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After rolling out real-time lyrics across Android, iOS, televisions, consoles, and the web, Spotify finally brings them to the Google Nest Hub and other Google Assistant Smart Displays.
Spotify released real-time lyrics display across most Android and iOS devices back in November. When playing a song on the Nest Hub or other Google Assistant Smart Display, Spotify’s fullscreen media controls now include a lyrics button near the bottom-right corner—tapping the button swaps the background image for scrolling text, highlighting the current line while the track plays. The following lines appear beneath the transparent row of audio controls.
The lyrics feature utilizes music note emojis to indicate when there are no words. The function remains enabled even as tunes switch until you turn it off. Near the end of a track, Spotify says the lyrics are “Licensed & Provided by MusixMatch.”
Displaying lyrics on-screen is a convenient feature and one that Google Play Music offered back in 2018. Unfortunately, the functionality never migrated over to YouTube Music, which offers its own static lyrics functionality in the Now Playing interface.
This launch puts real-time Spotify lyrics capability on all its major platforms and clients, and the feature works with both Spotify Free and Premium accounts. The company commented on the feature back in November when it was released across most platforms, stating that it was one of the most requested features.
“Lyrics are one of the most requested features from listeners across the globe,” Spotify says. “So after iterating and testing, we’ve created an experience that’s simple and interactive — and even shareable. By partnering with MusixMatch, we’re bringing song lyrics to life through in-app access across the majority of our extensive library of tracks.”
Google Nest Hub users are reporting the feature is appearing in batches on reddit, where users are testing the new real-time lyrics feature.