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Why don't iTunes purchases include lyrics?
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Davies on -
No. 90% of people don't care. You can go to Google and find good websites with community contributed lyrics for almost every song imaginable.
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Permalink Reply by EliteGeek on -
That's one of the things I miss about going to a store and buying a physical album: the artwork + lyrics. I always enjoyed listening to a new album I just bought and looking at the artwork and reading the lyrics. Ah, the 90's.
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Permalink Reply by Gavin Roskamp on -
This is something that I've grown to accept, but I still wish it wasn't this way. I have an iPod touch, so if you tap on the screen to bring up the controls, you also get whatever is in the lyrics box covering the artwork. On songs that I've needed to memorize for various occasions, I've hand-typed the lyrics into the box in iTunes and synced it again with my iPod so that I can just tap it and get the lyrics to sing along with.
Yes, it would be a thousand times easier if it would just be included, but there is such a small portion of the public that wants/needs lyrics with their songs, that they don't think it's necessary to include.
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Permalink Reply by Planet_Patrick on -
because u can tube em :P n u can tube da song also
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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on -
My guess is it's as simple as the record companies just not including them when they're sent over. It'll be out of laziness or because most people just don't care.
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Permalink Reply by Riley Burnham on -
This is why I want lyrics added to iTunes purchases:
I bought the song on iTunes, instead of downloading it (for free, which I could have easily done, but instead, paid for). I would like to read the lyrics to the song, but when I search the lyrics box and find it empty - I'm then left to browse the internet for a (usually) ad-sponsored, intrusively obnoxious, tedious, misspelled, often-wrong lyric.
Occasionally, this can be achieved graciously, but my point is that it would be a great addition, as well as an incentive, if these lyrics were already added to the track. It'd feel much more "mine", this way.
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Permalink Reply by Riley Burnham on
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The lyrics are then available on my computer, my iPod, iPhone, etc. It's a better service, and can ensure (hopefully) the accuracy of the lyrics.
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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on
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Suggest it to the record companies and Apple. It'll be more to do with the record companies than Apple though, but if Apple get enough interest then maybe they'll poke the record companies to do something about it. Most albums I buy on CD don't come with lyrics either, a lot do, but most don't, usually just a bunch of artwork.
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Permalink Reply by Iain Majer on -
It would be nice, and it would be appreciated by most iPod Touch owners since the lyrics can appear on screen as the song plays. However, it would take a lot of resources to make a team to simply type in the lyrics to each song on iTunes, time they probably don't have. I suppose they could ask the company's to send in a new file for the songs containing the lyrics to each song. Another option is they could start with currently released songs and work slowly backwards and just have people update their iTunes music.
Still it takes a lot of time, I personally tried to put lyrics in to most of my music and gave up after about 200+ songs. It's a tedious job.
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