You can now upload “synced” lyrics with DistroKid. Read on…

Philip Kaplan
DistroKid News
Published in
2 min readDec 11, 2019

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Apple Music announcement to users

Synced lyrics are all the rage.

It’s that thing on Instagram and Apple Music where lyrics scroll — in perfect time — with the music.

Karaoke-style, so that listeners can follow (and sing) along.

Starting today, DistroKid lets any artist automatically create & upload synced lyrics.

DistroKid is the only distributor in the world with this (💪💪).

Synced lyrics screen capture from Instagram
Synced lyrics on Instagram

We made a syncing interface that’s super easy. Just listen to your song and tap the spacebar (or screen on mobile) every time there’s a lyric. And that’s it — your synced lyrics are uploaded to Instagram, Apple, and more.

A lot of people tell us it’s fun & like a game.

Behind-the-scenes, our system leans on a company called Musixmatch to interface with Facebook & Instagram’s lyric ingestors (thank you, awesome & brilliant Musixmatch team!)

Get your lyrics synced! Here’s how:
Sign into DistroKid → Settings (gear icon)→ Lyrics

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy this and all the other things DistroKid makes possible.

https://distrokid.com

This image only exists here so that Medium (our blogging platform) will let us use it as the preview image for this post. Sigh.

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Founder of @DistroKid. Also founded @Fandalism, @TinyLetter, F-dcompany, AdBrite and more. Heavy metal drummer. Follow me on Twitter @pud