[Desktop] Bring back Lyrics

[poetaccio]

Allow me to re-edit again, in premise, that thanks to all of you this idea keeps receiving votes, and I am grateful to each of you, and when I expressed this desire as an idea I was a newbie, I owe to the professionality of Marco and Toku, whom I thank again, that I became aware that this idea it’s by no means new, nor even mine but Spotify’s, yet it is properly expressed, and it is shared by enough Community members for it to be still alive, and I agree with Arcanscape that, "We really need the lyrics feature", and I just notice an excellent temporary alternative of “SpotifyLyrics” kindly programmed and provided by Mirth (fr31): https://github.com/fr31/spotifylyrics/releases (via scoobyTdog), it works very well on my Pc 🙂 and I invite you all to try it.

Whilst singing might be fun, I have another approach to lyrics and sound, which is of course not mutually exclusive, and I read the words to see if I like them as I enjoy the melody, if I see myself in the lyrics, if I share the values expressed, and this is easier by having the words at hand.

So please Spotify bring back the Lyrics Feature most elegantly -- as you did with restyling the Community -- when you find a better Lyrics Provider.

Reading and listening might be even better than karaoke, although not as fun 😉

and every member could always do both, even just singing, as a very close person in my family does, and many other people do.

Thank you for evaluating, with my warmest and most sincere Regards.

Marco, a poet at heart

[jadesgoudreault]

i know they are making changes but i hope the lyrics feature comes back too!! it was my favorite thing(aside from the music haha)!! 🙂 

[engete]

It's been another year since the last update from Spotify staff. What's going on with the lyrics feature? Why did u delete it in first place? How does it come You can have lyrics in mobile version but no in desktop? From the programming side, it's also really easy to write this feature - so, dear Spotify, what's the problem and why only evasive answers?

[kiarafay]

Behind the lyrics just isn't the same, it's like a sporadic sometimes lyrics and sometimes not (and sometimes confusing when i try to sing along the descriptions behind the songs)

[Raheem092015]

Why don't you listen to your darn customers? You really want us to leave and join Apple Music. Did any ask for that barcode scan update. Nope, who even uses that. Why in the first place did you even include knowing the back story of the song. If we wanted that we would of look it up. We needed a lyrics option before November coz we asked more than 15 months ago and you gave us a darn barcode. 

[adkruth]

Please bring back lyrics for the desktop. You said big improvements were coming for this feature well over a year ago. Is there a time certain when this feature will be back? Thanks! PS The mobile app is not that amazing because the full set of lyrics is not given, so it's more annoying than helpful imo. 

[Dudefish]

The second my student discount ends I'm outta here. I feel so insulted that Spotify continue to ignore us without so much as a word. 'Soon' = over a year? When did you turn into the Hearthstone dev team? 1 fix a year - don't want to confuse anyone.

Doesn't help that external applications are no longer supporting windows 7 so I'm up a creek without a paddle. Really big fail on Spotify's side. Add that to the monstrously bad security features and I can see little reason to hang around.

[JS96]

Stop asking... lyrics were powered by Musixmatch, which decided not to longer support Spotify since they have their own app.

[CarlosJustino]

Hi, any idea when this feature will be able?

[Dudefish]

JS96 - As nice as it is to kiss up to Spotify, they said they would update this feature and improve it. It's no use telling everyone to stop asking for a service that is already on pretty much every other streaming platform. They severed the partnership with Musixmatch.

Also, about Musixmatch, currently no working windows 7 version of the app even though the marketshare for windows 7 is almost 50% still. They said it's coming soon, but we shouldn't have to rely on outside parties for lyrics. It should be a part of Spotify.

[ellegogo]

I want the lyrics back so much...... I simply could't bear the "behind the lyrics" feature. I want to see the lyrics when listening to the music!!!! Especially rap...