All Lyrics Vanished

gormark

I Have an older iPad but everything functioned great until today; suddenly, all lyrics vanished and no matter how many times I update iTunes library or reset the iPad, re-download songs, nothing works and not a single word shows. iTunes, being the pile of crap it is, won't allow any syncing except through their Stalinist iCloud trash. Any ideas?

peter

Open Stage Traxx settings and check the option "Display". Maybe you switched from "Lyrics" to "Comments" or back.

gormark

peter OK, that's not it; it shows nothing in either Lyrics or Comments mode.

gormark

peter I did it in iTunes, and yes, I enabled Apple Music briefly my mistake on the iPad.

gormark

I will try it when I get back home, but the lyrics don't show up even when I open "Edit Lyrics" through "song info", so that's not a good sign. Meanwhile, I opened song info in iTunes on my Windows machine at work and the lyrics are there, just like on my home Mac, so it really looks like a disconnect between Stage Traxx and the way the tags are transported - I wouldn't be surprised if Apple changed something in the latest version of iTunes and caused all this.

gormark

... and thanks!

peter

So, where did you add lyrics to your songs. In Stage Traxx or in iTunes? Have you recently enabled Apple Music?

gormark

peter Thank you for the new version! So I turned off Apple Music already yesterday; right now I updated the app, turned off my iCloud library and turned it on again, and then reimported all songs - no change. No lyrics, no comments.

peter

What I suspect happened: When turning on Apple Music, your library on the iPad has been replaced with the files from Apple Music which do not contain lyrics. If you also did that on iTunes on your computer, chances are that the files on your computer have also been replaces. Please check that they still contain the lyrics.

Please take a look at this FAQ entry on how to setup syncing between iTunes and your iPad to make sure that lyrics are transfered: https://support.fieryapps.com/d/3-changed-lyrics-not-visible-in-stage-traxx

gormark

peter The files on my computers are fine, the lyrics are all there. That Sync Music isn't there anymore; iTunes simply shows that the iPd can be synced via iCloud and leaves no other option.
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gormark

peter OK, once I turned off iCloud completely and re-synced, it worked - thank you! But that means I can't use iCloud on my iPad at all, right? That's outrageous even for Apple.

peter

That's right. Syncing with iCould is working very unreliably in regards to lyrics.

If you want to use iCloud, I would recommend adding lyrics in Stage Traxx.

gormark

peter Understood. Well, thank you for helping me out! On a separate note, I program web apps and while I haven't worked with Objective C, it's just another OOP language with the dot syntax; I'd be happy to help you with Stage Traxx seeing how it's easily the best program of the kind in the market and I'd really hate to see it disappear. Let me know if interested and we can exchange emails so you can see what I do and whether you're interested.

Danke sehr noch mal!