Embed Synced Lyrics Into SYLT Tag

[EliasGabr]

Feature Description

Hello, I would love to have an option for lyrics that is plain (no timestamps or info at the top or bottom)

Justification

The justification is that Apple Music in iPod mode doesn't support stamped lyrics, only old school ones. It would be nice as it would save a lot of time and effort removing these extra timestamps at the start and end of each line, which could be easily automated.

Additional Information

No response

[justin025]

Does the ipod work off embedded metadata or an lrc file?

[justin025]

I added the option to only download plain lyrics, you can find the exe at the bottom of the following page

https://github.com/ots-downloader/onthespot/actions/runs/12913932554

[EliasGabr]

@justin025 yes it works off the metadata. It looks like this

Don’t get me wrong, the lyrics system on your program is really good. But sadly apple only supports real stamped lyrics for subscriptions only and not on locally stored music. Because it caps the features of phones to iPods.

I remember I had to put the lyrics metadata not in the default tag but in another to let apple music let me see the lyrics.

Sadly we have to workaround the lack of stamped lyrics support by putting all of it at once.

I already put it in one song as a reference for how (i think) it should look.

[EliasGabr]

I added the option to only download plain lyrics, you can find the exe at the bottom of the following page

https://github.com/ots-downloader/onthespot/actions/runs/12913932554

@justin025
I just now saw this and I think it would be perfect if you also made the program embed the plain lyrics in the old lyrics tag in the metadata and put the synced lyrics in the already perfect original lyrics tag. So you would have both options in the same .mp3

[justin025]

According to the ID3 spec USLT is for unsynced lyrics and SYLT is for synced. Currently the app embeds both into USLT because I don't really know how to properly format SYLT lyrics, mutagen has thrown up errors at all my attempts, ffmpeg doesn't seem to support SYLT natively, and I have yet to find a music player that even supports SYLT.

I'm going to reopen this issue so that hopefully someone with more knowledge than me on how SYLT formatting can open a pull request.

[EliasGabr]

Hello, my recommendation is (when you don't know how to implement SYLT) to at least embed USLT correctly, so the more used lyrics tag standard is properly supported. Instead of now, where both are half backed implementations.

Here is a screenshot of how my USLT tag looks like:

[justin025]

Do you have any music players that support SYLT for testing and do you have any mp3s that have SYLT properly embedded so I can look at the format?

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