Navigate to a Web site that includes song lyrics and locate the artist, album, and song for which you want lyrics. If you can't find the lyrics, or if you want to create your own lyrics, type them in a text editor, such as Notepad.

Select the text and copy it to the Clipboard by pressing CTRL+C.

In Windows Media Player, click Library.

Right-click the file that you want to add lyrics to, and then click Advanced Tag Editor.

Click the Lyrics tab. If you do not see a box that contains a Language list, click Add.

(Optional) In the Language list, select the language that you want.

In the Text box, type or paste the lyrics that you copied, as shown in the following screen shot. If you want to create a set of synchronized lyrics from your static lyrics, make sure that each line of verse is on its own line.

Complete the procedure for adding static lyrics earlier in this article, but do not close the Advanced Tag Editor dialog box.

Click Synchronized Lyrics, and then wait for the Player to load the static lyrics data into the timeline area. Note that each line of lyrics is assigned a successive but arbitrary time on the timeline. The time values (in minutes) that the Player assigns to your lyrics determine when the lyrics appear in the Now Playing feature as the song is played, and will probably not match when you hear the vocals unless you adjust them. See step 5.

(Optional) To add a description of the lyrics, click <Type description here>, and then type your description. The description does not show when the song is played.

(Optional) Select a Language and a Content type.

To test how closely an assigned time value for the appearance of a line of lyrics matches when you hear it, click the line of verse under either the Time or Value columns, and then click Play. The song plays starting at the time value in the timeline, and a red bar shows the song's progress. Click and drag the blinking vertical bar forward or backward to match when you hear the corresponding line, as in the following screen shot. Note that your pointer becomes a double-headed arrow when you place it over the blinking vertical bar.

Click Play again to test the new time value. Repeat this until the line of verse appears when you hear the matching vocals.

Note   Use the red progress bar to help you establish where on the timeline you hear the vocals that you are trying to synchronize, and then drag the blinking vertical bar to that spot. Retest and adjust if necessary.

When you are satisfied with the lyrics, click OK to close the Synchronized Lyrics dialog box.

(Optional) On the Lyrics tab of the Advanced Tag Editor dialog box, if you only want the synchronized lyrics to be visible, and not the static lyrics, click Delete.

Click OK to close Advanced Tag Editor.

In the Player, click the Access application menus button in the upper-right corner of the Player (just to the left of the Minimize button), point to Play, point to Captions and Subtitles, and then click On if Available.

Begin playing the file that contains lyrics, and then click Now Playing.

In the Player, if a file has both captions and lyrics, only the captions are displayed. A caption is text that accompanies images or videos. Conversely, lyrics are associated only with music files. If you play a file that has both synchronized and static lyrics, the static lyrics appear until the synchronized lyrics begin, and then they replace the static lyrics. The following screen shot shows how static lyrics appear as a song plays.