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export these synchronized lyrics for viewing in iTunes and on the iPod
What a great idea for parties... get a projector and iStar Composer, and your guests can sing along with all their favorite music! The ultimate keroke machine!
iStar Composer is an original and major new application that allows anyone to synchronize lyrics with downloadable music and then to export these synchronized lyrics for viewing in iTunes and on the iPod. Know someone who loves their music? Give them the best and most unique iPod gift this holiday season, iStar Composer.
Downloadable music is very convenient but it is missing one very important thing and that is LYRICS! In the 60's and 70's on the back of the record albums were the lyrics to the songs. In the 80's and 90's CD's had lyrics in the inserts. Amazingly, downloadable music does not have lyrics. This loss is remedied by iStar Composer an original application that doesn't just add lyrics but makes synchronized lyrics available on the Mac, in iTunes and on the iPod.
iStar Composer is a program designed to take any digital song (mp3 or aac, created or bought in the iTunes store) find its lyrics then synchronize the music with the lyrics. Julian Miller, CEO of Script Software said, "We had to invent for iStar Composer some very original tools and techniques to line up the lyrics with the music. These tools make it easy to quickly add synchronized lyrics for any kind of song you own." iStar Composer can be used for editing and displaying lyrics, opera, karaoke, jokeoke (where people imitate a robin williams or another comedy routine), poetryoke (poems done to music), children's stories or children music, translation of text or lyrics, display of text for any audio track. And it is fun almost like playing a video game.
The best part is that you can go up to the file menu and choose 'Send to iTunes.' then your synched song and lyrics are exported as a new file to iTunes. In iTunes you will find and can choose the new iStar Composer playlist to see and play all your exported songs. Choose a song and in iTunes watch the synched lyrics in the bottom left corner where the cover art usually is and listen to the song. Now move the file to your iPod by clicking, update iPod in iTunes, and you can then watch it on your iPod. It works on the video iPod beautifully and also on the other color iPods.
DOWNLOAD the latest version 1.0.1 now
System requirements: Mac OS 10.4, Quicktime 7.0.3, AppleÕs Chapter Tool, color or video iPod (optional)
iStar Composer is available immediately for $30 but the price will go up in the near future.
iStar Composer is an original and major new application that creates synchronized lyrics on the Mac to export to the iPod and iTunes. iStar Composer finds lyrics, but more importantly allows you to synch them to a song. Composer then allows you to export this new composition to a new music file (AAC) that contains embedded lyrics that play/display in iTunes and on the iPod. By displaying the lyrics iStar Composer adds a new dimension to the iPod and iTunes. People will not just be looking at the song and title in iTunes and their iPod but can now enjoy reading or singing along with them too.
Kapaa, Hawaii, December 6, 2005 -- Script Software (www.scriptsoftware.com)
Script Software has been making essential software for the Macintosh and Windows since 1987. They are the creators of the award winning CopyPaste, iClock, iKey, iWatermark, KnowledgeMiner, iBeenFramed, Project Timer Pro, ID Tunes, iSay, Easy Card, iStar Karaoke and now iStar Composer.
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