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pearLyrics - 0.5

look up song lyrics & chords as you play a song in iTunes

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All Time:	(4.8)
Version 0.5:	(4.7)
Selected Version:	0.5
Release Date:	2005-09-11
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 0.5):	3,391
Downloads (all versions):	47,700
Price:	Free

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Product Description:

Ever wanted to dive into the world of those incredibly beautiful lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes? pearLyrics gives you just that. It looks up song lyrics on the web as you play songs in iTunes. Sure enough, you can also search for lyrics without playing the song, just enter artist and song title manually. pearLyrics then consults up to seven different servers to do its best and find the lyrics you are looking for. And best of all, you can also tell it to populate the lyrics inside your iTunes Library. Heck, it can even find guitar chords at times. With the standalone app you can also pre-fetch lyrics for whole iTunes playlists so you have them ready when you need them. Sure, it might not find everything, but it does find a lot.

pearLyrics is available as a standalone application for those still preferring Panther as well as a Dashboard widget for Tiger (combined download).

What's new in this version:

Both: now also looks in iTunes Library for song lyrics if iTunes is running (iTunes 5 or higher)
Both: option to automatically copy found lyrics into your iTunes Library (iTunes 5 or higher)
Both: fine tuned search algorithms for more accurate search results
Both: improved special character handling in search string
Widget: support for multiple instances with different settings (i.e. one for chords, one for lyrics)
Widget: new special text command 'copyCacheToITunes' to copy cached lyrics to the iTunes Library
Widget: option to look up lyrics on Google if no lyrics were found
Widget: option to refetch lyrics from the web if they were taken from the pearLyrics cache

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher for application
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher for Dashboard widget

Feedback Summary:

Version 0.5:
Overall Rating:	(4.7)	Features:	(4.6)	Support:	(4.2)
Ease of Use:	(4.8)	Quality / Stability:	(4.5)	Price:	(5.0)

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I was able to download from… - Version: 0.6, 9/12/2009 08:41AM PST

kalsta

I was able to download from:
http://www.macparc.ch/mirror/pearLyrics/

A real shame about the legal nonsense that stopped development of this app.

Get Lyrical seems to be a good replacement.

Sing you little heart out - Version: 0.6, 1/3/2006 02:11AM PST

fifthdigit

Never knew what I was missing till I tried this one! I use the application version and it works nicely. (Would make it a bit prettier though, 'cause it's image is way oudated)

Excellent - and still alive - Version: 0.6, 12/18/2005 08:20AM PST

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Roddaman

In spite of efforts to kill it, this amazing product can thankfully still be downloaded from
http://www.macparc.ch/mirror/pearLyrics/pearLyricsV0_6.dmg

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