anyway, who's to say what the correct lyrics to some songs are? I don't want someone else's interpretations of what the lyrics are.

Yeah, it would be difficult to trust a third-party transcription of the lyrics. I'd hate to have Purple Haze scrolling by on the screen saying, "scuse me while I kiss this guy".

But if the MP3s were made by the original artists instead of ripped at home, then the process of transcribing, proofreading, and inserting the lyrics into the tag could be handled just as carefully as they do for printing the album sleeve. Many bands are very careful about making sure the lyrics on the sleeve are accurate, I'm sure they'd feel the same way about the lyric fields in the tags if it became an accepted standard.

There are a lot of advantages to having the artists sell the MP3s directly to the consumer. This is one of them.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144