Play along with Spotify or YouTube

When you want to hear how a song goes, the play button sits by the song's title on the chords and lyrics page. Songs added from the web are linked to Spotify already, so most of your library is ready to play without any setup. On a computer you can also start a song straight from the list: rest the pointer on a song's row and a play button appears on its cover. On the free plan the play button is greyed out and shows which plan opens it, and you can still open the song in Spotify or YouTube.

What you hear depends on the device, because Spotify and YouTube set the rules for playing inside another app. Spotify plays a 30-second preview on phones and tablets, and the source button beside play says so with a small 30 s. On a computer, in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, it plays the whole song as long as you're logged in to Spotify in that browser, while Safari on a Mac plays the preview.

YouTube plays inside the app on computers and on Android, and can go Fullscreen when you want to watch the guitarist's hands. On an iPhone, an iPad, or in Safari on a Mac, the video opens in YouTube instead. On Android, a song that has a video plays the video, since that gives you the whole song where Spotify would give you 30 seconds.

When a song has both, you can choose which one plays. The button beside play opens Media Provider, and the switch at the top chooses whether Spotify or YouTube plays. The link of each can be copied too, to send the recording to a bandmate who needs to learn it, or changed when the video found for the song is the wrong one.

Sometimes you'd rather listen in the app you already use, with the whole song on any device. At the bottom of Media Provider, Spotify and YouTube open the song in their own app or site, on every device and every plan.

Practising a run of songs is easier when the music doesn't stop each time you look at another chart. The player stays at the bottom of the screen while you look at other songs, and a tap on the song's cover in it takes you back to that song. Open the player to choose with Autoplay what happens when the song ends: Stop after song, Continue playlist or Shuffle. Next, put your songs in a setlist, or set up autoscroll so the lyrics keep up with the music.