how does iTunes' lyrics option work?

[flat6]

I just installed this awesome widget (pearLyrics) that automatically drops in lyrics for songs into iTunes as I play them. Which is great. However, I would have thought that doing a Spotlight search for them would make the song show up. So, if I remember one line of a song, I can punch into Spotlight and voila, the song is revealed. But it doesn't seem to want to do that. Any ideas?

Cliffs: Have songs with lyrics under the Get Info > Lyrics part of iTunes. Spotlight doesn't seem to search there though.

 

[flat6]

Search is wonderful
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/147979/

So I guess my question is, any updates on this ^ ?

 

[killuminati]

If you use a widget called "Sing that iTune", it saves the lyrics to your hardrive so you can spotlight them.

 

[Daveway]

yeah but Pear lyrics is on of the best options out there.
http://www.pearworks.com/pages/software.html

Out of the many lyrics search widgets this one is the best and it saves it to the itunes ID3 tag automatically.

 

[anaxamander]

Spotlight isn't set up for lyrics. Spotlight is the front end to the new Tiger metadata tools. They only go so far in getting a few pieces of information. You can see what it gets yourself by opening a Terminal.app window and typing:

mdls /path/to/your/song.mp3

and you won't see that information there. All that means is that Apple decided (arbitrarily) to only go so far - I remember seeing some metadata tool that went a little further, but that was before iTunes5, so I doubt lyrics would be included.

On an mp3, lyrics are stored on the USLT (unsyncronized lyrics) tag - on an m4a they are stored on the "©lyr" atom. Apple essentially decides whatever atom name they want - they are the de-facto standard.