While building a playlist on Rhapsody earlier, I was pleasantly surprised to see that many songs now have a “Lyrics” link. I never noticed this before. I share Jason Herskowitz’s feelings about Rhapsody’s iterative development practices. It’s great that they are continually working to improve their product, but as a user, it would be nice to be notified when cool new stuff like this happens. I found this snippet on Futuremusic from last week:

“RealNetworks has inked a deal with LyricFind, a Toronto-based concern, to incorporate Lyrics into the web-based version of Rhapsody. The announcement follows a recent announcement by Yahoo Music, who teamed with Gracenote to offer a similar feature. Rhapsody will offer authorized lyrics and other meta data such as albums covers, release dates, and additional credits. When lyrics are available for a particular song, Rhapsody will showcase the content with a Powered by LyricFind tag helping to brand the company for broader recognition.”

I assume it will be some time before most songs have lyrics associated with them. Now Rhapsody should  begin improving the web player so that i can toggle between the song lyrics and metadata during playback.