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jingo_man

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Nov 11, 2018
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My preference is to keep using my own music library, forged over decades from recording off the radio and mix tapes with mates, ripping CDs, Napster, playlists, and increasingly-curmudgeonly ways... I have my reasons.

Apple's ecosystem is certainly moving towards their subscription service. I just have no interest in this. But their lack of focus to my "archaic" approach is not maintained in their apps.

I tried this weekend to play some tracks through a new AppleTV setup, hoping to display the lyrics as there was an icon in the bottom-right corner, greyed out. Even for tracks I know previous text-based entries have been made in my personal library.

I am guessing the Music.app pulls the lyrics alongside the Apple Music stream.

But why not read this field from the ID3 tags when playing from a local library? Or do I need to format it specifically?

I expect it is insurmountable without over-burdened workarounds, but will await with anticipation...
 
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