Apple picker SoundHound (formerly Midomi) is a great tool that will stop you liking a song that's playing somewhere, but you just don't know what it is, who it's from, or where to get it. All you have to do is have an iPhone with the SoundHound app installed and you're literally at ease.
It works simply. You launch SoundHound, tap the big button Tap Here and you win. Most of the time, it's enough to record just a five-second section of a song, and SoundHound will return the artist, song title, album, lyrics (if the lyrics are not in the database, you can easily search for them on Google with a single tap directly in the application). Song recognition happens in seconds even on GPRS, which is great. Of course, you can do other things with the search result – to star share it via email, Twitter, or Facebook, purchase it from the iTunes Store, play a short preview (when available), or search for a video clip on YouTube.com. Of course, not all songs in the database necessarily have to be, so it may happen that SoundHound doesn't find anything for you. There are really few Czech songs in the database, so the application will serve you more for recognizing foreign songs. I can confirm from my own experience that it really works and several times it recognized even seriously unknown songs that I had been searching for for maybe years.
But that's not all. For example, if you just remember a melody, you can hum it or maybe sing a part of the words. Although these methods work less reliably than directly recording a section of a song, I usually found what I was looking for from my own singing. You can also search by artist or song title, if you only know how to pronounce it and the like. It's not even a problem to write it as text - the button is used to search by artist / title Title or Artist under the main orange button. Another perfect feature that I appreciate a lot is the ability to play any song from your iPod right in the app and SoundHound will throw you the lyrics of the song being played and you can click on it for more information. There's also search history or global charts of hot songs and the like.
SoundHound is fast, easy to use and has a great graphic design - I recommend it.
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The program is certainly excellent, but for the price of 5,50 it is completely stupid. I write this in view of the competition in the form of Shazam. It works exactly the same and is very reliable. He only needs two seconds of recording and it's clear. And it's FREE!
Agreement. Sure, it has a few extra things, but I don't think I need them. And as Frankie wrote, Shazam has never let me down. And when she finds a song that I know isn't hers, I can find the one I want based on the youtube link. It refers to versions of songs sung by many performers. But I applied this sand only 3 times. And it's free. 5,50 euros is really enough. I don't think it's worth it.
That's a mistake! Shazam is free from the USStore, but it is limited to 5 searches per month. The full version is paid.
I also think it's a lot of money. I use Shazam, which is free, with success and satisfaction. I agree that the SoundHound has a little something extra, but for half the price, I'd consider it.
midomi soundhound is currently discounted to €3,99!
I can confirm that the application is good. I also agree that it is quite expensive, but I had the advantage that when I downloaded it sometime in March, it was still free.
that Miro: that as a fact? So I use Shazam quite often, but it has never told me that I have to wait until next month. But I didn't examine it closely.
Maybe Shazam used to be completely free and recently introduced a full and a lite version. I've had it for a long time and I haven't noticed any limitations yet.
So I looked in the AppStore and I confirm the limitation of the free version of Shazam, but users of the previous version who updated to this limited version can continue to use Shazam without this limitation. Which I tried with success.
Currently, the full version of Shazam and SoundHound costs the same, namely $4,99. Personally, I would take SoundHound - the song lyrics are nice, in addition to the ability to write lyrics to songs from your own iPod library. Although my unlimited free Shazam is enough for me, I have enough unused dollars in the iTunes Store that I'm thinking of buying an additional SoundHound. The $5 can be spent on more stupid things.
Now I found Sound Hound in the free section on the US Store and after reading this article I have now tried the restriction and I have already tried to find 7 songs and still nothing, everything works.