Video mode not showing lyrics

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  1. Hiya brand new user to this software so please be gentle, i have a .wav file with lyrics attached in the video, but for the life of my i cannot get it to show in that middle screen of video, i’ve wired up a monitor and that screen shows on the monitor, but all i get is the visulisations, i have googled it and watched Justin’s video but it doesn’t really explain how to do it, if anyone can help please
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Since this sounds repeatable, can you please capture and share a short screen recording of the issue to help clarify what’s happening? Thanks!

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macbook air M4 OS 26.5.1

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Full setup details please @Steve_Mitchell

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Please review the Video Mixing section of the macOS user manual for detailed instructions

Here’s some info related to connecting external displays

Here are the video formats we support. It sounds like you are using an audio only format (.wav).

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I ma not a geek, but isn’t it true that .wav files are audio-only?

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Video mode in djay plays both

  1. audio (wav, mp3, flac, m4a,) displaying any of the inbuilt visualizers
  2. video (mp4, m4v, mov, avi(?), displaying the actual video. mkv files as well as 4K videos and higher resolutions do not play
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I already noted this above @Armigo

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Hello! It’s been a week since my last reply. I’m going to consider this topic completed for now so I can focus on others. However, please feel free to respond and we can definitely revisit this. Thanks!