🎵 Genius Fast Transcriber + Lyric Card Maker

The ultimate toolkit for transcribers and contributors on Genius.com. A browser extension that injects a professional-grade floating panel directly into the Genius lyrics editor — smart tags, one-click typographic cleanup, lyric card generation, custom macros, and much more.

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🌟 Why use Genius Fast Transcriber?

🚀 Save time	Insert structures and fix typography in a single click.
🧠 Customizable	Create your own buttons, macros, and regex-based tools.
✨ Quality assured	Lyrics automatically respect Genius editorial standards.
🌍 8 languages	FR · EN · PL · ES · DE · IT · PT · RU — with locale-specific typography rules.
🎨 Lyric Cards	Generate shareable lyric images in 1:1, 9:16, and 16:9 formats.
🌙 Dark mode	Beautiful dark interface enabled by default; light mode available.
🔒 Safe editing	Undo/redo history (10 states) + auto-draft backup to local storage.

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🔥 Features

🏗️ Structure & Smart Tags

• Unified Verse Manager — Dynamic [Couplet 1], [Couplet 2] button with fast ← → navigation.
• Artist Detection — Scans the page for main & featured artists; auto-proposes them for tag credits.
• Quick Tags — [Refrain], [Intro], [Bridge], [Outro], [Pré-Refrain]… inserted with correct formatting.
• Multi-language tags — Adapts to English ([Verse], [Chorus]), French ([Couplet], [Refrain]), Polish ([Zwrotka], [Refren]), and more.

✨ Corrections & Quality (Fix All)

One prominent Fix All button that cleans everything in one click:

• Curly apostrophes ' → '
• Capitalization at the start of lines
• Unnecessary final punctuation removed (preserves ... ellipsis)
• French quotes « » → " (or Polish „" → ")
• Long dashes — – → - (or - → — for Polish)
• Double spaces removed
• Proper line spacing between sections
• Correction Preview — Interactive diff view showing every change before applying.
• Parenthesis Check — Detects and highlights unclosed ( ) or [ ] in red.

🎨 Lyric Card Maker

• Select text → generate a beautiful shareable image for Instagram / Twitter / TikTok.
• Background options: Album art or Artist photo, fetched automatically.
• Multiple formats: 1:1, 9:16, 16:9.
• Live preview before download.
• Lyric Card Only Mode — Hide transcription tools and keep only the card generator.

🛠️ Custom Button Manager

• Create your own insertion buttons or complex regex find/replace tools.
• Simple graphical manager — no coding required.
• Import / Export — Share button presets as code snippets with other contributors.

🔢 Number to Words Converter

Select a number like 42 and convert it to:

• 🇫🇷 quarante-deux · 🇬🇧 forty-two · 🇵🇱 czterdzieści dwa

📤 Export & Sharing

• Export as .txt — Download lyrics as a clean text file directly from the Genius toolbar.
• Copy to clipboard — One-click copy alongside file download.
• Smart cleaning — Automatically strips Contributors headers, Genius hyperlink annotations, and HTML tags.
• 4 export formats:
  • Standard — Keeps tags and spacing.
  • No Tags — Removes [Verse], [Chorus], etc.
  • No Spacing — Removes empty lines.
  • Raw — Pure text, no tags or spacing.
• Intelligent Scraper — If the editor is closed, GFT scrapes lyrics from the public page.

📺 YouTube Control

Control the embedded YouTube player without leaving the editor:

• ▶️ Play / ⏸️ Pause
• ⏪ Rewind 5s / ⏩ Forward 5s
• Compatible with nocookie privacy embeds.

🔍 Find & Replace

• In-editor find & replace with a regex toggle for power users.

✏️ Floating Toolbar

• Select text in the editor → a contextual toolbar appears for Bold, Italic, and quick formatting.

🛡️ Security & History

• Undo / Redo — Visual 10-state history with Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.
• Auto Draft — Periodic local save with 💾 pulse indicator. Crash-proof your work.

❓ Onboarding & Tutorial

• Interactive wizard on first install — choose language, theme, and mode.
• Replay tutorial anytime from the settings menu.

🤖 AI Transcription

• Quick-access link to external AI transcription tools directly from the panel footer.

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⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + 1 to 5	Insert structure tags (Verse, Chorus…)
Ctrl + Shift + C	Fix All (opens correction preview)
Ctrl + D	Duplicate current line
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Ctrl + Y	Redo
Ctrl + Shift + S	Show / hide statistics
Ctrl + Alt + Space	Play / Pause YouTube
Ctrl + Alt + ←	Rewind 5s
Ctrl + Alt + →	Forward 5s

Shortcuts are customizable from the Settings menu inside the panel.

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📥 Installation

Chrome Web Store

Install from the Chrome Web Store.

Firefox Add-ons

Install from Firefox Add-ons (AMO).

Manual (Developer Mode)

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Install dependencies and build:

   npm install
   npm run build            # Chrome (Manifest V3)
   npm run build:firefox    # Firefox

3. Chrome — Go to chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked and select .output/chrome-mv3.
4. Firefox — Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click Load Temporary Add-on and select .output/firefox-mv2/manifest.json.

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🧑‍💻 Development

The project is built with WXT (next-gen browser extension framework), Vue 3 (Composition API), and TypeScript (strict mode). Linting and formatting are handled by Biome.

npm install
npm run dev              # Chrome dev server with HMR
npm run dev:firefox      # Firefox dev server with HMR
npm run build            # Production build (Chrome)
npm run build:firefox    # Production build (Firefox)
npm run zip              # Package for Chrome Web Store
npm run zip:firefox      # Package for Firefox AMO
npm run lint             # Lint with Biome
npm run lint:fix         # Auto-fix lint errors
npm run format           # Format with Biome
npm run typecheck        # TypeScript type-checking (wxt prepare + vue-tsc)

Project Structure

src/
├── entrypoints/              # WXT entry points
│   ├── content.ts            # Content script — injected on *://*.genius.com/*-lyrics
│   ├── background.ts         # Service worker
│   └── popup/                # Extension popup (HTML + Vue mount)
├── components/
│   ├── content/              # 18 Vue SFCs injected into the page
│   │   ├── GftPanel.vue      #   Main floating panel (root component)
│   │   ├── StructureSection  #   Tag insertion UI
│   │   ├── CleanupSection    #   Fix All controls
│   │   ├── CorrectionPreview #   Diff preview modal
│   │   ├── LyricCardModal    #   Lyric card generator
│   │   ├── CustomButtonMgr   #   User-defined buttons
│   │   ├── FloatingToolbar   #   Contextual formatting bar
│   │   ├── OnboardingWizard  #   First-run tutorial
│   │   └── ...               #   + 10 more
│   └── popup/                # 3 popup components (Language, Mode, Theme selectors)
├── composables/              # 11 reactive composables
│   ├── useEditor.ts          #   Genius contenteditable interaction
│   ├── useCorrections.ts     #   Typographic cleanup engine
│   ├── useSettings.ts        #   Persistent user settings
│   ├── useSongData.ts        #   Page scraping (cover, artists, metadata)
│   ├── useLyricCard.ts       #   Card generation logic
│   ├── useUndoRedo.ts        #   10-state history
│   ├── useDraft.ts           #   Auto-save drafts
│   ├── useKeyboardShortcuts  #   Shortcut bindings
│   ├── useYoutubeControls    #   YouTube iframe API
│   ├── useExport.ts          #   .txt export
│   └── useGftState.ts        #   Global panel state
├── utils/                    # 9 pure utility modules
│   ├── corrections.ts        #   Correction rules (locale-aware)
│   ├── numberToWords.ts      #   Number → text conversion
│   ├── lyricCard.ts          #   Canvas rendering
│   ├── dom.ts                #   DOM helpers for Genius page
│   ├── diff.ts               #   Text diff algorithm
│   └── ...
├── types/                    # TypeScript type definitions
└── locales/
    ├── app/                  # Runtime translations (vue-i18n) — 8 locales
    │   ├── fr.json
    │   ├── en.json
    │   ├── pl.json
    │   ├── es.json
    │   ├── de.json
    │   ├── it.json
    │   ├── pt.json
    │   └── ru.json
    ├── *.json                # Manifest i18n (@wxt-dev/i18n) — 8 locales
    └── index.ts              # i18n setup & locale registration

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🛠️ Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup instructions, coding standards, and PR workflow.

Additional documentation in the docs/ folder:

Document	Description
ROADMAP.md	Feature ideas and priorities
PUBLISHING.md	Chrome Web Store & Firefox AMO publishing guide
TESTING.md	Manual testing checklist
CHANGELOG.md	Full version history

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🌍 Supported Languages

Language	Tags	Fix All	Number → Words	UI
🇫🇷 French	✅	✅	✅	✅
🇬🇧 English	✅	✅	✅	✅
🇵🇱 Polish	✅	✅	✅	✅
🇪🇸 Spanish	—	—	—	✅
🇩🇪 German	—	—	—	✅
🇮🇹 Italian	—	—	—	✅
🇵🇹 Portuguese	—	—	—	✅
🇷🇺 Russian	—	—	—	✅

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License

MIT — Developed with ❤️ by Lnkhey.