Just a random thought that I had: what if there were a federated, Open-source, lyrics platform—something open and community-driven, where users could submit, edit, and annotate song lyrics, similar to how Mastodon or PeerTube works for social and video content?
In theory, it could even offer an API that centralized music platforms (Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, Qobuz, etc.) might choose to tap into. Think of it as a libre lyrics backend with federation support.
I’d absolutely love to see or even contribute to something like this, but I don’t currently have the skills or energy to pull it off myself. Has anyone explored this idea before?
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.