Lyricsnapper - Still the best way to find lyrics and then embed it in mp3 file

I tried several different software, including Mozilla SongBird, to find the most easiest way to grab lyric and then embed in the mp3 natively. I have to say that iTune with Lyricsnapper is still the easiest way to do so.

And speaking of embedding information in MP3 file, I found out that once files are in iPod, it's very hard to cleanly extract those files out and preserve all the filename and so on and so fore. So the best strategy is never use iPod as the primary source. Treat iPod as a one way repository and do not consider using iPod as backup for files. In fact this fact makes me very reluctant to buy iPod product again, and very lean towards to get other MP3 Players such as Zune in the future.

So my next reserach task is to figure out what is the best way to prepare or preserve media files that hold the most media meta data intrinsically and yet still recognized by iTune. By meta data intrinsically store in the media files I mean ID3 Tag, Album art, lyrics, media file type (like TV Show name, season, ...) and so. For Album art and ID3 Tag I need to prepare at place AWAY from iTune since ITune keeps a lot of these items in it's own database instead of storing these information instrincially in the file itself. Some time, like the lyrics I mentioned before, needs to be prepare in iTune, and then I will backup the files from the iTune repository.

My goal is to make these media files atomic. So that:

• Other media player can access all the media meta data with little or no effort.
• I can restore my whole iPod, with all the media content in the right folder and setting, on ANY computer I want, instead of forcing me to stuck with a particular computer to use iTune.

This is the time when I start to miss my iRiver 140 as I can manipulate the directory structure in whatever way I want.