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How To Make A LRC Lyrics File PDF

This document provides instructions for creating LRC files, which display lyrics synchronized to songs. It explains how to open a text editor, add metadata like the song title and artist, insert the lyrics with timestamps noting when each line is sung, save the file with a .lrc extension in the same folder as the song, and adjust the timestamps if needed.

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How To Make A LRC Lyrics File PDF

This document provides instructions for creating LRC files, which display lyrics synchronized to songs. It explains how to open a text editor, add metadata like the song title and artist, insert the lyrics with timestamps noting when each line is sung, save the file with a .lrc extension in the same folder as the song, and adjust the timestamps if needed.

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How to Make a LRC (Lyrics) File

LRC files are files that, with the appropriate software or hardware, can display the lyrics to a certain
song as it's played. Although there is a variety of web sites offering free downloads of *.LRC files,
sometimes you have to make them yourself. This article will show you how using any basic text
editor.

Steps
1. Open a text editor. Any basic text editor, such as gedit or Kate on Linux, Notepad for Windows or
TextEdit for Mac OS X will work. LRC files are essentially text files with specific codes inserted.
2. Enter the artists and song information. At the top of your LRC file, you should include the song
name, artists, and album. You will need to use special codes to enter these so that the player can
recognize them.
* Add the song title. Put it between square brackets and add ti: before it. A song called This
is a Song would be formatted as [ti:This is a Song]. The song title should be the first line of your
LRC file.
* Add the name of the artist. This is formatted the same way as the Song Title, except with
the code ar: before it. An artist named Artist would be formatted as [ar:Artist]
* Add the name of the album. Like the Artists and Song Title entry, this should be placed in
brackets. The album code is al: before the album name. An album called Album would be
formatted as [al:Album]
* Add any additional information. You can add your name to the LRC file by using the code
[by:Your Name], and you can add the songs composer by using the tag [au:Author]. Not all players
can read this extra information.
3. Add the lyrics. You can either type in the lyrics yourself, or copy the text from a lyrics website.
Enter all the lyrics into the file, with each line of lyrics on a new line in the text document.
4. Open the song in a media player. You will need to find the time that each lyric is sung or spoken,
so you will need to open the song in a player that you can start and stop as you please. Your media
player should also allow you to see the playback time in hundredths of seconds.
5. Start adding timestamps. Play the song, and pause it each time a line of lyrics starts. Make note of
the time in the player, and place your cursor at the front of the appropriate line in the LRC file.
Enter the time in square brackets. The format for time is broken into three sections: minute, second,
and hundredths of a second. For a lyric that starts at 1 minute, 32 seconds, and 45 hundredths of a
second, the tag would look like [01:32:45] OR [01:32.45].
Most players will only be able to display up to 95 characters per time stamp. If you have a long line
of lyrics, you may need to separate it with another time stamp. If you want each word to appear
when it is sung, you will need to create a separate time-stamp for each word in the song.

Hundredths of a second can be omitted, resulting in a tag that looks like [01:32].
Sometimes lyrics repeat themselves throughout the song, especially choruses. You can add a
different time tag right next to the original one so that you don't have to type it twice. For example:
[01:26.03][01:56.24] Chorus lyrics.
6. Save the file as an LRC file. Once you have your timestamps all completed, you can save the file
as an LRC file and test it out. Click File and select Save As.
The file name must be the exact same as the filename of the song.
Change the extension to .lrc. To do this, click the Save as type dropdown menu and select All
Files. Change the extension of the file from .txt to .lrc.
7. Place the LRC file in the same location as the music file. In order for the player to load the file, it
must be located in the same directory as the music file. This is true for both MP3 players and media
players on your computer.
8. Adjust your file. Once you have tested your file, make any adjustments necessary to the timing so
that the lyrics appear at exactly the right time.

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