KaraTunes 2.5.1 review

KaraTunes puts all your lyrics data in one single database, letting you save, modify, and search lyrics with an easy-to-use interface.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 2608K Developer: ideographer.com Buy Now Price: $11.00 Updated: 16 Mar 2006

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KaraTunes puts all your lyrics data in one single database, letting you save, modify, and search lyrics with an easy-to-use interface.
With KaraTunes, you don't have to save lyrics as irrelevant text files.

Here are some key features of "KaraTunes":
Integrated with iTunes
KaraTunes is highly integrated with iTunes. When a new song is being played by iTunes, you can immediately add it to your lyrics collection from iTunes and start editing its lyrics. If the current song in iTunes already exists in your lyrics collection, you can also view its lyrics by choosing from the iTunes menu. When viewing lyrics of a song with KaraTunes, you can let iTunes play the song without having to switch to iTunes. In fact, iTunes can easily be controlled right from KaraTunes.

Search Lyrics Database with Ease
With the built-in Lyrictracker client in KaraTunes, you can easily look for lyrics online without switching to a browser or other applications. To find lyrics, You can input a song name, artist name, album name, and/or a part of lyrics content. You can also just click a button to find the lyrics of the song currently being played. If your song can't be found in the Lyrictracker database, you can also search for it with Google.

iPod Support
You can easily upload lyrics to your iPod as notes. When accessing lyrics on your iPod, press the Select button to listen to the song you are viewing.

Share Lyrics
KaraTunes lets you export your lyrics library to use on another computer or share with your friends.

Unicode Support
KaraTunes supports the Unicode standard, so you can add songs from almost any language into your lyrics collection.

What's New:
Supports iTunes 5's lyrics tag. Users can write KaraTunes lyrics into iTunes tracks, as well as import lyrics from iTunes tracks to KaraTunes.
Downloads lyrics from the Internet automatically when displaying the current song.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later (10.3 recommended for playing songs with non-Roman info).