How to find an artist by melody. Search for unknown musical compositions by excerpt. Identifying music from a computer

Today I want to tell you in what ways you can find an unknown song from a passage.

There are many articles on the Internet about this, but they are not complete. I have already checked this.

The principle of operation of all these programs is quite simple. By scanning the sound, the application sends data to the server and compares it with the tracks already stored on the server.

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On top of all this, I really like Lyreach.com. For example, you have recorded an excerpt of a song on a dictaphone from a store. If none of the above programs helped you, you can use this resource. With your mind, you recognize the famous words from this passage and hammer into the search on Lyreach. The program instantly finds the lyrics of songs containing the entered words and gives the results. Here you just need to enter in phrases, otherwise it will either give a lot of results that are not of interest to you, or it will not give anything.

Many of us love music and cannot imagine our life without it. We listen to it at home and at work, on the road and on vacation, in a word, it is a constant and desirable attribute of our being, giving a range of bright and positive emotions. In this case, there may often be a need to find out the artist and the name of the composition we like, but a person does not know how to do this. In this article I will tell you how to find a song by excerpt online, what network resources exist for this, and how to use them.

In order to recognize and recognize the performer of a song by a small snippet online, you need a computer and a stable Internet connection of good quality. In most cases, the services that I will describe below work on the principle of recording sound through a microphone, and then comparing the recorded excerpt with a huge database of songs they have.

So, let's move on to the list of resources that allow you to find a song by excerpt online.

Moomash - find a song by the recorded sound

The Moomash service will help those users who want to identify music from videos on Youtube. If you come across good music on YouTube, but it is not signed in any way, then just go to Moomash, insert the link to the YouTube video in the search bar, and click on the "Start" button, this will help you quickly recognize the music from your piece online.

Depending on the service load, the process of searching for an audio file will take from a few seconds to 15 minutes, while the service database itself contains more than 7 million songs.

Midomi - helps you learn music

In order to find audio from an excerpt online, you can use the popular Midomi service, which is taught to recognize not only the musical sound from a tape recorder, but also your own singing. Sing or whistle the tunes of your favorite melody into the microphone, and the service, in turn, will compare your composition with the database, which includes more than 2 million tracks.

In order to take advantage of the resources of the resource, go to it (link), click on the large button labeled "Click or sing or hum", and sing your favorite segment of the song you like. The program will search for matches and give you the result.

On "Midomi" you can create your profile and join a community with similar musical tastes and interests, sing your favorite songs and share them with friends, discuss them and so on.

Audiotag - search after mp3 download

The peculiarities of this service are that you upload an audio file to it with music unknown to you, and it searches in its database of songs, allowing the user to find a track by excerpt online. Usually, for successful identification, you need a music file with a duration of 12 or more seconds, the service understands the vast majority of audio formats, performing a high-quality search for the track you like.

1. To search for AudioTag go to the resource;
2. Click on the "Browse" button and specify the path for the resource to the desired composition on your PC;
3. Then click on the "Upload" button, type in the code that confirms that you are human;
4. Click on "Next" and wait for the demonstration of the search results.

Audiotag - a robot for music recognition

NameMyTune - online service

A resource built on the “human factor”, where you first sing your favorite melody, the resource records it, and then other users try to identify the song by listening to what you have sung.

To find a melody from a passage online using NameMyTune, do the following:

Lyrster - melody recognition

Another online service that I recommend for finding audio from a snippet online is Lyrster. Its peculiarity is that if you know a few words of your composition (in English), then it is enough to drive them into the search bar of this service, and it will look for them on more than 450 music resources. Unfortunately, the service is in English, and it only searches for English-language compositions (when I tried to search for Russian-language text, the service gave me an error).

To search for the desired song by words, go to this resource, enter these words in the search bar and click on "Find my song" on the right, in a couple of seconds you will get the result.

Conclusion

If you need to find a song online by an excerpt, then the services I have indicated will effectively help you with this. If you have a smartphone with an Internet connection at your fingertips, I recommend using applications or SoundHound for mobile platforms - they search for songs no less efficiently than the online services I described above.

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Music search software allows you to recognize the name of a song by the sound from a passage or video. With the help of such tools, you can find the song you like in a matter of seconds. If you liked a song in a movie or a commercial, we launched the application, and now you already know the name and artist.

The number of really high-quality programs for searching music by sound is not that great. Many applications have poor search accuracy or few songs in the library. This leads to the fact that quite often it is simply not possible to recognize the song.

In this review, only really high-quality solutions for recognizing songs on a computer are given, which can easily determine what track is playing in your headphones.

Shazam is a free music search app that was originally only available on mobile devices and recently made its way to personal computers. Shazam is able to identify the name of songs on the fly - just play a piece of music and press the recognition button.

Thanks to the extensive audio library of the program, it is able to recognize even old and unpopular songs. The app displays recommended music for you based on your search history.
To use Shazam, you will need to create account Microsoft. It can be registered for free on the official website of the company.

The disadvantages of the product include the lack of support for Windows below version 8 and the ability to choose the Russian interface language.

Important: Shazam is temporarily unavailable for installation from the Microsoft Store.

Jaikoz

If you need to find the title of a song from an audio file or video, then try Jaikoz. Jaikoz is a program for recognizing songs from files.

The application works as follows - you add an audio or video file to the application, start recognition, and after a while Jaikoz finds the real name of the song. In addition, other detailed information about the music is displayed: artist, album, year of release, genre, etc.

The disadvantages include the inability of the program to work with the sound played on the computer. Jaikoz only processes files already recorded. Also, the interface is not translated into Russian.

Tunatic

Tunatic is a free small music recognition software. It's easy to use - just one button on the app lets you find a song from any video. Unfortunately, this product is almost not supported by the developers, so it will be difficult to find modern songs using it. But the app finds old songs quite well.

Music detection software will help you find your favorite song from a YouTube video or your favorite movie.

In our life, a situation may arise when we accidentally heard a piece of music, and now we passionately desire to find it. We do not know the name or artist of the track, and sometimes all we have is a looped tune in our head, or a couple of words from the verses sung by the vocalist. I hope the reader - this may be enough, because there are a number of online resources on the network that make it easy to find music online. In this article I will tell you how to perform online music recognition, what network resources will help us with this, and how to work with them.

Let's move on to the description of network services that allow you to find a song online. The vast majority of them have their own database of tracks, comparing the track received from the user (recorded through a microphone or received as an audio file) with the compositions available in the database.

When a match is found, the service informs the user about the found result, including the name of the song, its artist, a link to the video for this song on YouTube, the words of the song and other relevant information.

At the same time, keep in mind that the higher the quality of the sound source, the higher the recognition level of the song you need will be.

Midomi - quickly identifies the song

1. To work with the Midomi service, follow the link above.
2. Click on the big "Click and Sing or Hum" button, give the service access to your microphone, and play (or sing) a section of the desired song for its subsequent identification.

Click on the "Click and Sing or Hum" button to start the music recognition procedure

Then click on this button again to stop the identification procedure, the system will look for matches in its database, and then give you the result.

AudioTag - easy music search by piece

WatZatSong is a great identifier service

If the previous services did not advance you in any way towards identifying the composition you need, then the English-language resource "WatZatSong" will allow you to identify music online using the "human factor". You simply upload the musical segment you need to the resource, and the user community there is trying to identify your track by ear.

1. To work with the service, go to it, click on the "Post a sample" button.
2. The system will offer you to go through the registration procedure.
3. After confirming the registration by e-mail, click on "Post a sample" again, in the menu that appears, select the option of providing the track (record - through a microphone, upload - upload to the resource).
4. Decide on the genre and language, if necessary, write a comment for the track in the very bottom line, and then click on “Confirm”. You will be notified of the received replies by e-mail.

Working window of the "WatZatSong" service

Moomash service

Service "Moomash" will allow you to find out the music online, which is available in the video on YouTube. Just go to this service, copy the link from the YouTube video into the corresponding window, and then click on the "Start" button.

The identification process may take some time, after which you will receive the desired result.

Paste the link to the video from Youtube into the window, and click on the "Start" button

Shazam

If we talk about the most effective tool for recognizing music by passage, then such a tool is the Shazam program for Android and iOS. It demonstrates the highest results in the process of music recognition, because those readers who are not yet familiar with its functionality can try it in practice, enjoying its practicality and ease of use.

To activate "Shazam" just touch the screen of your smartphone

Conclusion

In this article, I have described services that allow you to perform track recognition online. Working with these sites is quite simple and will not cause any problems for users. If you want to have the most effective tools, then take a look at the Shazam and SoundHound mobile applications - they show the highest results in online audio recognition.

From the article you will learn about the most popular methods related to the topic: online music recognition. Don't know the name of the musical composition you like that sounds in the video? Do you remember only the words from the song that you really like? Perhaps you have an audio track, but its name is incorrect? Using one of the following methods, you can easily solve any of the listed problems.

To recognize music, you can use both programs and online services. There are ways to recognize music using mobile phone... Some of the music recognition options below require mandatory, others do without it. The article discusses all the most popular ways of determining the name of musical compositions, starting with the most common ones, ending with little-known, but working ones.

Which of the services to use is up to you, but we recommend that you apply for music search exactly in the chronological order, which is presented in the article. It can easily happen that the first service does not help you find a song by sound online, then the second or third will probably solve this problem. The services have no peculiarities in musical genres and years of release of songs, it remains to rely only on the fact that the base of one of them will contain the musical composition you need. It should be said that popular as well as modern audio files are searched without problems on almost all resources.

Online services for finding music

It is best to use them, because the probability that the file you are looking for will not be found is reduced to zero. This is because the databases online services music searches are enormous. There are several ways to find music through the site:

1. By providing the file (if it has no name).
2. By providing a link to the music track.
3. By playing or humming a song online through.
4. Using the virtual piano (you need to play a tune).

If the music track you are looking for is in the video, then you only need to use the microphone search: turn on the microphone, then start the video with the song of interest. Topic: how to identify music by the sound from a video file - consider in the review of the service www.midomi.com

The interface of this Internet resource, although English, will not cause problems for Russian-speaking users, it is easy and simple to find music with its help. Having entered the site, you immediately find yourself on the page you need, but you can only search for music through a computer (any browser is suitable), the browser of mobile devices will not be able to work with the site. Pay attention to the window in the center (see screenshot below), that's what you need.

Search is carried out using a microphone, into which you either sing a song online, or play a music track on a computer or other device, and then simply bring the microphone to the speakers. The source from which the recording is being made should sound normal, you do not need to bring the recorder too close to the speakers, as the sound can be excessively loud, with a lot of noise - this will cause you not to find the desired song.

A step-by-step guide to finding music with Midomi

If the site cannot find the title of the song you are looking for, a corresponding window will appear (in the screenshot below). Midomi is one of the best online music search services that has no major drawbacks.

Why might the search fail?

The most common reason why a music track was not found is poor recording quality. Please, before complaining about the poor performance of the site, make sure that you are doing the voice search correctly, i.e. in good quality, for this you need to click the "Review your voice search" button. If the recording really turned out in not very good quality, try again by clicking on the green magnifying glass.

If you have achieved the best recording quality, but the audio track is still not found, try recognizing the music using another online service.

The video examines the principle of operation of the Midomi service (from 1:04), as well as the AudioTag service, which will be discussed below.

The peculiarity of this one, which provides the ability to search for music by sound online, is that it works with links and files. That is, you can either provide the service with a link to the audio file whose name you want to find out, or download it from your computer. The service will independently "listen" to your audio track and compare it with the existing sound files in the database, then the system will provide you with the found file (you will receive the name of the song, album, year of release). It is worth noting that this site is very old, therefore, a huge number of musical compositions have accumulated in its database, which means that the likelihood that you will successfully recognize the song you are looking for is very high.

An illustrative example of working with the service

First, you need to go to the site and change the language to Russian. How to do this is shown below.

Thanks to the change of the language to their native language, any user, as it seems to us, can easily figure out the AudioTag service on their own. Just in case, we will give detailed instructions and we will check the service efficiency ourselves.

The first way. Let's try to find music by downloading an audio file from a computer. By clicking the "Browse ..." button, you need to select the file stored on your hard disk, and then click the "Upload" button. The service supports the most popular audio formats, with complete list which you can find in the FAQ section.

Before the search begins, AudioTag wants to make sure that you are not a robot, but a real user, so it offers to solve a simple example.

Upon completion of the operation, we get the result, which provides detailed data about the musical composition: title, artist, album, year of publication of the song. As you can see from the picture below, the service can produce several results, but one way or another, we found out the name of the desired composition.

Second way. Now let's define the name of the musical composition having only a link to it. Let's say right away that we failed to carry out a search in this way. We entered a link to an audio file lying in a Google disk, in the Yandex storage, even tried to insert a direct link to an audio recording from the VKontakte social network, the result was always the same. If you have information on how to find out if this function works on the site, please write about it in the comments.

Most likely this is a flaw in the service. After reading the information in the FAQ section, no solution to the problem was found. You may be able to successfully use this method to define music. If the first method caused you difficulties, although it is unlikely, watch the video instruction, which is located above (at the very end of the Midomi service guide).

An English-language online music recognizer with a distinctive feature - the presence of a virtual piano - is not suitable for everyone. If you have a musical education or you are in tune with keyboards, then this service will be indispensable in finding a musical composition, the tune of which is spinning in your head. It is worth saying that Musipedia allows you to search not only by playing a melody on the piano, but also in other ways accessible to ordinary people who do not have musical skills. A significant drawback of the site: the lack of the Russian language.

Search with a microphone

Go to the site. In the screenshot below, in a red square, there is a list of all possible ways to recognize music, we need the last one: or whistle it to the computer using a microphone. You need to click on the words "a microphone" in the indicated line. You can also click on a similar button in the top menu of the site.

You are taken to the page for recording a sound file. There are only two buttons here: record and play. As in the first option for searching for music, you will be asked for permission to operate the microphone, and then recording will begin. Whether you hum a song or play it by bringing the microphone to the speakers, there is no difference. Usually, a piece of music of 20 seconds is enough, after which you need to press the "stop" button and the service will automatically start searching for a music file.

We will not show you how to use the virtual piano by example, but attach a video here, from which you will most clearly get acquainted with the principle of the Musipedia service.

Social network WatZatSong

The specificity of this service is that it is not a robot that helps to find a music track here, but other real Internet users. The disadvantage of the service is that it is only available in two languages: French and English. This should not stop avid music lovers! Below we will clearly demonstrate how to find music by sound online using WatZatSong.

The essence of the service is as follows: a user uploads a piece of music or a whole song to the site, and other people listen to the uploaded file and, if they know the name of the track, write it in the comments. Of course, this service will be most convenient for users who speak English or French. If you want, you can help people find the song by yourself: you listen to audio that other users download, if you know the name - write it, they will probably thank you.

The sequence of actions to search for music on the WatZatSong website

We didn’t wait for users to comment on our post just because we weren’t too interested in it. Judging by the reviews, the activity on this social network is quite high and they will help you to suggest the name of the audio track very quickly (within a few hours maximum).

If you have an audio file whose name you do not know, in the format selection window for search (we considered "Recording") you need to select "Upload", upload the file from your computer to the site and perform the same actions: specify the genre, artist language, write comment (if you have this information), after which you just have to wait a little.

Determination with the Tunatic program

You can download the program from the link: www.wildbits.com/tunatic. It works on all versions of Windows and Mac operating systems. The interface of this application is extremely simple and straightforward, so we will tell you about it literally in one sentence. Install the program on your computer and run it, then turn on music from any source (browser, Winamp, Windows media player, etc.) and click the "Search" button in the program interface. Please note that the application requires an internet connection to work.

So that we can be sure that you have figured out how to search for music by sound online, through the Tunatic program, we attach a video tutorial here.

Find music with the Shazam mobile app

The only normal mobile app that recognizes music is how you describe Shazam. The application is suitable for both Android and Apple, it can also be installed on a tablet. You can get detailed information about the product on the official website: www.shazam.com/ru. We will only note here that the application is completely Russified and looks for music even better than some online services.

We will not talk about the principles of the mobile program, since it is so easy to use that even a child can search for the name of a song by sound.

A detailed video overview of the Shazam app:

Shazam desktop app

The Shazam online application has a version for a computer, but it does not support old ones. OS Windows. If you have Windows 8 or higher, you can easily install the application and use it for free. To use the application, you will need to register by entering your email address or logging in with your Facebook or Google account.

Installing Shazam on your computer

The easiest way is to go to the Windows Store and search for the desired program, then click the "Install" button. Or it can be done from the official website of the application developers: www.shazam.com/ru.

There is nothing complicated in the work of this program, as soon as you install it on your device and run it, you will immediately understand how it works. We will only talk about some of its features here.

In addition to the main function - music search, Shazam for a computer can be used as an audio player. The great convenience of this program is that it can be used to share audio recordings with friends in social networks: Facebook and Twitter, or send files via e-mail... In addition, the program will work even without an Internet connection, but you will not be able to search for files right away; you can only make notes, and it will be possible to get their recognized result only when connected to the network - this is convenient if you have a slow or unstable Internet connection. It is also worth noting that according to the rating of Russian-speaking users of programs capable of identifying modern music, Shazam takes first place.