Wednesday 15 July 2009

Getting Lyrics into iTunes

Saw an entry about lyrics and iTunes this morning at Lifehacker and found a nifty utility called ilyrics. With this installed you select track(s) in iTunes and then you can automatically download and add the lyrics to the track. The lyrics come from the LyricWiki.org website. By selecting all my tracks and then using the ilyrics plugin I got the vast majority of lyrics for the tracks  in my iTunes library – even for some of the Swedish songs though the national language characters are “mangled” (on LyricWiki). The only thing it has a problem with is that it looks for an exact match on the track name which means that it doesn’t find lyrics for tracks that are name such as song_name [LIVE]. This is understood and hopefully will be fixed at some time in the future.

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