Karaoke Lyrics Editor is a program which lets you edit and synchronize lyrics with karaoke songs in varions formats. Currently supported formats include LRC, LRCv2 (supported by XBMC) and Ultrastar (without pitch). Export into the CD+G format is supported, as well as export into video. Unlike just regular lyrics available everywhere, lyrics suitable for karaoke players need to have timing marks which tell the player when to show a specific line, and when and how highlight the words.
Unlike most lyrics editors for Linux, it is self-sufficient, and does not depend on KDE or some external players. Karaoke Lyrics Editor is available for Linux and Windows, and uses the Qt toolkit, SDL and FFMpeg libraries.
Karaoke Lyrics Editor is free software released under GNU General Public License version 3.
The latest version is 1.3 which has the following changes:
- Audio player switched to FFMpeg/SDL instead of incredibly buggy and unreliable Phonon. No more “cannot play this file” error on Win32.
- Added improved export in CD+G format with a preview dialog and easily configurable options.
- Improved the CD+G tester which allows playing any CD+G file, not only the one generated internally. Therefore it is now possible to do several exports, test them all and see which one would suit you the best.
- Added support for the video and image backgrounds (Edit/Insert picture and Edit/Insert video). Any lyrics can use multiple backgrounds, which will be switched at specified times. Note that all existing lyrics formats are based on text and do not support backgrounds (it will be ignored when exporting to, for example, LRC format). Therefore it is only relevant for CD+G and video export.
- Added support for video export. You can now export your Karaoke song together with music, lyrics and the background into a video file!
- Numerous improvements and bugfixes.