# Adding lyrics to mp3 metadata... **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-lyrics-to-mp3-metadata/16143 **Category:** Support **Created:** [September 16, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-lyrics-to-mp3-metadata/16143 "2014-09-16T02:32:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD) #### Post date: [June 27, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-lyrics-to-mp3-metadata/16143/7 "2015-06-27T07:18:47Z")
> [@incifinci](#): > > It seems, there is some incompatibility between Mp3tag and foobar2000, in using a language of lyrics. If a FLAC, containing UNSYNCED LYRICS eng||here\_goes\_lyrics, convert in foobar to MP3, the resulting MP3 file in foobar will show USLT: **eng||here\_goes\_lyrics** , while in Mp3tag **eng||eng||here\_goes\_lyrics**. ... As I understand the difference of tag-types between FLAC and MP3 files, ... FLAC uses VORBIS COMMENT tag, and MP3 uses ID3v2.x tag. For the ID3v2.x tag the USLT data record is designed as ... 3-byte-language-token|64-byte-descriptor|text (in Mp3tag the pipe symbol is the replacement character for the technical binary null value). For the FLAC/VORBIS tag I would expect not such data structure, but only the text stream, without any language token and descriptor comment. Therefore a FLAC's UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag-field should not carry the value coded for an ID3v2.x tag. "eng||here\_goes\_lyrics" is not the right format for FLAC, ... "here\_goes\_lyrics" should be correct, ... ... I think so. See also ... [/t/11617/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11617/1) [Sprach-Vorzeichen vor Lyrics in UNSYNCEDLYRICS id3tag?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11277/6) [Basic .txt export](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11957/5) [How to import a file lyrics.txt](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16306/12) [/t/6694/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/6694/1) [/t/13687/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13687/1) DD.20150627.1152.CEST --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-lyrics-to-mp3-metadata/16143)._