After searching gazillion times for “iTunes Lyrics Plugins” none of the links actually were very helpful and so once again because of the ‘terrible search listing’ I decided to write a post that actually helps people. Hopefully this post will make it to the top 10 listing on Google.

Basically iTunes lyrics plugins or addons are some sort of additional tools that can be helpful for those who wanted to add ‘lyrics’ to their songs collection on iTunes. This can be very time consuming and frustrating. Instead of googling every lyric to every song; there are plugins that can help you to do that easily.

Is there any helpful iTunes lyrics plugin that actually works?

The answer is ‘yes’. Thanks to me, I never really get bored of googling for stuff; I keep googling until I find the answer to my problem. I tried a lot of plugins for iTunes lyrics and you should be surprised that out of all the plugins I’ve tried; only two of them actually worked.

…there are two ways and two plugins

If you care about the quality of the lyrics and you want to keep your iTunes library ‘clean’. The best solution for adding lyrics easily to your songs is by using a plugin called ‘soundcrank’

Soundcrank (take a peek at my iTunes Library) and yes I like Ke$ha

It is very easy, once you’ve downloaded soundcrank (get the latest version here) you can start running it without rebooting your PC. Just double click on the soundcrank icon and iTunes will magically appear next to it. If you are using windows make sure you minimize the iTunes window so you can see the soundcrank window (it works as if the soundcrank window is an additional sidebar to iTunes; you can find it on the right side next to iTunes)

Soundcrank application will prompt you for login id and password. Just register the application – you don’t have to pay anything and it takes only couple of seconds. The registration form will only ask for name, email and country. No email confirmation is required.

Every time you play a song the soundcrank will display the album artwork and lyrics to the song and it will add both album artwork and lyrics automatically by default. If you don’t want to mess with album artwork (edit the settings by clicking on ‘options’ – change the settings so it doesn’t fetch album artworks)

The downside of this is you have to play every song on your iTunes for at least 10-15 seconds (depending on your internet connection speed) in order for soundcrank to fetch and add lyrics to the song.

The trick to do this on autopilot is by using an auto-clicker software.  (Set the autoclicker software to click on ‘itunes next song’ button for every 10 seconds)

That is basically the way how soundcrank can be helpful for adding lyrics to your songs on iTunes.

Now there is another plugin called lyrics fetcher. You can use this if you don’t care about the quality of the lyrics in another words this is the fastest way one can fetch lyrics to his or her songs on iTunes.

The tool works smoking fast, you can just download it, hit it up and let it find lyrics to the entire songs on your iTunes Library. It is capable in fetching hundreds of songs in a matter of seconds.

Amazingly Fast Way of Fetching Lyrics

However as I said the downside is ‘THE QUALITY of THE LYRICS’ and as a matter of fact the way the plugin works is simply pathetic.

If the plugin succesfully fetched lyric to a song, at the very bottom of every fetched-lyric you will find ‘the credits’ part. Sure enough we need to thank ‘lyrics fetcher plugin’ because of its amazingly fast way of fetching lyrics but seriously… NOT IN EVERY LYRIC!?

If credits doesn’t bother you wait till you see what happens when the plugin couldn’t find the lyric to a song. It will say ‘no lyrics found in the database’ and it actually stored this message in every song which the plugin couldn’t find lyrics to.