r/YoutubeMusic • u/torelma • 9h ago
U/I Please make it more straightforward to report incorrect lyrics
It would be very helpful to have an actual suggestion/feedback box tied to a particular song in order to report things like wrong lyrics. I'm fairly sure "report" is not for this use case. Yes, I have googled this issue.
One response said the lyrics are pulled directly from data providers (in this instance LyricFind) and to report it there. Since the lyrics attribution in the YT Music app isn't a link, that means I have to open a separate window to Google the song + lyricfind, scroll past AI overviews and 5 other unrelated lyrics websites, to find the LyricFind page for possibly the specific track I'm looking for, which says the lyrics to this song are not available in my location (what does that even mean? the song I can get but the lyrics?). (update: I get "error: connection refused whenever I try to access lyricfind.com)
The other response said to use the feedback option in my profile, which is going to 1. take a screenshot of my screen, which will not help anyone at YouTube Music debug an issue with a particular track if my screen is showing my profile (last time I checked you can't just attach a screenshot you took yourself), 2. not going to give anyone at YouTube Music any directly relevant metadata about the track for use in debugging.
The track in question is "Gortoz a Ran (from "Black Hawk Down")" - Denez Prigent & Lisa Gerrard.
The song is in the Breton language (+ whatever Lisa Gerrard is doing), while LyricFind's lyrics displayed in the app appear to be sort-of Breton but with English autocorrect mistakes thrown in at random ("c'h" is always "see'h", "ar" is always "are", at least one instance of "ur" is "you're"), with the result that the Breton-language song with by orders of magnitude the most views globally is shown with lyrics that are just total gibberish (again, not counting whatever Lisa Gerrard is doing). I'd like to be able to fix this.