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From: James Jolley on 28 Apr 2010 12:17
On 2010-04-28 17:14:39 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said:

> On 2010-04-28, Rowland McDonnell
> <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> Does VO read out lyrics?
>>>
>>> If it does, isn't that almost a definition of a redundant capability?
>>
>> That ability is useful since many song lyrics are impossible to make out
>> when playing back a song.
>
> For quite a long time I thought a lyric in "Bohemian Rhapsody" was
> 'Beelzebub has the Devil for a sideboard'.
>
> The _actual_ lyric made...slightly more sense.
>
> Jim

Yep, Slightly.

From: Chris Ridd on 28 Apr 2010 12:37
On 2010-04-28 17:14:39 +0100, Jim said:

> On 2010-04-28, Rowland McDonnell
> <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> Does VO read out lyrics?
>>>
>>> If it does, isn't that almost a definition of a redundant capability?
>>
>> That ability is useful since many song lyrics are impossible to make out
>> when playing back a song.
>
> For quite a long time I thought a lyric in "Bohemian Rhapsody" was
> 'Beelzebub has the Devil for a sideboard'.
>
> The _actual_ lyric made...slightly more sense.

A sort of mash up with <http://www.kissthisguy.com/> would be an
interesting project.

--
Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on 28 Apr 2010 13:16
James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote:

> Don't see why, that's like saying VO Reads the clock in the menubar but
> I can still see it. Someone will use the lyrics functionality i'm sure.

Surely the point about lyrics in iTunes is that you *hear* them, pretty
well by definition?
--
Peter
From: James Jolley on 28 Apr 2010 13:24
On 2010-04-28 18:16:52 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:

> James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't see why, that's like saying VO Reads the clock in the menubar but
>> I can still see it. Someone will use the lyrics functionality i'm sure.
>
> Surely the point about lyrics in iTunes is that you *hear* them, pretty
> well by definition?

For lyrics yes, but I wonder if the same sort of text output is used
for the Itunes Lp format they have. Never bought one but would love to
see how they actually work.

From: D.M. Procida on 28 Apr 2010 14:00
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Does VO read out lyrics?
>
> If it does, isn't that almost a definition of a redundant capability?

You don't listen to much punk, do you Peter?

Daniele
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