Support .LRC filetype export
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Support .LRC filetype export
LRC is a filetype that synchronizes song lyrics with an audio file.I can use other tools to convert the srt file(Elan is supported to export) to Lrc file. I need elan export Lrc file directly.
Re: Support .LRC filetype export
Hi Leaping,
you write that you already have tools to convert SRT SubRip subtitles to LRC and that ELAN already exports SRT... You could first export all files as SRT and then mass-convert them to LRC with the tool that you mention. That way, ELAN does not have to touch LRC (which is even more limited and thereby less useful to export than SRT) directly. Descriptions of both formats with some example snippets can be found on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_%28file_format%29
By the way, you could also write a small script (in Perl or similar) and "install" it as "Avatech recognizer" in ELAN by adding suitable metadata as CMDI file in the ELAN extensions directory. That way, you could send individual tiers to your extension which could then write them to LRC files directly. However, in the overall amount of work this probably gives no real improvement compared to exporting via SubRip and then mass- / batch- converting all SRT files to LRC in the end. You can contact me if you want information about scripting and extensions.
Regards, Eric
Re: Support .LRC filetype export
We can add this to the wishlist. I believe there are one or two other formats that have been requested, so maybe we can implement those at the same time. It should be fairly simple since the changes needed are only in the format of the file; things like handling overlaps and applying minimal durations etc. is already there for the other formats.
-Han
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