Musicians are not always the most articulate folks — often letting the sound and emotion of a jam outweigh vocal clarity — which can make singing along to your favorite tunes a bit of a chore. Enter musiXmatch, a new iOS app from the lyrics provider that makes uncovering the words to any jam a snap.
The app — which is available for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile 7 and now for iPhone and iPod touch [iTunes links] — scans your music library, allowing you to listen to your music and tap to uncover lyrics while you jam. Right now, the app has around 5.5 million songs, so pickings are relatively robust.
Users can also share lyrics to their social networks, check out trending searches and search for specific songs.
Music recognition service Soundhound has a similar offering, allowing users to identify songs and pull up lyrics for “Now Playing” tracks on one’s iTunes. That service, however, only has access to 500,000 lyrics at present.
Image courtesy of Flickr, pfly
More About: iOS, lyrics, Mobile 2.0, musixmatchFor more Media coverage:Follow Mashable Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Media channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:57:40 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/tRIB6XcdRQM/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/musixmatch-app-lyrics-itunes/#comments
The app — which is available for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile 7 and now for iPhone and iPod touch [iTunes links] — scans your music library, allowing you to listen to your music and tap to uncover lyrics while you jam. Right now, the app has around 5.5 million songs, so pickings are relatively robust.
Users can also share lyrics to their social networks, check out trending searches and search for specific songs.
Music recognition service Soundhound has a similar offering, allowing users to identify songs and pull up lyrics for “Now Playing” tracks on one’s iTunes. That service, however, only has access to 500,000 lyrics at present.
Image courtesy of Flickr, pfly
More About: iOS, lyrics, Mobile 2.0, musixmatchFor more Media coverage:Follow Mashable Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Media channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:57:40 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/tRIB6XcdRQM/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/musixmatch-app-lyrics-itunes/#comments