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Comment by santialbo | Hacker News Reader

I hope they add lyrics again. They ended their partnership with musixmatch a few months ago and haven't offered an alternative yet.

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They had Spotify apps, the two most popular were lyrics apps. Then they removed the apps and added lyrics inside Spotify, and now there is no more lyrics at all.

Obviously that's a very demanded feature so they must have a strong reason not to have it anymore (legal issues probably).

I personally used it all the times for improvised karaokes so I'm very upset to not have lyrics on demand anymore.

They still have Behind the Lyrics for some songs on the mobile app, which shows a mix of lyrics and info about the song and artist.

I can't make it appear on my app (iOS) and the help link [1] shows that's it's enabling comments from Genius about the lyrics, so not the actual lyrics synced.

[1]: https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/search_play/beh...

Try the RockIt app for karaoke sessions. About every song imaginable..

The lyrics were simple and great. I was surprised how much I missed them when they were gone. A Genius partnership would be perfect, but Genius seems to think they're god's gift to Earth so that will probably never happen.

they added Lyrics in iOS 10 Apple Music and on the desktop version. I noticed it today and I'm pleasantly surprised by it.

I've been trying to find this (and I've been using iOS 10 since June). Is it possible Apple has made lyrics a US only feature for now (which would be bizarre)?

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