Spotify has rolled out a new feature today for its iOS and Android apps allowing users to search for songs by its lyrics. The feature has been available to Apple Music users for a couple of years.
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Spotify is rolling out real-time lyrics support in its app to over 26 markets worldwide thanks to its partnership with Musixmatch. The markets include India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, and more.
Google has slowly started rolling out lyrics integration in YouTube Music for Android. As of now, lyrics are showing up for most of the licensed songs in YouTube Music and music videos.
After being accused by a popular lyrics website of stealing content, Google has made a public statement which vehemently denies any wrongdoing, including illegally scraping content from websites.
Popular lyrics website Genius has alleged that Google steals content from its website and shows it directly in search results, which consequently means less viewership for the website.
Apple is set to push a new update out to its HomePod. The new release was announced at yesterday's event and brings new features including phone calling and receiving, and support for Spanish.
As part of a massive rebranding, Rap Genius has changed their name to 'Genius' and announced an ambitious new side project: embeddable annotations for any website in the world.