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> for them to take away lyrics _again_ Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this. So. Lyrics, and any text that ac
by dmitriid 4y ago
> for them to take away lyrics _again_
Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this.
So. Lyrics, and any text that accompanies audio in general (for example, if you try to show audiobook text while it's playing, or audio transcript of a podcast, or...) is a legal minefield.
So, if some text that accompanies audio disappears... it's likely for legal/licensing reasons, not because devs are incompetent.
That said, as an incompetent dev myself, features may disappear due to incompetence, too :)
- jjice 4y agoOh I bet it gets tricky on the legal front. I was more referring to the entire feature being removed like 5 or 6 years ago I think, but I imagine there was an issue with the partnership with Genius or whoever the original lyric supplier was.
- dmitriid 4y agoI can neither confirm nor deny that :) There was a partnership with Musixmatch for lyrics, but it ended for reasons I don't know (and if I knew I couldn't tell you) https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feature-unavailable/td-p/1356490/page/8 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Lyrics-feat... Getting the lyrics back was another journey that I also don't know the details of (and also couldn't tell you :) )