Voyl

Probably the easiest way to around this is to just rescrape them with something that provides them... I'll try tonight. Thanks P.S. Now I have an earworm thanks to you..

Do you have an example of such proper file perhaps [the header part mostly]? Imma experiment.

Are these headers necessary?, none of my lyrics files have them and they seem to work when they're together locally. I've tried to do as you're advising, just to have folder with lyrics [on the phone] but Poweramp doesn't seem to pick them up. This would be a solution I could live with since I could just sync them with syncthing between devices.

I did this already, in the fourth post.

I'm not using DLNA in this cale though, the underlying protocol is sftp, which is of no consequence too because the document provider [RSAF in this case] abstracts this and when browsing the files I can see all of them, .lrc included [similarly Poweramp can too].

Embedding it is then. I have a local RPi5 powered NAS, and I'm using https://github.com/chenxiaolong/RSAF as provider to abstract it for apps like Poweramp [via sftp, but it supports many many protocols]. It's simple and it works without any fuss [albeit a tad slow to scan initially]. NAS is dlna/upnp enbaled too, so it would be great if Poweramp decided to implement it eventually.

Thank you for the information, appreciated. Voted. But since it works [for playing music], what would be the best route to get the lyrics working? I'd like to avoid embedding them. You've mentioned something about Poweramp being able to read them from separate folder. So would it be possible to have them locally and music from networked source?

Since it advertises "storage providers" when picking storage for library. I've assumed that it applies to networked providers too... [like gdrive and similar]

Also, just tested it by moving several music files with their corresponding .lrc files from server to the phone, so Poweramp can play them locally. Lyrics show. So the issue is as stated initially, Poweramp ignores remote lyric files.

I don't understand what you're telling me really. Each song has corresponding .lrc file with the same base name, the files only contain [mm:ss.xx] and song lines. They are properly displayed with all of my players. What exactly is Poweramp expecting?

I'm using Poweramp with music only from remote providers, the .lrc files have the same base name. Yet, Poweramp isn't seeing them. I was expecting Poweramp to scan them alongside the tracks but apparently it isn't so.