MiniLyrics

If you want to sing along when playing music, but you don't know the words, then MiniLyrics is something that will definitely spark your interest. This lightweight application is capable of displaying the lyrics to any song. All you have to do is play your song in your favorite media player and its lyrics will show up on the screen instantly. The application is available completely free of charge, for Mac OS X and Windows platforms.

Lyrics are displayed on a compact user interface, on which you can also find a few controls for speeding up or slowing down the lyrics, changing the font size, jumping to the next or previous song and more. As previously mentioned, you only need to play a song in a media player. The user interface will become transparent when it's not active, but the lyrics will remain on the screen.

The application works with a wide variety of media players, including iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Spotify and many others. The best part is that MiniLyrics won't affect the way you play your music in any way, regardless of your preferred player. Whenever hit Play on a song, the application will automatically search for its lyrics on the Internet. If you play a different version of a song and the lyrics don't match, you can look for different lyrics manually, on a small window.

Customization is another feature you can expect from MiniLyrics. It allows you to choose different fonts for the lyrics, color them or use various textures, decide how they appear and disappear and more. Furthermore, MiniLyrics comes with its own predefined themes and skins for its user interface.