iOS 6 podcast lyrics

kangxia
 September 21, 2012 at 07:44 AM posted in General Discussion

I have just upgraded the operating system on my iPhone 4 from iOS 5 to iOS 6.  As a result, my ChinesePod podcasts are now in the "Podcasts" app rather than in the "Music" app.  The problem is that I can't see the ChinesePod lyrics (i.e., the lesson dialogues) anymore.  I can still see the lyrics of my songs in the Music app, but I don't see the lyrics of my ChinesePod podcasts.  In settings, I have selected "ON" for "Music > Lyrics & Podcast Info", but this doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

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johnnywu100
 December 09, 2013 at 02:51 PM

I just joined and (Nov 2013) and am having this issue. Anyone find a solution?

I have an iPhone 5S and the latest iOS 7.0.4

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he2xu4
 December 09, 2013 at 03:58 PM

Check out my post in this thread:

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/13770#comment-265374

Basically try changing type to audiobook.

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bababardwan
 September 21, 2012 at 09:02 AM

I'm not sure why you are having this problem. I also have iphone 4 and upgraded to ios6 and can see all the lyrics both in my playlists and under podcasts.

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johnnywu100
 December 09, 2013 at 02:50 PM

I just joined and (Nov 2013) and am having this issue. Anyone find a solution?

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kangxia
 September 22, 2012 at 08:40 AM

I'm still not having any luck with this. All I see is a photo of Jennie and John. When I tap it, I see a tape deck. I can also tap the right arrow next to a podcast in the list of podcasts and get some basic information about the podcast (date, duration, size), but I can't find the lyrics anywhere. Bababardwan, do you see the lyrics after you tap the photo of Jennie and John or are they on top of the photo? I have been looking on the Internet and see that other people are complaining about the same problem I am having.

I have the same problem as Miskat does with the iPad (and iOS6 doesn't seem to have addressed it). Lyrics don't show up in either the Music or the Podcast apps. There isn't even an option for "Music > Lyrics & Podcast Info" in the iPad Music settings.

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miskat
 September 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM

For iPad the situation just simply sucks. Apple removed the possibility to see lyrics in iOS5 (worked just fine in iOS4). Looks like iOS6 is not fixing the problem.

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bababardwan
 September 21, 2012 at 09:44 AM

no worries kangxia, good luck mate :)

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kangxia
 September 21, 2012 at 09:36 AM

Thanks Bababardwan. I am glad to know it isn't something Apple has done on purpose. I probably just need to play around with it (e.g., delete the Podcasts off of my iPhone and then re-sync the iPhone to iTunes).

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hariaditjandra
 September 21, 2012 at 08:25 AM

I don't have a direct solution to the podcast lyrics problem, have you tried using the Chinese Pod iPhone app? I'm assuming that the app wouldn't affected by the operating system upgrade.