macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Beta 2 Adds Support for Real-Time Lyrics in Apple Music App

[MacRumors]

The second beta of macOS Catalina 10.15.4 was released today, and the new update introduces support for time-synced lyrics in the Apple Music app.

Apple Music for Mac previously provided access to lyrics, but they did not scroll in real-time to the music, which is a feature that's been available on iOS since iOS 13 was released. As noted by 9to5Mac, the time-synced lyric feature addition is mentioned in the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 release notes.

Lyrics in Apple Music for Mac can be accessed by playing a song and then clicking on the little speech bubble that's located at the top right of the app.

Not all songs have lyrics or time-synced lyrics, but lyric information is available for most popular titles. Songs with time-synced lyrics will feature an interface that scrolls through the lyrics as they're sung.

When real-time lyrics were introduced for iOS 13 in September 2019, Apple Music lead Oliver Schusser said in an interview that Apple has a team of employees that listen to songs and transcribe the lyrics to ensure their accuracy for use in the time-synced lyrics feature rather than sourcing lyrics from a third-party provider.

Article Link: macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Beta 2 Adds Support for Real-Time Lyrics in Apple Music App

 

[red elma]

I wonder if this feature is designed to work in other "non english" world languages?

 

[jhfenton]

I wonder if this feature is designed to work in other "non english" world languages?

It works on a song-by-song basis as Apple works through their global catalog. It works on a lot of the French, Spanish, and German music that I listen to.

 

[eji]

Would be great if they could get Music to remember window placement and sorting preferences before adding frills. But then, why start prioritizing important bugfixes now?

 

[jasonefmonk]

I am assuredly alone in this, but I really like the new Lyrics feature and I also really like iTunes. I haven’t upgraded to macOS 10.15 Catalina because I’m holding on to iTunes, but this Lyrics feature is the first crack in the dam.

 

[flat five]

I wonder if this feature is designed to work in other "non english" world languages?

check out this song on an iPhone

Band of Gypsies by Cypress Hill

Listen to Band of Gypsies by Cypress Hill on Apple Music. 2018. Duration: 3:49

music.apple.com

 

[jasonefmonk]

check out this song on an iPhone

Band of Gypsies by Cypress Hill

Listen to Band of Gypsies by Cypress Hill on Apple Music. 2018. Duration: 3:49

music.apple.com

An excellent example, different languages and different alphabets within one track! It will also work on Apple TV. Thanks for that.

 

[ErikGrim]

Would be great if they could get Music to remember window placement and sorting preferences before adding frills. But then, why start prioritizing important bugfixes now?

It's not like there's a whole laundry-list of things to fix first. *sigh*

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Holy ****, that's actually some great news. I just wish that they would implement the lyrics/up next functionality so that it wouldn't slide over and occlude the view. Its a bad design that doesnt really fit with any of the app's different layouts

 

[ErikGrim]

Holy ****, that's actually some great news. I just wish that they would implement the lyrics/up next functionality so that it wouldn't slide over and occlude the view. Its a bad design that doesnt really fit with any of the app's different layouts

It's very much an unwanted iOSism.

 

[Internet Enzyme]

it appears that the miniplayer has been altered slightly. It has the stop light now.

What happens when you cliick the green fullscreen button?



This fullscreen mode can also be accessed through a new menu item and keyboard shortcut

 

[ErikGrim]

it appears that the miniplayer has been altered slightly. It has the stop light now.
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What happens when you cliick the green fullscreen button?

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This fullscreen mode can also be accessed through a new menu item and keyboard shortcut

Cheers for discovering. Added to wiki post.

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Cheers for discovering. Added to wiki post.

Also, a smaller thing is that "Up next" is "Playing Next" and the alignment and placement of its text and the column height of its contents has changed noticeably based on my memory:

 

[bviktor]

So now it can do (in beta) what foobar2000 already did back in the 2000s? Good job.

 

[Vjosullivan]

Setting up "sing along" lyrics all day must surely be a soul destroying job.

 

[DinkThifferent]

Setting up "sing along" lyrics all day must surely be a soul destroying job.

There's probably an Apple Music playlist for that

 

[steve62388]

Does this only work if you subscribe to Apple Music? Will it work with my iCloud Matched songs?

 

[Matt Leaf]

Have to say the new FullScreen MiniPlayer is GREAT. Not even Apple TV looks this nice when playing tunes. The MiniPlayer FS now has a soft, slowly animating background that matches the album cover colour tones. SO great even better Airplay'ed to my Apple TV.

😁