Live lyrics are nothing new in the realm of music streaming. Both Spotify and Apple Music have had the feature for some time now. YouTube Music has fallen behind. The lyrics were available on Google’s streaming platform, but only in a basic manual way.
What this new update brings to the table is automatic real-time tracking of lyrics as songs play. Real-time lyric tracking will work on any song that already has lyrics uploaded to YouTube Music. The current lyrics will be highlighted and their text size will be increased within the Lyrics tab of the app.
Live lyrics in the YouTube Music app
Last year, Google partnered with MusixMatch and started working on this feature. There are reports that live lyrics tracking is also powered by LyricFind.
As of now, we’ve only seen screenshots of the feature on both Android and iOS with no concrete timeline for release. Some Reddit users have already reported getting the feature on Android in version 5.51.50 of the app.
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