MP3 Lyric Editor
I was starting to look into the MP3 lyric tag functionality. There are a few editors and players out there that let you embed the lyrics of your audio into MP3 files. You can also embed images to be played at specified timestamps.
Has anyone heard of this and is this popular at all? It appears that winamp does not support lyrics with its default installation. I had to download a plugin to get support for it.
I find that adding lyrics to audio files may be great for indexing and search engines. I’ve done a few tests with some past audio files that I recorded over the phone and was able to synchronize the lyrics to be highlighted at specified timestamps in the audio files.
Here are some tools that I found.
- Winamp Lyrics3 Plugin - both player and editor
- LyricFX - winamp lyric player (Lyrics3v1, Lyrics3v2 and ID3v2.x)
- Vivid Lyrics - winamp/windows media player/editor
- Helium Music Manager - really deluxe audio file editor.
April 14th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Hey, thanks for the links. I’ve heard of lyric tag editing but not about playing something specific at a timestamp.
Although I looked at something similar, adding subtitles or sub text to movies using timestamps to play at certain times.