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I need a way to display full screen lyrics in iTunes of the song that is currently playing. Up until now I have used Cover Version, but it doesn't work anymore since iTunes 12.6:
Are there any alternatives? I am using a mac 🙂
EDIT – 29 June 2017
Apparently it has been fixed and the plugin works now! Many thanks to the developer 🙂
For the lyrics part, I would recommend Get Lyrical. It can actively tag songs, tag specific songs, or tag a playlist. It gets all of its lyrics from Lyrics Wiki. This is a great little application and I highly recommend it. It has a simple, clean interface that is really easy to use:
My Setup: Crashplan, OS X 10.8.2, iTunes 10.7 (21)
I am unable to replicate the same issue on my system, and haven't noticed any excess changes or uploads to crashplan on my filesystem after playing music. To be sure it wasn't happening in the background, I ran a checksum on one of my audio files, played the complete song in iTunes, and re-ran the checksum. If something in the file itself had changed, the checksum would be different.
Here are the results:
Big-iMac:Abbey Road dave$ openssl sha1 17\ Her\ Majesty.m4a
SHA1(17 Her Majesty.m4a)= 3aea5150d7b1d21846b6502bac7ccacca44ff0fa
Big-iMac:Abbey Road dave$ openssl sha1 17\ Her\ Majesty.m4a
SHA1(17 Her Majesty.m4a)= 3aea5150d7b1d21846b6502bac7ccacca44ff0fa
As you can see, the checksum matches the second time after playing the song through iTunes. Most of my collection is ripped into ALAC (m4a), so I thought I'd test a standard mp3 file as well:
Big-iMac:One More Night in New York City dave$ openssl sha1 2-21\ The\ End.mp3
SHA1(2-21 The End.mp3)= a223d6fb542bee5191794d0a74f971da19fb9afc
Big-iMac:One More Night in New York City dave$ openssl sha1 2-21\ The\ End.mp3
SHA1(2-21 The End.mp3)= a223d6fb542bee5191794d0a74f971da19fb9afc
This too produced the same checksum before and after playing the song in iTunes. All of the metadata about your library (play count, etc.) is stored in the iTunes Music Library.xml file, not in the mp3 itself so I wouldn't expect individual songs to change. However, it's quite possible that the iTunes Music Library file will need to be re-uploaded since it changes frequently.
Best Answer
Cover version works on iTunes! What you should do is to create a new directory
~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-insand put the Cover version file in there.iTunesdirectoy if it doesn't exist yetiTunes Plug-insI hope this will work for you ... I works for me in iTunes 12.7.2.58