Lyrics Coming To iTunes?

MacRumors · Apr 24, 2007, 10:02 PM

According to Reuters, Gracenote is in talks with Apple to supply music lyrics for Apple's iTunes. Gracenote currently holds the rights to legally distribute lyrics from BMG, Universal Music, Sony/ATV and other content providers, and is used by iTunes to query CD track names.

Yahoo announced today a similar partnership with Gracenote to provide an ad-sponsored online music lyrics service.

dartzorichalcos · Apr 24, 2007, 10:10 PM

Great news. This will be good for karaoke.

reubs · Apr 24, 2007, 10:11 PM

I think this would be great, esp. if along the lines of "Get missing Album artwork". I don't like scrolling through music to get lyrics, and it would be great for that just sort of "happen". Let's hope this comes true.

jessica. · Apr 24, 2007, 10:15 PM

wow this would be great! Although not all my music comes from those labels so I'm still going to use Canto iPod.

Luis · Apr 24, 2007, 10:18 PM

Would be cool if they implement lyrics into search, so If you do not know a name of a song you want to buy you search for the lyrics. Excellent

TheAnswer · Apr 24, 2007, 10:18 PM

This would be awesome...but it figures they would get the feature right after I used a widget to add most of mine in...I hope they will replace the current lyrics, because some of the widget added ones have spelling errors and/or mistakes.

roland.g · Apr 24, 2007, 10:35 PM

I just hope it works better than the Album Artwork b/c a lot of my albums are the wrong cover art. I ripped my own Led Zeppelin CDs but when iTunes pulled down the album art off of iTS, I got Dread Zeppelin cover art instead.

DMann · Apr 24, 2007, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dartzorichalcos

Great news. This will be good for karaoke.

Front Row Karaoke anyone? It's almost there.........

aafuss1 · Apr 24, 2007, 10:54 PM

Finally-the Lyrics tab when you are editing a song's properties will be useful.

When does Yahoo! launch its lyrics service? Apple can't be far behind, I guess.

twoodcc · Apr 24, 2007, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dartzorichalcos

Great news. This will be good for karaoke.

yes it is, and yes it would be. i hope that this is true

nagromme · Apr 24, 2007, 11:09 PM

Karoake needs timing info too, though--lyrics text is not enough. Although some kind of manual "space bar for next line" system could help.

Yurtra · Apr 24, 2007, 11:11 PM

So, it turns out that Apple's ultimate plot to capture the living room has become clear...

STREAMING KARAOKE THROUGH

TV!

Surely it will be the next biggest craze?

RMD68 · Apr 25, 2007, 12:19 AM

I'm assuming that this feature would only work with purchased music from iTunes.

PlaceofDis · Apr 25, 2007, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RMD68

I'm assuming that this feature would only work with purchased music from iTunes.

i doubt that. gracenote provides the info for tracks that you import too. so i think it could work easily enough.

mahonmeister · Apr 25, 2007, 01:16 AM

I have hoped for this for quite some time. *crosses fingers*

Doctor Q · Apr 25, 2007, 01:45 AM

I'd love to have this feature, and I've suggested it in the past.

My guess is that acquiring lyrics would work like album artwork. Playback could be in the full-window (like the Visualizer) or in the Now Playing/Selected Item pane on the left (like album covers).

I wonder if lyrics will autoscroll in sync with the music? That would be really impressive!

samh004 · Apr 25, 2007, 02:24 AM

Implemented properly this could be a really cool feature. However 3 things I would want to know would be, would it be free ? -Like album artwork, or an extra fee. And how much space would it take up, I have nearly 10k songs now, will that eat up a lot of space (i know it's just text, but still).

Lastly, would subtitles come to TV shows and movies too, they could go in the lyrics column, and be put on screen if necessary, right ? If your going to do it with songs, why not movies too ?

Analog Kid · Apr 25, 2007, 02:40 AM

Lyrics: good.
Karaoke: evil.

adamw · Apr 25, 2007, 03:07 AM

TUAW has confirmed this story about Apple likely adding lyrics at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/24/grace...-lyrics-talks/

In fact, you can already manually add lyrics (say from the new free Yahoo service) to your existing MP3 or M4A (AAC) audio files. See the tutorial posted here for the step by step method to add and display lyrics on your iPod using iTunes:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/15/howto...s-on-your-ipod

samh004 · Apr 25, 2007, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamw

TUAW has confirmed this story about Apple likely adding lyrics at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/24/grace...-lyrics-talks/

In fact, you can already manually add lyrics (say from the new free Yahoo service) to your existing MP3 or M4A (AAC) audio files. See the tutorial posted here for the step by step method to add and display lyrics on your iPod using iTunes:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/15/howto...s-on-your-ipod

Well I knew about adding lyrics to my songs manually, but I didn't realize those lyrics then showed up on my iPod, cool! I'm gonna try this out when I get home.

You could even use this feature to remember a PIN or password if your forgetful, adding it to a song that you'd remember to check, but would be cryptic enough for people not to realize it's there. Yes I know, pretty dangerous, but it could be useful.

SciTeach · Apr 25, 2007, 06:49 AM

Yea!

I really didn't like copy & pasting.

And I finally get to find out the lyrics to Louie, Louie.

mara · Apr 25, 2007, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SciTeach

Yea!

I really didn't like copy & pasting.

And I finally get to find out the lyrics to Louie, Louie.

Well there are tons of widgts doing that already. But yes, everytime you want to add lyrics you have to activate the dashboard. But everything else is automatic. One example is http://blog.livedoor.jp/widget236/ar.../25956882.html

Nice if the feature is coming built in.

-m
www.kuusanmaki.com

ClimbingTheLog · Apr 25, 2007, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roland.g

I just hope it works better than the Album Artwork b/c a lot of my albums are the wrong cover art. I ripped my own Led Zeppelin CDs but when iTunes pulled down the album art off of iTS, I got Dread Zeppelin cover art instead.

Ack, I never noticed - mine too. Sounds like a joke on us.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nagromme

Karoake needs timing info too, though--lyrics text is not enough. Although some kind of manual "space bar for next line" system could help.

Hey, if iTunes submits this info back to Apple (in the TOS, of course) a vote-tallying algorithm can then cull the accurate information and redistribute the data to other users. I'm guessing GraceNote does not have the timing data.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yurtra

So, it turns out that Apple's ultimate plot to capture the living room has become clear...

STREAMING KARAOKE THROUGH

TV!

Karaoke isn't just singing lyrics over a song - the original lyrics need to be gone from the track. There are some signal processing algorithms to do this, and on older music it works better, but I haven't seen one that's close to 100%. I can't imagine Apple launching Karaoke half-assed like this, but there is probably an opportunity for a thrird-party plug-in for iTunes to get 'good-enough' results.

A wireless Mic (white plastic, of course) would be a good use for the USB port on the

TV.

dernhelm · Apr 25, 2007, 08:27 AM

'Bout time. I never did understand why it was such a big deal to pull the lyrics for a song. I can purchase the song, but actually understanding what they are saying? That's another matter....

syklee26 · Apr 25, 2007, 08:57 AM

Roseanne and Carl Lewis will soon be on arrest alert

Apr 24, 2007, 10:02 PM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	Lyrics Coming To iTunes? According to Reuters, Gracenote is in talks with Apple to supply music lyrics for Apple's iTunes. Gracenote currently holds the rights to legally distribute lyrics from BMG, Universal Music, Sony/ATV and other content providers, and is used by iTunes to query CD track names. Yahoo announced today a similar partnership with Gracenote to provide an ad-sponsored online music lyrics service.

Apr 24, 2007, 10:15 PM	#4
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Apr 24, 2007, 10:10 PM	#2
dartzorichalcos Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Atlantis	Great news. This will be good for karaoke.

Apr 24, 2007, 10:11 PM	#3
reubs macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jun 2006	I think this would be great, esp. if along the lines of "Get missing Album artwork". I don't like scrolling through music to get lyrics, and it would be great for that just sort of "happen". Let's hope this comes true.

Apr 24, 2007, 10:18 PM	#6
TheAnswer macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Orange County, CA	This would be awesome...but it figures they would get the feature right after I used a widget to add most of mine in...I hope they will replace the current lyrics, because some of the widget added ones have spelling errors and/or mistakes.

Apr 24, 2007, 11:09 PM	#11
nagromme macrumors 601 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Blinking blue dot	Karoake needs timing info too, though--lyrics text is not enough. Although some kind of manual "space bar for next line" system could help. __________________ nagromme Would you like a treatment?

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Yurtra macrumors member Join Date: Feb 2007	So, it turns out that Apple's ultimate plot to capture the living room has become clear... STREAMING KARAOKE THROUGH TV! Surely it will be the next biggest craze?

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Doctor Q macrumors god Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Los Angeles, Row Q Seat 1	I'd love to have this feature, and I've suggested it in the past. My guess is that acquiring lyrics would work like album artwork. Playback could be in the full-window (like the Visualizer) or in the Now Playing/Selected Item pane on the left (like album covers). I wonder if lyrics will autoscroll in sync with the music? That would be really impressive! __________________ Oh do pay attention 007. In the wrong hands, this Dual 2.93GHz Quad-Core Nehalem Mac Pro could be very dangerous.

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samh004 macrumors 68020 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Australia	Implemented properly this could be a really cool feature. However 3 things I would want to know would be, would it be free ? -Like album artwork, or an extra fee. And how much space would it take up, I have nearly 10k songs now, will that eat up a lot of space (i know it's just text, but still). Lastly, would subtitles come to TV shows and movies too, they could go in the lyrics column, and be put on screen if necessary, right ? If your going to do it with songs, why not movies too ? __________________ Website \| Blog

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Apr 25, 2007, 03:07 AM	#19
adamw macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2006	TUAW has confirmed this story about Apple likely adding lyrics at: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/24/grace...-lyrics-talks/ In fact, you can already manually add lyrics (say from the new free Yahoo service) to your existing MP3 or M4A (AAC) audio files. See the tutorial posted here for the step by step method to add and display lyrics on your iPod using iTunes: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/15/howto...s-on-your-ipod

Apr 25, 2007, 06:49 AM	#21
SciTeach macrumors regular Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NEK	Yea! I really didn't like copy & pasting. And I finally get to find out the lyrics to Louie, Louie.

Apr 25, 2007, 08:27 AM	#24
dernhelm macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2002 Location: middle earth	'Bout time. I never did understand why it was such a big deal to pull the lyrics for a song. I can purchase the song, but actually understanding what they are saying? That's another matter.... __________________ Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. --Terry Pratchett

Apr 25, 2007, 08:57 AM	#25
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