Synced lyrics for your whole library.

A local LRCLIB database

Point Lavender at a copy of the LRCLIB dump and every lookup runs against your own disk: mass downloads, Search Lyrics and My LRCLIB.

• Follows the LRCLIB server's own matching rules, so it finds what lrclib.net would have.
• Check for updates finds the newest dump, downloads and unpacks it, and verifies it before switching over.
• If the database doesn't have a track, Lavender can ask online LRCLIB instead (on by default).
• Unplugged the drive? Lavender tells you once, falls back to online, and picks the database up again when it's back.

You'll need the room: the download is about 48 GB and the unpacked database around 120 GB. Lavender checks free space before it starts.

Better matching

Works with the local database. It doesn't guess: the title, length and artist still have to line up.

• Tolerant matching allows for "feat." on one side, several artists joined with "&", tags like "(Radio Edit)" or "[2011 Remaster]", and the same recording on another album.
• The best of several uploads. Broken timing, lyrics that stop early and stray credit lines count against an upload. Timing that agrees with most other uploads counts in its favor.
• The right performance. A studio track gets studio lyrics, and a "(Live)" track gets lyrics timed to the live version.
• Instrumentals stay instrumental instead of getting someone's wrong upload.
• Uncensored by default, unless the title or album is marked Clean. You can change that in Settings.

Upgrade what you have

Upgrade to the best match goes through your library and:

• finds lyrics for tracks that have none;
• replaces plain lyrics with synced ones when it can find them;
• replaces synced lyrics from the database with word-synced ones or a clearly better upload;
• swaps lyrics with masked words ("b***h") for an uncensored version.

It leaves lyrics you edited yourself or got somewhere else alone, and the download log says why it skipped each one.

Extra lyrics sources

When LRCLIB has nothing, Lavender can ask the AMLL TTML database, Apple Music, NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music, in that order.

• All off by default. A source you turn on only sees the title and artist of tracks LRCLIB couldn't find. Nothing else is sent.
• Word-synced lyrics from AMLL, Apple Music and NetEase: the player highlights each word, and .lrc export can keep the word timestamps.
• Apple Music uses your own subscription; Lavender keeps only the sign-in token.

These APIs are unofficial and could stop working at any time, and using Apple Music's goes against its terms of service. See exactly what is sent where.

Downloads that hold up

• Pause and resume. If the app closes or crashes, the run comes back as "Download interrupted" and picks up where it stopped.
• Dropped connection? Lavender waits and retries the same track instead of marking the rest as not found.
• No waiting locally. Local lookups skip the half-second pause between online requests.
• Retry not found re-queues the tracks a finished run missed.
• Skip what's been checked. Tracks the current database couldn't find are skipped next time, until you retag them or install a newer dump.

Everything else

• Everything from LRCGET is still here: the player, the synced lyrics editor, publishing to LRCLIB and My LRCLIB.
• Export .lrc and .txt next to your music, or embed lyrics in MP3 and FLAC.
• An update check, off until you turn it on, that only installs a release after its signed checksums match. Installed with Homebrew? brew upgrade --cask lavender works too.
• Its own app ID, settings and library, so it installs side by side with LRCGET.