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Neat!
Authored by: Jay on Jul 10, '03 12:05:08PM

It does work! Unfortunately, the database does not contain less than popular songs' lyrics, but still, it's a neat trick.



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Lesser known songs? Use Google!
Authored by: dustpuppy on Aug 06, '04 06:47:17AM

I came up with this ugly hack only a while ago:

tell application "iTunes"
  set theArtist to the artist of the current track
  set theTitle to the name of the current track
end tell

set theURL to "http://www.google.com/search?q=" & theArtist & "+" & theTitle & "+lyrics&ie=UTF-8&btnI=Google+Search"

tell application "Safari"
  activate
  set the URL of the front document to theURL
end tell

It isn't guaranteed to work, but it actually does, most of the time. And, you're totally independent of some special lyrics site. You always use that one with the best PageRank :)



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