# Override Roon-supplied lyrics with user-supplied lyrics regardless of type **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [February 21, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058 "2022-02-21T20:03:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WillK](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/willk/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@WillK](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/WillK)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058/1 "2022-02-21T20:03:22Z")
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](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roons-synchronized-lyrics-are-wrong-how-can-i-fix-them-without-undue-suffering/190009/7)), 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](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/1-7-lyrics-tag-guide/85182)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![MarkU](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/marku/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@MarkU](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MarkU)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058/2 "2022-07-02T00:06:24Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![anon47919701](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/anon47919701/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon47919701](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/anon47919701)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058/3 "2022-07-02T11:26:34Z")
> [@MarkU](#): > > Why isn’t there a way of just indicating that the piece cannot have lyrics? “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. ---
**Author:** ![SukieInTheGraveyard](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/sukieinthegraveyard/32/194788_2.png) [@SukieInTheGraveyard](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/SukieInTheGraveyard)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058/4 "2022-07-02T12:03:25Z")
> [@anon47919701](#): > > “Auto-hiding lyrics”, if it ever would be considered, should only be done for “cloud lyrics”. Perhaps it could be implemented on an album by album basis, using Album Metadata Preference Tab. ---
**Author:** ![Suedkiez](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/suedkiez/32/107321_2.png) [@Suedkiez](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Suedkiez)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058/5 "2023-06-18T13:29:33Z")
I support this but out of votes. I thought this _must_ be a bug! > [@B1280 Local static lyrics don't replace Roon's timecode lyrics in Now Playing (which are incorrect) \[Known poor behavior, not new in B1280\]](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/b1280-local-static-lyrics-dont-replace-roons-timecode-lyrics-in-now-playing-which-are-incorrect-known-poor-behavior-not-new-in-b1280/245473): > > I don’t know if this is a new thing in EA but I never noticed this before. Please move to #support if necessary. I have an album locally on ROCK: The tracks have Roon timecode lyrics, but for one of the tracks they are incorrect. (They are a duplicate of the lyrics from the next track #4, “One Evening”): These are the (incorrect) timecoded lyrics as shows in Now Playing: I added the correct lyrics to the file tag, which are not timecoded. These correct lyrics fr…