
When prompted, select Listen on this phone.

To set this up, open Spotify on both the devices, then play a song on your phone. One unique feature of Musixmatch is that it allows you to play the music on your phone and display the lyrics on a laptop or a desktop. Bonus: Display Lyrics on Desktop While Playing on Phone Otherwise, however, you’ll be stuck in the app. Once you have your song playing, you can actually set the app to let you read the lyrics on your lock screen. Genius lyrics has a limited database of lyrics, so you might like the Musixmatch app on the iTunes Store better. Once you get it listening to your microphone, you can use the pop-up to keep Spotify open on one half of the screen. If you’re not a huge fan of Genius lyrics, you can use the Musixmatch app, which is available for free on the Google Play store. The Mac version works the same way as the Windows one does. You’ll find it in small text (Mac icon) on the Musixmatch download page. The Mac download link is hidden on the website. Read On: How to Hide or Disable Spotify Updates on Facebook Musixmatch on a Mac You can also create a desktop shortcut by dragging this icon on to your desktop. Once installed, open up the Windows 10 menu and select Musixmatch. If you’re on Windows 10, you can download the Musixmatch app from the Windows store.

Since this method is slightly unstable, we’ll introduce an alternative afterward. On phones, the app listens to the music through the device’s microphone, then displays the appropriate lyrics. Musixmatch tracks the Spotify app to see what you’re listening to, even if it’s on mute. It immediately recognizes Spotify songs as you start them and has tons of functionalities whilst keeping to the clean, flat minimalist interface design of modern operating systems. Unfortunately, the app is still in beta and cuts out occasionally.

The desktop app will give you all the features for free as long as you connect a Google or Facebook account. The business sources all its lyrics from the community and turns a profit by selling developer toolkits. There are even translations in multiple languages if you don’t want to sing in English. If they don’t show up, you can always add your own lyrics and timings to the songs for everybody else to use. Musixmatch has lyrics for over 6 million songs, so they’re often even available for lesser-known artists. However, the Musixmatch app, available on all devices, will still detect your Spotify music and display its lyrics.

Spotify’s partnership with Musixmatch ended a few years ago.
