Spotify Now Lets You Search For Songs By Lyrics

Spotify has rolled out a useful new feature today for iOS and Android that allows users to search for songs by its lyrics. 9to5Mac reports: When you're not sure the name of a song/artist, music recognition apps like Shazam are great if a song is playing. However, they don't work near as well if you're just trying to sing a couple of the lyrics into your phone. In those cases, it's common to search the web for the lyrics before heading to your music service to play or add the track. Now Spotify has simplified that problem as the service on both iOS and Android has added the handy option to type in lyrics to search for songs. Spotify designer Lina shared the news on Twitter this morning.

Wow!

[Aighearach]

Always impressive when a company that makes a web service product succeeds at implementing full text search, even if it takes them years and years to get it done. Right?

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[niftydude]

I know. I've been using google for this for a couple of decades now.

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[The New Guy 2.0]

Full Text for Music service wasn't available to users outside of a complex standard Google search for years now... this was a pro-only service ever since Lyrics.ch was shut down.

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[Aighearach]

Nopers. False-a-rooni.

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[LenKagetsu]

They had to listen to the songs and transcribe them and then compare them to the lyrics booklet that came with the CD.

`skuse me while I kiss this guy

[goombah99]

Do they have fuzzy matching of misheard lyrics or am I blind date by tonight?

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[niftydude]

I thought there used to be a Mondegreen collection website for this, but I can't seem to find it anymore.

Lyrics:

[rossdee]

  "We'll kill the fat head", coughed the Knight, "so stick around"

Now they can work on

[Revek]

Fixing that screwed up shuffle they have. Random it is not.

Old tech.

[redback]

Google already does this