Playing with geektool (first the lyrics)
I always work with music, and I sometimes like to sing, so I want to see the lyrics of the current song, without opening itunes, and then the properties, so I use the Geektool project (a little old, but it works wih 64bits kernel), this app, will enable you to run commands and put the output on the wallpaper, you can see a lot cool screenshots on the developer site.
I will stick on the basics, I only want my lyrics (and some ps ax info).
So this scripts will help you to do this, there are 3, “itunes_artist_lyrics.sh” will get you both artist name/title and lyrics, and “itunes_artist.sh” will get you only the artist name/title, and itunes_lyrics.sh will get you the lyrics (if you want to run it on different output windows). By the way, this script don’t open itunes if it’s not running .
You can download it here -> (or download the git repository)
http://github.com/warstories/Geektool-Scripts
If you don’t want to clone the git repository, I added you a zip on github:
Download release 1.0 from git
This is a screenshot on how I show the lyrics, may be simple, but It works :
(you can se the lyrics on the left, some process information on the center, and the day on the right just above the watermark)
Next time I will try to load the artist cover and get it on the desktop with geektool, but for now, lets just listen to Arctic Monkeys, 505 (I can’t stop listening this song).
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