How many times have you been listening to a song and wish you had lyrics to follow along with?
A $0.99-cent app called Instalyrics not only will do the trick, but it's fast, accurate and works with multiple languages, too.
Available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, Instalyrics works by reading – not listening – to what you're currently playing, and then pulls up the song's lyrics from one of the many online databases it links to.
For example, I started to play Rihanna's Diamonds on my iPad mini and when I launched the Instalyrics app it immediately opened the Safari browser to show the lyrics via a site called directlyrics.com. Next, while listening to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, I opened Instalyrics and it loaded the lyrics to the classic rock song through azlyrics.com. Another song displayed lyrics from a website called elyrics.net. Regardless of the song, the app displays lyrics in about a second.
The developer says Instalyrics reads the song's ID3 tags – embedded information stored on the audio file itself – to match it to online databases.
I even tried to fool the site with a French song I had on my tablet (Pierre Lapointe's Au bar des suicidés), and the app found the lyrics no problem.
If no song is currently playing, you can choose a track from within the app, or do a search for lyrics without having to play the song – but you can do that just as easily in a web browser.
While the app works as promised, it would've been better if the lyrics would load within the app – instead of launching Safari -- and then display the album's artwork behind the words, too. Another good idea is saving the lyrics to read later on. On a related note, remember you need an Internet connection to see lyrics for the music you're listening to.
At under a buck, Instalyrics is a great buy for fans of song lyrics, as it's fast, accurate and super easy to use.
A $0.99-cent app called Instalyrics not only will do the trick, but it's fast, accurate and works with multiple languages, too.
Available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, Instalyrics works by reading – not listening – to what you're currently playing, and then pulls up the song's lyrics from one of the many online databases it links to.
For example, I started to play Rihanna's Diamonds on my iPad mini and when I launched the Instalyrics app it immediately opened the Safari browser to show the lyrics via a site called directlyrics.com. Next, while listening to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, I opened Instalyrics and it loaded the lyrics to the classic rock song through azlyrics.com. Another song displayed lyrics from a website called elyrics.net. Regardless of the song, the app displays lyrics in about a second.
The developer says Instalyrics reads the song's ID3 tags – embedded information stored on the audio file itself – to match it to online databases.
I even tried to fool the site with a French song I had on my tablet (Pierre Lapointe's Au bar des suicidés), and the app found the lyrics no problem.
If no song is currently playing, you can choose a track from within the app, or do a search for lyrics without having to play the song – but you can do that just as easily in a web browser.
While the app works as promised, it would've been better if the lyrics would load within the app – instead of launching Safari -- and then display the album's artwork behind the words, too. Another good idea is saving the lyrics to read later on. On a related note, remember you need an Internet connection to see lyrics for the music you're listening to.
At under a buck, Instalyrics is a great buy for fans of song lyrics, as it's fast, accurate and super easy to use.
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