Need to learn the lyrics to a brand new tune on YouTube Music? You may want a Premium subscription for that.
YouTube Music, Google’s music streaming service, is placing tune lyrics behind a paywall for its Premium subscription. Free customers could have limits on lyrics. The premium subscription prices $11 monthly and is ad-free. The subscription permits you to change between audio and video and obtain music to pay attention offline.
A consultant for YouTube did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
Firms are leaping at each probability to nab your hard-earned cash by stuffing well-liked options behind month-to-month subscriptions. But generally, the lyrics to a tune are a free Google search away. This is what I came upon about YouTube Music’s change and what’s nonetheless unknown.
Information retailers and Reddit customers say that free customers will be capable of view lyrics 5 instances. After they attempt a sixth time, solely the primary two traces of the tune are proven, with the remainder blocked out. Folks see an advert informing them they’ve reached their restrict of lyrics views and might want to improve to the premium model to entry this function.
YouTube Music is not alone on this. Spotify on Friday announced a brand new beta function known as About the Song, which gives individuals with trivia and background info for a lot of tracks. In the identical announcement, Spotify additionally mentioned that solely Premium customers who obtain songs for offline listening could have entry to lyrics for these tracks. And Apple Music provides time-synced lyrics for a karaoke-style expertise, however just for its Premium customers.
When will premium lyrics roll out?
A 9to5Google article reported that YouTube Music has already been testing this function, however YouTube hasn’t confirmed the Premium subscription change or how lengthy this alteration has been within the works.
There are additionally nonetheless questions on when the lyric restrict will reset without cost customers and the way quickly this alteration will roll out for all customers. I examined YouTube Music out for myself on Monday and have not observed the change but.
