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How do I automatically or easily add lyrics to each of my songs on iTunes?

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Posted Nov 30 2009 02:03 PM
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I really enjoy viewing song lyrics on my iPod Classic, but lately I haven't found a good solution for automatically adding said lyrics to each of my songs in my ever-growing collection. It would be terribly strenuous to enter them manually.

There was a widget I used a while back called PearLyrics, which stopped becoming available after the team responsible faced a legal threat. Are there any other options?

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 : Nov 30 2009 02:29 PM
I wouldn't mind a good solution myself. I used a widget that used LyricWiki's api, but they closed that for legal reasons as well.
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Posted Dec 01 2009 10:13 AM

For Windows users, the free app LyricsFetcher is fast and fairly accurate, although it's not clear where the lyrics come from.

iLyrics also seems to be a good option. It pulls from LyricWiki, which may or may not be entirely accurate, but it's still a lot better than typing lyrics in by hand.

Another PC-only option is the LyricsSeeker Plugin, which pulls from the MetroLyrics database.

For Mac OS, Get Lyrical should do the trick. It also pulls from LyricWiki.
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