Does iTunes etc. correspond to the search of lyrics of most songs of major record companies

It seems that a management company of CDDB (a database which stores singer / genre of music CD, production year etc etc) adopted by iTunes etc. has concluded a license agreement for distribution of lyrics information with a major record company.

This allows you to embed lyrics in songs sold in music distribution services such as the iTunes Store, and when you open the CD with iTunes, you can search lyrics of the recorded songs, and so on.

In addition to iTunes, this CDDB is also used for various media players such as Creative and iRiver audio player software, RealNetworks Rhapsody, Napster, AOL Winamp.

Details are as follows.
Gracenote News: GRACENOTE SIGNS LYRICS LICENSES WITH WARNER / CHAPPELL MUSIC AND EMI, COMPLETING DEALS WITH ALL FIVE MAJOR

According to this release, a company named GRACENOTE, which operates CDDB adopted by iTunes, is a record company such as Warner Music Group, EMI Music Publishing, ABKCO Music, The Bob Dylan Music Company, Disney Music Publishing, Ice Nine Publishing And since we signed a license agreement on the distribution of lyrics, comprehensive lyrics delivery will be possible from the beginning of 2007.

Also, independent record companies and others who do not have a license agreement this time will be able to use delivery service by recording the lyrics with GRACENOTE 's online service.

If you can see the lyrics with a music player, it might be useful for karaoke exercises, too.