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#1 User is offline   funcollectorstoo Icon

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 03:50 PM

I put lyrics and notes in my lyrics tags for my songs. itunes does not search the lyrics field and neither does Spotlight. Is their a utility or any other way to search the lyrics?
To be clear, I don't need to find lyrics on the internet. I want to be able to search the lyrics and notes I already have.
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Posted 24 January 2007 - 06:58 AM

I am also trying to figure out how to search my music library's lyrics field -- which ALREADY has lyrics added to many of the songs -- to find, say, all the songs whose lyrics contain the words "blind" and "snow".
Spotlight does not work (and I have all the file types checked in System Prefs). iTunes Search doesn't either. And, "lyrics" is not an option for creating Smart Lists (eg, "LYRICS contains 'snow blind'").
I've read that iTunes keeps the lyrics in the xml file, so I suppose Spotlight might work if we could get it to search xml files? (but this work-around would be pretty cumbersome, I think).
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