Lyrics Settings
Controls lyric search, format, and write behavior.
Lyric Mode
Choose the preferred lyric format when searching:
- Line-Timed Lyrics: Traditional line-by-line LRC format.
- Word-Timed Lyrics: Lyrics with per-word timing.
- Enhanced Word-Timed Lyrics: Lyrics with per-word timing and additional metadata.
- TTML: TTML format (Timed Text Markup Language).
Translation and Romanization
- Romanization: When enabled, requests romanized lyrics during search (useful for Japanese songs).
- Translation: When enabled, requests translated lyrics during search.
- Download Translation Only: When enabled, only downloads the translated portion if the song already has original lyrics.
Lyric Line Order
Lyric Line Order decides the output order of original / romanization / translation in line-timed lyrics. The default is "Original / Romanization / Translation".
In the sheet, drag the enabled entries to reorder them; the change applies to lyrics written afterwards. Only enabled content appears in the sheet:
- With "Download Translation Only" enabled there is just the translation entry, so no reordering is needed.
- Romanization is absent unless romanization is enabled; translation is absent unless translation is enabled.
TTML information preservation
TTML output preserves supported performer references, paragraph timing, language tags, head metadata, word-timed romanization and multi-syllable Ruby annotations when present in the source. Ruby timing follows lyric offsets; missing boundaries are filled from neighboring syllables and word timing. Body duration does not change with the offset.
LRC cannot preserve TTML-only structures such as performers, paragraphs and Ruby. Word-timed LRC can retain romanization timestamps. Arbitrary XML structures are not guaranteed to survive parsing and rewriting; API5 plugins can return the supported extended fields.
Notes
Changing the lyric mode, romanization, or translation settings does not auto-refresh existing search results. Re-search to apply the new settings.
These settings also do not affect lyrics already saved in audio files.