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9 Best Music Recognition Software for PC [Free Apps]

A list of excellent software to get the artists who sang a song in no time

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Are you looking formusicrecognition software? We share the best tools you can use in 2020.

Everymusiclover likes tosing along to the lyricsof their favorite songs. Knowing the lyrics is one thing, but knowing who sang the song is another.

Sometimes you want to save the track on a playlist or share it with your friends so they can find it online or request it on their favorite local radio station.

Sure, you can type a few words on YouTube or Google search, but these bring up thousands, even millions of search results, and sometimes the lyrics are similar to a different song, so you’d have to listen to each result to point out the specific one you wanted.

This is wheremusicrecognition software comes in – to help you know exactly who sang the song, even the year.

Here are the bestmusicrecognition software tools to take the hassle out of your online searches for both the artiste and/or lyrics.

Top 9 music recognition tools for Windows 10

Shazam

Shazamis one of the world’s most popular music recognition software apps, which is available for free download on yourWindowsdevice.

Its user-friendly interface hasfeaturessuch as auto-listen, which identifies themusicfor you, and continuous song recognition, which even recognizes songs and shows it hears from your TV.

Here are key features of the Shazammusicrecognition software:

Shazam, as mentioned, is very popular, and users love its colorful and user-friendly interactive interface (four panels), plus its ability to identify not just music but also movies and TV shows quickly and accurately.

One of its benefits is its full integration with social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as other channels such as Spotify and Pandora.

⇒Get Shazam

SoundHound

SoundHoundis perhaps the biggest rival of Shazam in themusicrecognition software tools category.

SoundHound provides a full-featured music recognition interface with its iconic big orange button, which lets you tag music by saying ‘Ok Hound’.

Another one of its uniquefeaturesissupporting voice controls.

You can even hum your favorite track, and Sound Hound will try and identify it. This isn’t found with most other apps. But your humming needs to be accurate so the app can guess the song correctly.

Here are cool features of theSoundHound app:

It’s easy to see whySoundHound gives Shazam a run for its money. Thistoolis also available for free download.

⇒Get SoundHound

MusixMatch

Nothing makes singing along to a song better than having the actual lyrics.

TheMusixMatchmusicrecognition software tool was previously paired with Spotify. It’s because it has a huge catalog ofmusiclyrics that makes it popular among users.

It is also compatible with most third-partymusicplayer apps but doesn’t come withmusiccharts.

Here’s what you can do with the MusixMatch music recognition app:

⇒Get MusixMatch

TrackID

You may not have heard about Sony’s TrackID music recognition software tool, but it’s definitely worth your attention. Compared to the others mentioned above, it has a surprisingly large following of users.

Here’s what makes TrackID special:

However, TrackID has limited tagging options and doesn’t give links to music lyrics and videos, but it redirects you to find them on YouTube or a lyrics website.

⇒Get TrackID

Audiggle

Audiggleis a newmusicrecognition softwaretoolthat instantly lets you know the artist and song name of anything playing on your computer. So if you aren’t sure what a song, movie, or TV show’s name is, use this app.

Here’s what you can expect from Audiggle:

⇒Get Audiggle

Midomi

Midomiis a web-basedmusicrecognition software platform owned by the same company that ownsSoundHound (mentioned above).

Midomi lets you identify your favorite songs by singing or humming into yourmicrophone, then it gives back the information on the song. If you can’t hum or sing it, you can play the song’s audio clip to yourmicrophone,and it will recognize it.

⇒Get Midomi

Audio Tag

WithAudio Tag, a web-basedmusicrecognition software tool, you need only upload an audio track or paste the URL of the audio clip, and it will identify it for you.

The audio clip must be between 15-45 seconds in duration for it to begin identifying the same.

⇒Get Audio Tag

Tunatic

TheTunaticmusicrecognition software tool lets you identifymusicafter downloading and installing it on your computer. All you need to do is play the song on your earphone on the microphone, then click Search.

You need to be online to connect to the Tunatic database, after which thetoolshows you the song’s title and the artiste who sang it.

Tunatic supports bothWindowsand Mac operating systems.

⇒Get Tunatic

WatZatSong

Like its name suggests, theWatZatSongmusicrecognition software tool lets you post an audio ormusicclip on its site, then other followers or users on the site chip in to help identify the song.

This means thetoolis based on human knowledge, so you may not get the results as snappy as you would expect.

⇒Get WatZatSong

Have you tried any of thesemusicrecognition software tools? Let us know your experience with thesetools, or share which other ones you think are cool to use too.

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Milan Stanojevic

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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.

Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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