Spotify launches lyrics feature globally for free and paying users

[Jon]

Spotify launches lyrics feature globally for free and paying users

Real-time lyrics, for both free and premium subscribers

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Today, Spotify is finally rolling out its real-time lyrics feature globally, after previously only offering it in a limited selection of countries.


The lyrics themselves are provided by Musixmatch, which claims to offer lyrics for “over 8 million” titles. and will be accessible on basically every platform where Spotify has an app. This includes iOS, Android, desktop computers, gaming consoles, and smart TVs. The feature is available to both free and premium listeners.


As well as using the lyrics to sing along yourself, there’s also a social element which allows you to share lyrics to social media. Spotify says the feature will be available across the “majority” of its music library.

 

[Aaron]

I never really tried Spotify. My kids loves it though.

 

[sadchild]

Don't care for Spotify, don't use it. Amazon Music's been doing this for years.

 

[HecticArt]

8 milling songs, and I bet the ones I want to see the lyrics for aren't in their database.
#justmyluck

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Do they have lyrics for "Play That Fuckin' Music White Boy"?

 

[sadchild]

This one?

 

[Jon]

This one?

 

[scotchandcigar]

Do they have lyrics for "Play That Fuckin' Music White Boy"?

It would be more fun if they just made up the lyrics. It would kinda be like this

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

So my kid has been using Spotify $11.99/mo for a while now. A couple of months ago my wife started using it ... $11.99/mo. So today I signed up for Spotify Family $15.99/mo which will cancel those 2 bills. Got 1 month free. As a bonus I also have a spotify now. Listening to it. Not bad. Right now listening to 80s hits channel. They are playing "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees. Not sure how that is 80s but still good song. Next: "Dancing Queen" by Abba. 80s music programmed by a 17 year old.

I am told there is no way to ban music. So I could be subjected to nameless horses.

 

[sadchild]

I found with Pandora that it didn't matter what I entered as what I wanted to hear, it pretty much just gave me long-established FM staples. I imagine Spotify being the same way.

Classic metal, yall.....

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

My son build's his own playlists. My wife listens to specialty channels such as Tom Cochrane Radio (songs picked by Tom Cochrane). So far I am listening to their 80s list. Aside from having 70s and 90s stuff in it, it is a pretty nice list. But it is only a hundred songs. They are all recognizable but maybe a bit deeper than FM.

 

[sadchild]

My son build's his own playlists.

Same, but with MP3s

only a hundred songs. They are all recognizable but maybe a bit deeper than FM.

And ain't that scary! My 80s playlist has over 1000 songs. But whatever you do, Spotify (Pandora, etc), don't play a song everyone hasn't already heard a zillion effin times!!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Same, but with MP3s

And ain't that scary! My 80s playlist has over 1000 songs. But whatever you do, Spotify (Pandora, etc), don't play a song everyone hasn't already heard a zillion effin times!!

It's their out of the box playlist. I am going to create my own 80s one.

 

[sadchild]

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

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That's pretty accurate except numbers are pretty constant through 1985 then fall off sharply. I do have a spike in 1980.

Rated songs by year:
1980: 218
1981: 149
1982: 130
1983: 155
1984: 126
1985: 131
1986: 65

For reference:
1977: 79
1978: 157
1979: 197

I never would have thought 1980 would have been my peak.

 

[JHDK]

I can't believe this is the closest we have to a overall Spotify thread but whatever. Good enough.

And I do like they lyric feature.

But I want to talk about something else. How many of you have Spotify? I've been paying for it for probably 2 years now and it's worth it to me.

If you have it or whatever other service, how many fav songs do you have?

I love that feature they have where you can randomize your liked songs and they will also add in songs they think you might like into the playlist. It's great and turns me on to a bunch of new shit. Problem is I now have hundreds of liked songs and I don't know them all the way I know Phish. So if I want to hear one particular one I have to figure out the artist then figure out the title. There must be a way they can add something where you could search all the lyrics of your liked songs for keywords.

It took me forever to find this one song. He's an artist I really love now: Eric Lindell and the song is Josephine.

All I remembered was the lyric Creole Queen.

It took me 10 mins to find it.

My generation should be renamed to "The Greatest-er Generation" for having to put up with 10 mins of searching like that.



Good tune right?

Totally worth the 10 mins.

 

[Jon]

Apple Music I have my own favorites list, approaching 400+ songs now, from various genres that I listen to. Outlaw Country/Americana, Alternative Rock (80's to Today), Classic Rock, Blues, and Jazz. Probably in that order with some Old-school Hip-Hop and Classic Metal mixed in to keep things interesting.

Looking at my most played song ever, it's this one:

 

[JHDK]

Very different genres but that reminds me of this banger I love in my favorites:

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I have Spotify but rarely use it. I had a family plan but now just a dual with my son. My son uses Spotify exclusively for his music. I am just along for the ride. I am rather old school and still have my own MP3/M4A collection of music. I don't do Apple Music because I don't want Apple to remove any of my own collection.

 

[Jon]

Very different genres but that reminds me of this banger I love in my favorites:

Not dramatically different, Fitz and The Tantrums kinda reminds me of Hall and Oates with old Motown production quality.