Lyrics

Rmpc supports displaying synchronized lyrics in the Lyrics pane. Other lyrics formats are not supported. The lyrics_dir must be configured for the resolution to work. All lrc files must be on the client side.

Lrc file resolution

Lrc files are resolved by rmpc via two methods(in order):

Same path as the song file, except with the .lrc file extension
By indexing all the .lrc files in the lyrics_dir

Lyrics index

Rmpc will create an index of all .lrc files in your lyrics_dir on startup. Lrc files can contain metadata about the song which they belong to. These metadata can include artist(ar), title(ti) and album(al) as well as length. Artist, title and album have to exactly(case insensitive) match in song’s and lrc’s metadata for the song to match. Album is not a strict requirement to match, if it is missing in either the lrc file or song metadata it will not be considered. If the lrc file contains length, it is matched to song’s length plus or minus 5 seconds.

Same path as the song file

Following examples assume that your MPD’s music directory is set to /home/user/Music.

If your lyrics_dir is set to the same path as MPD’s music directory /home/user/Music/artist/album/song.flac will try to resolve /home/user/Music/artist/album/song.lrc
If your lyrics_dir is set to a different path, ie. /home/user/.lyrics /home/user/Music/artist/album/song.flac will try to resolve /home/user/.lyrics/artist/album/song.lrc