Lyrics Finder

Do you want to get quick access to the lyrics of the songs on your iPhone/iPod Touch? Or do you need them translated from a foreign language easily? Then Lyrics Finder is for you!

While listening to music on the iPhone/iPod Touch, starting Lyrics Finder will display the lyrics page for the currently playing title (using the Lyric Wiki web service). In addition to this, the program offers a translation option if the song texts are in a language that differs from the language configured on your iPhone/iPod Touch (this is done via Yahoo Babelfish).

In other words with Lyrics Finder, the lyrics of your music are just a tap away.

Function Overview:

* Will automatically display the song text for the currently playing title (if available on Lyric Wiki)
* Automatic detection of the language of the lyrics and option to automatically translate if necessary and possible (i.e. when Bablefish offers the language combination)
* Skip between titles in your playlist from within Lyrics Finder
* Alternate display of album cover or song text
* Simple intuitive controls

This is version 1.00 of Lyrics Finder. We’d love to hear your ideas, suggestions (and even possible bug reports) and promise to work hard to make Lyrics Finder even better.


Common Questions:

* Until recently Lyric Wiki offered a function to download the raw lyrics of a song. However, in an agreement with the music industry, this function was disabled recently. For this reason (i.e. to ensure that the use of their lyrics is legal and within their agreement with the music industry) Lyric Finder will display the Lyric Wiki webpage in a web browser rather than trying to extract the text.

* You can zoom/enlarge the text of the lyrics by double tapping the area with the song text or even zoom deeper into it with a two finger swipe. This works exactly the same as in the iPhone/iPod Touch web browser.

* The translation button (Babelfish image) will only be shown, if a) the corresponding option is activated in Lyrics Finder, b) a song text/lyric was found on Lyric Wiki, c) the song isn’t an instrumental, d) the language of the song text on Lyric Wiki differs from the language on your iPhone/iPod Touch, and e) Yahoo Babelfish supports the language pair which would be required to do the translation.

* The translated lyrics are the result of an automated translation done by a software. It will be far from perfect in many aspects, but on the other hand it should be good enough to give you the general idea of what the song is about.

* This program is rated as 17+. The program itself does not contain explicit language, but obviously some song lyrics do. Since it is not possible to automatically filter titles with explicit lyrics, it is possible that the program will display explicit language from outside sources (Lyric Wiki).