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Lystener.com takes your last.fm username and display the lyrics for the song you're currently listening to. By simply selecting the lyrics you like you can post them to Twitter or Facebook. Clean interface, easy to use website.

In the future I want to expand it to saving your favorite quotes, making top ten lists of songs and artists, but for now, this is an app I made in about a weekend (with a week of tweaking) and I'm pretty happy with it :) I wrote a blog post with a longer explanation, for those interested: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/web/a-web-app-in-a-weekend-lys...

Let me know what you think!

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I should be able to tell, just from going to lystener.com, that it will automatically grab lyrics for whatever I'm listening to on last.fm and let me share them. The site doesn't communicate that very clearly; I had to read your post here to figure out exactly what the site did.

thats right. i had no idea what the app would do "find lyrics. share them" isnt very descriptive.

Good point. I displayed the information after the first lyrics are found, because it becomes useful then, but I've made it immediatelly visible now.

My biggest complaint is that I went to the site and was greeted by something negative when I took action and entered my username. No Lyrics Found. While that's understandable as my music tastes are not very mainstream, pulling history and saying, "but we do have lyrics for this other song" might have been nicer. I do love the concept, because to be quite honest, I used to use Songbird because of the lyrics plugin. (I don't use it now because it's extremely bloated and slow unfortunately)

My own music tastes are pretty...eclectic too, so that's definitely on the list (though right now the api seems to be the bottleneck) I just decided to start with the minimum: just displaying the last played/currently playing song.

Totally understandable--a weekend project. Just love to see something positive when I visit a site for the first time. Hope you keep working on this and it evolves, I think it's a great idea.

I like it I think it's defiantly an awesome job for a weekend project. I'd have to agree maybe you should add a little more to the description (that it only works with last.fm). Although I can clearly see your interface is similar to backtype there.

Looking forward to what you can do next weekend! I'd like to see you mature your logo a little too, although it looks great even now. =P

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