But doing karaoke while listening to music is tough. When I started using internet, I would go to these lyrics sites and download the lyrics for the songs I love and then try to sing along whenever I listened to those tracks. I thought that was a good way of doing it. Not until sometime back when suddenly there was a surge of plugins which make your singing life easy.

These plugins which are also called as lyrics softwares would silently get integrated into your favourite music player like Windows Media Player or Winamp and as the song plays the music player will display the lyrics right there. We have already done a post on one such lyrics software.

We thought of looking for alternatives because you never know if there’s a better product out there for displaying lyrics as you play the songs. And we did hit gold and found a software which is amazing and probably better than the lyricsplugin that we covered. This software is called as minilyrics and is a beauty. Minilyrics is however not free and if you want a full version (single user license) of it you’ll have to shed $19.95. But I must tell you that it’s worth the money as this lyrics plugin is more than nifty.

Minilyrics supports almost all the music players. Here is the list of players it supports

	Winamp
	Windows Media Player
	Foobar2000
	Apple iTunes
	RealPlayer
	Quintessential Player
	Musicmatch Jukebox
	MediaMonkey
	The KMPlayer
	JetAudio
	Yahoo! Music Engine
	J. River Media Center
	J. River Media Jukebox
	XMPlay
	AIMP2
	Helium Music Manager
	AlbumPlayer
	BSPlayer

Well isn’t that a long list. There are 3 ways of showing lyrics:

Lyrics bar: This sits right on left top of your screen to show you song lyrics as the song plays.

Album Art: This is a little more intriguing as it sits over other applications and covers some part of the screen.

Floating lyrics: My favourite way of checking the lyrics. They show up like movie titles fading in and out at the top of the screen

I am sure you are gonna love this plugin. I sure do!

Download MiniLyrics Now!

Some things get better with time and this little software I am going to talk about is just one of them. If you listen to a lot of songs on Windows Media Player or Winamp and also look for the song’s lyrics to hum along as the song plays, then this is a must have plugin for you.

LyricsPlugin is a straight forward, easy to use and extremely handy plugin which just needs to be installed and it does the rest for you.

Once this plugin is installed, just open Windows Media Player and start playing songs, this plugin will automatically look for song’s lyrics and pull them from the internet and show them to you as the song plays.

WICKED COOL, isn’t it?

Plugin comes for Winamp and Windows Media Player, you can download the appropriate plugin depending on which application you use the most to listen to songs. iTunes users will have to do without it as the plugin is not offered for iTunes.

If you don’t find the lyrics for the currently playing song, click on the edit button at the bottom of the page and add your lyrics and save it. This newly lyrics will not only be shown to you next time you play the same song but to anyone in the world using the same plugin.

You can edit the existing lyrics by clicking on edit, be nice, don’t edit anything unless required. The plugin also offers a configuration page where you can set preferences like, font size, color, alignment, etc..

It’s a great plugin a must use for music lovers. You should know your song don’t you?

Click here to download for Windows Media Player and here to for Winamp.

Visit LyricsPlugin.