# Extract Song Lyrics From MP3 Files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-song-lyrics-from-mp3-files/52441
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 20, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-song-lyrics-from-mp3-files/52441 "2021-03-20T03:17:11Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-song-lyrics-from-mp3-files/52441/2 "2021-03-20T10:14:42Z")

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See this thread as something about the problem of getting lyrics out of a file:

> [@Mp3tagSplitLyricsList](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tagsplitlyricslist/13645):
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> Sometimes there is the need to export text content from the ID3v2 tag-field UNSYNCEDLYRICS (USLT) to disk file. Mp3tag by its report feature is able to export tag-field data from one to many selected media files. Given by design of the Mp3tag export feature, there can be created only one output file for all envolved input media files. Today with Mp3tag v2.51 there is no chance to export tag-field data from a group of media files into one assigned external text file separately for each media f…

What I don't yet understand: if you create a database and I assume that you read tag data from the files - why don't you also read the field UNSYNCEDLYRICS?

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