Of course i did. if I (setq emms-lyrics-display-on-modeline t) (setq emms-lyrics-display-on-minibuffer t), emms will display lyrics on modeline AND minibuffer. I think the value of `emms-lyrics-mode-line-string' is not valid until emms-lyrics-display-on-modeline is t. > Do you actually have the lyric files for the playing song? For example, > place `foo.lrc' for `foo.mp3' under the same directory. > > > William