Article: Song-lyrics search tool: pearLyrics 0.5.(Mac Gems)(Product/Service Evaluation)

In iTunes 5, Apple added a Lyrics tab to the Info window for tracks, as well as the ability to sync those lyrics with the iPod nano (and in iTunes 6, with the video iPod). But a question remains: Where do you get the lyrics?

I suspect that Apple will eventually add automatic lyrics-fetching capabilities to iTunes, but until then I'm enjoying pear-works' free pearLyrics 0.5 (VERY GOOD; www.pearworks.com). Available both as an application and as a Dashboard widget, pearLyrics monitors iTunes and searches seven different Web sites to find the lyrics of the currently playing song. Enable pearLyrics' Copy Lyrics To iTunes option, and the program will even add lyrics ...

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