<![CDATA[Gizmodo: lyrics]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: lyrics]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/lyrics http://gizmodo.com/tag/lyrics <![CDATA[TuneWiki Audio For Google Android Looks Very Impressive]]> This is TuneWiki, the music playback app that shows Karaoke-like lyrics and album art on almost all the music on your phone. It's been officially ported to Android and looks very, very impressive. They've added features like searching YouTube for videos of your tracks, plus searching their database for certain song lyrics if you only remember part of a song. There's also the built-in Google Maps API for looking at other people using TuneWiki and being able to see what people are listening to around a certain area. Yeah, we're pretty excited.

The guys from TuneWiki also told me that they released a version for iPhone 2.0 jailbreak that's on both Cydia and Installer, and is doing quite well. [TuneWiki]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5037290&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[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]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339048&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[iPod Karaoke Patent Brings Fear to Mass Transit Riders]]> Some may call this latest iPod/iPhone patent from Apple "dynamics lyrics display for portable media devices," but we call this Karaoke City. The patent details a scheme to activate "karaoke style lyrics," which then grabs lyrics and displays the lyrics in time and in sync with the music that's playing. This way, the right words are highlighted at the right time, automagically, thanks to the software that supposedly detects and matches vocals to lyrics. If they can make ANY song a karaoke song, it'll make driving to the supermarket infinitely more fun than it is now. [UnwiredView]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=280331&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Yahoo and Gracenote: Lyrical Gangstas]]>
Gracenote and Yahoo just announced a partnership that could bring legal (and accurate) lyrics to the digital world. The deal initially includes North American rights to about 400,000 songs, from all of the biggest publishers: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Publishing, Vivendi's Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (which Reuters points out is jointly owned by Sony Corp. and Michael Jackson) and online publisher peermusic.

Well glory be. It's about time somebody made a deal like this, because when I want lyrics, I go to the Web, but usually I'm confined to a dicey site that ends in .ru. Given the sorry state of lyrics on line these days, when I find my song, I always need to fact-check it for blatant, sometimes hilarious errors (see Steve Miller Band's "Big Old Jed and the Rhino" and other gems at The Archive of Misheard Lyrics). The reason isn't that I am eager to "steal" access to the lyrics. It's that, being a digital music consumer, I no longer get lyrics free with my purchase. In the big transition, the lyrics that used to be printed in every CD booklet somehow disappeared. (We love you, Steve, but you know this is your fault!)

So far so good, but read on for the moment of skepticism you knew was coming.

According to Reuters, Gracenote says that within 10 years, the lyrics will bring in $100 million in annual revenues "as the market expands with new opportunities like online subscriptions, downloads and automotive distribution deals."

So either I have to pay extra for lyrics, or my subscription service has to pay extra, then somehow recoup the loss through advertising? We'll see how this unfolds. I'm particularly interested in how the new market for lyrics will manifest itself in "automotive distribution deals." Keep your eyes on the road, BeatlesFan4432!! – Wilson Rothman

Yahoo, Gracenote launch lyrics service [Reuters]
Yahoo expands its online music section [USA Today]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=254769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Upcoming Zune Features: Podcasts, Synchronized Lyrics]]> By using a resource hacker and looking inside the Zune software files on a PC, some curious Zune owners found a few possible upcoming upgrades to Microsoft's player. Among them, synchronized lyrics, podcast subscription, aspect ratio, plugins, syncing lyrics to the Zune, and mini-mode playback options.

Of course, not all of these may be implemented any time soon, or implemented at all. It's just an idea of what could come down the line from Microsoft. – Jason Chen

Resource Hacking [Zune Scene via Zunerama]

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