Overview: Lyrics
Lyrics can accompany music as untimed text or as content associated with positions on the playback timeline.
A lyric sheet and a synchronized lyric display contain related words but different timing information. LRC provides one representation for attaching that timing. The pages here separate the textual content from the cue relationship used to follow the song during playback.
Unsynchronized lyrics
Unsynchronized lyrics store readable song text without timestamps that align its lines or words to playback.Synchronized lyrics
Synchronized lyrics associate text with media-time positions so that a renderer can select the words or lines appropriate to playback.LRC files
LRC is a text-file convention that prefixes lyric text with playback timestamps, with parser-dependent extensions for metadata and finer timing.