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Lyrics in Sonos App

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 30, 2025
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Would love to see Apple Music lyrics in the app

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Sonos Staff

Hello @mrdrprofessor, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I’ve marked this thread as a feature request and forwarded it to the appropriate teams for consideration.

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Lead Maestro

The old mobile app theoretically included lyric support, though I never saw a music service that implemented it.

This ability has been removed from the newer version of SMAPI that v80 mobile app switched to.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

Grand Maestro

Lyrics would be nice for every service willing to provide them.

For now I fire up the TV and use the Amazon app to my Arc, be more convenient and use a lot less power if the Sonos Controller showed them.

I must not be visual when I listen to music. I don’t need to look at the album cover, or lyrics. But that doesn’t mean others shouldn’t. This would be a nice feature for many. I’m happy @Sotiris C. has passed it on.

Bruce

The old mobile app theoretically included lyric support, though I never saw a music service that implemented it.

This ability has been removed from the newer version of SMAPI that v80 mobile app switched to.

Do you recall if the feature allowed for highlighting the specific lyric played currently?

Danny

Lead Maestro

The old mobile app theoretically included lyric support, though I never saw a music service that implemented it.

This ability has been removed from the newer version of SMAPI that v80 mobile app switched to.

Do you recall if the feature allowed for highlighting the specific lyric played currently?

As I said, I never saw a music service implementing it, but it doesn’t look like it.

You can see screenshots in the old API documentation here: http://web.archive.org/web/20230207111121/https://developer.sonos.com/build/content-service-add-features/add-lyrics/

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

The old mobile app theoretically included lyric support, though I never saw a music service that implemented it.

This ability has been removed from the newer version of SMAPI that v80 mobile app switched to.

Do you recall if the feature allowed for highlighting the specific lyric played currently?

As I said, I never saw a music service implementing it, but it doesn’t look like it.

You can see screenshots in the old API documentation here: http://web.archive.org/web/20230207111121/https://developer.sonos.com/build/content-service-add-features/add-lyrics/

Thanks. The screenshot shows timestamps, which likely means that it did not highlight the lyrics. Although it seems like it wouldn’t be too difficult to highlight lyrics given that info.

Danny