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 Iâd add, I donât know if lyrics.com exists!
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Yes⊠it is not active listeningâŠ
In the context of reading and listening simultaneously, âgood qualityâ is subjective and beholding to contextual semantical and connotative interpretation and cognitive biasâŠ
You can enjoy music listening with any other player in this modeâŠ
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This is my rationalizationâŠ
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 playersâŠ? 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 âAudirvanaââŠ
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 threadâŠ
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 productionâŠ
The details matter⊠
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Yes music matters, but lyrics matter too. If it wasnât 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.
JâĂ©coute principalement de la musique classique et lyrique. Dans les thĂ©Ăątres dâopĂ©ra du monde entier, lâutilisation du livret lors de lâĂ©coute et du visionnage de lâopĂ©ra est habituelle et dans de nombreux thĂ©Ăątres, il est dĂ©sormais devenu nĂ©cessaire dâutiliser des panneaux numĂ©riques sur lesquels coulent les mots. Oui, je trouve cela dĂ©rangeant, mais pas le livret. La possibilitĂ© dâaccĂ©der aux paroles tout en Ă©coutant avec Audirvana serait donc la bienvenue. Mais aussi pour dâautres genres musicaux, le jazz et les auteurs-compositeurs-interprĂštes, la possibilitĂ© dâaccĂ©der au texte mĂȘme en lâĂ©coutant nâaltĂšre pas la qualitĂ©. De plus, jâai trouvĂ© trĂšs intelligente la possibilitĂ© dâaccĂ©der aux livrets au sein de lâinterface Audirvana. Dâautres joueurs, mĂȘme renommĂ©s comme Roon, nĂ©cessitent un accĂšs au navigateur, ce que je trouve ennuyeux.
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Apoyo tu comentario Angelo58, no todos somos poliglotas y escuchamos mĂșsica de varios idiomas ademĂĄs del inglĂ©s o el idioma nativo personal porque ellas aun sin entender las letras transmiten emociones. Las letras serian una gran adiciĂłn, serĂa bueno que los usuarios de Audirvana se manifiesten sobre esta caracterĂstica.
I support your comment Angelo58, not all of us are polyglots and listen to music from several languages ââbesides 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 Iâd 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)
Itâs the closest thing to the roon information integration I have seen so far.
Maybe itâs worth checking out.
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Hello Antoine
I asked on Github to support Audirvana Origin (and Studio) in LyricsX, hereâs what the developer replied me:
âLyricsX 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.â
Hope this bit of info can help
Hereâs the link to github
Lyrics feature is really needed.
Edit: I just vibe coded a lyrics app with Gemini. It looks for Last.fm currently playing and displays lyrics from two sources. Genius and LRCLIB. I should mention that Iâm not a dev.
I hope this is not against the rules, GitHub - Kaan88/Lyrics-for-Audirvana: A lightweight, standalone desktop app that automatically fetches and displays lyrics for whatever you are currently playing in Audirvana. · GitHub
This is actually a generic lyrics app as it uses last.fm currently playing, nothing to do with audirvana. but since Audirvana is the only app with missing lyrics feature I chose this name.
*.exe - itâs windows app. Any chance a mac version?
I updated the app to use timing from audirvana window so lyrics are perfectly synced now. Unfortunately itâs Windows only, there doesnât seem to be an easy way to achieve the same result on Mac.
App uses workarounds like Last.fm to get song title and Accessibility feature of windows to get timing.
I hope Audirvana exposes these directly in the future.
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I hope that implementing synchronized lyrics or any lyrics, does not impinge on the sound-quality performance of the AudirvÄna audio-engine that we have come to expect and appreciate on any given platform. I donât see AudirvÄna as a karaoke machineâŠThere are other options for this function. If lyrics are of more importance than playback sound-quality performance, it is time to question why?
Iâm not modifying the audio engine at all, only using existing accessibility features. Calling it âkaraokeâ misses the point, itâs about inclusivity and enhancing the listening experience, without touching playback fidelity.
Not everyoneâs native language is English, or the song may not even be English in the first place, what an unfortunate response on your part.
Edit: I see youâre strongly opposed to lyrics according to many replies of yours in this post. I suggest you leave everyone else out of this. Because It seems you believe lyrics would somehow take away the âmagicâ of AudirvÄna, which isâŠ
If it requires CPU cycles and RAM⊠there is potential for influenceâŠ
Right, the gremlins. News flash, you are not running Audirvana on a real time os in the first place. Dozens of stuff use cpu cycles whether you like it or not.
Itâs not worth arguing with you as you have no idea what you are talking about. If a simple python app affects audirvana, that would be alarming.
I apologise to everyone else.
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However, if the implementation of lyrics does not impinge on the performance of the audio-engine on any given computer platform configuration, and that lyric display can be completely disabled and inconsequential to the audio-engine performance, the choice should be left to the user and not a default stateâŠ
Its the one BIG feature that is missing when compared to the alternatives (Roon & JRiver)
Its also an absolute must that its in the Remote , I suspect most people sit with the remote handy not the PC
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Happy to see that after 6 years I proposed this, the lyrics feature is finally implemented in Audirvana! Looking forward to trying it out.
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Oh no, those precious bits are gonna get discombobulated.
/s
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Oh, I can tell you it has been a long ride to get even an answer from the Lyric service we are using 
But itâs now here, so letâs enjoy it 
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