At least one of the members of this household sometimes asks “what are the
words (s)he singing?”. It’s easy enough to find lyrics for most popular songs
but where to put them? I was browsing around (pun intended) iTunes last night
and I found the Lyrics tab in the track information (right-click, get Info
or CMD-I). I then grabbed some lyrics for the current song, and pasted
them into the box, noticing that the size and modification times of the
corresponding MP3 file changed.
It turns out iTunes stores the lyrics
into the file’s metadata – the ID3 tags tags. Interesting. (There is
enough about MP3 I don’t know about to fill a large book.) After
synchronizing the track to the iPhone and playing it there, what do I see? The
same lyrics overlaid onto the track’s cover art, scrollable with a flick.
Pretty cool. Now in which iPhone track should I hide all those PIN
numbers for credit and banking cards? Ah, there it is: that’ll do. ;-)