10.5: Find iTunes song lyrics using Spotlight

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10.5: Find iTunes song lyrics using Spotlight
Authored by: ephramz on Tue, Feb 26 2008 at 11:31PM PST

It also doesn't work for MP3's on remote disks that are 10.4, which is pretty common with laptops accessing larger desktop disks, I guess because the 10.4 spotlight is not correctly indexing the lyrics. I guess I can force a reindexing of the remote disk from the 10.5 laptop on the command line to make it work.

Too bad you can't make smart playlists based on lyrics (not listed as a field to search on) so you could have a playlist of songs that mention "love" or "despair"! ;-)