Export lyrics from iTunes to Plex?

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I’m on a Mac.

I have lots of lyrics in my music files, added through iTunes. Since Plex cannot read the lyrics from the embedded ID3 tags, I would like to follow Plex’s recommendations for lyrics, i.e. add plain text sidecar files as noted here: Adding Local Lyrics

The closest thing I’ve found so far is a script on Dougscripts: Lyrics to TextEdit

but this script is quite old (2015), it only copies the lyrics to the clipboard rather than make the .txt files, and the script is locked so I cannot edit it.

Before I attempt to learn how to (possibly) create a script to do this myself, I thought I would ask if anyone else has already figured out a solution. I searched the forum and didn’t find anything obviously relevant.

Ideally it would be an AppleScript I can run from inside iTunes on a selection of albums that would find each song with lyrics and create a text file with the lyrics inside next to each song file.

I’m also open to running something in the terminal instead, or maybe a script I could add to the spiffy preference pane Hazel to process each file automatically in the background.

Anyone out there got any ideas?

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This will do:


But be aware. Plex doesn’t even pick up the txt files. This is ■■■■ and i left it being until Plex Inc. fixes this or finally gives us ID3 support.

greetings Mike

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Thanks @michael383! That will work for most of my collection, and I can manually copy any specific lyrics I corrected to text.

I didn’t know Plex had a problem picking up the text files, though. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.

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Hi. Nice it works for you. I had a problem before, but be assured Plex DOES actually pick up txt files for Songtexts. So happy plexing and dont forget to set “local metadata” in the agent settings.

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Ah yes, it’s working with Plex Media Scanner and Local Media Assets up top. Thanks again. :slight_smile:

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