Replacing Shazam: Best Music Recognition Apps

1. SoundHound

One of the most famous analogs, which can recognize not only the music being played, but also the song you are singing. For the identified song, a link to Google Play immediately appears, as well as additional information about the artist himself, his albums and videos.

A useful feature of the service is the ability to follow the lyrics of a song in real time. The app is completely free to use, but you'll have to put up with banner ads. In general, SoundHound is almost as accurate as Shazam, but the recognition process itself sometimes takes much longer.

2. BeatFind

This is a lesser known, but equally useful service, devoid of clutter of functions and ads. In terms of recognition accuracy of compositions, it is not inferior to more eminent analogues, and in terms of speed it often even surpasses them. During testing, he made a mistake only once, mistaking the song performed a cappella for the studio original.

The recognized track can be opened on Spotify, Deezer, or YouTube. The application also allows you to visualize the music it “hears” by synchronizing the animation on the screen with it. Even your camera's flash can blink at a beat, as if it were a portable stroboscope.

3. MusicID

Another little-known and superficially very simple service with links to Amazon. He knows little about indie music, especially Russian-speaking performers, but at the same time has a pleasant and convenient interface with a minimum amount of advertising.

All found tracks are stored in the search history, from where you can always return to them. Similar songs and links to YouTube videos are displayed for each song. You can easily navigate to all albums by artist. Russian is not supported, but special knowledge of English is not required.

4. Google audio search and Siri

In fact, you can recognize the music around you without any applications. Android device owners can use the audio search widget available with the Google app. It will not only identify the song, but it will also allow you to go straight to the purchase on Google Play and get more information about the artist and the album from the web.

In the case of Apple devices, everything is much simpler, because Shazam functionality has long been built into Siri. You just need to start the assistant and ask him "What song is playing?" or just "Who is singing?" The Apple Music link is of course included.

5. Telegram bots

Using bots in the messenger is not the most convenient way to recognize music, but for those who “live” in Telegram, this option may well be suitable. You just need to add the desired bot and let it listen to the song by holding the microphone in the message sending line.

One of the most popular bots for this is the Yandex. Music bot. It has no problems with the speed and accuracy of recognition. Each track found is supplemented with a link to the Yandex music service of the same name.

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Another option is the Acknowledgment bot. It is also quite accurate and fast, but for it to work, you need to subscribe to the Bassmuzic channel. Tracks Acknowledged with links to Spotify and YouTube.

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