Synchronized lyrics not displaying

[sn0skier]

When I try to display lyrics using a gesture and the lyrics are synchronized lyrics the player is displaying the Synchronized Lyrics Description but no Synchronized Lyrics Text.

It is not necessary that it actually synchronizes the lyrics, but I believe it should at least display the text.

This is in reference to id3v2.2 tag ID "SLT" and/or id3v2.3/id3v2.4 tag ID "SYLT" I'm not really sure which one my songs are using.

Lyrics display perfectly fine in mediamonkey on my PC.

[GoneMAD]

email me a song with the lyrics in the tags. [e-mail] gmmp doesnt display lyrics as synchronized, but it can read the tag and should parse it out to display the whole thing assuming it follows the LRC standards en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)

[GoneMAD]

i responded via email but to summarize my findings. The files had 3 lyrics tags, 2 being unsync and sync lyrics in the id3v2 tag which gmmp supports and reads correctly whats contained in the tag. The tags themselves were not written correctly and basically terminates the text after the initial summary data.. the data also in the synchronized lyrics tag was not synchronized at all. The file also contained a lyrics3v2 tag which did contain the correct synchronized lyrics and i believe this is what the other players were picking up and displaying. GMMP does not support this tag however

[sn0skier]

So it definitely was faulty encoding in my files, done specifically by a program called minilyrics. The only way I've found to fix this is using a program called kid3. If you load your music directory, right click and select expand all, and then select all your files you can select the synchronized lyrics field and click remove to delete this field from all the selected files.

A warning though, if you have a very large library don't plan on selecting all your files at once. Plan on doing 5,000 files at a time and you have to close the program between batches as your previously selected files are saved in memory. How many you can do at a time might depend on how much memory you have, I don't know.

Maybe this thread should be moved to the troubleshooting section.

[GoneMAD]

you could also probably look into a music player like musicbee or foobar. I believe both of those have plugins to embed lyrics

[sn0skier]

May 30, 2019 10:18:07 GMT -5 GoneMAD said:

you could also probably look into a music player like musicbee or foobar. I believe both of those have plugins to embed lyrics

Apparently musicbee can do batch delete of unsynchronized lyrics, though I can't find anything specifically that says it can do it for synchronized lyrics, though you could totally be right that it is capable of it. I can't find any information after a quick search for how to batch delete lyrics of any sort for foobar, though again, I'm not very familiar with the program.

Personally, I use MediaMonkey to organize my music and it does not support synchronized lyrics. Another popular and usually rather extensive tool for editing tags called mp3tag is also incapable of editing or deleting synchronized lyrics, so all I can say is that synchronized lyrics lack support from a lot of programs that would otherwise be useful for batch deleting a specific mp3 tag frame from all your files.