These are common definitions and explanations of privacy in general:

• The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
• The condition of being concealed or hidden.
• The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
• The state of being private / the state of not being seen by others.

Privacy is important when working online because personal or private information can be abused. Private information, if it gets into the wrong hands, can be used in ways you don't approve of. Private information is available on the internet only if you personally provide it. This web site is not interested in any private information from you, and does not collect private information from you. We will not ask you to provide private information (however, you may give us your email address if you want a reply when contacting us). All private information, if received from users is immediately deleted. For more information about the privacy practices of this web site have a look at our Privacy Policy.

A web browser (a.k.a. "browser") is a program on your computer that is used to view web pages. When you want to enter a web page (e.g., by entering http://www.mp3lyrics.org/ in the address field of your browser), your web browser requests the page content from the web server. Put simply, most of the time it is the web browser’s job to interpret the server’s answer and provide a visual image for you. There are several different web browsers, each created by a different company. Each web browser interprets the server’s answer in its own way. On this web site, the interpretation is usually in html (Hyper Text Markup Language) or JavaScript formats, which may result in different looks or behaviors when viewing the same page with different browsers.

HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language, and it is the content of the answer that is usually given by our web server. HTML is a language we use to create the web pages you see on this web site. This language is designed to format the content of a page in a way that your browser can interpret. Your browser understands this language/content and displays the result in a way that we want you to see it. An example on how we use html is to give color to text. Another example is to write text in a different size. Yet another example is to create links.

In HTML a "link" is a much used function that is nothing more mysterious that a reference from one web page (a.k.a. “document”) to another. Usually a link is blue text, underlined in blue that transforms your mouse cursor into a pointing hand when hovering over it, and it has the function of taking you to the page it references when you left click on it. However, a link may appear differently depending on how the web page designers styled it.

To "Left Click" is also known as just "Clicking on your mouse" and it usually means to move your mouse cursor over an element on a web page and clicking on the left button. This is a much-used, universal action, resulting in your web browser following links on a web page.

To "right click" usually means putting your mouse cursor some place on a web page and clicking on the right button. The reason for doing this is usually to have a set of options appear next to it. Which options appear depend on what functions or options your browser is configured to make available. This behavior may further be affected or controlled by the use of such tools as JavaScript.

When you move your mouse cursor over text on a web page, then left click (holding the button down) and drag the cursor to another position, we say that you are "highlighting text". This is some times used for copying the text that you highlight. On pages containing copyrighted lyrics this function is disabled on this web site, which is a requirement for us to comply with Gracenote’s copyright guidelines.

JavaScript is a simple and secure programming language that gives us the opportunity to run small logical operations (a.k.a. “programs”) in your browser that relate to the web pages we show you.

The program is given to your browser put inside the html code.

This makes the pages you see more intractive and quicker and easier for you to use.

Many experts would say it is a "scripting method" or "scripting language", but we think that "simple and secure programming language" is a good way of explaining it to the average visitor (most users of this web site). We say “simple”, because compared to many other programming languages, it is simple. We say “secure” because it is designed so that it is not possible to do anything else on your computer other than interact with you through your web browser on the web page you are viewing.

An example of JavaScript usage is to interact with the user by popping up a message when text is clicked on. This Web Site uses JavaScript for the following purposes:

• To comply with copyright & license requirements.
• To improve services and user experience with functionality and enhancements that supersede html-only pages.
• To decrease page load times for users.

This explanation of JavaScript is not a complete or comprehensive definition. It is merely a simplified version of what JavaScript is.

All the web pages on a domain name make up a web site. This web site consists of hunderds of thousands of web pages. Each web page contains html data. What you are reading now is a web page on our web site. Most of our web pages contain lyrics to a song. However, some of our web pages contain a listing of all the song names / thumbnail pictures / musicvideo links of an artist which we call an “artist archive.”

It is the html content given to your web browser when you enter a URL on our web site. You are reading a web page on our web server now. This is another example of a web page on our web server.

Simply put, a server is a computer that is designed and optimized for delivering (and receiving) data to (and from) many other computers at the same time. On a physical server (a.k.a. “computer”) there can exist several different server programs (a.k.a. ”services”). One such service is a program that delivers web pages. This service is called the web server. Web Server is the general name of the program that creates and delivers web pages to you.

A Domain name is the static, logical address of a computer on the internet. The computer is usually a server, and very often a web server. It is static because it does not change, as opposed to web server’s Internet Protocol addresses (a.k.a. “IP address”), which change from time to time. It is logical because it is intended to be easy for humans to remember. A domain name represents an IP address on an IP network (a.k.a. “the internet”). Even though IP address sometimes change it doesn't matter because the domain name is the same and so the service is reachable in the same way as before the IP address of the service changed.

A hostname can be thought of as a name, created with a-z and/or 0-9 characters, that represent an IP address and is in this way an internet address. It has many similarities as a domain name, but does more often represent a user’s (a.k.a. “client” or “visitor”) IP address than a server IP address. Very often a hostname can be used instead of an IP address. One reason for hostnames existence is that they make it easier to remember and recognize the IP addresses that they represent. However, an IP address is not guaranteed to have a hostname associated with it. Similarly a server’s IP address is not guaranteed to have a domain name associated with it.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It represents the location of a web page on the Internet. It can be though of as a more precise and complete address to a web page or web document, and extends the IP address (which locates only a server) so that a specific document (a.k.a. “page”) can be determined from the request.

HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Pprotocol. It is the common language (a rule set for exchanging commands and data) that a web browser use to communicate with or get data from a web server.

TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol. It is a rule set that computers need to follow in order to successfully transmit data to other computers on an IP network and know wheter it is received or not.

IP stands for Internet Protocol. It is a rule set that almost all computers need to follow when sending and receiving messages between each other on internet.

It is a number that acts as a uniqe address on a network, used to reach a computer on a network. Your computer has an IP address (which may also be represented by a hostname). Our web server has another IP address. Your neighbor’s computer has yet another IP address. When you request a web page from our web server, we send the data back to you by directing it to your IP address. The IP address of this server is 75.125.14.146

A web "cookie" (aka. tracking cookie, browser cookie, or HTTP cookie) is a harmless file containing a small string of characters that is sent to your browser when you visit this web site, or most other web sites, for that matter. We use cookies as part of how we communicate with your browser and to ensure that we can enable certain features for you that would not be possible if your browser doesn't support the use of cookies. One example is if you want to edit or change a song on a lyrics page, we have to be able the use of cookies. More technically the data in the cookie we send you is stored on your computer, in your browser, and this information is re-sent to our web server each time you request a new page from this web site. The cookie may be stored for various time periods depending on how it is configured and what it is used for. Note, a cookie is not a program, it cannot do anything on your computer, and it only exists in silence and contains small text strings. Another typical example of cookie usage is when you visit a web site where you have to log in to view the content if the web site, e.g. a web email service. After you have logged in, a uniquely identifiable cookie is stored in your browser so that you don't have to log in or resend your password each time you request a new page from your logged in account. You can view several emails without having to enter your password each time because your browser includes (re-sends) the cookies with each request, and the web server remembers you by recognizing the unique cookie.

This web site is helped by external (a.k.a. “third-party”) companies in the course of displaying advertisement to you when you visit our pages. These companies put and/or recognize cookies in your browser each time you view an advertisement. This web site has no influence on third-party cookie behavior. One of the reasons for the use of these advertisement cookies is to prevent displaying the same advertisement to you several times. They may also be used to track your actions related to an advertisement displayed to you on this web site. Third-party cookies implemented when you visit this web site may also be recognized by the same third-party companies when you visit other web sites (not www.mp3lyrics.org) for the same purposes. Third-party advertisement-type cookies help adapt ads to your interests by displaying ads that are more related to your interests than would be possible if you disabled the third-party cookies.

It means that we use external (a.k.a. “middle-man”) companies to sell advertising space on this web site. Many of the banner advertisements you see on this web site are managed by external companies and not by this web site. Some of the ads they display may tell you that you've won money, software, holiday travels or similar items. This web site has no direct information or influence on these offers. If you want to get information about any such offer, you’d need to find a contact link or email address in the ad or on the page that made the offer.

We are currently working on a solution for advertisers to put banner and popup advertisement directly on this web site. Buying advertising space directly from www.mp3lyrics.org has the advantage of bypassing external third-party companies. Third-party advertising companies take a share from both the buyer and the seller. Avoiding the third-party company could have a decided advantage to the advertiser, in that the advertiser could enjoy reduced fees from mp3lyrics.org and would know that their customers were not providing a share of the advertising revenue.

Caching means to save data for later re-use. This web site uses caching to ease the load on the web server. There are two types of caching involved for visitors of this web site. One is server caching, the other is client, local with the visitor, caching. When our web server creates web pages it requires resources, processing time and memory, on our server. This can be expensive when many requests appear in a short time period. If too many people are using this web site at the same time it may result in overloading on our server(s) and as a result this web site may appear to respond slower or not respond at all. To prevent this we take advantage of the two types of caching. With server cashing we store on our server many of the most visited web pages and re-use the stored version when a new request for the same page is made. This is much quicker for our server than re-generating the page for each request. Because of this we can serve web pages to more people at the same time. With client caching, we tell your browser to locally, on your computer, cache much of the content that we give you. This other method has the advantage that you can request several pages but your browser doesn't download all the involved content each time, making subsequent requests and page rendering considerably faster than without the local caching. There is, however, a disadvantage with client caching that web page content may have changed or been updated on our server, but your browser displays old or outdated content to you. To know if page content was updated on our server you can force refresh the content in your browser.

When you visit web pages your browser stores (a.k.a. “caches”) much of the content you see (and don't see). This can become a problem when the content changes (is updated) on our server because your browser may display invalid or outdated content to you, and not deliver the new or updated content from our server. Your browser is locally caching content in the effort to speed up your web surfing. You can prevent seeing outdated content by force refreshing (a.k.a. “force re-fetching” or “force reloading”) content from our web server. The procedure to do this differs depending on what web browser you use. With the page you want to force refresh on your screen, use one of the following commands depending on which of the following browsers you are using:

• Internet Explorer: ctrl+F5
• FireFox: F5 or ctrl+shift+r
• Opera: F5
• Mac/Apple/Safari: Apple+R or command+R

Robots (a.k.a. “spiders” or “crawlers”) are programs that visit web pages and download information. Sometimes such robots are welcomed, their intentions are good, but sometimes they are not welcomed and perform unwanted activities. It is important for us to know if a web page request is being made by a human or a program. If the request is made by a program we like to know why and by whom. There are many reasons why this is important and interesting to us, the most important one is to comply with copyright requirements and to prevent unauthorized distribution and usage of lyrics (e.g. without compensation to the copyright owners.)

RSS standa for Really Simeply Syndication (a.k.a. Rich Site Summary). It is a simple markup language that is often used for distributing (or make available for programs to fetch) site news and updates. More technically it is a simple form for XML.

This site uses RSS feeds to let you know about (make available) lyrics updates and new arriving lyrics at http://www.mp3lyrics.org/rss/

XML is short for Extensible Markup Language. This is a method used to mark up data (usually text) into logical parts. The marked up data can be understood by other programs.

The method/language is flexible and its chief purpose is to pass data among systems (programs, services, processes, servers, companies, etc.) without having to worry about how the other system wants the data to be formatted. One program can, in this way, communicate by passing data (a.k.a. messages) to other programs by sending the data formetted as XML and can add/include instructions on how the XML is to be interpreted by the receiving program (if it does not already know).

RSS is a very simple usage of XML (it is very simple compared to many other usages of XML). HTML has similarities, but it cannot be classified as xml because you can not pass HTML along with definitions on how to interpret the data.

As a comparison/difference to XML the receiver of HTML interprets it in a way that the sender have no control over, while XML allows it.

Yes, we have two twitter accounts:

1. on twitter.com/mp3lyrics we do automatic tweets about all new added lyrics and lyrics updates. There can be up to one hundred tweets on that account in a day. You can also receive notifications about all new lyrics and lyrics updates by subscribing to our RSS feed on http://www.mp3lyrics.org/rss/


2. on twitter.com/mp3lyrics_org we tweet manually about site updates that may be of interest to you. An example is the press release about the Gracenote cooperation.

Yes we have a Facebook fan page where we put news and information about mp3lyrics.org that we believe is of interest to site users. If you want to be a fan of mp3lyrics.org on Facebook this is possible on:
www.facebook.com/pages/Mp3-Lyrics/163386533582

Lyrics (a.k.a. “text” or “words”) to a song, as they apply to this website, means words to (a) song(s) for reading. This web site provides the words to many songs. This web site does not provide music, only the visual composition of words that make up a song.

On mp3lyrics.org we have a lyrics version control system. This system enables us to keep track of the different suggestions and corrections of lyrics that users submit. The feature has been very popular and is much used by our visitors who locate errors in lyrics or find parts of text in lyrics to be different from what they have learned or heard. All users have the option to submit lyrics correction suggestions, and all suggestions are reviewed. If a correction is accepted we post the new lyrics as the latest version, unless we have a version delivered by Gracenote. In such cases the user-submitted correction will be the second latest version, because Gracenote's version will be the latest. The default setting for mp3lyrics.org is to display the latest version of the lyrics, unless you specify/request otherwise. As an example you will see the latest version of "I Left Something Turned on at Home" by Trace Adkins (because it is not controlled by Gracenote). On the other hand, if the song is delivered by Gracenote, (you can tell if it was submitted by Gracenote because their logo will appear after the lyrics and any pictures or music videos), you will see the Gracenote version as the latest version, such as "Hot Mama" by Trace Adkins. However, the most recent version of "Hot Mama", submitted by a visitor (when it is a Gracenote-submitted song) can be seen as the previous version by pressing the big orange box above the lyrics and clicking on the previous version number. (Some people think that these lyrics are sometimes more accurate than the ones submitted by Gracenote). As an example see the previous version of Trace Adkins "Hot Mama" here.

In this way the different lyrics version url's does not change.

On mp3lyrics.org you can also compare text differences between lyrics versions.

For the lyrics which we have different versions, we offer an overview feature for users to perform on-line comparisons of the differences in the lyrics versions. As an example, if you want to compare the differences in version #1 and version #2 of the lyrics to Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A, you will find such a comparison here:
www.mp3lyrics.org/m/miley-cyrus/party-in-the-usa/diff1-2.html.
A comparison between the latest version and e.g. version #10 of the same lyrics you will find on:
www.mp3lyrics.org/m/miley-cyrus/party-in-the-usa/diff-10.html.

In lyrics on this web site text in [italic square brackets] is not part of the lyrics but information to the reader on how to read the lyrics or understand the song or music.

One example is: [Fade] describing that the music fades into silence. Another exmpample is [Instrumental] describing that there is an instrumental performance (without singing). Other examples are [Laughter], [Gunshot], [Echo], [Fiddle], [Yodeling], [Violin], [Guitar Solo], [Chorus:], [Verse #1]

As it pertains to music, the definition of a chorus is:

• A group of persons singing in unison.
• A group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers, such as in an opera or oratorio.
• A piece of music for singing in unison.
• The part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse (a.k.a. “refrain.”)

On this web site, often you’ll see the word [Chorus] used to represent the part of a song which is repeated other places in the song. Many times, when this is the case, the lyrics to that song are usually preceded by the word [Chorus] and followed by the lyrics of the chorus. Later, when the Actual chorus is supposed to be repeated in the song, you may see only the word [Chorus] displayed (and not the words of the chorus), indicating that the words of the chorus are to be repeated.

In some songs the word [Chorus] is not included in the lyrics, even though a chorus exists in the song.

A verse is that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus. Lyrics often contain a verse where the lead singer, soloist, or group of singers, sing without break for some time, then pauses, but the music usually continues. Then when the singer(s) continue(s) it is usually, but not always, the next verse, sometimes the verse is followed by the chorus. The lyrics to a song often consist of several verses, punctuated by the chorus. On this site, we try to section different verses in songs by putting one blank line between the verses, but this is not always the case (even if the song clearly consist of several distinct verses with pauses between them). Help from the audience, or visitors to this site, is appreciated in this effort. If you see a song that does not have blank lines between verses, and you know the song and where the verses begin, please consider contributing corrections. Sometimes the word [Verse] occurs in the lyrics to a song on this site, but most often not.

When we index lyrics it means that we make the contents of a song searchable. More specifically, when the lyrics to a song are being indexed we organize all of the songs on mp3lyrics.org so that you can find them by supplying either the artist name, song name or some of the words contained in the lyrics. We index our database of lyrics once every week. This means that when you add new lyrics or update existing lyrics it may take up to a week before your submissions will be searchable on search.mp3lyrics.org. We are currently working to improve this, and soon all new lyrics submissions and updates will be searchable immediately when accepted.

It is not possible to download music or mp3 files or any other sound files from this web site. This web site only offer song lyrics (together with pictures of many artists and album covers).

Gracenote is a company that provides lyrics to this web site. Gracenote and this web site, www.mp3lyrics.org, cooperate to share the advertising revenue that we generate with the correct (copyright) owner(s) of the lyrics that you view on this web site. Lyrics delivered by Gracenote are under copyright control and cannot be printed, redistributed or copied by users. To know if a song is delivered to mp3lyrics.org by Gracenote or under copyright control, look for the Gracenote logo at the end of the song text.

To learn more you should have a look at the press release about this partnership: Musicmass in the Media.

Not all lyrics that you can read on this web site has been delivered by Gracenote. However, mp3lyrics.org pay royalty for all lyrics displays nevertheless.

On this web site, if a song is registered with more than one lyrics version, and one of the versions has been delivered by Gracenote, then the Gracenote lyrics version will always be flagged as the latest (most up to date) version. This is a requirement to enable song text owners to make sure that they are in charge of which version is most up to date. In this way songtext owners can control, through Gracenote, how they lyrics appear on mp3lyrics.org. However, some lyrics may have a user submitted version that you think is more accurate than what you see as the latest version. If that is the case you should have a look at older lyrics versions for that song, and you may also see a notification about it below the lyrics text. As an example have a look at the end of the lyrics table on a-ha Lyrics - Take on Me.

Copyright is an exclusive right to publish and sell lyrics usually granted to the creator of the original lyrics and may be given, sold or willed to others. If you want more information on copyrights see copyright and Terms of Service.

This web site operates in cooperation with Gracenote to preserve copyright owners’ rights and interests. Part of this cooperation involves paying royalty to the correct owners of the copyrights and makes this web site authorized to display lyrics for you when you read them on this web site. www.mp3lyrics.org is in this way officially a legal lyrics web site. The license is a legal document giving www.mp3lyrics.org permission to show you lyrics on this web site.

This web site shares advertising revenue with the correct owners of the copyrights that visitors are reading. This is accomplished through a cooperation between this web site and Gracenote. Sharing of advertising revenue by making payment to the holder of a copyright for the right to use their property is known as royalty. On this web site the property is the owners lyrics.

You may not print, redistribute or copy lyrics from this web site if they are copyrighted. On pages that contain copyrighted lyrics the printing function is disabled. You can find out if the lyrics to a song you are viewing are under copyright control by looking for the Gracenote logo at the en of the song text (a.k.a. lyrics). For more information on how you can use the lyrics you read on this web site see Terms of Service.

You may not print, redistribute or copy lyrics from this web site if they are copy protected. On pages that contain copyrighted lyrics the printing and highlighting and right click functions are disabled. You can find out if the lyrics to a song you are viewing are under copyright control by looking for the Gracenote logo at the en of the song text (a.k.a. lyrics). For more information on how you can use the lyrics you read on this web site see Terms of Service.

WENN is short for World Entertainment News Network and is a company that provides us with news and pictures of artists and bands. Gagriella Cilmi pictures are an example of an artist’s picture archive. Pictures of artists and bands may be copyrighted and we do not encourage visitors to copy pictures from this web site. However, we do encourage visitors to put pictures found on this web site on their blog or web page by linking it directly from its url (location) on www.mp3lyrics.org. For more about pictures copyright and WENN pictures see pictures copyright.

Please see pictures copyright for details regarding this.

AKA is short for “also known as”. It means that something (a word or expression) may also be known under some other definition. As an example a sequense of letters without a space (that makes sense to a person) may also be known as a “word”. A “chorus” may also be known as a “refrain”. A “car” may also be known as a “vehicle”. A CEO (a.k.a. Chief Executive Officer) may also be known as “the boss”.

Suggestions to this FAQ are welcomed. If you have a question that is not answered here or you see an answer on this page that you disagree with, let us know about it, so we may investigate and possibly update this page. Please keep in mind the purpose of this FAQ is to keep it vital and your contributions and suggestions are always read and appreciated.