LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by MediaWiki and is searchable by song, artist, album, genre, hometown, label, and language. Users are told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, an...
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LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by MediaWiki and is searchable by song, artist, album, genre, hometown, label, and language. Users are told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, and copyright violations are removed upon request.
The site allows programmatic access to the contents of its database through a webservice. This API has been leveraged to create plugins for many media players including Winamp, Amarok, Windows Media Player, iTunes, musikCube, foobar2000, and more. A Mac OS X Dashboard app has also been made, designed to pull lyric data from LyricWiki as the songs are playing, and then update the ID3 tag for the song in iTunes. This occasionally causes a slight skip in the song while the data is written, similar...
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