Lyrics Format & Store Loop
Turn a song's raw lyrics into DistroKid-clean plain text, stored on the song in the planner.
Anyone preparing to publish lyrics to streaming, who wants them formatted to DistroKid's exact rules and kept with the song.
DistroKid is strict about lyrics: paste your Suno lyrics in as-is — with [Verse]/[Chorus] labels, ad-libs, and punctuation — and they'll be rejected or look wrong on Apple Music and the rest. This loop takes a song's lyrics and rewrites them into DistroKid-compliant plain text, then stores that clean version on the song in the planner so it's ready to publish and you never redo the work.
It is deliberately separate from the song's creative lyrics. You keep your original, expressive version (section markers, production tags) intact; this loop produces a second, deployment-ready version next to it. Run it once per song.
Skills & actions it uses
The concrete, reusable skills this loop calls to actually do the work.
The Song PlannerStores the DistroKid-ready lyrics on the song, kept separate from the original creative version.
The loop
- 1
Pull the lyrics text
Take the song's lyrics (what you wrote / put into Suno) and separate the actual sung words from the [section] labels and (ad-lib) production tags.
- 2
Apply DistroKid's plain-text rules
Rewrite the lyrics to DistroKid's exact format — lyrics only, no other information.
- No section labels (Intro, Chorus, Verse), no vocalist names, no links — just the sung words
- Begin every line with a capital letter
- No punctuation at the end of a line (mid-line commas are fine)
- One sentence per line — avoid excessively long lines
- No blank lines except a single blank line between verse/chorus blocks
- Don't censor explicit words unless they're actually bleeped in the audio
- 3
Write out repeats in full
No 'Chorus 2x' shorthand — if a chorus or line repeats in the recording, write it out in full each time so the displayed lyrics match the audio.
- 4
Store on the song
Save the DistroKid-ready text on the song in the planner, kept separate from the creative original so both are preserved and the formatting is reusable.
- 5
Eyeball the first one
Before doing a whole album, check the first track's output: no section markers, every line capitalized, no trailing punctuation, repeats written out.
Then run it again for the next song, chapter, or track.
You end with
- A DistroKid-compliant plain-text version of the lyrics, stored on the song
- The original creative lyrics preserved separately
- A set ready to hand to the DistroKid Lyrics Publish Loop
How it connects
Pairs with
Commonly run just before or after this one in the pipeline.