3 Useful Tools to View Song Lyrics in iTunes
When you listen to a particular song in iTunes, you may like to see its lyrics if possible. However, showing lyrics automatically is the missing feature of all iTunes versions. Below are the 3 useful tools that you can use to view song lyrics in iTunes.
Through iTunes itself #
iTunes enables you to view the lyrics of the song that you’re listening to manually. To view the lyrics of the song, just right click on the song that you are listening to and then select “Get Info” (you can use the keyboard shortcut, Command + I to do this). After clicking on “Get Info”, go to the “Lyrics” tab to view the song lyrics.
Note that this method only applies to the songs that have lyrics embedded. In order to get lyrics for every song, you will need a music tagging tool to help. Wondershare TidyMyMusic is one of the best tools to automatically retrieve information for all the songs in your iTunes library, including album art, song title and lyrics too. Install this program and click “Scan” to find lyrics for all the songs in your iTunes. Then you can apply all the information, including lyrics, to the songs in order to view lyrics in iTunes through the way described above.
Through Cover Version- a plug-in #
You may need a plug-in to display the lyrics of the songs you are listening to in iTunes. This plug-in is called Cover Version, an iTunes visualizer. It displays the album cover and the lyrics of the song that you are currently listening to in iTunes. The track’s lyrics are displayed at the top of the album cover while the song title and artist name are displayed at the bottom.
This plug-in is both available for Mac and Windows. This plug-in is extremely easy to download and install. Download it here and put the CoverVersion.dll file into your Library> iTunes >iTunes Plug-ins of your Mac’s home directory. For windows, you can move this file to the plug-ins folder under the iTunes installation folder. To view the lyrics of the song in iTunes, you just need to go to View>Visualizer>Cover Version.
Through Mini Lyrics-a lyrics displaying tool #
Mini Lyrics is a plug-in that will enable you to display the lyrics of the songs that you are listening to in iTunes. This plug-in is compatible with songs in iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and more. Additionally, you do not need to change the music format just to sing with it with lyrics.
This plug-in can display scrolling lyrics, so can you sing along with the song and catch every word. Mini Lyrics automatically searches and downloads the lyrics of the song that you play in iTunes. It has a huge lyrics database, which is even expanding every day. With this plug-in, you can download and save your favorite song’s lyrics in your folder, so you can view them whenever you play the music with your iPhone or iPod.