RE/pinboard

Apple rocks the cat box with synchronized lyrics patent application

The patent application covers the synchronized display of text (mostly lyrics) on a portable media player, meaning that your iPod or iPhone would show you lyrics or other dynamic text at appropriate points in the song (Pop-Up Video, anyone?). The synchronization would use either a separate, specially-formatted lyrics file that could be "played" along with the music, or with a specially-encoded file containing lyrics as well as the song itself.