Searching for music by sound - how to implement it?

Sometimes it happens that when we hear a new melody somewhere in a cafe or on the street, we can not figure out who performs it and how it's called. Well, if you manage to memorize a few lines from the chorus - you can try to search for music on a piece of text and hope that you are lucky. But what if the music you like does not contain words or is sung in a foreign language? This is exactly what will be discussed in this article.

Online services

The search for music by sound can be fully implemented without any special software - it is enough to have a good Internet connection, a microphone or a recorded piece of musical composition. Here are some good sites that are specifically targeted for this purpose:

1. Audiotag.info. This free service analyzes a user-downloaded clip (minimum 15 seconds) and provides detailed information about the track, including its name, as well as the artist's name. The search is conducted on its own music database, which contains over a million fragments of foreign and domestic music of various directions. There are hits of classics, jazz, rock and pop music, all kinds of electronic genres, etc. Recognition takes place in three stages: downloading the file (the optimal duration is 15-45 seconds), confirmation that the search is performed by a person, not by a robot , And obtaining the result. Service understands almost any file format and has no restrictions on the quality of the record itself. 2. Midomi. When there is no recording, music can be searched for by simply tapping it through the microphone. Best of all, this service recognizes melodic compositions - with hip-hop or rock it's unlikely that something will turn out. In this case, the closer the composition to the mainstream and modern hits, the better the result will be. The height of the voice does not affect the quality of the search. During the testing it was noticed that it is best to hum the chorus, and the fragment itself should not be too long.

3. Bored.com/songtapper. If the words are unknown, there is no recording, but the melody does not work, you can try to search for music by rhythm, stuffing it with the longest key of the keyboard and trying to reproduce the motif as accurately as possible.

Software

The leader among the programs running in the Windows environment and performing music search by sound, currently is Tunatic. Recognize the melody, she can not only from the microphone, but also when playing on any source (browser, player, etc.). The principle of operation is to remove the acoustic print and send it to a network database, where it is compared with the audio tracks of previously identified tracks. When the application matches, the application displays the track name, author name and link for detailed information.

Alternatively, you can also use the Audiggle program. It gives the name of the melody that is currently playing on your computer. As for mobile devices, for Sony Ericsson and gadgets running Android there is a good application - TrackID ™. For Java-compatible mobile devices, there is Shazam, as well as analogues of SoundHound and Midomi. After the search for music by sound was a success, download the track will help the application Mp3zilla. The convenience of using it is that you can listen to the songs found by the name before downloading, and for some tracks and view the text.