displays lyrics of currently playing song. Works in existing shell or opens a new terminal. Keywords: cmus urxvt mutagen

display-lyrics-cmus-urxvt.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import sys

if not sys.stdout.isatty() and os.environ.get('iherduleikterms') != 'no':
  os.environ['iherduleikterms'] = 'no'
  os.system('urxvtcd -title "Lyrics Viewer™" -e sh -c "lyrics-currently-playing | less"')
  exit


import subprocess
import re
from mutagen.id3 import ID3

stats = subprocess.check_output(["cmus-remote", "-Q"])
path = re.search('file (.*)', stats).group(1)
tags = ID3(path)
lyrics = tags.getall("USLT")

print path

for x in lyrics:
  print "\n--------"
  print (x.lang + "   " + x.desc).replace('\x00', '')
  print x.text.encode('utf-8').strip()
  print "\n\n"