Create LRC files

Tutorial about how to create your own LRC lyric files

To create your LRC files, just follow these steps:

1. Pick up a song to which create your super LRC lyric file.
2. Using a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit, open a new text file.
3. Add the song title: Put it between square brackets [Like this] and add the letters “ti:” before it. A song entitled “Song” would have the first line: [ti:Song] You can use spaces between words; for example, a song entitled “A Song” could look like: [ti:A Song]
4. Add the artist name: Put it [Like this too], and add the letters “ar:” before it. An artist named “John Lennon” would have a tag look like:[ar:John Lennon].
5. Add album’s name: It should have the letters before it “al:” and so an album named “Album” would look like: [al:Album]
6. Add any other important information: This includes the name of the file’s creator(you) as [by:Your name here] and the composer’s name as [au:Author] . (There are some old players that wont read this extra information, though.)
7. Add the lyrics and timestamp: Timestamps will let the MP3 player know where to stamp the lyric line. It will show minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second, followed by the lyric line. It will look something like: [01:26.03]Some lyric line (01indicates the minute in which the lyric is displayed, 26 indicates the number of seconds and 03 the number of hundredths of a second, you can leave this last number blank if your are not interested in being that precise). Try to play the song while you are doing this job, to keep track of what you’re doing, and pause it as the lyric lines come on to get the time-data.
8. Save as an *.LRC file: Click on your text editor “File” and select “Save As“. Name the file after the title of your song, (you may need to include the track number) select “All Files” from the drop-down menu just under that and change the default “.txt” to “.lrc” It’s very important that the name of the LRC files is the exact same as the music file it corresponds to, but with the extension “.lrc“.
9. Load those two files onto your lyric compatible mp3 player.
10. You’re done! Cheers!

At the end, the file will look something like this:

[ti:Let's Twist Again]
[ar:Chubby Checker oppure Beatles, The]
[au:Written by Kal Mann / Dave Appell, 1961]
[al:Hits Of The 60's - Vol. 2 – Oldies]
[00:12.00]Line 1 lyrics
[00:17.20]F: Line 2 lyrics
[00:21.10]M: Line 3 lyrics
[00:24.00]Line 4 lyrics
[00:28.25]D: Line 5 lyrics
[00:29.02]Line 6 lyrics
…etc.

Quick tip: The M: and F: will show (in some MP3 players) the female voices and the male chorus!