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.
• Translated lyrics only: Requires Translation to be enabled. Uses translated text where available and keeps the original text for lines without a translation.

Lyric Line Order

When several lyric parts share a timestamp, line-based lyrics write them in the order set here. Open Settings → Lyrics → Lyric Line Order. The lyrics settings panel on search screens shows the same list and changes the same setting.

Long-press Original, Romanization, or Translation in the list and drag to reorder. The default is Original → Romanization → Translation. Only LRC-style formats (line-timed, word-timed, and enhanced word-timed) follow this order; TTML keeps its own structure.

The list shows only the parts you have enabled. Turn off Romanization and it disappears from the list; turn it back on and its earlier position stays. With Translated lyrics only on, only Translation is listed.

Lyric Line Order is a global setting and does not rewrite existing lyrics. To reorder or remove the lines that share a timestamp in an existing file, use Lyrics Options → Organize lyrics → Sort by lyric line, which rewrites the text. See Organize lyrics.

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.

Lyric mode, romanization, and translation settings also do not affect lyrics already saved in audio files.