# Import lyrics from websites Issue
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 16, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217 "2025-04-16T20:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/1 "2025-04-16T20:49:29Z")
Hello, is there a step by step guide anywhere for Importing lyrics from websites?
I am having problems getting these instructions to work:
> [@\[WS\] Import lyrics from websites](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-import-lyrics-from-websites/2034):
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> Mp3tag v2.39 or higher required Finds song texts and saves them to the UNSYNCEDLYRICS field (official ID3v2 field). [How do I install the script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2748/1) / [Wie installiere ich das Script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2749/1) Search for lyrics on different sites! Note: Darklyrics only has songs from Metal bands and to use it properly you must select all files of an album and you'll get all songs at once. Other scripts in this thread: [Lyriki & Lyricsmania](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2034/123)[RapGenius](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2034/119)[Lyrics\_Darklyrics\_02.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e19833a4de5f2194e7c7b5d037d76da7ef20939f.zip) (797 Bytes) [Lyrics\_metrolyrics\_02.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9f2b3391f341087f135ff3c1f48e3d23bf84e04e.zip) (736 B…
> [@Freedb and Web Sources](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-and-web-sources/2748):
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> [How to resolve connection issues to freedb or Web Sources?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-and-web-sources/2748/2)[How to use a \*.src web source file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-and-web-sources/2748/3)[How to find the configuration folder?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-and-web-sources/2748/4)[Discogs is reporting a 401 error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-and-web-sources/2748/5)
here are the scripts i have under data \> sources:
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs Artist + Title.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs Artist + Year.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs Release ID.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs.inc"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#MusicBrainz.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs Artist + Album.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs Artist + Title.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs Artist + Year.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs Release ID.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs.inc"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Lyrics#metrolyrics.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\MusicBrainz.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\freedb.src"
"C:\Users\Graphics PC\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Cover Art#Discogs Artist + Album.src"
thanks in advance for your help
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/2 "2025-04-16T20:52:48Z")
> [@tomx2](#):
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> I am having problems getting these instructions to work
... and what are your problems?
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/3 "2025-04-16T20:57:25Z")
"error connecting to server" (metrolyrics).
data\freedb.scr cannot be opened.
i should mention, i am only interested in a script for lyrics, all other fields i add manually. I'm thinking i should remove all scripts other than lyrics so i don't accidentally overwrite my file info.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/4 "2025-04-16T21:06:09Z")
AFAIK freedb does not supply any lyrics.
About the metrolyrics message: I am not sure if the server does not work any more at all, only currently, or that no lyrics have been found.
I would recomment to use Foobar2000 and the plugins openlyrics (foo\_openlyrics) and/or multi-source lyrics (foo\_multisource)
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/5 "2025-04-16T21:09:06Z")
interesting, are you suggestion that their are no working lyric scripts for mp3tag?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/6 "2025-04-16T21:11:30Z")
There are - but they usually work only on a single title at a time.
The functions in foobar allow to select more or less the whole collection and different sources are sought in a single session. I find that more convenient.
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/7 "2025-04-16T21:14:02Z")
yes, of course, i never dreamed that would be possible. as for the single title scripts, while we are talking, where might i find them?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/8 "2025-04-16T21:15:26Z")
Which scripts are you looking for? MP3tag or Foobar?
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/9 "2025-04-16T21:16:15Z")
mp3tag. i'm not sure about using foobar2000 as of yet.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/10 "2025-04-16T21:18:33Z")
I think you already looked at the right place - I would try musixmatch
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/11 "2025-04-16T21:24:18Z")
understood, it doesn't work. ok thanks, looks like it's not possible with mp3tag anymore. i'll look into foobar2000. just a bit reluctant to expose my collection to another software i'm not familiar with (afraid of making a mistake), do not want any changes made at all, other than adding lyrics.
appreciate your time
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/12 "2025-04-16T21:26:52Z")
There is always the option to try new functions with a sample copy first.
That won't mess up the original collection.
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/13 "2025-04-16T21:29:23Z")
thanks again, looking at it now...
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### Author:  [@Casual\_Tea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Casual_Tea)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/14 "2025-04-16T23:10:16Z")
There are many ways to fetch lyrics for songs. Here are some of them:
[lrcget](https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget) can mass download synced lyrics to .lrc files and unsynced lyrics to .txt files.
For [MusicBee](https://getmusicbee.com/), my desktop player of choice, there are many good lyrics plugins, here are the ones I use:
[Lyrics Reloaded](https://www.getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/467/lyrics-reloaded-latest/), [Museexmatch](https://github.com/slonopot/Museexmatch), [LRCLIBee](https://github.com/slonopot/LRCLIBee), [Beenius](https://github.com/slonopot/Beenius).
You can combine all these sources in the settings and select their priority.
With these, the lyrics to the song that's currently playing is automatically fetched and displayed in the lyrics window. When the lyrics match, you can simply save such lyrics either to the tags of audio files or to external .lrc/.txt files.
I personally prefer using external .lrc and .txt files since these allow me to edit them in more tools and it also solves the problem of different audio file types having different standard tags for lyrics. Mp3s for example use SYLT for synced lyrics (has some limitation) and USLT for unsynced lyrics. For flac files that would be LYRICS for synced lyrics and UNSYNCEDLYRICS for unsynced ones.
You're not restricting yourself to either using external or embedded lyrics either way tho.
I've written [lyrict](https://github.com/AverageHoarder/lyrict) to provide a few ways to check, import, export, tag and standardize lyrics. Feel free to check it out.
And should you come across synced lyrics with bad timings or feel the desire to sync lyrics yourself, the best way I found is using [SubtitleEdit](https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases) that also supports .lrc files and allows highly precise timing with the waveform view and its advanced toolset.
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### Author:  [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/15 "2025-04-17T19:53:14Z")
Thank you Casual\_Tea, i will most certainly check it out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 6:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-lyrics-from-websites-issue/68217/16 "2025-07-04T06:57:09Z")
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