Google song finder

[twobjshelbys]

How does the Google song finder work? Its amazing. It can match in a few seconds so it can jump in the middle. It also has never lied. In a restaurant if there is a lot of background noise it might not detect anything but its never given a wrong answer.

It does have to be the original. It doesn't find covers unless the artist was also recording it.

For example in the car with no background noise it picked Henley boys of summer in an instrumental segment in under a second

[Highwayman]

SoundHound is a good app for this

[68fastback]

Sounds like a very cool app!! I have to check it out. Is it a freebie?

[twobjshelbys]

On my Verizon s10 its built in to the Google app

[68fastback]

On my Verizon s10 its built in to the Google app

I just downloaded from Apple app store -- freebie. Amazing!

Has to be using some pretty sophisticated pattern recognition software ...probably much like how they can identify a celebrity's face in an image someone has posted up.

Turned on local FM station. Hit Soundhound ...3-5 seconds later it ID'd it, hit lyrics and it's immediately scrolling them in real time -- amazing!

Also tried it with songs playing on my iPhone which it seemed to have no problem with -- except that it has to actually HEAR them, so if I'm wearing earbuds it has no clue.

It also seems to have a fairly limited music library. I played a couple of songs from Levon Helm's emmy-winning albums from the several years ago -- not music you'd typically hear on the radio -- and it could not identify any of them but has no problem with vintage music of The Band.

The music ID feature is cool but I think the lyrics feature is really handy! If I unplug my earphones and turn up the volume on the iPhone speaker volume it seems to work with that fairly well.

Too bad it can't listen 'electronically' what's going to my earphones/buds since getting lyrics to songs I've listened to forever but was never sure of a particular lyric and am listening to right now would be super handy too!

[twobjshelbys]

I just downloaded from Apple app store -- freebie. Amazing!

Has to be using some pretty sophisticated pattern recognition software ...probably much like how they can identify a celebrity's face in an image someone has posted up.

Turned on local FM station. Hit Soundhound ...3-5 seconds later it ID'd it, hit lyrics and it's immediately scrolling them in real time -- amazing!

Also tried it with songs playing on my iPhone which it seemed to have no problem with -- except that it has to actually HEAR them, so if I'm wearing earbuds it has no clue.

It also seems to have a fairly limited music library. I played a couple of songs from Levon Helm's emmy-winning albums from the several years ago -- not music you'd typically hear on the radio -- and it could not identify any of them but has no problem with vintage music of The Band.

The music ID feature is cool but I think the lyrics feature is really handy! If I unplug my earphones and turn up the volume on the iPhone speaker volume it seems to work with that fairly well.

Too bad it can't listen 'electronically' what's going to my earphones/buds since getting lyrics to songs I've listened to forever but was never sure of a particular lyric and am listening to right now would be super handy too!

Was this with the Google built in one or using the SoundBug app? I've never had the Google one fail on an old song, even, for example, the Hippopotamus song from 1953. I imagine Google (owning Youtube) has "rights" to a lot of sound tracks.

The Google one also displays lyrics on a match but doesn't follow them in real time.

As for playing on earbuds, I guess I can't blame an app for not finding something it can't hear :) There's a difference between "hearing" something (on speakers) and "snooping" a sideband audio out signal.

[68fastback]

Was this with the Google built in one or using the SoundBug app? I've never had the Google one fail on an old song, even, for example, the Hippopotamus song from 1953. I imagine Google (owning Youtube) has "rights" to a lot of sound tracks.

The Google one also displays lyrics on a match but doesn't follow them in real time.

As for playing on earbuds, I guess I can't blame an app for not finding something it can't hear :)

Soundhound from the Apple App store.

Vintage Band music it had no problem with. It was Levon's lesser know CDs from +/- 2008-2010 or so -- a few years before he passed.

Had no problem with Hey Little Cobra by the RipChords from 1964 tho. ;-)

[68fastback]

I just tried it again with a couple of the same songs (from Levon's Dirt Farmer CD) -- this time I turned the iPhone volume a bit higher and and it found them no problem -- tho took a little longer.
So it must not have been able to hear it well enough when I tried it earlier.

Cool app! Now if it could only listen electronically to iPhone output/interface -- that would be so convenient!

[68fastback]

Hey Mark! Soundhound is awesome.

I find I use it several times a day to ID a song that I can't remember the name of or never did know a particular lyric.

It works really well.

Thanks! :tiphat2:

[twobjshelbys]

Our local oldies station has a daily call in contest. They play a small segment of a song and the nth caller with the right answer wins. Lines are blocked until the go is given.

The goggle song finder has so far identified every one we've tried it on. And before the contest lines open. I do it on my android and a friend on his iPhone and they both agree... its usually something like maybe 10 notes played, maybe 1 second. It's amazing it can find it with so little data so quickly

I wonder how many of the winners get the answer from the app

[tekheavy]

Our local oldies station has a daily call in contest. They play a small segment of a song and the nth caller with the right answer wins. Lines are blocked until the go is given.

The goggle song finder has so far identified every one we've tried it on. And before the contest lines open. I do it on my android and a friend on his iPhone and they both agree... its usually something like maybe 10 notes played, maybe 1 second. It's amazing it can find it with so little data so quickly

I wonder how many of the winners get the answer from the app

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[Tommy Gun]

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[Alloy Dave]

Shazam does the same thing

[Tommy Gun]

Shazam does the same thing


Isn’t that a show from the 90’s?

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[tekheavy]

Isn’t that a show from the 90’s?

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Try 70's.

[Tommy Gun]

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