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For several years I collected lyrics from various songs into a text file for quick access. The lyrics came from www.lyrics.ch,which used to be a great site for getting lyrics until the cops raided them for violating the copyrights of the music empires. Anyway, my lyrics file became too big for Notepad and after awhile, took a long time to load and search in WordPad. Then, when I installed M$ Word, I had to wait a hefty 15 seconds for it to load on my laptop. Plus, I wanted to be able to add lyrics to the file on either my laptop or desktop and be able to consolidate the differences easily later. So, eventually I wrote a program which could read and write the lyric text file I had made, and which could merge two lyric files into one. I call it simply "LyricViewer".

• Click here to download (includes source code)
• Click here for the VB6 runtime DLL it requires
• Click here for some lyrics (mostly top 40 stuff)

LyricViewer is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

In order to provide a quick way to open your lyric file, you might want to use a shortcut:

• Create a shortcut to LyricViewer.exe and put it someplace convient like the desktop or quick launch bar.
• Right-click on the shortcut and choose properties. The "Target" field on the properties box should show the full path to LyricViewer.exe; append the full path of the lyric file you want to use in quotes. For example, if the lyric file is C:\Music\Lyrics.txt, the target field should be changed to something like:

  "C:\Program Files\LyricViewer\LyricViewer.exe" "C:\Music\Lyrics.txt"