Missing Lyrics for Specific Albums in Roon (ref#WSCJQH)

[Sestrian (Scooter)]

What’s happening?

· Other

How can we help?

· None of the above

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Describe the issue

I have a a fair few albums with lyrics missing. Should I see lyrics on every album? For example Jeff Tweedy’s album Terror Override has only one song lyric. Van Morrison’s last album has three songs where I can see the lyrics. What triggers ROON to get the lyrics?

Describe your network setup

Core located on Apple mini Mac. Feeding to a Linn Klimax DS. EE router, netgear switch. All wired not WiFi. Control from either the mini Mac, Apple pro book or iPad. iPad and pro book control via WiFi.

[benjamin]

Hey @Sestrian,

Thanks for taking the time to write in! And a very good question you have here. Roon doesn’t store lyrics locally (unless you add them yourself in file tags). Instead, it pulls them dynamically from online lyric databases through its metadata providers.

When Roon scans your library, it tries to match each track to a record in its metadata cloud. Once a confident match is found, Roon can then display:

• Artist bios
• Album reviews
• Credits
• And, if available, lyrics

Essentially, you’ll want a successful metadata match between your local track and Roon’s online metadata source that includes lyrics.

Let me know if this makes sense!

[Sestrian (Scooter)]

Thanks, I guessed that what is the cause. I’ll try to edit the albums to see if I can get the lyrics to show.

[noris]

Sounds good, @Sestrian , let us know how this goes!

[Sestrian (Scooter)]

On the Tweedy album changed from Qobuz to ROON’s made no joy. I should add that no lyrics show my own download, Qobuz and Tidal streams. Does this means there are no lyrics available so cannot be displayed.

[noris]

Hello @Sestrian ,

I’ve tried to look up the Jeff Tweedy album on my end and can confirm the same behavior, it looks like there are no avaliable lyrics for this album, unfortunately.

[Sestrian (Scooter)]

Thanks you.