How to disable lyrics acquisition during analyzing tracks in RB6? "Lyrics acquisition failed"

Ok so I found it..

1. Enable performance mode
2. Click the tiny ABC-button to enable lyrics panel (I guess?)
3. Click the gear icon to go in to preferences
4. Now there magically has emerged a Lyrics -settings tab
5. Click 'Enable Lyric Function' to disable it.
6. No more errors. Job done.
7. Optional: repeat process for any other features you don't need.

As a professional UI designer and developer I have to say this is very poor design. To have a non essential feature cause errors in an essential feature (BY DEFAULT) and have a crucial view change content based on context without any visual clue as to why that happens. Talk to your UX / UI-people please. 

Ps. Would still like to see a light version of RB. Maybe leave the free features for the Light Version and features needing subscription to a "Pro version"?

Thanks,

I had the exact same issue

Couldn't agree more about needing a light version for those of us who just want something to manage/transfer our tracks to USB. For me changing the setting to performance mode does not bring up any further options, I seem to be stuck with this thing trying and failing to acquire lyrics I don't want or need for 4000 tracks. Anybody any ideas why changing to performance mode changes absolutely nothing for me? I'm on a MacBook Air, OSX Mojave. Strangely I do have the correct options to disable lyrics acquisition if I install it on another PC I have (running Windows 8.1) but for some reason this PC doesn't play nice with my USB and manages to miss tracks out of folders and I get error messages when I try play half of my transferred tracks in my CDJ2000 Nexus, I don't have this issue with the same USB using my MacBook. 

OK, I have now after quite some head scratching worked it out. I was trying to access performance mode under the preferences by changing analysis to 'performance', my bad. I now see to change to performance mode this is done by clicking in the top left corner where it has the options of export, performance or lighting. After changing to performance mode here I now have the extra tabs under preferences. It really should be much simpler than this, as the OP said, this is poor UI, why on earth are the extra options not there in preferences under all modes and why are unnecessary features to the majority of us activated by default? 

Thanks a lot for the fix! :)

P.S. Agreed! A really poor UI design.

Thank you very much for the tip, Juhamatti Rintaluoma  ! Was driving me crazy.

I just need Rekordbox to prepare music i'll play on CDJs, just getting started with it. UI feels clunky and bloated compared to other programs, also choices of icons and font sizes doesn't feel professional, also the speed of the UI in general. Please improve, Pioneer. 

Things that are irrelevant for most DJs that just need to prepare playlists for CDJs should be disabled by default (Lightning, Lyrics, Video...)

I second EVERYTHING that has been said here. They're so obvious too, I knew I was not the only one feeling that way. How can Pioneer drop the ball so hard on this.

I literally just need a software to manage my library and add cue points and loops, something that was easily done 10 years ago already. Yet this app that I *have* to use will take all my CPU and I'll have to force quit it every other time (on different laptops too). Don't get me started on the general UX/UI.

We need a well designed "export only" version of RB.

EDIT: Since I posted the comment I literally cannot open it again. Because it's now set in Performance mode, so I could access the "disable the lyrics" parameter, and now it's trying to handle all the syncing while rendering the performance screen, and freezing.

Juhamatti Rintaluoma : YOU ROCK, Thx from france 🤗🙏

It gets better.
I click the ABC button and have to download a 325Mb Font package before I can continue...

325Mb.. for.. fonts.. 😀 This is getting ridiculous. Pioneer DJ, maybe check yourself before you wreck yourself.

@Juhamatti > You don't have to use Lyric if 325MB worth of fonts is not suitable for your computer...

Had the same Issue.
Its a blame.

A really poor UI design.