LYRIC/ARTIST FINDER

By

Caitlin Burns, Jessica Clarke, Jonathan Tejs,

Jakub Piechowiak and Ryan Thompson

• Infinitives: - Who? People who love music. - What? When people are confused about lyrics of

a song or they want to know who the song is by. They can also find out more about the artist and other recommended songs by the artist.

- When? This app can be used anytime of the day. - Where? Lyric/ArtistFinder can be used

anywhere with or without an internet connection, that's what makes it so great and helpful.

- Why? Nobody likes getting the lyrics wrong in a song so our app can help with that problem. Also, it lets the users explore further into music they didn't know about.

The problem many people encounter is; you hear a song you really like, you may want to download it or listen to it on the internet. However, you don’t know what its called or even who sung it you may only know some of the lyrics.

You may type in the lyrics on the internet to find out the song however, the internet may give you someone's cover on it recently. Therefore, its not reliable

Sometimes you just want to find out about the song such as its release dates, songwriter, instruments and many more.

The question our team is trying to answer is…

“HOW WILL OUR APP HAVE OLD AND NEW SONGS WITH THE CORRECT LYRICS AND

DETAILS?”

Our key insights statements are:

To be able to find lyrics of songs easily

Also, to find more information about the song and the artist.

Our team, Infinitives, is developing a mobile app to help anyone who loves music however, don’t know most songs. Our app will help people if want to know the lyrics, artist and details of the latest and past songs. Our app tells them the lyrics and details and even gives them previews to see if it’s the right song.

We sent out a survey asking potential users questions about our app. 83% of the people we asked are aged between 10-20, there was a mixture of males and females who listen to different genres of music. We found out the following from sending out surveys to possible users of our future app:

83% of them listen to music everyday,

66% of people want to know song details and the lyrics of some songs,

33% are willing to pay for our app,

75% of the people would find this app useful.

When looking at similar apps already in the market we found some but they didn't completely solve the problem. One app was called “lyric search”, it allows you to find lyrics of a song that you are listening to

on your iPod. This doesn’t fully solve the problem because it only allows you to find lyrics form songs on your iPod and not from the radio or songs your thinking of or a song you would like to know more

about.

Another app was called “lyric look” it is similar to “lyric search” however it lets you use Google to learn

more about the song but it doesn’t give you the actual lyrics.

User 1’s story:

“I love all different kinds of music and want to know lyrics of the latest songs without hassle and know who

the songs are by.”

User 2’s story:

“I like particular singers and want to know when there next song comes out and know the lyrics fast. I love

finding out new things about my favourites artist and I want to know if I’m getting songs right.”

The diagram below shows how the App will flow and its key features.

To the right shows us the main menu for our Lyric/Artist Finder app:

To the right shows the main search feature for our Lyric/Artist Finder app:

To the left shows

the charts now feature for our

Lyric/Artist Finder app:

To the left shows the option of looking at different countries charts feature for our Lyric/Artist Finder app:

To the right shows the preview of the song. The artist, song name and the option to listen to some of the song:

To the right shows the song details major feature of our Lyric/Artist finder app:

To the left shows the users favourites and recently viewed feature on our app:

To the left shows the help screen of our app:

To the right shows the settings you can adjust in our app:

Data Feasibility:

Our app requires sound files which will be played when the user wishes to preview the song. We will need to be authorised and able to use songs by various artists.

Technical Feasibility:

Our app is simple to build as many of its features are on an average app. A professional developer could build our app in less than 3 months. However, it will continuously need updated in order to have every song. To make our app easier to build we could remove songs before the 1900s.

“We believe that people should be able to listen to music without the struggle of getting lyrics wrong without having to pay for it as it will be more popular if it is free.”

Our business model will be that the users wont have to pay for the app. This is because people are more interested in free apps than ones that have to be paid for.

At first it was a thought to make the app an app that has to be paid for however we thought we would get less interest if it was.

What's more, if the app increases in popularity we will add a small price to it.

To promote our app, we will do the following during marketing;

Send out leaflets, posters, banners, etc.

Adverts on apps and social media

We will also tell people and do small pitches.