not active listening…
In the context of reading and listening simultaneously, “good quality” is subjective and beholding to contextual semantical and connotative interpretation and cognitive bias…
You can enjoy music listening with any other player in this mode…
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This is my rationalization…
Why did Damien design Audirvana and what is the foundational dogma of the player design? Why do folks who already use Roon or another player want to use Audirvana now, when they get what they find lacking in Audirvana in those players…? I believe there is a differential that brings success and it is adherence to the fundamental dogma of ultimate delivery of the encoded bit-signal to the DAC… The name says it all “Audirvana”…
If implementing what I believe to be superfluous function, is inconsequential to the fundamental design dogma that Damien so proudly hangs his reputation on, then who am I to say what they want to do? Antoine himself stated that this is not a priority for them in another similar thread…
If I want background music, I have other players to do this with… But when it comes down to experiencing every expressive nuance of a musical performance and production, Audirvana is the player of choice for this immersion in the contextual details that translate into both enhanced intellectual and emotional appreciation of the production…
The details matter… 
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Yes music matters, but lyrics matter too. If it wasn’t so we would not have some vinyl issues with lyrics printed on covers. I do not have to look into center of my Lowthers to enjoy music, I can do it by looking into bottom of my glass, or reading some nice lyrics, or a book.
I was using Audirvana 3.5 with LyricsX until Origin came out with slightly better sound. And sometimes I return to it just for sake of LyricsX.
I am not a native English speaking person and it is easier for me to follow artist words if they written in front of me, as they are sometimes packed deep into music.
So I vote for option to have it as a choice. Many of us bought int.amplifiers with loudness option even though we knew we would never use it, but it was the welcome option for listening of some types of music in late night atmosphere.
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I mainly listen to classical and operatic music. In Opera Theaters all over the world, the use of the libretto when listening to and watching the Opera is customary and in many Theaters it has now become necessary to use digital panels on which the words flow. Yes, I find this disturbing, but not the booklet. So the ability to access the words while listening with Audirvana would be very welcome. But also for other musical genres, jazz and singer-songwriters, the possibility of accessing the text even while listening does not affect the quality. Furthermore, I found the possibility of accessing the booklets within the Audirvana interface very intelligent. Other players, even renowned ones like Roon, require access to the browser, which I find annoying.
J’écoute principalement de la musique classique et lyrique. Dans les théâtres d’opéra du monde entier, l’utilisation du livret lors de l’écoute et du visionnage de l’opéra est habituelle et dans de nombreux théâtres, il est désormais devenu nécessaire d’utiliser des panneaux numériques sur lesquels coulent les mots. Oui, je trouve cela dérangeant, mais pas le livret. La possibilité d’accéder aux paroles tout en écoutant avec Audirvana serait donc la bienvenue. Mais aussi pour d’autres genres musicaux, le jazz et les auteurs-compositeurs-interprètes, la possibilité d’accéder au texte même en l’écoutant n’altère pas la qualité. De plus, j’ai trouvé très intelligente la possibilité d’accéder aux livrets au sein de l’interface Audirvana. D’autres joueurs, même renommés comme Roon, nécessitent un accès au navigateur, ce que je trouve ennuyeux.
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Apoyo tu comentario Angelo58, no todos somos poliglotas y escuchamos música de varios idiomas además del inglés o el idioma nativo personal porque ellas aun sin entender las letras transmiten emociones. Las letras serian una gran adición, sería bueno que los usuarios de Audirvana se manifiesten sobre esta característica.
I support your comment Angelo58, not all of us are polyglots and listen to music from several languages besides English or our native language because even without understanding the lyrics they transmit emotions. Lyrics would be a great addition, it would be good if Audirvana users would express their opinion on this feature.
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Hi there,
I really would appreciate the integration of lyrics in Audirvana (respectively in Audirvana Remote).
In the meantime I‘d like to share my alternative for iOS
NowPlaying listens through the microphone of your device to recognise the song (using the ShazamKit) and then displays information on the track from different sources (including lyrics if available)
It’s the closest thing to the roon information integration I have seen so far.
Maybe it’s worth checking out.
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Hello Antoine
I asked on Github to support Audirvana Origin (and Studio) in LyricsX, here’s what the developer replied me:
“LyricsX is able to observe music playback and switching information because the player sends distributed notifications. These notifications can be observed to across apps. I reverse-engineered Audirvana Origin and found that they no longer send such notifications, so there is currently no way to support to Audirvana Origin.”
Hope this bit of info can help
Here’s the link to github