Almost every person in his life was faced with the dilemma of finding a music track he liked on the Internet. Sometimes we spent several hours combing the vastness of the World Wide Web, but it was all in vain. Nevertheless, many people forget or do not even suspect (as a rule, novice netizens) that it is possible to find music from a fragment using specialized services or software. In today’s article, we will look at several services / programs for recognizing music online.
Shazam
Perhaps the most popular choice among users is a free cross-platform project like Shazam (or Shazam in Russian). Shazam is distributed as an app and is available on a wide variety of different platforms. Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone, iOS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian OS, Android, Mac OS, Windows 10 Mobile – you can easily install Shazam on devices controlled by these operating systems.
However, it should be noted that this program is popular primarily on mobile devices running Android and iOS. Ok, let’s look at a small example of how to use Shazam on an Android smartphone. First of all, you need to go to Google Play and install the program. It’s free, so there shouldn’t be any problems.
So, we launch Shazam and see the following picture in front of us:
To recognize music or, as the program suggests, “Shazamit”, you need to click on the button with the application logo, and then bring your device to the sound source. After a while, Shazam will determine the song and give you its name, the number of “shazams” held, and also offer to buy / open it on Google Play Music (or the service corresponding to your gadget). Swiping to the right will take you to the “My Shazam” menu, to the left – “Mix”. As you can see, Shazam is extremely easy to use and doesn’t take up much space on your device.
SoundHound
Another extremely popular ringtone search application is SoundHound, developed by the company of the same name, which specializes in speech and audio recognition. Unlike the previous program on the list, SoundHound is available only on modern mobile operating systems, i.e. Android and iOS. SoundHound’s user interface is quite similar to Shazam, so you shouldn’t have any problems finding the track you want. And SoundHound looks like this:
As you can see, the interface is quite simple. Click on the center button to start online song recognition. You can bring your smartphone to the sound source or even hum (!) A melody stuck in your head. SoundHound is highly accurate and shows results fairly quickly. You can look at all the checks carried out in the “History” tab. You can get acquainted with popular tracks around the world in the “Charts” tab. SoundHound is a handy and compact music finder that definitely won’t disappoint you.
AudioTag
If you do not want to use various applications on your smartphone, you can resort to AudioTag services. What it is? AudioTag is a free music recognition service. With the help of this service, you can determine the name of the track, the name of its artist and other equally important information about it. AudioTag’s design is minimalistic, extremely easy to use and completely free.
However, AudioTag has one interesting and not the most convenient feature: you need to upload an audio file with a fragment of the track you need to the site, after which the service robot will try to recognize and provide all available information on it. The service supports many different audio file formats: uncompressed, ADPCM, WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, FLV, AMR MP4 and more. To optimally search for music by a fragment, the length of this fragment should be between 15 and 45 seconds.
Midomi
Midomi is another hugely popular service that can identify a song by sound. Fun fact: Midomi is a subsidiary of SoundHound. This service works in approximately the same way as the previous service in the list, however, you do not need to upload any audio files to it.
You just need to press a button and put your microphone to the sound source or hum the song you want. Among other things, on the resource you can get access to various music-oriented content. You can also use a functional search engine. Perhaps, asking users about some music recognizer, one of the three will recommend you to look at Midomi.