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Has anyone ever considered a federated alternative to lyric platforms like Genius or Musixmatch? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Just a random thought that I had: what if there were a federated, Open-source, lyrics platform—something open and community-driven, where users could submit, edit, and annotate song lyrics, similar to how Mastodon or PeerTube works for social and video content?

In theory, it could even offer an API that centralized music platforms (Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, Qobuz, etc.) might choose to tap into. Think of it as a libre lyrics backend with federation support.

I’d absolutely love to see or even contribute to something like this, but I don’t currently have the skills or energy to pull it off myself. Has anyone explored this idea before?

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The annotation system could benefit from federation. Users can submit any interpretation, and some of them will need to be moderated.

I can't think of a format that would be compatible with other fediverse platforms. While it would be nice to be able to annotate from existing accounts or follow new updates to a song from Lemmy/Mastodon, the specifics would be complicated. Do people follow artists, albums, songs, lines of text? Sometimes people will want to annotate a single word, and other times a whole paragraph

However, the lyrics themselves would be better off with a system like Wikipedia

this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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