Lyrics feature - We need your feedback!

Hello - this is a fantastic feature, but I fear it might never actually fulfil its potential if you leave it to lyrics websites to get everything onto the site. I propose you open up lyric submission to fans (the ones who really love the music will be the most keen to put them up and also know the lyrics betters than most people). Obviously, this will require that the lyrics get reviewed to take care of the odd clown who puts something ridiculous or offensive up - but perhaps you could have lyric contributors verify their ID with you before being able to upload to nip this in the bud. I would also add functionality so that the contributor (or Deezer themselves) can simply send out messages to the official websites, or social media presences of the artists on the site, and give them the opportunity to get their lyrics up on the site and confirm that there are no errors o9n what has been uploaded by fans. I miss the days when you would get lyrics in the inserts in CDs (and yes, cassettes! lol). It is surprising to me that more artists don’t want the right lyrics out there, when there are so many mishears and mistakes on the lyrics websites. Anway, that’s what I think! 

Oh, while I’m here, here are the lyrics for ‘How Will I Know?’ The Thrillseekers, NB. Some remixes might required different ordering for the verses and choruses, but this should be correct for the original and the most part. Usually this wouldn’t really be an issue, but if you’re going to have the lyric sync feature going, you need specific lyrics for every separate version and remix.

How Will I Know

The Thrillseekers

Watch the night fade away
Still hurting from the words spoken
Our paths let astray
Life we shared left shattered and broken

How will I find my way out of the dark
When will I let go
How will I know

Feel the walls closing in
My restless heart left torn and lonely
I see dark skies within
Wishing you were here to hold me

How will I know (when I've found my way out)
My way out of the dark (and the lingering silence)
When will I let go (of my shadows and doubts)
How will I know

A future unknown
What will become when you're not here
Now stand here alone
Trying to leave you behind
Trying to let go

How will I know (when I've found my way out)
My way out of the dark (and the lingering silence)
When will I let go (of my shadows and doubts)
How will I know (how will I know)

How will I know (when I've found my way out)
My way out of the dark (and the lingering silence)
When will I let go (of my shadows and doubts)
How will I know

And to prove my points from my previous posts - just using the lyric feature on Satellite (Original Mix) Above and Beyond - and there is a whole verse missing at after the first verse. THis stuff is so annoying to fans, and is really shoddy and careless work if you are having an actual lyrics website supply them to you. I assume they’re being compensated? Well, they aren’t worth it. I would be happy to make you an offer with a contract stating a requirement for accuracy percentage (based on word count) for a fair flat fee per track (with discounted rate for reversioning songs for different arrangements or remixes). I have over a decade of experience providing captioning, subtitles, transcripts and karaoke lyrics to major clients in TV, film and broadcasting in general. Contact me on my email address if you’d like to know more. (I assume you can grab that from my membership...) Cheers, Matt W.

I see a desync on this track: https://deezer.page.link/KumVJy2B9CrDjmKp9

Hey Matt @garros 

Thank you for your detailed feedback. At the moment, LyricFind is our lyrics partner. You may reach them about amendments directly: https://www.lyricfind.com/index.php?id=122

Hey @AlexWayfer same thing applies and it's quicker with them, rather through the community 

I would love to be able to copy the lyrics to my clipboard so I can paste them into my Google translate. I listen to a lot of songs in different languages. 

Lyrics font size are too small.. it would be better if they could be even bigger. 

Also, an option to report wrong lyrics or reporting lyrics sync issues.

Cheers.

I don't like the lyrics feature. It's poorly implemented.

I rather use MusixMatch and I'm gladly paying for it's premium membership. Why? Because it's lyrics implementation still allows me to use the progressbar of a track, and still be able to tap and move to any part of the track. Even if MusixMatch is missing lots of lyrics, I prefer it over the integrated feature.

I wish deezer would remake the lyrics feature in the same way, that MusixMatch has done it.

I really find your feedback amazing, guys @Harmonie @Mr. Jahrami @Steve.DiGregorio 

I agree with you all but I must confess I haven't tried MusixMatch yet!

Nevertheless, it's for our devs to decide on what to improve, that's why we created this thread. I'll be forwarding your suggestions right now. Hopefully improving performance and choosing the lyrics font size is something we can tackle as a quick win 

@Rudi

This is how MusixMatch implementation of Lyrics look like: Imgur

This implementation of the lyrics feature allows me to still be able to use the player, and tap anywhere in the progressbar, etc. The lyrics don't show a second screen as Deezer does, instead it just covers the title cover with the lyrics, but leaves alone the player navigation. 

By tapping the MM bubble or in the MM notification panel, the lyrics show up if they're available. 

Unfortunately many lyrics are not available as they apparently need to be added & synchronized by the community (users)

There is also a translation feature, which doesn't work most of the time. 

Following screenshot shows the german version of MM: