LRC meta data tags

LRC lyrics files may contain "ID tags".

This is a list of tags I found in the wild:

al

Album name: "Life"

ar

Song artist name (performer): "The Cardigans"

au

Song text writer (author): "Svennson Svenigsson"

by

LRC file creator: "MR. THINKER!"

Encoding

File encoding (character set): "iso-8859-15"

la

3-letter language code: "eng"

id

??: "vpbohasn"

length

Music length: "2:50" Source: https://github.com/weirongxu/lrc-kit

offset

Music-lyrics offset in milliseconds: "500" (negative values allowed)

re

Software that created the LRC file: "Jack! The Knife"

ti

Song title: "After All"

ve

Software version: 15 Supreme

LRC info

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)
• https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/LRC

Time data

Synchronized lyrics

• http://www.xiami.com
  • used by osdlyrics: https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics/blob/master/lyricsources/xiami/xiami.py
• viewlyrics
  • service by the minilyrics developer http://www.crintsoft.com/
  • API is at http://search.crintsoft.com/
  • used by minilyrics http://www.crintsoft.com/
  • used by osdlyrics: https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics/blob/master/lyricsources/viewlyrics/viewlyrics.py

Timeless

Without time stamps, so cannot be used for LRC files

• http://www.azlyrics.com
  • used by lyrico: https://github.com/abhimanyuPathania/lyrico/blob/master/lyrico/lyrico_sources/az_lyrics.py
• http://www.darklyrics.com/
  • Heavy Metal texts only
  • used by rhythmbox: https://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/tree/plugins/lyrics/DarkLyricsParser.py
• http://j-lyric.net
  • chinese interface
  • used by rhythmbox: https://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/tree/plugins/lyrics/JlyricParser.py
• https://www.letras.mus.br/
  • "terra"?
  • used by rhythmbox: https://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/tree/plugins/lyrics/TerraParser.py
• http://lyrics.jetmute.com/
  • formerly www.jetlyrics.com
  • used by rhythmbox: https://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/tree/plugins/lyrics/JetlyricsParser.py
• http://lyrics.wikia.com/
  • used by lyrico: https://github.com/abhimanyuPathania/lyrico/blob/master/lyrico/lyrico_sources/lyric_wikia.py
• https://www.musixmatch.com
  • used by lyrico: https://github.com/abhimanyuPathania/lyrico/blob/master/lyrico/lyrico_sources/musix_match.py

Editors

• karlyriceditor
  • http://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/karlyriceditor/

Libraries

• https://github.com/weirongxu/lrc-kit
  • javascript
  • can combine/compact files

Tools

• https://github.com/miracle2k/elrc-maker
  • javascript
  • create LRC files in the browser
  • demo: http://stage.elsdoerfer.com/elrcmaker/
• https://github.com/tonychee7000/py_lrc/blob/master/py_lrc
  • python
  • parses + prints out again, can be used as basis for own code