Announcement: I will continue development on this project soon, starting from scratch. I will write a GUI for it and implement Album Artwork support, as well as make it more flexible and allow it to be used on general MP3 libraries (As well as other audio formats with basic tag support), no more emphasis on iPod/iTunes.
Update: The one method I was using before simply ran through the music folders in the iPod, and then read the Artist and Song Name from each file and then wrote the fetched lyrics to the tag. This didn’t seem to work because it apparently required that I still view the lyrics from within iTunes for it to take effect. So I decided to rewrite it, it now uses iTunes to do the work, so it will only work on Windows with iTunes running, but it works flawlessly now.
I recently discovered for the first time that you could view lyrics while you’re listening to songs on your iPod. The only problem is that you have to get the lyrics yourself. Now, that’s fine if you just want to get lyrics for a couple of songs, but when you want to get lyrics for all or most of your songs (I have 1550, and I’m sure most people have way more), that becomes a problem. That’s what I made iLirix for. Continue Reading
