Italian company develops an API for lyrics and other metadata for music services to offer consumers

Everyone has done it. You can’t really tell what the singer is saying, even though it’s one of your favorite songs, so you head to Google and type in something like “till the world ends lyrics.” The results always return bountiful (but lackluster) and somewhat accurate (but surrounded by spam). And there’s rarely a clean way to integrate those lyrics into your song files’ metadata.Here’s a startup that believes there’s a better way.musiXmatch, developer of a digital lyrics API, announced Monday that it has has raised $3.7 million in Series A funding from leading investor Francesco Micheli Associati (FMA), a private Italian-based fund managed by Francesco Micheli and Carlo Micheli.While it’s not a consumer-facing service, musiXmatch offers third parties an ... [Read more]