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Lyrics

Soulsolid can find lyrics for your tracks and save them into the audio files, so any player that reads embedded lyrics can show them. You can fetch lyrics for one track from the tag editor, or run a lyrics analysis over your whole library. Because lyrics you’ve curated by hand are easy to lose, Soulsolid never overwrites existing lyrics without asking: anything unclear goes to a review queue.

Lyrics come from lyrics providers. Currently LRCLIB is supported, which offers both plain and synced (time-stamped) lyrics. See Lyrics configuration for provider settings.

What you can do

  • Fetch lyrics for a single track in the tag editor.
  • Analyze the whole library and add lyrics to every track that’s missing them.
  • Review tracks where the new lyrics differ from the existing ones, or where no lyrics were found.
  • Mark tracks as instrumental so they’re skipped from now on.

Lyrics for one track

In the tag editor, the Lyrics buttons fetch lyrics from each enabled provider and put them in the lyrics field. Review them and click Save Changes to write them to the file.

Lyrics analysis

Go to Analyze → Lyrics, choose a provider and click Start Lyrics Analysis. It runs in the background as a job that goes through every track in your library. You can follow its progress and cancel it from the Jobs section.

Two options control what happens to tracks that already have lyrics (you can pick one or neither):

OptionBehavior
Skip tracks that already have lyrics (on by default)Tracks with lyrics are left alone; only tracks without lyrics are looked up.
Override without queuingNew lyrics replace existing ones straight away, without asking.
NeitherWhen the new lyrics differ from the existing ones, the track goes to the review queue so you can decide.

For every track:

  • Instrumental tracks are skipped.
  • If the track has no lyrics, the ones found are saved directly.
  • If the new lyrics are identical to the existing ones, nothing changes.
  • If no lyrics are found, or the provider fails, the track goes to the review queue.

A track that fails never stops the analysis. When it finishes, the job reports how many tracks were updated, skipped, queued or failed. In the job log, each failed track has a link to open it in the tag editor and fix it by hand.

The lyrics queue

The lyrics queue, under Analyze → Lyrics, holds the tracks that need your decision:

ReasonWhat happenedWhat you can do
Existing lyricsNew lyrics were found that differ from the ones already on the track. Compare the old and new versions.Override with the new lyrics, or Edit Manually
Not foundThe provider has no lyrics for this track.No Lyrics (mark as instrumental), or Edit Manually
FailedThe provider returned an error.Skip, No Lyrics, or Edit Manually

Edit Manually opens the track in the tag editor, where you can paste or fetch lyrics yourself.

As with the import queue, you can group items by artist or by album and act on a whole group at once, or clear the queue.

The lyrics queue is kept in memory, so it’s emptied when Soulsolid restarts. Run the analysis again to rebuild it.

Where lyrics are saved

Lyrics are written to the audio file’s tags and to the library, so you can search inside lyrics and see them in the track overview.

Configuration

lyrics:
  providers:
    lrclib:
      enabled: true
      prefer_synced: false  # prefer time-stamped lyrics when available

See Lyrics configuration for details.

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