SRT to LRC — subtitles as synced lyrics
Convert .srt subtitles of a song to .lrc synced lyrics for music players, with pauses between lines kept.
About this conversion
Music players read synced lyrics as .lrc: a time in square brackets, then the line. Subtitles of a song converted to it keep each line’s start; a line split over two subtitle rows is joined into one, since lyrics show a line at a time. Where the subtitle file has a pause longer than a second and a half, an empty timed line is added so the player clears the screen instead of holding the last words through the silence.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
Fix it before you save it
The file stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same subtitles can leave here as VTT, ASS, SBV, SUB (MicroDVD), TTML / DFXP, SAMI (.smi), TXT, Word, Excel or PDF. Before that you can move every line earlier or later, stretch the timing to a different release of the film, remove [DOOR SLAMS] and speaker names, put a second language under the first, and see which lines break the rules studios follow — too long, too fast, overlapping.
Questions
- My player shows the lyrics late.
- Shift the file earlier here before saving — every line moves by the same amount.