Apple Testing Song Lyrics for Apple Music Web Player

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its beta.music.apple.com site for Apple Music, introducing support for viewing song lyrics on the web. When listening to Apple Music content via a web browser on the beta site, there's now an option to see the lyrics by clicking on the speech bubble at the top right of the display.

The design of the lyric interface mimics the design of song lyrics available through the Apple Music app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with the lyrics scrolling in time to the music on the right side of the screen. The feature is only on the beta web player as of right now, but Apple will likely roll it out to the music.apple.com website in the future after it has been fully tested.

Apple has offered a web-based Apple Music player since 2019, with the website offering the same content available on iOS devices and Macs. The website allows Apple Music subscribers to listen to music on any device as songs play right in the browser.

Anyone can view the web player and listen to snippets of songs, but full access requires an Apple Music subscription tied to an Apple ID. It provides access to all library and playlist content, along with the same recommendations and mixes available in the Apple Music apps for iOS, Mac, and Android.

(Thanks, Noah!)

Article Link: Apple Testing Song Lyrics for Apple Music Web Player

 

[ProfessionalFan]

This is good for my imaginary karaoke parties in my head

 

[ignatius345]

Music should really be a module in the new http://beta.icloud.com site.

(iMessage too, but they're clearly never gonna do that...)

 

[philcourage]

It's me, hi! I'm the problem, it's me!

 

[Kulfon]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

 

[sw1tcher]

The lyrics page for Psychostick's "NSFW" will be either blank or filled with ---- ---- ---- ---- 🤣

 

[tonyr6]

Please Apple add lossless to the web player.

 

[WilliApple]

Always good to see new features for people who don't have a Mac yet.

 

[AhRiHmAn]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

A matter of taste maybe ?

 

[Kulfon]

A matter of taste maybe ?

Possibly, but taste towards what?

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Possibly, but taste towards what?

Preferring the app? Who knows. Also, who really cares. The beauty is you can use what you like and others can use what they like.

 

[AhRiHmAn]

Possibly, but taste towards what?

Personally I use and like both but I use Apple Music more because there are not podcasts everywhere, and since I listen a lot of electronic music they have a lot of DJ Mix that are unavailable on Spotify, like Boiler Room mixes , Cercle , and so on.
And , Apple TV app is better , so is Apple Watch app.

 

[mxrider88]

Apple and testing don’t go together nowadays

 

[B/D]

Lossless support for the web player is the next logical step.

Apple Music for Windows is coming next year, right?

 

[Doctor Q]

The web interface doesn't let you copy text from the lyrics, which is also true of the Music app. Annoying!

 

[randomando]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

What about this is copying? Apple Music added lyrics in 2016 and time synced lyrics in 2019 while Spotify removed their basic lyrics feature in 2016 after breaking off a partnership and they didn't re-add them again until 2021 where they added them with the time-synced feature (releasing 2 years after Apple). Apple is now just expanding that feature to their existing web platform.

Btw Apple Music is #1 in the US and #2 in other regions, so I imagine people have their reasons.

 

[ignatius345]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

I used Spotify for years. The thing that pushed me over to Apple Music is the fact that I can also stream on my phone all the music files I own -- many of which are things I've carefully collected over the past 20 or more years. Just yesterday I streamed a movie soundtrack which isn't on Spotify or Apple Music in its entirety. The real rub with these streaming services is that things disappear all the time because some legal agreement lapsed or something.

I've long maintained my own digital collection for exactly this reason, even as I started using Spotify more and more. Apple Music provides a way to have both at the same time.

All things being equal, I did prefer Spotify's UI and the way you can run it on any of your devices and control playback on any other device. But I switched over to Apple Music to be able to stream my own stuff. The UI is tolerable, but not great, but it largely works.

 

[tonyr6]

Why not use an offline player and rip it in ALAC or since I own Android FLAC?

 

[AOLG]

Btw Apple Music is #1 in the US and #2 in other regions, so I imagine people have their reasons.

Source?

 

[tomtad]

Still no smart playlists or even sorting I see. All I want to do is play recently added songs to my library but there's no way to do this !?

 

[tomtad]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

Have all my library on there, good quality with Dolby Atmos, integrates well Apple Watch, iPhone, HomePod, works with Siri. The Mac app is crap but I just about put up with it for these reasons.

 

[Kulfon]

Have all my library on there, good quality with Dolby Atmos, integrates well Apple Watch, iPhone, HomePod, works with Siri. The Mac app is crap but I just about put up with it for these reasons.

Same with Spotify for me

 

[Kulfon]

You know what? Dog wit ya!

 

[svish]

Good to see the similar interface on the website too.

 

[JustSomebody12]

Please Apple add lossless to the web player.

Also add a separate field to pinpoint featuring singers.

It’s strange to have them in the song title field.