It is really nice to be able to play music on a touch screen device such as an iPhone or an iPod Touch, and even nicer when you have the lyrics stored in the song file so that you can sing along with the music. This small post will tell you how to add lyrics to your songs manually, so that they will show up on your screen the next time you play them on your iDevice. Please note, that you can also see lyrics on any iPod with a screen, not just the touch screen devices.
The Year We Make Contact in Uranus
The song we will be using for this example is quite possibly the greatest science fiction anthem ever written, entitled “The Year We Make Contact in Uranus” by electric violinist extraordinaire, Erich Meatleg. The song does not yet show up in popular lyrics sites so we will be adding the lyrics from a blog post by the artist.
Step 1) Purchase and download the greatest science fiction anthem of all time.
Step 2) Select the lyrics from this page and copy them.
Copy these lyrics
Step 3) Once the song has been downloaded into your iTunes library, right click on it and select “Get Info”.
Step 4) When the information window is open, click the Lyrics pane on the right, and past the lyrics to your new favorite song into the window. Be sure to format the text so that each line is not too long, that way each line will fit the width of your iDevice and not run off the side of the screen.
Step 5) Enjoy, and memorize all of the lyrics to this anthem, in hopes that you may some day impress your friends in Karaoke.
For those with a lot of songs without lyrics that you want to automatically update, see this post on the Cult of Mac website:
http://www.cultofmac.com/automatically-add-lyrics-to-all-songs-in-your-itunes-library/58650
