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TuneWiki Is the Karaoke-Like Lyrics App Apple Must Include in iPhone

Lifehacker's Adam Pash (co-author of the best iPhone book with some dude called "Jason Chen") told me this weekend about TuneWiki, an iPhone application that downloads songs lyrics from the web and shows them synched with the song in real time, karaoke-style. It works great and, being a closet karaoke whore, I admit I'm hooked. Apple must include this app integrated in their next firmware update. Watch the video review and, for an alternative take, you can see Californian high school cheerleader Rosita (yes, she's as sexy as it sounds) telling its virtues after the jump:

Rosita gives good reasons on her own but for me, TuneWiki is just perfect for drunk nights in the bar, when everyone wants to sing for some reason and nobody knows the exact lyrics to a song. Or maybe it's just me. Whatever. In any case, if you enjoy music and singing or reading lyrics as you listen to songs, TuneWiki is a must. [TuneWiki - Video review music by Goldfrapp]

7:00 PM on Sun Dec 30 2007
By Jesus Diaz
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CarbonatedWater at 07:08 PM on 12/30/07
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Wow she's really hot and that's a program I'll be downloading.
AqueousBeef at 07:11 PM on 12/30/07
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that is the strangest song ever...
ab3 at 07:34 PM on 12/30/07
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hot and has/really knows how to use an iPhone!
Mandatory_Field at 07:44 PM on 12/30/07
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Yes, Alison Goldfrapp is very hot AND talented. The unfortunate album cover pic makes it look like she's checking her armpits for B.O. though....
The-Vagrance at 07:45 PM on 12/30/07
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Thats actually a really cool, legit way to use that program that I wouldn't have even thought of. Cool vid.
TriZz at 08:51 PM on 12/30/07
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...can the cheerleader keep a secret?
jcraig at 09:40 PM on 12/30/07
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that audio selection makes my ears bleed
bobbiac at 10:01 PM on 12/30/07
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mind coding that embedding correctly?
kisskisskiss at 10:36 PM on 12/30/07
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definitely an A+ for goldfrapp alone, but the interface really IS fugzor.
jawzxy at 01:53 AM on 12/31/07
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Haha, tangents about Alison Goldfrapp FTW!
Nice app, too.
radikaled at 02:37 AM on 12/31/07
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She's cute and pretty! Most importantly she can complete a sentence!
nintendude at 03:52 AM on 12/31/07
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Ok so she's hot, pretty, knows how to use an iPhone, AND SHE KNOWS SIGN LANGUAGE! Omg this girl is all wrapped up in one! I want her!
Escamotage at 11:51 AM on 12/31/07
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I dig Gizmodo's constant obsession with Goldfrapp.
HoboJoe at 02:59 PM on 12/31/07
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Why, oh why, is every word capitalized in the lyrics? That will bother me to no end.

Still, the app looks great. I said, "APP!"
wyldhoney at 05:44 PM on 12/31/07
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Headline News ran a story a week or two ago about a 9-year old girl who wrote Apple suggesting they include song lyrics on video iPods. Apple legal basically wrote her back telling her to TSFU and never write Apple again, they don't want her stinking suggestions.

Maybe Apple hates song lyrics? Maybe they hate karaoke?? Who knows! I don't think we'll be seeing this on the iPhone any time soon.
gevaperry at 05:26 AM on 01/07/08
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BTW, folks, sorry for the shameless plug, but for those of you interested in how TuneWiki built their infrastructure to scale, see my blog: [gevaperry.typepad.com]

We'll soon provide a lot more details.