more iTunes dorkiness!

Well, I’ve discovered another truly dorky thing about iTunes/my iPod which has the potential to be an enormous time-sink: song lyrics. If you look at the information for a track, there’s that tab for lyrics, which I’d never paid too much attention to? Well, it turns out that if you do put the lyrics for the song in there, they’ll actually show up in your ipod as well, much like the album art does. Which is kind of cool. But oh dear… because of course now I’m faced with the temptation of actually inserting the lyrics for a large fraction of my music library’s songs. At present count there are somewhat in excess of 16,000 songs in my music library and while a couple thousand of those are from audiobooks and quite a bit of classical music tracks, that’s still a whole lot of songs with lyrics.

Maybe at some point iTunes will have a feature that will import lyrics automatically, like the latest version does for album art, but I don’t know… and is it really at all worth it to have the lyrics in there? I don’t know about that either. But in any case. Those of you who know me as a somewhat anal person know that this is the sort of thing I’m tempted to do, of course. For now I’m sort of doing it a little bit at a time, album by album, just for one artist (Elvis Costello) when I’m not really doing anything else. This is relatively simple because all his lyrics are in one place online and so they don’t require any searching or anything like that. I don’t think I want to be doing much of any actual lyrics searches, since that will just be a pain in the ass. Much the same goes with capitalization and formatting…

I guess I’ll see what I want to do when I’m done with Elvis