Tag: LYRICS

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Most people have heard of Wikipedia, but Wikia (co-founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales) is a little bit less well-known. It's a collection of fan-based wikis where people can obsessively catalog info about sports teams, bands, movies, and all kinds of other pop culture material. The latest addition to Wikia is song lyrics, now that the company has purchased LyricWiki. In the process of snapping ...

Pollux is a new Mac OS X application by Chetan Surpur and Shashwat Kandadai that will automatically tag your music files in iTunes. It is capable of tagging the name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics for each song, and it does so by analyzing the song's audio fingerprint. This means that it can draw on a database of tag information, and do so very accurately, even if the song has ...

Internet radio stations Pandora and Last.fm have been in the news a lot over the last year for removing features - like the ability for users in most of the world to listen to free music streams. So it's nice to see Pandora launch a raft of new features, even if they're only available to users in the US. At the top of the list of new features is support for lyrics. Pandora has partnered with ...

MetroLyrics, one of the largest online sites to search for and find song lyrics, has just announced the addition of Gracenote's catalog of lyrics into its existing database. In case you didn't know, Gracenote is currently the largest database of licensed (read: accurate) song lyrics out there, and has agreements with the big dogs: EMI, Universal/BMG, Sony/ATV, and Warner/Chappell. That last line ...

Remember when the M in MTV stood for music? Sure, now the TV channel shows more "reality" content than music. But if you wake up early enough in the morning you might still be able to catch a music video or two. And the network's website is chock full of music video goodness. Of course, most kids these days would rather go find videos on YouTube. So what's a music network to do? How about offering ...

Yahoo is letting users of the World Wide Web share in a sing song with the release of song lyrics. Yahoo has teamed up with Gracenote to bring users song lyrics from all five major music publishers featuring the words for songs from U2, Price, The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Kanye West. The new lyric database will be available through the Yahoo Music portal. This new initiative has just made Yahoo ...

Lyric Snapper is a free iTunes add-on that will locate the lyrics to any song in your playlist. The program essentially searches the web for lyrics to a particular tune and downloads them from available websites while the song is being played. Lyrics are then updated in the song Info within iTunes and saved to your iTunes library. If you're not excited about the add-on you can also use Lyric ...