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<blockquote data-quote="m.standish" data-source="post: 270779" data-attributes="member: 22329">Having LOVING the lycics plugin and wanting to tag ALL my artist/albums (approx 12500) tracksIve ben searcing in vain to batch tag all of the with .lrc files and have come up with the following soloutionYou will need:WMP 10/11MinilyricsJournal Macro (free trial, enough to do what you need tho)* Install Minilyrics &amp; Journal Macro* Index ALL the files you wish to tag in Media Player* List them by songs in library by artist view (so you can see ALL the songs in order *may help later to track progress)* &nbsp; &nbsp; (select all the songs, in the bottom corner it will say how many track, make a note!)* run minilyrics*play one of the songs from WMP, you should see it starts downloading the lyrics, GOOD*in minilyrics &gt; preference &gt; lyric download&nbsp; &nbsp; auto download lyric ON&nbsp; show lyrics download dialog OFF&nbsp; do not download text lyric automatically OFF&nbsp; &nbsp; save downloaded lyrics in:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; save lyrics in C:LYRICS&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; save lyrics into MP3 as ID3v2 SYNCRONISED&nbsp; &nbsp; rename:&nbsp;&nbsp; KEEP THE FILE NAME* to test settings play A DIFFERENT track in wmp, check c:lyrics, there should be the&nbsp;&nbsp; TrackYouPlayed.lrc (or poss *.txt, if so, play some more well known till you see the.lrcWhen these appear delete all the files in c:lyrics (just to clean them up before major d/l)*make sure WMP is open in fullscreen and the minilyrics window is showing*play the 1st file in the list (can you see lyrics? Yes?, Carry on........)*run journal macro, record a macro to press next track once every 2-3 seconds (give it chance to DL the lyric, you will have to play with this depending on the speed of your connection &amp; PC. mine is set at 2.5 seconds per click and a 1000mhz pc with 8mb connection. IT IS IMPORTANT to get this correct alse you will miss lyrics. too slow is better than too fast)* when you have it running as wanted, repeat the macro the same amount of tracks you haveEach time it finds a lyric, it will d/l a .lrc/.txt file for use importing into MyLyrics AND also save it into the mp3 as a syncronised lyricThis is THE ONLY batch processing way i have found and is taking me approx 8 hours to process 12500 tracks but i thought i would share my experience`</blockquote>

[QUOTE="m.standish, post: 270779, member: 22329"] Having LOVING the lycics plugin and wanting to tag ALL my artist/albums (approx 12500) tracks Ive ben searcing in vain to batch tag all of the with .lrc files and have come up with the following soloution You will need: WMP 10/11 Minilyrics Journal Macro (free trial, enough to do what you need tho) * Install Minilyrics & Journal Macro * Index ALL the files you wish to tag in Media Player * List them by songs in library by artist view (so you can see ALL the songs in order *may help later to track progress)* (select all the songs, in the bottom corner it will say how many track, make a note!) * run minilyrics *play one of the songs from WMP, you should see it starts downloading the lyrics, GOOD *in minilyrics > preference > lyric download auto download lyric ON show lyrics download dialog OFF do not download text lyric automatically OFF save downloaded lyrics in: save lyrics in C:LYRICS save lyrics into MP3 as ID3v2 SYNCRONISED rename: KEEP THE FILE NAME * to test settings play A DIFFERENT track in wmp, check c:lyrics, there should be the TrackYouPlayed.lrc (or poss *.txt, if so, play some more well known till you see the.lrc When these appear delete all the files in c:lyrics (just to clean them up before major d/l) *make sure WMP is open in fullscreen and the minilyrics window is showing *play the 1st file in the list (can you see lyrics? Yes?, Carry on........) *run journal macro, record a macro to press next track once every 2-3 seconds (give it chance to DL the lyric, you will have to play with this depending on the speed of your connection & PC. mine is set at 2.5 seconds per click and a 1000mhz pc with 8mb connection. IT IS IMPORTANT to get this correct alse you will miss lyrics. too slow is better than too fast) * when you have it running as wanted, repeat the macro the same amount of tracks you have Each time it finds a lyric, it will d/l a .lrc/.txt file for use importing into MyLyrics AND also save it into the mp3 as a syncronised lyric This is THE ONLY batch processing way i have found and is taking me approx 8 hours to process 12500 tracks but i thought i would share my experience ` [/QUOTE]

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