Override Roon-supplied lyrics with user-supplied lyrics regardless of type

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1

There are any number of reasons a user might want to override Roon-supplied lyrics. Sometimes Roon’s lyrics are just wrong (e.g. Roon's synchronized lyrics are wrong. How can I fix them (without undue suffering)? - #7 by BlackJack), sometimes Roon supplies only foreign language lyrics without translations, sometimes Roon supplies translated lyrics that are superfluous (e.g for Kraftwerk), etc.

As it stands Roon will only override Roon-supplied with user-supplied lyrics when they are of the same type: synchronized with synchronized and unsynched with unsynched. In particular, trying to override Roon-supplied synchronized lyrics with user-supplied unsynched lyrics does not work.

As anyone who’s ever tried to generate synchronized lyrics can tell you, it’s a pain. Even @Rugby, in his unofficial guide to using the lyrics tag in Roon (1.7 Lyrics Tag Guide) confesses that he tried 3 times to get his example completely right, ran out of patience, and gave up.

Please change Roon so that it overrides any Roon-supplied lyrics with user-supplied lyrics whenever the latter are available and regardless of whether the the user-supplied lyrics are synchronized or unsynchronized.

2

This problem is worse than what you describe. The Roon supplied lyrics can be more than just wrong. The lyrics can be someone’s bad idea of a joke. For example, someone added insipid rock lyrics to a Bartok orchestral piece that should not have any lyrics (Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste, Sz. 106, BB 114 - Andante Tranquillo, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Why isn’t there a way of just indicating that the piece cannot have lyrics?

3

“Auto-hiding lyrics”, if it ever would be considered, should only be done for “cloud lyrics”.

For local, file embedded lyrics, it shouldn’t happen.

4

Perhaps it could be implemented on an album by album basis, using Album Metadata Preference Tab.

5

I support this but out of votes. I thought this must be a bug!