what's up guys it's Tom welcome back to the lab
welcome back to another video welcome back to
my life today i'm coming back at you with a new video about distrokid now
when it comes to music distribution platforms
district kids seems to consistently be ahead of the competition when it comes
to new features that we can get our hands
on they were the first to release to tick-tock they still have a pre-save
and follow option once your release has been
delivered to spotify when other competitors don't and then
most recently they've added this really awesome
feature that allows you to upload and sync the lyrics for your song
and then push them out to stores that participate
in having your lyrics play back along with the song today what i want to do
is dive into specifically uploading a song
uploading the lyrics and then syncing them through district kid
so you can see just how easy it is and how to do it now before we dig in
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moving on okay so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna start out on the upload
screen here in distrokid i'm gonna do a fake upload for my song
that just came out must be dreaming there's a link to that in the
description of this video if you want to go check that out
but because it's already out i'm just going to redo the upload
so we can sync the lyrics again just to show you how to do it so
we're here on the upload screen i'm just going to select
a few stores instead of all of them since i'm probably just going to delete
this right after the fact but we'll go through it anyway so we'll
set the release date for july 21st 2021 so there's no chance that it'll actually
come out before i can remove it and let's upload the cover image
select dance track title
must be dreaming choose our audio file
we'll go ahead and put in our existing isrc code
and then that's it so we'll check all these boxes
agree and click done and it'll upload what'll happen is we'll get a couple
emails district it'll tell us that everything's been approved and then we
can go and we can add our lyrics what we're going to do is we're going to
go to the plain lyric section here and we're going to copy and i've already
gotten copied and paste our lyrics so i'm going to paste all the lyrics
without any headers denoting in the chorus of the verse the
precourse thing like that just lyrics as you hear them in the song
and once that's done we'll check the box we'll click save
and then it can take a minute to get approved sometimes it'll take a day
sometimes it can take shorter sometimes longer in this case it's taking about 10
minutes for our lyrics to get approved and then when
they do get approved you'll get an email that looks something like this
it'll say your lyrics have been approved and it'll have the lyrics of your song
in the body of the email so once we get that email we're going to go back to
distrokid and we're going to go to the synced
lyrics link here and this is the fun part honestly it's
super easy it's kind of like playing a video game
you just hold bar and let it go when the lyrics are on and when they stop so
i'll show you exactly how it goes
the silhouette of your face with the ghost of my memories
don't wake me up i just wanna stay right here forever
stay forever here
so
and it's literally that simple like i said it's kind of like playing a video
game which is pretty fun and so once that's
done just as with your plane lyrics you're going to end up with a little
green check next to the synced lyrics thing
on the screen i don't have one because i didn't go through the whole thing
because i'm not going to make you sit here and listen to the whole song
if you want to do that you can hit the link in the description of this video
and go check it out on spotify so that's it this is a really
dope feature in my opinion and it's really nice to have access to it as an
independent artist and like i said distrokid is always
rolling out stuff like this i don't know why they
seem to do it before anybody else maybe they're just
super innovative maybe they know somebody we don't maybe it's because
they have a good relationship with spotify
whatever it is it really doesn't matter the point is they always seem to have
new little things like this that you can do through them that you
can't do through anyone else and eventually others seem to catch up but
district by and large is always the first to do this kind of
thing it's a cool feature it's fun to do it's really easy and i think it adds a
lot of value for listeners on apple music and platforms
like that that offer the ability to have your lyrics play back
while you're listening to the song i want to give a major shout out to
district kid thanks for sponsoring this video
if you want to try distrokid and you haven't hit the link in the description
of this video and save yourself some money when you sign up it's a great
great platform and uh they're super cool over there and are really really helpful
every time i've needed support or anything like that
they're on the ball yeah it's pretty easy so go check it out that's it for
this video thanks for watching if you have any
comments questions let me know and uh i'll catch you on the next one
peace
you