What is this iPhone trickery?! (Lyrics showing up?)

[chrono1081]

My friend showed me his iPhone yesterday and he was playing Nightwish and instead of just showing album art lyrics were scrolling along. It didn't happen on all songs just a few. My same Nightwish songs didn't do this. He said all he did was load the songs from iTunes onto the phone nothing else.

Anyone know what this is?

 

[conman16]

Did ur friend get the sing off limewire? Cuz sometimes limewire songs got lyrics dawg

 

[spillproof]

^^^

To get them, right click on a song > get info > lyrics

 

[moka]

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Check out tunewiki on the app store

 

[chrono1081]

That is so interesting! I didn't know that stuff existed. Thank you guys for the replies

Edit: Meh, all my getinfo->lyrics show up blank. I'm guessing tunewiki downloads them? I cant look at tunewiki yet still at work : /

 

[MokSiFu]

tunewiki has scrolling lyrics downloaded off the interweb but as far as i know, it doesn't save the lyrics to your track. But it's pretty cool it has scrolling lyrics

If you want to get lyrics (automatically), I use the Harmonic widget by Mindquirk to download them for me when I play music on my computer, it gets the lyrics most of the time: http://mindquirk.com/apps/harmonic/ - and you just sync it with your library on your iTouch/iPhone and you get the lyrics when you tap the album art

 

[spillproof]

I guess I should have elaborated more. Songs don't come with lyrics, you need to copy them into that panel. Lyric sites are all over the web or MokSifu has a good idea

 

[davyreins]

I first noticed this feature on my iPod. I was just as surprised when I figured out some of my songs had it.

 

[jason72780]

If you download the TunesText widget it'll Automatically add the lyrics in iTunes whenever you play a song. Then it'll update the iPhone when it syncs.

 

[sammich]

I've got thousands of my songs with pretty good (not perfect) lyrics with this iTunes script (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=lyricslyricwiki).

 

[David G.]

I've got thousands of my songs with pretty good (not perfect) lyrics with this iTunes script (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=lyricslyricwiki).

I haven't tried that but this worked on over 95% of the music I have now.

 

[iGaryMonnecka]

are there any programs that will do that to add lyrics but you dont need to play each song?

 

[gloss]

are there any programs that will do that to add lyrics but you dont need to play each song?

Nope. The scripts can take care of it, though - they just play a short snippet from each song, enough for the lyrics to be looked up and added.

Just leave it running overnight.

 

[sammich]

are there any programs that will do that to add lyrics but you dont need to play each song?

Well, now that I think about it, you can, sorta easily. Using the link that I gave above is better since it lets you review the lyrics before you commit it to the song.