I am trying to use mp3 tag editor to add lyrics to my mp3 files
The point is to show the lyrics in Windows Media Player plugin MiniLyrics on Windows 10
and on my Samsung smartphone (in Samsung Music).
Which works for mp3's that already have lyrics in their tag when i buy them.
I have tried adding lyrics in the tag with mp3 files that I bought
and with mp3 files that I made by ripping a bought cd with Windows Media Player.
I have learned that i needed to add the field UNSYNCEDLYRICS, and that I need to use xxx|| or eng|| etc. to show lyrics
However, whatever I try (copying the text directly from internet, copying it from a doc-file, copying it from a text-file..) it only shows part of the text. Sometimes the first alinea (or part of it), often only the first sentence
I would like to draw your attention to Foobar2000 for which there are plugins that search for lyrics in batch mode for all the selected files.
That may be quicker than the manual way.
The file list is the view with the columns on the main window.
The extended tag-view allows you to see and edit all tag-fields that are in your files and supported by Mp3tag without the need to configure what you want to see. You can use it for 1 or more marked files and it is called via ALT-T or the menue View->Extended tags.
See the preferences of the plugin and the available options. E.g. "Open lyrics" has a setting to "save to tag" and you can specify the field name for synchronized and not synchronized lyrics.
I'd switch to MusicBee as the player. It directly supports lyrics, has far more options than Windows Media Player and with Lyrics Reloaded it can automatically fetch lyrics from several sources (you can specify preferences) while you listen to a song. You can also edit the lyrics directly in the player, eliminating the need for MiniLyrics.
Here's my layout to give you an idea of how customizable it is.
And if you specifically look for synced lyrics, you can give lrcget a try. I find the interface a bit lacking but it had a relatively high success rate with the songs I did try with it.
On android I'd suggest you give Symfonium a try. It slaps all other android players I've tried around the block and the lyrics view is customizable (I asked for a few of those features).
Personally I'd steer clear of such options. There are usually so many versions of a song that often the matching does not work properly and you end up with slightly wrong or offset lyrics.
I either actively search and fix synced lyrics for an entire album or let them be fetched while I listen and then only save them when they are correct.
That way I don't pollute my files with lyrics of unknown accuracy.
I will manually check the lyrics from the playlists that are important to me. Working on that already.
But if I have the option...why not add all the lyrics for all 15:000 plus songs we have gathered over the years ? So no, I will not do that manually.
And yes, that may polute some files, but looking everyhting up manually is just way too much work. And so is actually selecting only the songs I do want the lyrics from.
I share my pc with my husband and unfortunately he really wants to keep Windows Media Player. He hates changes in everything, including software..
But for my smartphone I will take a loot at Symfonium
Another possibility is the Lyricator, which is a plugin for Mediamonkey. It searches several websources in one go for Lyrics.
However, when using batch mode, you must always be aware that some web sources will block your IP if a lot of requests come in in a short period of time. This may require changing the IP or you may have to split the requests into chunks over a longer period of time.
I only really read along on my pc, where thanks to Lyrics Reloaded every song crawls for lyrics on multiple providers and displays the results while I listen to it. If I care about them and they are correct, I save them to disk.
That way I only have correct lyrics in my tags while still getting results of mixed quality for "every" song.
I pretty much have 3 stages:
My favorites get synced lyrics (I sync them in MusicBee myself if none are available online).
Songs I like and have read along and verified that the lyrics are correct get saved to disk as well.
All the other songs crawl for lyrics during playback with results of mixed quality but are not saved to disk.
My reasoning is that lyrics improve all the time. More providers, more people taking the time to sync them etc. And eventually I hope that thanks to machine learning turning lyrics into accurately timed synced lyrics will become trivial and automatic.
If I crawled lyrics for my entire collection (which is >50x your file count) I'd freeze the lyrics in time and would have no idea which of these lyrics are verified as good and which were crawled automatically.
In my book, no information is better than inconsistant information but that depends on your preference I guess.
Reminds me of my father. We used to use MediaMonkey, now I use MusicBee because it's by far better, faster, has more functions, active development etc..
He refuses to switch because he got used to MediaMonkey.
True. While you can somewhat circumvent that by switching between proxies/vpns, it can be annoying.
