A very few high-profile albums sold by the iTunes Store include digital booklets that offer lyrics, liner notes, and photos. Given that, where do those who care about lyrics find them?
The Internet, of course. Yet search for song lyrics and odds are you’ll be presented with countless websites that are either long on flashing Web ads and short on content or force you to dig down through multiple pages to finally find the lyrics you’re after.
And then along comes LyricWiki, a terrific resource for grabbing lyrics without the ads and dead-ends. Just type a song title, artist, or album into LyricWiki’s Search field and a list of Google hits appears on a subsequent page. Click an appropriate link and the lyrics appear without the advertising cruft. Better yet, thanks to the LyricWiki API, programmers could create desktop and mobile applications that retrieved lyrics from LyricWiki without the need for a Web browser.
At least it did. According to a post by LyricWiki’s creator, Sean Colombo, the major publishers demanded that programmatic access to LyricWiki’s collection of lyrics be shut off. Rather than face the wrath of those publishers, Colombo complied with the request.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/142389/
The Internet, of course. Yet search for song lyrics and odds are you’ll be presented with countless websites that are either long on flashing Web ads and short on content or force you to dig down through multiple pages to finally find the lyrics you’re after.
And then along comes LyricWiki, a terrific resource for grabbing lyrics without the ads and dead-ends. Just type a song title, artist, or album into LyricWiki’s Search field and a list of Google hits appears on a subsequent page. Click an appropriate link and the lyrics appear without the advertising cruft. Better yet, thanks to the LyricWiki API, programmers could create desktop and mobile applications that retrieved lyrics from LyricWiki without the need for a Web browser.
At least it did. According to a post by LyricWiki’s creator, Sean Colombo, the major publishers demanded that programmatic access to LyricWiki’s collection of lyrics be shut off. Rather than face the wrath of those publishers, Colombo complied with the request.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/142389/