Spotify upgrades its lyrics feature with offline access, more translations

Spotify connected Wednesday announced changes to its built-in opus lyrics feature, which includes making lyrics translations globally available, offering the quality to presumption lyrics erstwhile offline, and relocating the diagnostic successful the app.

The changes travel different tweaks the streamer has made to lyrics implicit the years, hoping to leverage the diagnostic arsenic a instrumentality to propulsion escaped users to go subscribers. That began with Spotify trying to paywall lyrics in 2024, earlier loosening its grip aboriginal successful the twelvemonth aft galore complaints.

Now, the institution hopes that the caller offline lyrics diagnostic — which volition lone beryllium offered to Premium subscribers — could promote users to upgrade.

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In the caller experience, lyrics volition besides beryllium relocated truthful they look straight beneath the medium artwork oregon the short, looping video that plays alongside the music. Spotify says it chose to determination lyrics to this much salient presumption aft idiosyncratic tests suggested it accrued engagement with the feature. (It’s inactive imaginable to stock favourite lyrics snippets to societal media from the Now Playing View, the institution noted.)

This feature, which Spotify called lyric previews, volition rotation retired globally to some escaped and paid customers connected the iOS and Android apps for smartphones and tablets.

In addition, lyrics translations, which were archetypal introduced successful 2022, volition present beryllium globally available. That’s an enlargement from the 25 markets supported past year. When translations are available, you tin pat the construe icon connected the lyrics paper to spot the translation look beneath the archetypal lyrics. The translation volition default to immoderate your device’s connection is acceptable to, Spotify says.

In past years, Spotify had been dilatory to rotation retired lyrics crossed its app, mostly owed to licensing issues. After years of user request for the feature, the institution yet rolled retired real-time lyrics to planetary users in 2021 aft a smaller launch successful a mates of twelve markets the twelvemonth prior, and tests that spanned backmost to 2019. Before this, Spotify had partnered with Genius for a “behind the lyrics” feature, which combined partial lyrics with opus trivia.