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Lyrics

What it is for

Section titled “What it is for”

Follow the words of a song as it plays, and jump to any line.

The player on a track: the cover on the left, the lyrics on the right with the line being sung in white and the others dimmed, and the playback bar at the bottom

How to use it

Section titled “How to use it”
  1. Play a track that has lyrics. They appear beside the cover by themselves.
  2. When the lyrics are timed, the line being sung is lit and the column scrolls to keep it in view.
  3. Click a line to play the song from there.
  4. Scroll with the mouse wheel to read ahead; after a few seconds the column follows the song again.
  5. To hide the lyrics, click the microphone button on the playback bar. Click it again to bring them back; Kaveo remembers your choice until you close it.

Good to know

Section titled “Good to know”
  • Kaveo reads a lyrics file with the same name as the track, beside it: an LRC file, an enhanced LRC file, or a plain text file. It also reads the lyrics stored inside the track itself.
  • When a track has both timed and plain lyrics, the timed ones are shown.
  • A track without lyrics has no microphone button.
  • Music on a Jellyfin server shows the lyrics the server found for it. The server ignores an offset line, so lyrics that rely on one run late there.
  • If the lyrics run early or late, the timing is in the lyrics file: an offset line in it moves them all.
  • A track without lyrics gets LRCLIB’s, unless Lyrics online is turned off in Settings › Metadata.