Typical situation: suddenly a song starts playing, but nobody can tell us the title or who sings it… Fortunately, nowadays you can use apps to detect music.

Therefore, to help you understand more about the apps to detect music, I prepared today's article on the subject. Interested in finding out more? So follow with me right now!

5 best apps to detect music

1. Shazam

It is the first application to identify music that was launched on the market and therefore it is certainly the best known and, at the same time, the most downloaded. It allows us to identify the song that is playing in seconds with just a tap on the screen. 

In addition to recognizing the song and indicating an artist and an album, it lets you share the song, listen to it on Apple Music or Spotify (among others), view the song's video clips, lyrics and much more. 

It has a free and ad-free paid version for iOS and Android.

2. SoundHound

Are you listening to a song and want to know the title? Also, can you hum the song? With this app, quite similar to Shazam, not only will you be able to identify a song that is playing, but you will also be able to sing along to a song and SoundHound will reveal its name to you while you are reading it. 

Perhaps this is the most notable feature of this application, but not the only one, as you will also be able to watch the lyrics live, watch their videos, share the music or even buy it. 

Like the previous app, it has a free version and a paid version with no ads on iOS and Android.

3. WhoSampled

For those who want to take it a step further, I present the WhoSampled application. It's the only app that discovers the “DNA” of music and lets you explore the connections of your music collection. 

It lets you capture a song as it's playing and digitize your catalogue. It's an essential tool for discovering and exploring music, whether you're into hip hop, electronic music or any other genre. 

4. TrackID

This app is exclusive to Android. With TrackID, you can delve even deeper into the music world and read artist bios, watch music videos, check charts and much more. 

In addition to identifying the song being played, you can connect TrackID to Spotify and listen to the identified songs or even directly add them to your Spotify playlist and download them. 

It also has an offline mode that lets you capture the track you're listening to and identify it when you have an internet connection.

5. Song finder: identify songs

In this case, it's an Android-only app. It is used to identify the music that is playing around you. 

See your favorite album covers, add personal notes to find out why and where you tagged this song, buy it, and more. It has a new and modern user interface and you can download it for free from play store.

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