iTunesLyrics

What It Does

A small Windows utility that fills in missing lyrics for the tracks in your iTunes library. Select songs, or let it scan the whole library, click a button, and it fetches lyrics from Genius and writes them back to the track metadata so they travel with the file.

Originally a fork of the discontinued iLyrics, kept alive after the upstream project dropped LyricWiki integration. The current version uses the Genius API.

Requirements

• Windows with iTunes installed (required for COM interop)
• .NET Framework 4.7.2
• A free Genius API access token from genius.com/api-clients, entered in Settings on first launch

How to Use

1. 1
   Launch iTunesLyrics. iTunes will be brought to the foreground.
2. 2
   Paste your Genius API token under Settings (one-time setup).
3. 3
   Choose tracks:

   • Select tracks in iTunes and click the process button
   • Or check Fix to scan the whole library for corrupted lyrics
4. 4
   Choose mode:

   • Automatic - results stream into a grid as each lookup completes
   • Manual - review each match before accepting
5. 5
   Enable Overwrite to replace existing lyrics instead of skipping tracks that already have them.

Building from Source

$ nuget restore iTuneslyrics.sln
$ msbuild iTuneslyrics.sln /p:Configuration=Debug

Targets x86 in Debug because iTunesLib COM interop is 32-bit only. Open iTuneslyrics.sln in Visual Studio 2017 or later.