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How to see lyrics for song playing?

I've got lyrics entered in most of the songs in my iTunes library. I notice that on my iPad 1, when I play a song on the iPod app, I see the cover image but no lyrics. A found a web page that said I'd see the lyrics if I tapped the cover image, but that brings up a different thing - a black background with some meta-data on the song. What's the right way to get a lyrics display on the iPad?

Mike

Intel Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Apr 3, 2011 2:03 AM

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Posted on Apr 3, 2011 4:34 AM

Tap the cover image to bring it up full screen. On the top you should see the volume and play/pause controls. At the bottom you should see a back button, genius and a button to view the album songs. The middle portion should display the lyrics.
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Oct 26, 2011 7:46 AM in response to dvscrobe

dvscrobe wrote:


You want to go back to an older i operating system just because of lyrics not showing?


Lyrics not showing are just one of many many bugs in the new music player on iPad. I'd say the app is unusable for many users depending on what you're doing with it, I'd say it's reason enough to stick with iOS 4 until it's fixed.


Let apple know so they fix it ASAP. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Oct 26, 2011 8:17 AM in response to dvscrobe

I haven't seen any response from Apple (there rarely is other than actually releasing software updates).


There are a number of threads about all the problems, here are a couple examples.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3390134?answerId=16437658022#16437658022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3376084?answerId=16433080022#16433080022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3375977?answerId=16417362022#16417362022

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