Musixmatch

You can now find the lyrics to your favourite songs in Spotify as the streamer has extended its Lyrics function globally to all platforms. Lyrics are one of the most requested features from listeners across the globe. Spotify have created an experience that’s simple and interactive and even shareable. By partnering with Musixmatch, they are bringing song lyrics to life through in-app access across the majority of its extensive library of tracks. Lyrics are available to […]

Spotify adds real time lyrics to its streaming apps using Musixmatch technology and rolling it out to 26 countries in Latin America, South-East Asia and India. So far there is no indication as to when or if this will be made available to North America, Europe and Africa but is likely to be an issue over licensing rather than a technology constraint. Lyrics are not usually supplied to streamers by the record company or music […]

Spotify syncs lyrics to the music using the Musixmatch lyrics platform so you can read or sing along as the track plays. This feature is being gradually rolled out on the platform and the feature won’t work for all tracks on Spotify, but supported songs will be indexed with a LYRICS tag much like the EXPLICIT tag in playlists. You can read the lyrics from the Now Playing section, just below the cover art and […]