Itunes Lyric Downloader – Yet another update (sans api)
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 4004 times)
UPDATE: now works with iTunes 9!
September 8th, 2009 - 05:41
Thank you for this!
September 18th, 2009 - 09:09
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.
September 20th, 2009 - 03:36
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
September 24th, 2009 - 18:56
Alright, found the problem. This should now be working with itunes 9!
October 2nd, 2009 - 02:26
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.
November 1st, 2009 - 01:58
does not work w/ itunes 9.0.2
November 1st, 2009 - 04:57
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
November 1st, 2009 - 18:09
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
December 1st, 2009 - 14:17
how do you install it
December 1st, 2009 - 18:37
@Keir: You should be able to just unzip it and run the exe file.
May 5th, 2010 - 09:32
Hey this currently isn’t working for iTunes 9.1.1. I go to download lyrics for my library and all of the lyrics come up in the notfound.txt file.
April 17th, 2011 - 17:11
it should come with a wizard or instructions. So far, nothing happens when selecting a file to search. (not responding it says).
December 27th, 2011 - 17:40
Hi SvK
Is this still maintained? Haven’t seen any comments in a while?