What Song Is This – How to Find a Song by Humming Online
When you are at a party and a song playing on the speakers touch your heart’s cords, but you don’t know the title or the singer of the song. So now the next day you are still stuck with the song in your mind and desperately want to know how to find the song? Or sometimes you remember a song which is at the tip of your tongue and your subconscious mind knows it but won’t let it convert to the words. No worries. This tutorial will tell you how to find songs by humming.
Thanks to voice processing and recognition technologies, it is not hard to find songs by recognizing the tune or lyrics. The following online web/mobile apps will help you find the name, lyrics and more information of the song by humming melody.
However, if you lose an important music or voice file by accident, do remember to recover it with file recovery software as soon as possible.
Option 1. Midomi – Find a Song by Humming Online
To find a song by humming or playing the audio clip, Midomi is the best web app available in the online world. It is a neat well-designed website and a unique search engine that’s powered by your voice. The voice search takes up just a corner because Midomi also has a large community of music lovers behind it. Midomi’s ultimate goal is to build the most comprehensive database of searchable music, part of it with user contributions.
Search hits throw up relevant matches along with song videos and links to online retail shops to purchase the song if you want. Midomi also has an advanced search engine which lets you sing in any language and in the style of any musical genre. Of course, you can do a normal text search for a particular song too if you have any detail about it. Midomi also gives you a ‘studio’ to sing your favorite songs and upload it to the site. All user uploaded songs also help to enhance the search engine’s database. But it’s not available for Android or iOS as an app.
Option 2. SoundHound – Find Songs by Humming with Mobile App
By May 2016, SoundHound had over 300 million users globally, so we know that this service has already trusted to many music lovers. SoundHound makes it simple to discover music playing around you. Whether you’re in the car or out and about, open the app, hit the big orange SoundHound button, let your phone listen for a few seconds, and it’ll tell you exactly what’s playing! Some folks have called it pure magic. The app is available both on Android and iOS.
Discovering new music is only half the fun of SoundHound. It is offering a music player so you can relive your musical discoveries too. One can connect Spotify account to listen again, build playlists, explore music across genres, and find new favorites. Don’t have a Spotify? No worries at all, because it has covered you with built-in YouTube Player.
Option 3. Shazam – Identify Any Music Around You (PC/Phone/Watch)
No music lover needs an introduction of this application. It is available for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and more platforms. You can even use it on Apple Watch and Android Wear. Recently, Apple Inc. bought the Shazam so we can know they have seen it potential.
Shazam is not limited to find you the name of the music songs, it can identify movies, advertising, and television shows, base, on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. So, Shazam is a powerful tool to identify the song that you want to know.
More Options – Similar Apps to Find Songs by Humming (Android/iOS)
- Firefly by Amazon
- Bing Music identification
- Google Sound Search
- Lyrics Mania
- Xiaomi Music
- Sony TrackID
- Play by Yahoo Music
- MusiXmatch
Final Thought
In addition to the mentioned options in this article, there are many alternative tools existing on app store and websites, and undoubtedly more apps releasing every year or month. We hope this tutorial gives you a clue as how to find such a program or service. So, use any of the apps and satisfy your craving for the new or classic music. Let us know which song finder you have found productive.