Karaoke fever seems to have no end and now YouTube Music is getting into it. This is something that gives many goosebumps, even more so at these meetings, because seeing part of the family screaming along to the rhythm of My Big Night while doing a good job of the classic Christmas cookies is more than what they are ready for. withstand. I feel very sincerely sorry for all those people, but for the rest and for the other circumstances, I’d say it’s very good news.

I’m talking about karaoke fever because, as we told you recently, Apple Music Sing has already debuted, a new playback mode for Apple Music that, in addition to displaying the lyrics live (that is, it adjusts which part of the lyrics is being played sung at any given time), also includes settings to lower the volume of the song’s vocal track, providing a similar experience to traditional karaoke.

On the other hand, Spotify has also dedicated the last year (from November 2021) to the implementation of live lyrics in its applications for the various operating systems on which the music streaming service intervenes. For this purpose, it is fed from the MusixMatch lyrics database, although in this case we did not find functions to mute the vocal track, which sometimes makes the experience less satisfying, but in many others it allows us to sing with more confidence, because we think that the voice of the original singer is hear more than ours (bad news, not really).

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Be that as it may, Google has also signed a partnership agreement with MusixMatch and as we can read on 9to5Google, YouTube Music is already starting to test live lyrics. More specifically, according to the mentioned source, a Reddit user who sent a YouTube Music signal from his Android smartphone to the Chromecast Ultra was surprised to find a new interface that contains information about the current song (cover, title and artist). shown on the right, while live lyrics can be seen on the left.

At the moment there is no official confirmation from YouTube Music about this new feature, but the fact that some users have already started to see it seems to be a sign that it will not keep them waiting too long, although it is very likely that the case in U others services, the implementation of live letters across the catalog will be gradual, as synchronization jobs require synchronization to confirm that it was done correctly. And that with catalogs of tens of millions of songs, it will undoubtedly take a long time.