Itunes Lyric Downloader – Yet another update (sans api)

Posted by admin on September 7th, 2009 | 10 comments

Lyricwiki has officially “joined the family of Wikia”.  While this is great news for the future of lyricwiki (or now Wikia Music I guess), it also somehow changed the api from the old Lyricwiki.org.  For those who have been following the program in recent days, you’ll know that they also had some troubles with the api and licensing deals.  Anyways,  I’m really hoping to find that the api is up and running again sometime in the near future.  However, I do have an interim solution for you here.  This just mashes together a url based on itunes artist and title info.  As such, it will certainly NOT find all the lyrics you’re looking for.  It will not work well with special symbols like question marks and semicolons.  But it might help you find some lyrics where you didn’t have them before.

[Download Itunes Lyric Downloader (SANS API)] (downloaded 2131 times)
UPDATE: now works with iTunes 9!

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Comments

  1. On September 08, 2009 Henry says:

    Thank you for this!

  2. On September 18, 2009 Henry says:

    Hey,

    Sorry to be a bother again… But this doesn’t seem to work with iTunes 9.

    Are you working on a follow up?

    Thanks.

  3. On September 20, 2009 Garth says:

    Thanks for heads up Henry, I was about to use it until that…
    JUST when something uses iTunes now past the api issue.. we all update to 9 and make this file irrelevant. >_<

    Thx developer for your work though, great stuff and not your fault for Apple not having official 3rd party support

  4. On September 24, 2009 admin says:

    Alright, found the problem. This should now be working with itunes 9!

  5. On October 02, 2009 Chun says:

    This was a sweet application but most album’s songs of mine can’t detect the lyric that are actually available in lyrics.wikia.com. Please update me soon. Thanks.

  6. On November 01, 2009 eze says:

    does not work w/ itunes 9.0.2

  7. On November 01, 2009 JailDesigner says:

    Don’t know if i have to add some files (API) to the app, but right now it’s not working for me. I’m with iTunes 9.0.2 and it keeps saying lyrics not found (and they are at lyrics.wikia.com with the exact same name)

    Thanks for the app ;)

  8. On November 01, 2009 Victor says:

    sorry if im doing something wrong but it doesnt work with itunes 9.0.2 for me. i just highlight all the songs in itunes and click the “get lyrics” option on the app like i used to do back when it worked xD great app though.. saved me countless hours of googling lyrics

  9. On December 01, 2009 Keir says:

    how do you install it

  10. On December 01, 2009 admin says:

    @Keir: You should be able to just unzip it and run the exe file.

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