[Macworld.com]

Want to use iTunes’ new Lyrics feature? PearLyrics does the work. [more]

[Ichiban_jay]

This is also a pretty good widget
http://www.apple.com...gthatitune.html

It's called Sing that iTune! Basically is a widget that auto-updates what song your playing in iTunes and finds the lyrics. It also automatically inserts the tune into the Lyrics section of the song in iTunes. Also allows you to search for the song on Google.
So basically does everything that the app you posted does as well... /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif But I guess the clincher is that it can also do Japanese and Chinese Songs as well...

[pdrayton]

And SingPod widget
Lots of stuff out there grab the lyrics from the web and put it into the Lyrics section of the song file.

[sk8erboi]

main missing feature -- why are lyrics stored in file metadata for my mp3s not searchable by Spotlight?! metadata searching is the reason I got Tiger!
granted pearLyrics makes a cache and keeps the lyrics there, but i want to search for the lyric to find the song and then play the song.

[bastion]

In reply to:

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(Its only a matter of time before someone releases an iTunes Visualizer plugin that displays these lyrics on your computer screen during playback.)

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Already done. My wife wrote a plugin that displays embedded lyrics a few years ago. At the time, of course, there wasn't a commodity tool to get them in their in the first place, but now that iTunes has an interface I should talk to her about releasing it into the wild.

[kpdezend]

Yes you should! I would love to try that out!
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[tobefirst]

About a month ago, I loaded up all kinds of widgets to look for lyrics to my songs in iTunes, basically to see which one worked the best. I used the three mentioned in this thread as well as a couple others, and I came to the conclusion that pearLyrics was the best solution for me. Some of the widgets don't automatically search (you have to click on them), others are less reliable on finding the right lyrics. pearLyrics now lives on my dashboard, and I actually downloaded the standalone app, too.

[DougAdams]

This has been noted elsewhere, but you can use the AppleScript Needle Drop to quickly run through your tracks and pearLyrics will grab the lyrics as each song plays for a few seconds.

[d00d]

Where have you been?
Original story
Followup

[elgreg]

Hilarious that there's a 1/2 page story in MacWorld's January issue on this (Mac Gems, p.52) . I'm a new subscriber to the magazine and remembered hearing about the shut down of pearLyrics in the news as I started to read the article. I thought that the matter must have been resolved, but apparently the January issue was printed before the shut down... that or someone seriously messed up during editing ;-)
Hope this isn't a trend where I say "that application sounds awesome" and then go to the website to find it has been shut down.