After first appearing in April, YouTube Music is now more widely rolling out live lyrics on Android and iOS.
The existing Lyrics tab in Now Playing gets upgraded with a new design and larger text that sees much better spacing. The current line is highlighted in white, while everything else is a faint gray. It’s perfectly legible with the ability to scroll down as you normally would. The page will refresh and move when the song jumps to the next line.
The background uses blurred cover art, and YouTube Music uses a note to signify audio before lyrics start.
Top comment by P_Devil
Great. Google keeps taking steps to make YTM a competent music player. They supported user-uploads (something only two other music services support), they did right with the use of 256kbps AAC for their lossy content, the dark interface is great, and a native web client is nice. There's just one thing they need to fix: the liked songs playlist limit being only 10k songs. Song lyrics are nice and I have a feeling that surround/Atmos audio is next on their list. But, for the love of all things holy, match Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music by offering an unlimited liked songs playlist limit. Don't be like Tidal, Deezer, and others by limiting things to just 10k.
We’re seeing this with several tracks today, but not all songs appear to support live lyrics. In those cases you get the old static version, but it’s not obvious why some have the new version and others don’t. The lyric source doesn’t appear to make a difference in our brief testing, nor does the release date.
Update: Live lyrics are appearing for more songs later on in the day.
There are many reports of live lyrics rolling out to YouTube Music for Android (version 6.15) and iOS (6.16) today. You might want to Force stop YTM from App info before checking, and be sure to try multiple songs if you don’t see it immediately.
This rollout is not tied to the updated Now Playing UI that adds comments that’s also being tested.
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