Enhanced LRC to standard LRC

Enhanced LRC adds a timestamp to every word so lyrics can highlight one word at a time, karaoke style. Some players only understand plain line-timed LRC. Drop your file below to strip the inline word stamps and keep clean line timing. Nothing is uploaded, and it only ever touches the file you give it.

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What enhanced LRC is, and why you might downgrade

Standard LRC times each line: [00:12.00]a whole line of lyrics. Enhanced LRC (sometimes called A2 or word-level) adds inline stamps inside the line: [00:12.00]<00:12.00>a <00:12.30>whole <00:12.60>line, so a player can light up each word as it's sung. It's great for karaoke, but plenty of players and phone apps only read the plain line form and either ignore the word stamps or choke on them.

This tool removes the inline word timestamps and keeps the line's start time and text, plus any ID tags like title and artist. Downgrading is one-way: once the per-word timing is gone it can't be recovered, so keep your original if you might need it. If you drop in a file that's already standard LRC, it comes back unchanged. Everything runs on the file you choose, with nothing fetched from anywhere.

FAQ

What is enhanced (word-level) LRC?

It is LRC with an extra timestamp on each word, written inline like <00:12.30>, so a karaoke player can highlight words one at a time. Standard LRC only times the start of each whole line.

Can I go the other way, from standard to enhanced?

Not automatically. Word-level timing is information that plain LRC simply does not contain, so there is nothing to expand from. Adding per-word timing means timing each word by hand, which the Lyric Timer is built for.

Does it keep my title and artist tags?

Yes. ID tags like [ti:], [ar:], [al:], and [by:] are preserved. Only the inline word timestamps are removed; the line timing and text stay intact.