topic Lyrics in Desktop (Linux)

No lyrics

dentrassi — Wed, 25 May 2022 10:14:37 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Linux

My Question or Issue

According to the documentation [1], there should be lyrics when you press the "microphone" icon.

However, there is no microphone icon.

[1]: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-11-18/you-can-now-find-the-lyrics-to-your-favorite-songs-in-spotify-heres-how/

Re: No lyrics

Sebasty — Wed, 25 May 2022 12:32:45 GMT

Hello @dentrassi

The microphone icon appears when the song has lyrics. When an instrumental song or song that has no lyrics submitted to Musixmatch starts playing, the microphone icon disappears.
Musixmatch is a service where lyrics are submitted, and that's where Spotify gets the lyrics from.

If you have no microphone icon no matter what song plays (try some very mainstream songs, they 100% have lyrics submitted to Musixmatch), then you may have an outdated Spotify app.
For reference, I have this version of Spotify from Snap, and it has functional lyrics feature:

Try and see if there's an update for Spotify available on your OS. : )

Let me know how it goes!

Lyrics

Anonymouse3 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:15:26 GMT

My Question or Issue

Hi new user here. Heard spotify been around for a while. I figured by now I should be able to right click a song and find in the drop-down menu "View lyrics" but here we are in 2024.

Good luck.

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Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)