Lyrics Finder
Fills in missing lyrics tags across a music library
Description
Years of accumulated local music, and the lyrics pane in your player is permanently empty — not because the lyrics do not exist, but because they were never written into the files. Doing it by hand means searching, copying and pasting into a tag editor, one track at a time, which does not scale past a handful. Lyrics Finder turns it into a batch job: drop in a music folder and it searches by artist and title, then writes what it finds into each file's lyrics tag, after which any player or device that reads that tag will show them.
It writes the embedded lyrics field rather than separate .lrc files, so copying a track to a phone or importing it into another player carries the lyrics along. The left pane lists the tracks with a status dot each, green where lyrics were found; the right pane shows the text, editable in place, swappable for a different search result, or replaceable with something you paste in yourself.
From MediaHuman, free, with Windows, macOS and Ubuntu builds.
Batch processing: drop in a whole folder and it works through the tracks one by one, which is what makes a library of several hundred practical.
Writes the lyrics tag: lyrics go into the audio file's own tag field rather than a sidecar .lrc, so they travel with the file to other devices.
Matches on artist and title: lookups use the existing tags, so the more complete the metadata the better the hit rate — files with messy names are worth tagging first.
Clear status: each track carries a status indicator in the list, making found and not-found obvious without opening every entry.
Edit and replace: found lyrics can be edited directly, swapped for a different search result, or replaced with text you paste in, so formatting and errors are easy to fix.
Common formats: the usual audio containers including MP3, M4A and WMA are supported for reading and writing lyrics tags.
Free and cross-platform: builds for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, free to use.
It writes the embedded lyrics field rather than separate .lrc files, so copying a track to a phone or importing it into another player carries the lyrics along. The left pane lists the tracks with a status dot each, green where lyrics were found; the right pane shows the text, editable in place, swappable for a different search result, or replaceable with something you paste in yourself.
From MediaHuman, free, with Windows, macOS and Ubuntu builds.
Features
Batch processing: drop in a whole folder and it works through the tracks one by one, which is what makes a library of several hundred practical.
Writes the lyrics tag: lyrics go into the audio file's own tag field rather than a sidecar .lrc, so they travel with the file to other devices.
Matches on artist and title: lookups use the existing tags, so the more complete the metadata the better the hit rate — files with messy names are worth tagging first.
Clear status: each track carries a status indicator in the list, making found and not-found obvious without opening every entry.
Edit and replace: found lyrics can be edited directly, swapped for a different search result, or replaced with text you paste in, so formatting and errors are easy to fix.
Common formats: the usual audio containers including MP3, M4A and WMA are supported for reading and writing lyrics tags.
Free and cross-platform: builds for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, free to use.
