You often listen to songs while driving, traveling or sitting in some cafe with your friends on FM station or prerecorded CD or DVD and always think that you’ll download or buy that particular melodious track as soon as possible.
But the problem arises when you don’t remember the lyrics or you don’t get it, now how to find the song? “Thinks lets Google it”.
Google, Bing, Yahoo etc being the most popular search engine won’t help you much unless you know atleast few words of the lyrics or have any idea about the artist or the band. What to do now? Well, we have solution to your problem; here are some of the best music recognition services that will help you in locating song names without having to know the lyrics.
You can use them to figure out music playing from the radio, TV or CD and DVD playing in the cafe.
YOUR OWN MOBILE CAN HELP YOU.
1. Shazam is a new mobile application that you can use to find song names from you Nokia S60, Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile or Android. On Your own iPod Touch this application is valid, provided you have an external microphone.
To do this:
- Install Shazam application.
- Hold your phone in the direction of audio origin.
- Just click the tag button, so that Shazam can identify the music and you are done.
But you cannot use this application with live performance; it only works for prerecorded ones. As you know to best things are not free, likewise to get unlimited tracking, Shazam Encore, the paid version is there. Still if you want to enjoy it in free Shazam will help you identify up to 5 different tracks per month.
And if you are in UK, just dial 2580 and hold you phone to the music, Shazam will help you to recognize music no matter which mobile phone you have.
2. MusicID-Basically a $3 iPhone application, this is a special ID which can identify your music. You just have to hold your iPhone up to some music and MusicID will give you the song. But not to worry if you have Blackberry, Windows Mobile or any Java phone, and if you are on AT&T it can then also be used to recognize music with Music ID.
Like Shazam Music ID have an SMS based services for people is US can directly dial a short code, hold phone up to music and can get result via text message but again like Shazam it also works only for pre-recorded music.
SING FOR YOURSELF.
Midomi-
Constantly humming a tune but not getting the lyrics, sometime you face such conditions. But Midomi is there to help you out, all you have to do is grab a microphone and hum that tune yourself else you can also record it and Midomi will then identify its name for you. Midomi is just not a mobile application like Shazam, it also offers a web interface where you can hum or sing for about 10 seconds and then you can get list of matching songs. If you want the exact song you are humming then avoid background voices while recording and keep volume bar in the green.
Midomi also can be used as a mobile application for iPhone, Android, Nokia Ovi and Windows Mobile Phones and it is free to use online. Thus you can pick out the song by just humming into your phone itself or holding your phone up to a speaker.
RECORD AND SEARCH ONLINE.
Short recording of a song on your computer or your own mobile can be used to search the song by online music recognition service at Audio Tag. Uploading a short audio bit (or complete song) will help to recognize the title track by comparing the uploaded audio to its own music database.
Take a slice from middle of the song or upload the entire song, this will ease your task and search engine will choose slices arbitrary by itself. If you are out then this can be very helpful as you can record song on your mobile, and can search when you go online.
PEOPLE ACROSS WORLD CAN HELP YOU.
1. WatZatSong- If above all sources didn’t work for you this one definitely will.
WatZatSong (What’s that song?) is a social site where you can ask for help to common man. You just have to upload a shot MP3 audio recording of the song (or record yourself by humming) and people there on the site can then help you in guessing the song name. You can make their task easier by giving more details about the song like artist or the language in which it is sung.
Facebook and Twitter can also be used for the same.
2. Name My Tune- If you have any idea about the Genre and Era of the song you want. It can be easier for you to find it. You just have to record a short clip of song or just its hum and then they will send you an email when other people on site identify it.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD CAN DO A LOT TOO.
1. Musipedia- Now you’ll get your song with Musipedia, even your whistling in the microphone of computer can do or you can play it on a virtual piano keyboard. As the name says Musipedia like Wikipedia works best at searching classical music. It has greater advantage that it not only finds the song which you want but also identify all other songs having same melody.
2. MelodyCatcher-By a simple Java-based onscreen keyboard you can find name of the song.
All you have to do is:
- Enter melody with help of your mouse that to just first 5-7 notes.
- Click ‘search’.
That’s it MelodyCatcher will show you list of matching songs across the web.
RECORD AND SEARCH ONLINE
Short recording of a song on your computer or your own mobile can be used to search the song by online music recognition service at Audio Tag. Uploading a short audio bit (or complete song) will help to recognize the title track by comparing the uploaded audio to its own music database.
Take a slice from middle of the song or upload the entire song, this will ease your task and search engine will choose slices arbitrary by itself. If you are out then this can be very helpful as you can record song on your mobile, and can search when you go online.
