Discussion » MP3 lyrics, anyone?

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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 7th December 2005:
 
i know there's some music nuts here:
via jamie zawinskie's blog:
PearLyrics is a program that displays the lyrics of the currently-playing track in iTunes: it gets the lyrics from the ID3 tag in the MP3 file, or if they aren't in there, it searches for them on a few different web sites, and then saves them into the MP3s.

It's very handy: I managed to use it to download the lyrics for almost half of my music collection in one fell swoop.

Except that the author got a "Cease and Desist" letter from Warner/Chappel Music, who seem to think that his program -- which is, basically, nothing more than a specialized web browser -- is somehow in violation of their copyrights.

But, the author doesn't have the time or money to risk a lawsuit, so he panicked and pulled it.


still available here, but dunno how long for:
toric.sine.com/~fiyin/pearL...
Posted by Grim..., around 7th December 2005:
 
What does it do to the file sizes?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 7th December 2005:
 
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