Apple announced a new feature for apple music that can make you a karaoke superstar.
of the tech giant best music streaming service will be upgraded “later this month” with the launch of Apple Music Sing. This feature will come to devices like iPhone 14″ and iPad Air (2022) as an update to the Apple Music Lyrics tool, available to users worldwide and free of charge.
When it launches, you can not only track the supported lyrics in real time, but also with Launching Sing (opens in a new tab) You will also be able to control the volume of the song. If you’re just starting to learn the words and melody of a piece of music, you can play the vocals at maximum volume; then as you become more confident in your abilities you can reject the artist until you completely overshadow them and make the performance your own.
Best of all, even with vocals turned down, you’ll still have the band playing at full volume behind you and the optional backing of any backing vocalists.
Apple Music Sing isn’t just for solo vocal songs. You and a partner will be able to join a series of duets – or by turning down a singer’s volume, you’ll be able to perform a virtual duet with your favorite singer.
However, while we wait for more details from Apple, it looks like there will be some disappointing limitations to this fun-sounding feature, at least at launch.
For one thing, you won’t be able to turn off the original song completely. We don’t know yet how quiet you can get a singer, but we’re expecting – and hoping – that it will be nearly as silent as it makes no difference; we’re looking forward to trying Apple Music Sing to find out.
Another problem is that, since this is an expansion of Apple Music Lyrics, we expect that songs that don’t currently support this feature will not support Apple Music Sing either – and we hope that even Unsupported songs also won’t appear on Apple Music Sing Now.
Apple says it will have enough tracks to include in “50 dedicated companion playlists” featuring a mix of duets, epics and tear-jerking ballads for the launch of Apple Music Sing; just don’t expect every track in your library to be supported in the first place.
Also, if you’re someone who uses Apple Music on a non-Apple device – like this writer, who uses it on their device Google Pixel 6 – looks like this feature won’t work for you. That’s based on a press release from Apple, which says the feature will come to “compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as New Apple TV 4K” – no other devices listed.
Hopefully these restrictions won’t last too long and more users will be able to use some of their favorite products.
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