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Gone are the days when you had to listen to your favourite songs on repeat just to write the lyrics down in a hardcover book. Lyrics have gone from appearing inside the sleeve of your favourite CD to being readily available online and now, Apple is looking to take it to the next level with Apple Music Sing.
Apple Music Sing announced what they call “an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favourite songs with adjustable vocals and real-time lyrics”.
“Sing offers multiple lyric views to help fans take the lead, perform duets, sing backup, and more — all integrated within Apple Music’s unparalleled lyrics experience,” said the company in a statement.
“Coupled with an ever-expanding catalogue that features tens of millions of the world’s most singable songs, Apple Music Sing makes it fun and easy for anyone to participate, however, and wherever they choose.”
Apple Music Sing will be available later this month to Apple Music subscribers worldwide and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad and the new Apple TV 4K.
“Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features of our service,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats.
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“We already know our users all over the world love to follow along to their favourite songs, so we wanted to evolve this offering even further to enable even more engagement around music through singing. It’s really a lot of fun, our customers are going to love it.”
Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a song’s vocal levels. They can sing with the original artist vocals, take the lead, or mix it up on millions of songs in the Apple Music catalogue.
Real-time lyrics: Users can sing along to their favourite songs with animated lyrics that dance to the rhythm of the vocals.
Background vocals: Vocal lines sung simultaneously can animate independently from the main vocals to make it easier for users to follow.
Duet view: Multiple vocalists show on opposite sides of the screen to make duets or multi-singer tracks easy to sing along to.
In addition to launching Sing, Apple Music will also be launching a suite of more than 50 dedicated companion playlists featuring all of the epic songs, duets, choruses and anthems that have been compelling people all around the world to sing — fully optimised for the Apple Music Sing experience.
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