P6 - Communicate technical information to a specified audience:

Guide on how to use Genius

Click the search bar to search for a song. A

keyboard will appear and you can type. The

search bar will display suggestions based on

what is typed in.

Songs that have been recently played on the

music app for the chosen phone (in this case

iPhone) will be displayed here. You can scroll

left and right to see all of the recently played

songs. Click on a song and the lyrics will be

displayed for that song.

Click these buttons to navigate through the

different screens.

The pop up will give you clear instructions on how to

identify the song.

Clicking this button (circled in orange in the picture

above) will bring up this option that functions as a

song identifier. You can hold your device up to the

source of the music and (as long as it is in their

database) Genius will tell you what the song is.

However, this does not work if you sing, it has to be

the real song.

Scroll downwards from the main page (by moving

your finger in an upwards direction on the screen)

You can click these options to create an account or sign

in in order to view your account details.

Clicking on “Me” will bring up the account sign in

page.

From this screen, you can click this to go back to the

“Me” screen.

Clicking on the options wheel (circled on the picture

above will bring up the settings menu, where you can

view the appropriate information about the app.

You can click on an artist’s name and it will tell you

which of their songs you have on the device. By

clicking on the song itself, you can access the lyrics.

Clicking the “My Music” button will bring up a list of

artists and their songs that are on your device (as

long as they are in the Genius database).

When you are on the homepage, click on the

search bar to search for a song. You can also

find the search option on many other pages.

If you want to return to a previous search, you

can click on the items in the search history.

Clicking on the text at the top of the profile will

bring up their introduction, clicking on the songs

will bring up the lyrics to these songs.

When you click on an artist, it will bring up a

page like this.

Searching for something will bring up a list of

songs, artists or albums that have a similar

name. Clicking on a song will bring up the lyrics

to the song.

Clicking on an album from the search bar or

artist page will bring up a screen like this, where

you can scroll through the list of songs on the

album.

Clicking on the description will bring up more

detailed information about the album. Clicking

on one of the songs will bring up the lyrics.

Clicking on the album information (pictured

above will bring up a screen like this that

explains the story behind the album.

Clicking on a song from any page will bring up the

lyrics to the song on a page like this.

Clicking on this will give you more information on the

song, similar to the album information page.

From here, you can scroll through all of the lyrics to

the song and click on them. If they are highlighted

green, then when clicked, they will take you to an

annotation that was written by the artist themselves.

Once you click on a lyric, an “annotation” will be

displayed that tells you what the lyric means, it can

contain a video and a written description.

You can scroll through the written description,

which may include links that you can click and be

taken to over pages (e.g. “Like Someone” leads to

Eminem’s page as their upbringings were similar).

You can click here to vote on an annotation to show

how good or bad it is. In addition, you can suggest

improvements to annotations, which will be

reviewed by the administrators of the app.