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iClip Lyrics... If you need an app to add lyrics to your iTunes Library quickly and easily and an app to edit your best loved lyrics ... iClip Lyrics is the all in one solution you were looking for! What makes iClip Lyrics so unique, it's the embedded double internal browser that lets you quickly "Clip Lyrics" from the web. And if your library has a lot of tracks ... you really need iClip Lyrics! To learn more, visit our web site!
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0.6:
  • Updated and improved the lyrics fetching algorithm.
REQUIREMENTS
  • iTunes 7.4 or later.
  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Developer:Luigi Cavalieri
Downloads:13,756
  - Version d/l:2,119
Home & Personal:Music
License:Shareware
Date:01 Oct 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$8.95
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Oct 1 2009
*****

STEVEN GOODHEART  Always looking for a better, faster, more accurate way to get lyrics into my iTunes music library, I said, "what the heck," I'll give this a try. Used for an hour and bought it.

This is the most accurate, versatile lyric finder I've ever used, and the interface is brilliant. When it doesn't automatically find and put lyrics in your song, which hasn't been often except for really obscure songs I own, iClip Lyrics then has a built-in web browser that automatically finds all the lyric search engines out there, and lets you click and choose. Now, instead of having to go to my browser to do my own search, the search is integrated right into the iClip. And when you do find it via your own search (powered by Google, with customizable settings in iClip) you just highlight them in iClip's browser page and it instantly copies and inserts your selection right into the song. Brilliant! This is the lyric search software I've been looking for. Highly recommended!   
(Version 2.0.6)

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Oct 1 2009

best regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 2.0.6)

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Oct 1 2009
*****

PL_SVN  Since pearLyrics stopped working I couldn't find a good replacement.

Finally tried iClip Lyrics and... it's exactly what I've been looking for (well... almost ;-)

Purchased it right away! :-)

Grazie, Luigi!

(re that "almost": what I deeply loved in pearLyrics was the widget always running in background. I even forgot it was there silently doing it's job :-)  
(Version 2.0.6)

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Oct 1 2009

kind regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 2.0.6)

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Sep 17 2009
*****

KBEAT  It works, it actually works. Launch the app, start playing songs in iTunes, and magically the lyrics will appear in the song. No errors, no user input, no problems.

After trying widget after widget after widget, I have to admit I'm a bit stunned. It can't be this simple can it? I don't have to look them up? I don't have to tell it to copy the lyrics to iTunes? No "lyrics not found" messages?

I'm amazed it took this long for someone to make a lyric tool for iTunes that actually works, but hats off to you for finally getting it right. Great job!  
(Version 2.0.4)

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Oct 1 2009

ICLIP LYRICS DEVELOPER  Thank you for your review!

kind regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 2.0.6)

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Sep 12 2009
*****

NOIVAD  IClip Lyrics has been a bit of a godsend. It costs money, but that's because it does what it says it does. It grabs lyrics off of the lyricwiki and sticks them in the file. This is great because it seems to work with a great deal of my music. I only had one problem after I updated to 10.6, which I assume was fixed with the latest upgrade. It wouldn't clip the lyrics if I had to use the find lyrics feature.

Also I like that if it can't find the lyrics, with the click of a button you can look up the lyrics in google.

One small feature request: if you could specify for it not to overwrite lyrics already there and automatically grab only lyric entries that are blank I could just have it run through my entire library once and for all, but as it is I've spent a lot of time compiling lyrics, and I'm afraid if I apply this program already set lyrics it might over write them.

Another feature I love is being able to process an entire playlist in one go.

All is all it was well worth the cash I paid for it considering how much time it's saved me and how much I love having the lyrics in the song files to look up.  
(Version 2.0.4)

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Sep 12 2009

thank you for your review!

About your feature request: when you launch a search for a full playlist, iClip Lyrics, by default, don't overwrite your lyrics! If you want to overwrite them, you can customize this option from the "General" preferences pane!

For any question or trouble, please, contact us.

Kind regards,

Luigi Cavalieri   
(Version 2.0.4)

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Sep 2 2009

JASONAYALA  To get lyrics, you need to decide if you want to use lyricwiki as a source. If not, there's the tunetext widget and pear lyrics widget/app. I think lyricwiki is better, and so my options (since the loss of lyricwiki API due to big media crackdown) are Get Lyrical and iClip Lyrics. Both can add lyrics automatically to current track or your whole library. GL is free but basic and adds an ad for itself and lyricwiki at the end of your lyrics (Lyric retrieved via blah blah). iClip has extra features and is 9 dollars.

Suggestions for iClip developer:

1) Lower the price to $5. Nobody pays for lyrics, so you'll need to over us a very good reason to.

2) iClip sometimes adds info from LW that isn't part of the lyrics (Find this song on amazon).

3) Tighter integration between iClip and LW. At least give me a link to the song page at LW so I can quickly edit the LW page. Being able to actually make changes to the song under my LW username within iClip would be incredible.

4) LW is constantly improving, but I don't want to have to run iClip on my library every several weeks. Keep a database in iClip of all the songs I've added lyrics to with a date for each song. iClip can compared current lyrics in itunes to the LW lyrics, and update if necessary.  
(Version 2.0.2)

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Sep 2 2009

thank you for your suggestions and features request!

We are going to release an update to fix the problem with extra info in the lyrics (due to some changes about the website of lyricwiki) and improve the compatibility with Snow Leopard!

kind regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 2.0.2)

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Aug 15 2009

SUPERTHEMAN  You have a couple of grammatical mistakes in the description of your program. I suppose it isn't important, but it does impact the professional presentation of your product. They are as follows:

"If you need an app to add quickly and easily lyrics to your iTunes Library..."

This is clumsy, instead you would say:

"If you need an app to add lyrics to your iTunes Library quickly and easily..."

The second one is:

"... that let you very fastly "Clip lyrics" from the web"

First of all, in this instance you should use "lets" not "let". Secondly, the adjective "fast" does not take on an -ly ending (there is a word "fastly", however, which means "firm"). The sentence should be rewritten:

"...that lets you quickly clip lyrics from the web..."

Please don't think my purpose is to make fun of you. I can assure you that is not my intention. I am just trying to help.  
(Version 2.0.2)

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Aug 16 2009

I'm every time happy when someone gives me some help! I admit that my

english is not very good, so I'm sorry, I'm trying to improve!

However, thank you for your corrections, I'm going to apply them!

best regards,

Luigi Cavalieri   
(Version 2.0.2)

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Jun 27 2009
*****

RYANSEBIZ  Absolutely amazed at how simple this app makes adding lyrics to iTunes:

1. Install the app

2. Run the app

3. Play iTunes

Lyrics are added to each song automagically! You don't have to do a single thing. It searches Lyrics Wiki and plugs in the lyrics into your iTunes track.

I was assuming there would be some manual labor needed on my part. Nope! iClip Lyrics takes care of everything.

So happy to have finally found an iTunes lyrics solution.  
(Version 1.4)

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Jul 23 2009

D|DUMOND  TunesTEXT does this for free and in fact it's even easier... You don't even have to launch it (it's a widget) and it's always running in the background... It even displays the artwork and lyrics of the current song playing when you enter dashboard.

Just a heads-up! ;)  
(Version 2.0)

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Apr 24 2009
*****

DKHALEY  This is a must-have for people using iTunes. You simply have iClip Lyrics open while you're listening to iTunes and it automatically queries the LyricsWiki site for the lyrics and pasted it into the tags.

Optionally, when it doesn't find it you can also click a search button which searches for the lyrics on google. If you find the lyrics there you just copy it and it is automatically captured by iClip. Then you just click one more button and it attaches to iTunes.

The program works great as it is, although I can suggest a few enhancements (although they may not be practical):

(1) It would be nice if the program had an option to automatically launch when you open iTunes (or have iTunes open when you launch iClip lyrics)

(2) It would be cool to have a quick learn mode for existing libraries. Basically it could play ten seconds of a song (enough to query the database) and automatically move to the next song.

(3) If you copy the lyrics manually, it would be nice if there was to automatically created a new wiki entry.  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 22 2009
*****

JDANEK630  This is a fantastic application, I have had no problems with it whatsoever.

This comment is more of a suggestion (or possibly a question): Is there/will there be a way in which a user can disable the bouncing icon when lyrics are located after starting a song in iTunes? I find the bouncing icon to be a bit of a distraction myself. It's not a big deal either way though.  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 22 2009

ANONYMOUS  Thank you!

Now you can't! In the next release I'll add a user preference for this!

Regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 21 2009

PENGUIRL  I love(d) iClip Lyrics but why oh why does it have to be 10.5 only? Leopard is slow and bloated, some of us have greater need for an efficient OS, why can't it be supported too?  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 21 2009

MISHA  However "slow" or "bloated" Leopard is (it's not really to me, it was at 10.5.0 but is good at 10.5.6), it offers a number of more modern frameworks that makes app easier to develop and take advantage of more features.

That's why so many developers have gone 10.5 only.  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 21 2009

CHAS_M  Your fantasy that Leopard is "slow and bloated" is exactly that -- a fantasy. Grow up, get a job, buy Leopard and see for yourself.

Oh, and next time, see if you can make a request for a feature without insulting the developer (and users) and looking like a crutch-needing Tiger apologist. I imagine that would help.  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 22 2009

FELIX01  What on earth led you to believe that OS 10.5.x is "slower" than previous versions?

Absolutely every objective performance test run after Leopard was released showed just the opposite.

I have no problem with you publicly asking the developer to support earlier versions of the OS but I do have a real problem with you trying to justify that request with total inaccuracies. Do you thing the readers of this forum (not to mention the developer) 'just fell off the turnip truck?'  
(Version 1.4)

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Apr 22 2009

ANONYMOUS  Thank you guys to the replies!

I've improved iClip Lyrics performace using a framework (not Tiger compatible) instead of applescript, if I find an other solution I'll downgrade the minimum system requirements!

Regards,

Luigi Cavalieri  
(Version 1.4)

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