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"Federated" — why? My immediate questions are: What purpose does federation serve in this context? How are song lyrics like Mastodon updates or Peertube videos?
Federation is great for some purposes, but not for all.
The annotation system could benefit from federation. Users can submit any interpretation, and some of them will need to be moderated.
I can't think of a format that would be compatible with other fediverse platforms. While it would be nice to be able to annotate from existing accounts or follow new updates to a song from Lemmy/Mastodon, the specifics would be complicated. Do people follow artists, albums, songs, lines of text? Sometimes people will want to annotate a single word, and other times a whole paragraph
However, the lyrics themselves would be better off with a system like Wikipedia
This would work better as a wiki, creative commons licensed, with a database that's available for download separate from the website frontend (like wikipedia has).
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There is https://lrclib.net/
They have at least a Plugin for Jellyfin. It's not federated but matches the spirit quite well I believe. The whole database dump is just 12GB anyway.
Maybe it's not what are you looking for but LRCLIB and LRCGET are open source:
LRCLIB is the database plus tools. LRCGET is a frontend to search lyrics for music in your computer and you can edit or add if a lyric is missing.
It's not federated, but they provide database dumps so a step forward for this application. Some music players/servers already have connection with lrclib.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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