[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

[tay1orchen]

3 years!you guys done nothing.

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@tay1orchen wrote:

3 years!you guys done nothing.

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This is how spotify takes care of customers, some ideas has been active for more years and there is no plans to implement them.

[Spaceboy88]

Another example of the most basic features Spotify does not incorporate. It's really as if they people who work on this service don't really listen to music. Every other service I've used has true lyrics support. Not some half-baked implementation of Genius.com where you get some lyrics, followed by useless facts. Pretty much every song is on Genius.com already, just pull the lyrics from that service into Spotify, leave out the facts unless a users taps on it, and we'll be happy.

[Marie573]

While I miss the lyrics, my biggest gripe is that a whole lot of my songs
have disappeared from my playlist. Why are they no longer available? What
good is Spotify if they are going to delete songs I want?

[Spaceboy88]

@Marie573 That's a different issue because of licensing and streaming rights with the labels/publishers. 

[Mrjoe10]

How is this three years old with no updates and it's the third top rated suggestion???

[Scrupulous]

Simple. Doesn't make money so they don't care

[Mrjoe10]

Thanks for the grand insight

[bobson58]

Spotify is interested in retention as well as reputation. So it is not just money. But I believe they are without the agreements Amazon already had for selling music that must have covered some aspect of lyrics. This situation is actually sad as it's been two more years since I posted about this apparent lack of concern by Spotify.

[akshayb17]

Additionally, it would also be great, if on casting, I could see the lyrics on the device I cast my music on.