How do i add lyrics to mp3 songs?

[GwenKillerby]

So yes, this is pretty much the question:
How do I add lyrics to mp3 songs, and then of course view them while I play the songs on my phone?? Can I use subsonic for that?

There are 2 problems or steps:
1. Adding lyrics to any mp3 file
2. Getting the lyrics to display or show on the phone, while playing the song.

My phone has no internet connection(hardware problem) so I thought I might add the lyrics using my pc, then transfer the songs to my phone and then play the song. I also have hundreds of lyrics already in text files etc.

I have a samsung galaxy mini, android 2.2+
I've looked around, but no luck so far.

So far, i've tried Astro Player, TuneWiki (that one almost worked but then crapped out), Mixzing, Poweramp and Player Pro. Nothing

Astro Player: I know how to show the lyrics, but i don't know how to add the lyrics to the mp3
Tunewiki worked just once, I installed it on my PC, then I opened a song, and started syncing and adding the lyrics but it refused to store the edited mp3-file. And now it doesn't even open any mp3-file any more.


Tusend takk! in advance.

[hakko]

You could download lyrics automatically using Beets from http://beets.radbox.org. You didn't mention your operating system, so I assume Windows. iTunes writes lyrics to tags for one (USLT tag, see section 4.8 from http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames). I guess Foobar does too but I don't use Windows on a regular basis so I don't know.

There's no built in support for reading lyrics from tags in the Subsonic app though. So you'd have to build your own modded version. Isn't there any music player for Android that would fit your situation better?

I just went through the lengthy process of automatically adding lyrics to some 30.000 files using Get Lyrical for Mac from http://shullian.com/get_lyrical.php. I then modded the Subsonic server to display embedded lyrics. It took a bit of work but obviously you could do the same thing for the Android App if you take the time and learn the craft.

[gurutech]

I used an app called Songbird, which worked pretty well for me. The only drawback was that I could only "search" for lyrics on about 1000 songs at a time, but that wasn't really a big deal.

[GwenKillerby]

You could download lyrics automatically using Beets from http://beets.radbox.org. You didn't mention your operating system, so I assume Windows. iTunes writes lyrics to tags for one (USLT tag, see section 4.8 from http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames). I guess Foobar does too but I don't use Windows on a regular basis so I don't know.

There's no built in support for reading lyrics from tags in the Subsonic app though. So you'd have to build your own modded version. Isn't there any music player for Android that would fit your situation better?

I just went through the lengthy process of automatically adding lyrics to some 30.000 files using Get Lyrical for Mac from http://shullian.com/get_lyrical.php. I then modded the Subsonic server to display embedded lyrics. It took a bit of work but obviously you could do the same thing for the Android App if you take the time and learn the craft.

Thanks for the reply

I have managed to view lyrics on my phone, with both Astroplayer and PowerAmp, they are so so,
ap displays nice big letters, but the management of everything else sucks, it's not such a user friendly player
With Poweramp, the letters are very small.

However, my biggest problem is to get lyrics from the Lyrics3v2 tag into the UNSYNCEDLYRICS field (used in the ID3v2 tags)

I have managed to use a macro editor to get them out of that tag into textfiles, but it's a bitch and you can't use the laptop while it's busy with it, so that sucks also