Apple Music Gets Karaoke-Style Lyrics on macOS Catalina

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Mac users will soon benefit from karaoke-style synced lyrics to accompany Apple Music songs, as the functionality was spotted in the latest macOS beta. Previously, only plain text lyrics were available with macOS, and real-time lyrics synced to the song being played were only enjoyed by iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV users. But with the macOS 10.15.4 beta, the functionality came to the Mac desktop. As seen by 9 to 5 Macs (via eagle-eyed reader Mike Xu on Twitter), the release notes beta confirm that real-time lyrics have been added: "L'Music app now supports synced lyrics for Apple Music subscribers."

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This means that anyone running the latest version of macOS (Catalina) will get it when the public version is released, hopefully in March (unless the feature is removed from macOS by then, though that seems highly unlikely). Those using the beta version of macOS can experience the new functionality by clicking the quote button (top right of the interface) in the Music app, which displays lyrics (although all songs don't support real-time lyrics, but newer versions should). Apple does not trust third parties for its words, by the way, it prefers to transcribe it.