How to see lyrics for song playing?

Here is the Apple support article on it, updated April 10, 2012:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4216?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Symptoms

iTunes allows adding lyrics to songs, and many popular podcasts have text notes as part of the podcast. After updating to iOS 5, lyrics or podcast information may not be visible on the iPad.

Resolution

The iPad Music app for iOS 5 does not support displaying lyrics or podcast information attached to audio files.

So there you have it, not a "bug" just not supported. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

being able to read the lyrics on the iPhone but not on the bigger and much more appropriate iPad is simply ridiculous.

But seeing how long this thread is, I have little hope anyone, besides the users is interested in that.

It's just a matter of fact - I use the iPad for example, when there is no need to boot my Mac . . . cause it does all I need. And then . . . oops . . . it does not everything. Cool, reading books on your iPad but no lyrics, great technology. Are you joking?

Very much agreed, but for now, I've found an excellent App that has been doing what I need. It's a paid app, but not too bad for price. You can find it doing a search for PauserPro -

Thanks for your response! I haven't really checked your tip but it seems to be a way for me to solve another miss with its feature "auto-pause". Cause if I use pre-produced traks from the iPad at rehearsals one has to make a playlist for each song not to go on with the next . . . that is cool with "auto-pause".

But anyway, they talk bout making live easy and sometimes they screw up on this.

If i like to listen to three different songs (not in row) out of a playlist I can mark them in iTunes and I don't have a clue why I can't do so on my iPad, or just one last song and then end. Leaving the device, leaving the room, cause I made my decision clear . . . ok, on the phone there might be restrictions in space but on the pad.

In my opinion such things are basics and needed on an everyday basis. I'm used to it and I do not want to work around. A player is a tool that should do what I want and they have this player, it's iTunes. So why leave good functions out.

Thanks again, this will help, but I really want Apple to integrate a good player. They can do so and they should.

It is an essential part they should not handle naive.