What if the file has both plain and synced lyrics?

You get both, in separate panels. That matters because they're independent frames — a file can have a full SYLT and a stale, half-finished USLT, and picking one for you would hide that.

Does this modify my file?

No. This endpoint only reads. Your upload is parsed and deleted; the copy on your machine is never opened for writing.

Does it handle ID3v1?

ID3v1 is a fixed 128-byte block at the end of the file with fields for title, artist, album, year, comment and genre — there is no lyrics field in it at all. We read ID3v2, which is where lyrics actually live.

Why does my LRC come back without [ti:] and [ar:] tags?

Because SYLT doesn't store them. A SYLT frame is a list of (text, timestamp) pairs, so we rebuild the timed lines exactly and nothing else. The title and artist are in separate ID3 frames — the MP3 Tag Editor will show you those.

The timings look slightly different from the LRC I embedded. Why?

SYLT stores each sync point in whole milliseconds; LRC's format is hundredths of a second, so the rebuilt file truncates to two decimal places. A line at 00:08.129 comes back as [00:08.12] — under 10 ms early, inaudible, but it means an embed-then-extract round trip isn't always byte-identical.

Is there a size or rate limit?

100 MB per file, and 30 uploads a minute from one IP address.

Extract embedded lyrics from MP3

Read the lyrics baked into your MP3

Pull lyrics back out of an MP3's ID3 tag. Plain USLT text and synced SYLT timings are both read, and when a file has both you get both — the plain lyrics as .txt and the timings rebuilt as a downloadable .lrc.

Input

Tagged MP3

USLT or SYLT frames

Output

.lrc and/or .txt

Whatever the tag holds

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Extract lyrics

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Extract lyrics

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See it in action

Pull lyrics straight out of the tag

MP3 with embedded SYLT

What you provide

🎵 yesterday.mp3

ID3v2 frames found:
  USLT   plain text, 18 lines
  SYLT   18 sync points

Recovered LRC

What you receive

[00:08.12]Yesterday
[00:11.45]All my troubles seemed so far away
[00:15.78]Now it looks as though they're here to stay
[00:20.12]Oh, I believe in yesterday

18 timed lines · download as .lrc
Plain USLT text shown alongside, as .txt

Step-by-step guide

How to use this tool

01
Upload your MP3
Any MP3 with an ID3v2 tag. Nothing is written back — this reads the file and returns what it finds.
02
We read both lyric frames
USLT gives the plain text. SYLT gives a list of sync points, which we turn back into standard [mm:ss.xx] LRC lines.
03
Copy or download
Each result gets its own panel with a copy button and a download — .txt for the plain lyrics, .lrc for the synced ones.

Key features

Why use this tool

Both frames, side by side

A file can carry USLT and SYLT at once and they can disagree. We show each one separately instead of picking a winner for you.

Encoding-aware

ID3 text can be Latin-1, UTF-8 or UTF-16, and the frame declares which. We decode by that declaration, so Cyrillic and CJK lyrics come back readable rather than as mojibake.

Read-only

Nothing is written, nothing is re-encoded. Your file is parsed and then deleted from our server.

Common use cases

Who this tool is for

Library audit

Check which tracks already carry lyrics and which still need work, before running anything expensive on them.

Migration

Move embedded lyrics out into sidecar .lrc files for a player or a karaoke app that wants them on disk.

Lyric repair

Pull out lyrics with bad line breaks or a wrong verse, fix them in an editor, and embed them again cleanly.

Questions answered

Frequently asked questions

You get a clear 'No lyrics stored in this file's tags' result rather than an error or a blank box, plus a link to the AI generator if you want to create them from the audio instead.