but simply ordinary song lyrics made available through many sources, most of which
pr
ovi
de
t
hem
f
or
f
r
ee.
Wor
st
case,
i
f
you
can’
t
get
t
he
l
yr
i
cs
t
hr
ough
any
ot
her
sour
ce,
you may have to write them down as you listen to the song.
What
f
ol
l
ows
ar
e
t
he
par
t
i
al
l
yr
i
cs
t
o
a
1991
Tower
of
Power
song,
cal
l
ed
“
How
Coul
d
Thi
s
Happen
t
o
Me?”
,
and
t
hey
have
been
pr
epar
ed
as
an
.
LRC
f
i
l
e,
whi
ch
wi
l
l
be
explained below.
How Could This Happen to Me?
Tower of Power
Emilio Castillo
How Could This Happen To Me.mp3
Stephen Kupka
Huey Lewis
[00:22.71]I was voted "Most Likely to Succeed",
[00:27.96]With the future looking so very, very bright, indeed.
[00:33.34]Somehow I succeeded to fail miserably....
[00:38.01]How could this happen? How could this happen, to me?
[00:44.06]Back in High School, I was the best that I could be.
[00:49.39]A "Straight A" student--all the girls were after me.
[00:54.74]I was even the captain of the football team.
[00:59.38]How could this happen? How could this happen, to me?
[01:05.34]Partly the reason, I trusted romance.
[01:10.78]Confused by the passion, blinded by love.
[01:16.20]If I only knew what I know today,
[01:21.52]Might be much different; it might be much the same.
[01:27.16]Can't believe it--they still think it's all my fault.
[01:32.54]What do they know? I was there, I did my part.
[01:37.93]What's more important, I did it straight from my heart.
[01:42.57]How could this happen? How could this happen, to me?
[01:48.23]
Lady Luck took a powder and so did my so-called friends,
[01:54.11]
The same ones who said, "Stick it out till the bitter end."
[01:59.87]But who needs enemies with friends like that?
[02:04.04]How could this happen? How could this happen, to me?
The above represents a file written in the .LRC format that contains about half the lyrics
in this song. Notice that the time stamp proceeding each line has the following format:
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[mm:ss.hh]
Each
“
t
i
me
st
amp”
r
epr
esent
s
t
he
t
i
me
t
hat
has
elapsed since the song
started, when the specific lyric line begins. For example, the first lyric line begins just
short of 23 seconds after the song started. The last lyric line shown starts just after
2 minutes and 4 seconds since the song began. The format uses two digits to
express elapsed minutes (mm), seconds (ss) and hundredths of a second (hh). Note
that a colon (
:
) separates minutes and seconds, but a period (
.
) separates seconds
from hundredths of a second. You must also use square brackets, as shown.
Al
t
hough
i
t
can
be
t
edi
ous,
i
t
’
s
best
t
o
wor
k
wi
t
h
a
di
gi
t
al
st
opwat
ch
havi
ng
spl
i
t
t
i
me
capabi
l
i
t
y
,
i
f
you’
r
e
i
nt
er
est
ed
i
n
di
spl
ayi
ng
t
he
l
yr
i
cs
accur
at
el
y
.
I
f
so,
do
t
he
f
ol
l
owi
ng:
1. Have the written or typed lyrics in front of you, arranged in a line-by-line format.
2. Set the stopwatch to zero.
3. Simultaneously start the music and the stopwatch.
4. As soon as the first lyric line begins, press the split button to stop the watch and
quickly record the time in the [mm:ss.hh] format. Once done, press the split button
again to resume the timekeeping.
5. As soon as the second lyric line begins, press the split button to stop the watch
and quickly record the time, as before. Once done, press the split button again to
resume the timekeeping.
6. Continue this pattern
unt
i
l
t
he
song’
s
l
ast
l
i
ne
has
been
r
eached.
7. Using your PC, enter the information in the format shown on page 34 into a text
editor like Windows Notepad. For best use of the JX-
MP256FM’
s
di
spl
ay
as
i
t
displays your lyrics, do not enter a space after the r
i
ght
br
acket
.
I
f
i
t
’
s
easi
er
,
you
can replace the hundredths digits in any line with 00. If you use a word processing
program instead of Windows Notepad (like Wordpad, Word, or WordPerfect), you
must save your work as an ASCII or TEXT file (.txt), with exactly the same name
as
t
he
MP3
or
WMA
f
i
l
e
on
whi
ch
i
t
’
s
based
. Thus, the song lyrics on page 34
would be named
How Could This Happen To Me.txt
8. You must then rename the text file so it has the .LRC extension. Renaming a file is
a basic Windows function and your Windows documentation or its Help system will
easi
l
y
hel
p
you,
i
f
you
don’
t
know
how.
When
i
t
’
s
done,
your
l
yr
i
cs
f
i
l
e
wi
l
l
have
t
he
same
name
as
t
he
MP3
or
WMA
f
i
l
e
on
whi
ch
i
t
’
s
based,
f
ol
l
owed
by
t
he
.
LRC
extension, as in
How Could This Happen To Me.lrc
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