Musixmatch. Show song lyrics on YouTube

Last updated on 23 May 2024

Musixmatch is a service that will make the lyrics of the songs appear on the music video clips on YouTube.  An amazing idea to learn English or another language by humming the lyrics of the hits of the moment.

With Musixmatch your popularity rating with your students may well take off permanently. The latter should indeed love this small utility that will transform their music clips into pedagogical material for your language courses. It will of course remain to choose the songs well and there it is not won, the lyrics of the hits of the moment are sometimes somewhat ‘disconcerting’.

Musixmatch is first and foremost an extension for the Chrome browser. Once installed you will automatically access the lyrics of more than 7 million songs in more than 32 languages. An inexhaustible digital songbook.  Once installed, this magical extension will bring up the lyrics of the songs with a click when you watch a music clip on YouTube. Some kind of karaoke where the lyrics are synchronized with the music.

The extension also offers a range of options and settings to customize the display of lyrics as subtitles. You will be able to change the font, size, color, location of the lyrics that will appear under the songs.

Musixmatch is already used by big services like Apple Music or Spotify to offer the lyrics of the songs to their customers. Musixmatch also offers versions for your mobile or tablet.

The extension Musixmatch is linked to a site with the same name It is the world's largest catalogue of song lyrics and … of translations.. It is a library with community translations Wikipedia users. This gives some somewhat approximate translations, but also a gigantic database of song lyrics. Simply indicate the name of a song, the name of an artist or lyrics so that at the speed of lightning Musixmatch offers you a list of results. You will immediately see the available translations and will even be able to display the original text and its translation side by side.

A real good idea to put in your favorites even if we will regret the place given to ubiquitous advertising on all pages.

Link: Musixmatch