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YouTube Music getting real-time lyrics on Android, iOS

After hinting at and beginning testing late last year on TVs, YouTube Music is starting to roll out real-time lyrics on Android and iOS.

At the moment, YouTube Music offers static lyrics when you pull up the middle tab at the bottom of Now Playing.

Live support dramatically increases the text size and spacing. The current line is highlighted in white with automatic scrolling, while everything else is darker.

This approach is visually similar to other streaming services, while the design is identical to what we’ve seen with Cast on televisions. 

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Getting better, hopefully YouTube music will add spatial audio features in the premium version too. That would be the icing on the cake as especially for the pixel buds pro to have some audio based spatial audio content as well as the video content on Netflix, Disney + etc

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Google has been hinting at this capability for some time. Last October, YouTube Music partnered with MusixMatch to increase coverage and said to expect “even more Lyric features in the future.” Update: LyricFind is also a YouTube Music partner for this capability.

A handful of users on Android are seeing these capabilities today, but it’s not widely rolled out. This will finally bring feature parity between YouTube Music and other apps. 

Update: There’s one report from iOS today with a background blur effect for the lyrics page.

Hopefully, this capability is also coming to the Nest Hub and other Smart Displays, just like Google Play Music offered in 2018.

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