In this video, specifically, I want to talk about musiXmatch. Musixmatch. Musixmatch. Musixmatch.
Musix. Musix. Musixmatch. Tt's really hard to say. In this video
I'm going to explain what musixmatch is and why you might use it. If you're
new here punch the subscribe button I'm a singer-songwriter myself I will leave
a couple links to my own music in the description below let's get into it
though what is the musixmatch app what it is why you might use it where to
get it how you use it and then some pros and cons of the app so the first thing
what is musiXmatch in short it's the world's largest
platform of lyrics it's a company in Italy there's like 40 or 50 people so
it's kind of like a tech startup and basically they connect to the music
platforms like Spotify and Apple music actually only those two music platforms
not like tidal Deezer and all the other music platforms musiXmatch connects to
Spotify and Apple music and gives you the lyrics to those songs while you're
listening to them in real time so their application is quite a simple concept
but there are some extended benefits to their application that I'm going to get
into at the end of the video why you might want to use an app like music
match well it's quite a subjective reason why or why not you might want to
use an app like this three obvious ones are one you'd like to know what the
lyrics are in a song some people generally are more tuned into the lyrics
rather than the melody or the instrumentation second thing which is
the most obvious this is just great for karaoke plug it in to your TV or phone
put some headphones on and you're off to the races.
The third obvious reason is it's great to learn a new language if you're
listening to Spanish music and you're trying to learn Spanish open up the app
and you can see what they're singing in English or in Spanish the lyrics are
there for you right away so it's a great way to learn a new language the app is
available on Android and Apple you can get it for a desktop and you can get it
from mobile I'm an Apple user so it's simple you go directly to the App Store
type in musixmatch open up the app go through their little onboarding. So the
fourth thing how to use it this is the thing that I found the most difficult to
figure out what I wanted to see was when I'm in my Spotify app listening to music
okay let's say I'm listening to hot hits Canada
open up the app press the song I want to see somewhere the song starts playing
I want to see the integration right away with musiXmatch
right into the app and I'm go around looking for it but it doesn't jump out
at me and I don't see a direct integration so I go back to the
musiXmatch app and it noticed that I am playing that song and so I have the
lyrics here press play and now I get the lyrics and it's cool I can start like
feeling out the lyrics I'm learning what the song is about I wish it was just an
easy integration with Spotify that it would jump out at me there could be an
integration with musixmatch that I don't know about but I can't seem to
find it right now to some pros and cons as I was browsing through Spotify and I
was trying to find the musixmatch integration
I noticed that Spotify already has an integration with lyrics with their
partnership with genius called behind the lyrics so I'm on this song called
insomnia and playing the song there's a little like fold at the bottom here and
not only are there lyrics but like little tidbits of information about the
artist and that's kind of cool musiXmatch definitely missed the boat on
that partnership with Spotify because it seems like genius has already tackled
that and it's a direct integration with the app you don't have to go out into
the musixmatch app not cool about musiXmatch app not having that direct
integration the other thing is there's ads in their app in the musiXmatch app
and they're trying to upsell you to the paid subscription I think that's quite a
bold move already my first time in the app they're trying to upsell me on a
paid integration when I'm not even like sure that I want to use this app yet
okay so those are two big cons but there are still a lot of pros like I'm in the
app and if I was trying to learn a new language I think this app would be
really cool because I could be listening to German music Spanish music Austrian
music it could be learning a language while listening to the music karaoke is
also a big Pro if you're a huge karaoke fan I think this is a great app for you
they have a similar feature as well which is like a small pro
it's like you can play a song if you're in a restaurant and don't know the
lyrics you can just play a song and their database will kind of scrape the
database and see what song it is for you but while I'm saying that out loud
I know Siri does that with their acquisition of Shazam so it seems like a
lot of their Pro features are already being like squeezed up by the streaming
platforms and being made in-house sounds like musiXmatch might end up being dried
up because those streaming platforms are building their core features in house
which is not great for musixmatch as an artist myself I can go and contribute my
own lyrics to the song if people notice a mistake in my lyrics they can
contribute it to as well it's exactly like Wikipedia how that's
controlled is there are in-house proofreaders app musiXmatch that are
looking especially at the top songs like if there's an Ed Sheeran song and
there's obviously a wrong lyric there's proof readers in house that are looking
at the lyrics and making sure that the top songs at least are a hundred percent
correct but musiXmatch has over 40 million songs and that's
more songs than even Spotify has so I have just noticed that I did search my
name Charles Cleyn on here there I am that's me are my songs there but no
lyrics because no one has contributed those lyrics yet so I think I can go
contribute those I know them quite well I can put them in there in general I
think musiXmatch is a really cool app but I just don't
know how long it might be around or if it might be acquired by one of the
bigger streaming platforms because those features are being brought in the house
anyways how do you consume music are you more interested in lyrics let me know
what you think in a comment punch the subscribe button if you're new here I'm
a singer songwriter myself so I'll leave some my own music in the description and
I will see you in the next video.