Over the years I’ve always used a Dashboard Widget to add song lyrics to my iTunes Library. At the beginning we had Sing that iTune, a very popular and nice little widget. Sadly it hasn’t seen an update since 2008 and has stopped working altogether. In light of this I found a fairly decent replacement in Harmonic. This offered similar features, but is now giving a message stating due to licensing restrictions, it can no longer supply lyrics.
After all these issues I set about finding an alternative to Sing that iTune and Harmonic, and ended up finding a little gem going by the name of TunesTEXT. Made by Cyan Works, this widget not only finds and adds lyrics to iTunes, it does it VERY quickly indeed.
The great thing about TunesTEXT is that it also searches and adds lyrics to iTunes automatically, without having to launch Dashboard with every change of song. Not only that but it also has a built in iTunes controller and lyrics Editor, so you can easily make adjustments or choose from multiple sources. Overall this is a great little Widget, that I would highly recommend.
I’ve been using GimmeSomeTune.
http://www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune
Finally! An alternative to the now broken ‘Sing That Tune’. Ace find! Thanks!
Glad I ended up here, love the widget! Thanks.
I’ve been looking for something to replace Harmonic, which has stopped working correctly. This is perfect. The editor makes it even better as on the odd occasion that the lyrics have been wrong, it is a pain going into iTunes to change them.
Thanks for the hint!
Why does it only show the beginning of the song, then (…)? how do i get it to show ALL the lyrics to the song??
Talk about serendipity. Here I am listening to Zero 7 wanting to read the lyrics and I find this app being demoed with lyrics from none other than Zero 7. Download I must!
Nice taste in music you have there Tim
Brit, I’ve never had that problem with my songs? Have you figured out the problem yet?
At last! Pretty cool.
Thank you so much !!
I’ve been searching for sthg like this for years !
Thanks again
It’s a very cool widget. i think even better than harmonic. Thanks a lot
cool!! thank for sharing info!!
My husband and I are seniors and totally love popular rock music — at last we can read and understand the lyrics. Very meaningful. Very cool widget. Very, very many thanks.
No problem! Loving the .Mac email address
Does this widget require itunes 7? It prompts me to upgrade to itunes 7. I have itunes 10.,
Woow, cool! I was looking for it! Thanks!
It’s been discontinued apparently, see the website of the developer.
Thanks for letting me know. I’ve not used the widget for a couple of years now but the post still gets a lot of hits. I’ll update it to reflect the discontinuation. Any tips on a replacement?