How can I batch-extract ID3 lyrics metadata from MP3 files?

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I have a bunch of MP3 files (a few hundred) that have embedded lyrics. These lyrics show up when the files are played on an iPod touch, or in Windows Media Player with captions turned on.

What I'd like to do is somehow batch-export the lyrics data from these MP3 files into plain text files. I know I can open the tag editor in Windows Media Player and manually copy-and-paste the data into notepad, but doing that hundreds of times would be very tedious. Any idea how this could be easily done in batch?

Joshua Carmody

Posted 2009-09-15T19:26:11.947

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MP3Tag is one of the best MP3 tag editors available for Windows currently. Since lyrics are stored in the file's ID3 tags, you can use this software to export out the data to a text file.

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caliban

Posted 2009-09-15T19:26:11.947

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The tag to export is "UNSYNCEDLYRICS" and is referenced here: http://help.mp3tag.de/main_tags.html Sample export templates are archived here: https://forums.mp3tag.de/?showtopic=1563

– user326177 – 2016-04-18T15:57:42.973

That looks promising! Does that software allow batch-processing of a bunch of files at once? – Joshua Carmody – 2009-09-15T20:06:31.103

Yeps. :) it even auto pulls ID3 data from external servers if you wanna. – caliban – 2009-09-15T20:12:29.437

I successfully used this to get the data I needed. Thanks a bunch. – Joshua Carmody – 2009-09-18T14:58:09.680

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