You know what would make last.fm a really, really cool service? If their player would give you the lyrics to the song that you’re listening to in the player, under the artist info. That would be awesome.
On a related note, if iTunes can look up my album art, it should be able to look up the lyrics to my music too. Seriously guys, this needs to be in iTunes already. It’s crazy that I have to manually look up the lyrics to all of my music.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/singthatitune.html
Sing That iTune is a dashboard widget that does that. It is supposed to automatically put the lyrics into your song’s info window. I know it used to do that,but I had an old version and because of your post, I have FINALLY upgraded. I hope it works. There used to be a couple of other widgets that did this. Back in the days of early widgets.
sorry: 2 comments are poor form. It worked quickly. I don’t know if I have to each time, but it worked after I double clicked the face of the widget, which I did out of frustration because nothing seemed to be working. It could’ve been working but there was no little thing telling me it was working. But I now have lyrics and they are in the lyric field on the iTunes info window.
It looks like I’ve found a similar solution for Windows, a Yahoo Widget called iTunes Companion. There’s a more recent version on the Widget website (http://homepage.mac.com/knut/iTunes_Companion/home.html). It seems to work pretty well.
I still wish that Apple would just include lyrics and all other metadata in their database. But this is almost as good.
Actually, scratch that. The lyrics this widget turns up tend to be full of misspellings and errors. No good.
I just want a central database of accurate song lyrics, approved by the artists and/or publishers of the music that I’m listening to. I want iTunes to connect to that database and automagically get any lyrics that I’m missing. Are you listening Apple?
Heh, I’m working on this right now (adding lyrics capability to the last fm client. It’s nearly done, I just have a few problems to fix…
Ooh, cool! Can’t wait to see that up and running!