Heard a bit of music on the music player or TV? Wondering, what song is that? or Forgot the name of the song? Don’t worry. You can easily find songs with music-recognition service using your own voice. All you need is your computer’s microphone, internet connectivity and a music discovering service.
Shazam
(https://www.shazam.com/)
Shazaming simply means identifying. Shazam is a mobile app that recognizes music, TV, and media around you. You can easily discover, explore and share the music with your friends. You can follow your favorite artists and find out what they’re listening to. You can purchase tracks to own forever. Download Shazam from the app store on your phone. Open the app, hold your phone towards the audio and tap on the ‘Shazam’ icon. Shazam can identify pre-recorded music by matching it against the millions of songs in their database. Within seconds you’ll know the name of the song and artist, which will be stored in the My Shazam section of the app. The technology behind is, when you tap the Shazam button, a unique digital fingerprint is created and matched against their database of millions of tracks and within seconds you will get the name of the music.
Midomi
(https://www.midomi.com/)
You can use midomi.com to find and discover music and people. Midomi is a music search tool, you can search by your voice, you can sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and can connect with a community that shares your musical interests. Midomi features an extensive digital music store with a growing collection of more than two million legal music tracks. You can create your own profile, sing your favorite songs and share them with your friends and get discovered by other midomi users.
SoundHound
(https://www.soundhound.com/)
SoundHound makes it simple to discover music playing around you. Whether you’re traveling or in a meeting, noticed a new song or tune, open the Soundhound app, hit the big orange SoundHound button, let your phone listen for a few seconds, and the app will tell you what’s playing.
AudioTag.info
(http://audiotag.info/)
AudioTag is a free music-recognition service. It allows you to identify almost any unknown piece of music quickly and easily by uploading a short audio fragment (even 15 seconds are enough) or an entire song, the robot analyzes it and provides you with the information about the track title, artist name, album title, etc. Your audio fragment can be in almost any file format and of almost any quality, it can be an MP3 file downloaded from the Internet or a short recording made with your music player and stored as a low-quality .WAV-file. AudioTag service is based on a sophisticated audio recognition algorithm combining advanced audio fingerprinting technology and a large songs’ database. When you upload an audio file, it is being analyzed by an audio engine. During the analysis, its audio fingerprint is extracted and identified by comparing it to the music database. At the completion of this recognition process, information about songs with their matching probabilities are displayed on the screen.
WhoSampled
(https://www.whosampled.com/)
The WhoSampled app can identify the music that is playing around you and show you its samples, covers, and remixes.
There are a lot of apps and websites to help you to identify any song that is playing at any given moment. The only thing you did is, just hold your mobile phone close to the source of the sound. The application will take some seconds to identify the song in question and shows all the information available to that song. There are a lot of similar services available, like WatZatSong (https://www.watzatsong.com/), Lyrster (http://www.lyrster.com/), MusiXmatch (https://www.musixmatch.com/) and Spotify (https://www.spotify.com) are some of them to identify your songs.
