If you’ve ever heard a song you like and you still want to know its name, you’ll appreciate the existence of apps to recognize songs. With them the mobile listens to the song and after a few seconds, if you are lucky, you have the name of the song and its author.
On Android, there are plenty of apps to recognize songs, with hugely popular names like Shazam, although there are plenty of other apps to choose from, each with their pros and cons. Turn your mobile into a real song hunter with these eight apps to recognize songs.
Shazam
We start the list with most popular song identification app, Shazam. The application was bought by Apple a few years ago but fortunately its Android version continues to advance and without advertising.
Shazam has been recognizing music for so many years that it includes some cool additional features. For example, Auto Shazam mode plays all music until you stop it, and it also has a floating button
Shazam
SoundHound
SoundHound is another song recognition heavyweight. It works similarly to Shazam, with the advantage that it is also prepared so that hum the song you’re looking for (although the results very much depend on your ability to hum accurately).
In SoundHound, you can not only capture songs but also play them later using YouTube or Spotify. In some cases, you can also get the Lyrics of the song what were you listening to
SoundHound – Search and Play Music
Google Assistant
If you don’t feel like installing apps for this task, you’ll still be left with Google Assistant. If you press the microphone button in the assistant and the app detects that there is music playing in the background, you will have a choice What is this song?.
Once done, the Google Assistant will listen for a while until, if you’re lucky, it recognizes the song. It will then show you the result with information about the song and the singer, and related links to listen to the song on YouTube, Spotify and others.
google assistant
Deezer
Deezer is a music streaming service that competes with Spotify, although it has something that, at the moment, is not present in Spotify: song recognition. It receives here the proper name of Song catcheralthough in Spanish it is named simply with What is this song?
The operation is quite simple: you touch what is this song and after a few seconds you will have the result. Interestingly, according to the results, you cannot play the song, although you can add it to favorites or to a playlist.
Deezer Music
Genius
Genius is an application that focuses 100% on song lyrics, although it also has music recognition thanks to ACRCloud. Recognition in itself is correct and has the advantage that it will almost always go hand in hand with words.
Genius song recognition focuses on finding the lyrics of the song, although the play button is included with which you can listen to the song in a small floating window. The list of songs you have searched for so far is not clearly saved.
Genius – Song Lyrics & More
MusixMatch
Another very lyrics-focused app is MusixMatch, although doubles the music player functions. Or triple, as it also helps you identify songs from the Identify tab.
Song identification is not beating around the bush, with a button to identify yourself and the result that will be displayed either in plain text or with lyrics – optionally synchronized with karaoke– of those songs that count in their files.
Musixmatch music player lyrics
musical identifier
Music Identifier – also known as BeatFind in English – is another simple song recognition app that uses ACRCloud technology. It is ideal if you are looking for an application that only identifies songs and nothing else.
The recognition process takes no more than a few seconds and after that you will see the title, author and a button to listen to the song on Spotify. You can check the songs you identified before from your story.
musical identifier
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