Lyrics

Right click anywhere in the Showcase + Lyrics View layout to reveal a context menu that gives various operations regarding lyrics.

There are three kinds of lyrics that can be shown: Standard, Synced and Chord.

Standard Lyrics

Standard lyrics are shown by default when available. They are stored in the internal database and can be sourced from three types of locations:

• From the audio files metadata tag. (Will automatically scan this when importing, or use the Reload Metadata function to manually re-scan)
• By using the Search lyrics function.
• By pasting from clipboard using the Paste Lyrics function.

Clicking Clear Lyrics will remove the lyrics from the internal database.

You can also view standard type lyrics from the left side panel. To enable showing lyrics here, right click in the side panel (under the album art box) and select Show Lyrics.

Synced Lyrics

Timed lyrics highlight the currently active line in the lyrics and scroll automatically.

These lyrics are loaded from .lrc files. These need to be in the same location as the source audio file and need to have the same name part of the filename in order to be detected. For example, having clocks.mp3 and clocks.lrc in the same folder.

The file format is made up of lines of the lyrics with each line taking the format of [mm:ss.ms]words such as follows:

[01:32.21]On my fears, on my loose ends
[01:38.99]All the strength leaves the ghosts alone

When both standard and timed types are available, a button will be shown to switch between preferring to show either type.

Guitar Chord Lyrics

This format highlights chords above each line of the lyrics.

These will be shown when available if the setting Enable chord lyrics is on. This will take precedence over the former two lyric types. For further details see the Guitar Chord Lyrics wiki page.