If you are playing your own locally stored music, Strophes will detect it and pull up the lyrics for the currently playing song. There are two ways you can use Strophes: by playing music on your device and using Strophes as a follow-along, or you can look up songs in the database via the search. Album art will be shown in the center of the screen, but you can scroll down to view the complete lyrics to the song. The search bar is surrounded by a torn paper design that adds a bit of charm to the app overall. You can see the detail in the top header bar, where it displays the song title and artist information on. I’m not usually a fan of textured visual elements, but Strophes does it very well. Seriously, just take a look at the app and tell me that you aren’t in love. You can get Strophes at $4.99 on the Mac App Store.I love beautiful looking apps, and Strophes definitely falls into this category. Strophes is, by far, the best lyrics app I have found on OS X, and it works with the apps I am already enjoying to listen to my music library. Most of the times, the app loaded lyrics just fine and within seconds. Working in tandem with Rdio, it only failed to find lyrics a couple of times when it did, it provided a link to open lyrics in the web browser. Strophes automatically loads another song as the music player changes, and, as far as features are concerned, it can also visualize an artist’s bio through last.fm integration, and translate lyrics. Strophes can control music players, too, but I prefer to keep The Iconfactory’s Take Five on my Mac for those playback and pausing duties. The app uses a lyrics database to find lyrics, and it also displays album artworks and artists information above the actual lyrics. Strophes is extremely simple in the way it works: it plugs directly into your active music player, checks for the song that’s playing, and displays lyrics inline fetching them off the Internet. The full list includes iTunes, Spotify, and Radium as well through an optional Safari extension – which needs to be downloaded from Strophes’ website – you’ll also be able to load lyrics for videos playing on. Strophes works with a variety of music players, such as Rdio. In that regard, Strophes almost feels as the app Apple would create if they were to offer their take on displaying song lyrics, which is to say – Strophes is a natural fit for the Mac platform, and, more importantly, it just looks better than any other lyrics app I’ve tried. Personally, whilst I am not the biggest fan of Apple’s Calendar and Find My Friends, I recognize how, to most users, Strophes’ appeal lies in its strong resemblance to recent Apple trends and design patterns. Music comes from multiple sources, yet there hasn’t been a single, integrated app that could help in displaying lyrics on the desktop without using ugly and ad-filled lyrics websites.ĭeveloped by Italian Alfredo Delli Bovi, Strophes wants to be the beautiful Mac app that’s integrated with the music apps you’re already using.īefore I delve into the app’s feature set, though, it is worth mentioning how Strophes’ deep skeuomorphic roots will likely fence several users off as they will look at bits of torn paper and stitched leather in disbelief and utter despise for interfaces mimicking real life object. It’s not just about iTunes anymore: today, my library is on Rdio, new releases are streamed every Tuesday, and I may casually check out a YouTube video or two as I look for that old live set or creepy 80’s Italian music video. Unfortunately, for the past years I had to cope with poor solutions to check out a song’s lyrics on the Mac even worse, all of those methods sported no kind of integration whatsoever with the services I use to listen to music on a daily basis. I have a good ear for the English language, but most of the times when I’m listening to music I still want to know exactly what a song says.
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