How can I see song lyrics in iOS 5.0?

Sctmoss wrote:

Ok that maybe true but you are missing the big picture. If the iPad 2 can play music backwards and the iPhone can't that doesn't change the fact that you import music to them the exact same way; the topic of the discussion is how to get lyrics to show up on ios5, not iPad or iPad2. Judging from your reply you haven't tried my method. My device is ios5 and jailbroken and I am saying that converting to AAC should show lyrics on all devices despite the capabilities of one compared to another.

You will note that this discussion is in the Using iPad forum and that, all of the other posts are about the inability to view lyrics on an iPad. The discussion is not about transfer methods. Judging from your reply, you haven't read the entire discussion or the several other threads on the changes in the Music app for the iPad.

Best of luck.

"You can highlight each song and right click and select convert to AAC just like me, and im pretty sure your iPad supports AAC files created within iTunes."

My songs with lyrics are and have been AAC.

Previous to iOS 5, lyrics displayed fine on the iPad.

With iOS 5, lyrics do not display on the iPad, regardless of what is done to the song or how it is loaded to iTunes or the iPad.

No one is able to view lyrics on the iPad.

I just talked to an iPad tech person about this. He wasn't familiar with the issue; he has never used the lyrics function and obviously hadn't gotten any calls about it before. He did some checking and came back with the report that this is an issue that has been unresolved, which means that Apple doesn't know what it's going to do about it - if anything. Not much help..

I have also read that iTunes Match loses some lyrics; people are reporting about 20% missing in random order - some albums have lyrics for most songs but not all, and so forth, even though they were all on iTunes originally. So I don't think that iTunes Match is a solution. I've been looking for a third party app which will make use of the embedded lyrics, but all of the ones I've seen take lyrics off the web. Not much point doing that if you have already spent time inputting them with the old system.

All I know is that you can view lyrics if you are running iOS 4.3.5 or earlier

But you can't go backwards to iOS 4 after you've upgraded. I asked tech support how to do that and it's not possible.

I just spoke with another iPad technician. She too had not heard of the problem before, but when I suggested that she do a google search for "iPad no lyrics" she found the discussions. She told me that she would notify the engineering department about this and ask that they contact me regarding whether this was a bug which would be fixed or whether it was something that had been deliberate and would remain unchanged. She advised me to call back in a couple of days if I hadn't heard anything. We shall see. I was encouraged that she was at least forwarding it to the department that could resolve this question.

I tried ur way on the iPad...it doesn't work...

Sillyfairytales wrote:

I tried ur way on the iPad...it doesn't work...

Because, as has been noe din this thread, the iPad Music app does not display lyrics.

I tried AppleCare again and spoke to another technician. I had to keep stressing with everyone I talked to that the lyrics were still present on iPods and iPhones with the same upgrade, but no iPads displayed them now. She told me that unless I had spoken to a senior advisor last time, which apparently I had not, the person I talked with didn't have the authority to send the issue up to the engineers. She connected me with a senior advisor named Matt who did some research. He too (fifth one!) hadn't heard of the problem before, but when he checked he saw that it had definitely been reported numerous times; the engineers are aware of the issue because there are escalated tickets concerning it, but there is no official response yet. He said that Apple typically doesn't take features away - it adds them - so it was probably an error which will be fixed in a subsequent upgrade.

As I said, the engineers had a number of "escalated tickets" on the issue, so other complaints have obviously gotten through and the senior advisor said they were aware of it; he just didn't know what they were proposing to do about it. It sounds as though the engineers are the ones who deal with these things. I'm sure all the feedbacks helped; I sent one too.

I called apple support and they confirm this function is no longer available in OS 5. Their advice is for me to buy some apps to see lyric. Crazy and I don't believe this can happen. Let's raise more complaint to apple.

That surprises me, too, since I spoke with a senior advisor yesterday and he told me that there were a number of escalated tickets to engineering on this topic, with no word on what the resolution would be. Also, if the functionality is no longer available on iOS 5, why do iPods and iPhones still have it?