For your lyrics needs! (Can be selfhosted)
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I remember when people were going to court for publishing lyric sites. Wow! Weird times.
That's basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory. wget and friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.
Thanks. This is really interesting but doesn't appear to be aimed at the same audience that I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of a solution for people who aren't technical and just want to share documentation or static style information and view that like a documentation site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)
For time-synchronized lyrics.
It looks like my Scandroid audio files from Bandcamp have embedded non-synchronized lyrics.
$ metaflac --list *08*.flac
[snip]
comment[12]: UNSYNCEDLYRICS=Beware the shadows of the drones
Destruction wrapped in pretty silicone
They’ve taken everyone I’ve known
And now I walk these empty streets alone
In my memory the past is fading
The future has been redesigned
It’s hard to focus on it when I’m running out of time
Surrounded by streetlights at midnight
My destination is unknown
I walk these empty streets alone
Digital dreams thrive in the moonlight
I’m only flesh, circuit and bone
I walk these empty streets alone
Beware the faces of the clones
Deception sent from Neo-Tokyo
They’ve erased everyone I’ve known
And still I walk these empty streets alone
I don't know how widespread that is.
Note that lyrics are themselves copyrighted works, regarding simply sharing them. That is, if you want to create, say, "Lyricsnet, the new Fediverse service" or something like that, you may attract attention from IP owners.
Thanks. I didn't know about the LRC format, this is really interesting for the lyrics problem. But just to be clear, I'm not thinking (specifically) about lyrics, I'm thinking about having a standard format for sharing directories of textual or simple html documents for hosting privately. So if I wanted to share my smoothie recipes for instance, I'd just save them all to a .mds file for anyone to upload to their .mds application and not worry about directory structure or manually moving files around an actual filesystem.
Check out static site generator. I've specifically used Hugo which took markdown files as input/content, but there are many options.
They are also really easy to host on a git forge.