Coverglobus

CoverGloobus is a desktop coverart & media controller that can also display lyrics to the currently playing song.

it supports pretty much eviery music player and has configurable settings for lyric download services.

It can show you the tabs for the song you’re listening to, getting them from the most popular web services

Install CoverGloobus

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus
sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude install covergloobus

Launch CoverGloobus from the Applications > Accessories menu

DeviantART Group

where you can find a lot of themes http://covergloobus.deviantart.com/

 

Players currently supported:

Amarok2
Audacious
Banshee
Clementine
Exaile 0.2.x
Exaile 0.3.x
gmusicbrowser
Guayadeque
Listen
MOC
MPD (requires python-mpd)
QuodLibet
Rythmbox
Songbird (requires MPRIS plugin for Songbird)
Spotify
Totem
VLC ( > 0.9.0)

Lyrics Engines:
absolutelyrics.com
lyrics.com
lyrics.wikia.com
lyricsfly.com
lyricsplugin.com

Tabs Engines:
Ultimate guitar

* Join us and keep developing your plugins at launchpad.net/covergloobus

* show your support by donating a couple of €/£/$/whatever to the developpers