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I have a song file which have lyrics tag inbuilt.
I can view the lyrics in windows media player while listening the song but i cannot view in kodi.
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I have the same problem with CU LRC Lyrics.
I have a map on a network with albums, even when i rename the lyrics exactly like the file CU Lyrics refuses to use them.
Why is it not working, it looks like this:
04 - 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2).flac
04 - 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2).lrc
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JBA6
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Mondriaan,
Your filenames look 100% correct to me so perhaps there's a problem with the format of you LRC files.
I have LRC files for plenty of albums and they all work perfectly with CU LRC Lyrics.
If you could reply with say the first 20 lines from one your non-working LRC files perhaps I'll be able to see why they don't work.
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I think I was unduly harsh with regard to the ease of configuring CU LRC Lyrics because if you include all the steps I do to get Kodi to display lyrics during music playback then it's definately not a simple process. So for the sake of completeness here's how I set Kodi up for this job.
In Estuary, Kodi’s current default skin, go to Settings, Media, Music, and enable Switch To Visualisation On Playback. Estuary will then switch to the full-screen display when music is played.
I personally don’t like Estuary so I then install the Confluence skin which used to be the default Kodi skin.
In Confluence I then install the CU LRC Lyrics add-on. The only CU LRC Lyrics configuration I require is as per my previous post to set it to Search for and save LRC lyrics and TXT lyrics in the song folder.
Secondly in Confluence I go to Settings, Interface, Configure Skin, Add-on Shortcuts, Music OSD and set the Lyrics Add-on to be CU LRC Lyrics.
If you have correctly named lyric files stored alongside your music tracks then Confluence will display them whenever music tracks are played.
However this is still not quite good enough for me because Confluence doesn’t display CD Discart ie. a rotating image of the actual CD (assuming you have one) during music playback and on all my systems the lyrics page number display in Confluence is corrupt. To solve these problems and give my a really excellent user interface and full screen music playback display I then install the Metropolis skin.
Metropolis I then configure as follows.
In Settings, Metropolis, General, enable Video/Album Art Overlay.
In Settings, Metropolis, General, enable Auto scrolling for text….
In Settings, Metropolis, Scripts/Extras, set the Default Lyrics Script to CU LRC Lyrics.
In Settings, Metropolis, Music Settings, enable Visualization, Show Player Position and Time in Info Overlay.
In Settings, Media, Music, General, make sure it’s set to Switch to Visualization on Playback.
Also in Settings, Media, Music, General, I set the Track Naming Template to
[%N, ]%T
When configured as above you will have a really great full-screen music playback display which will include the album artwork, a rotating image of the actual CD plus of course the synchronised song lyrics. All assuming you have LRC lyric files with timing tags, the album artwork and an image of the actual CD saved alongside the music tracks. The album artwork should be named Folder.JPG. The CD image (I do these myself) should be named Discart.png and be precisely 1000 pixels square.
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JB