Music detection online - the 3 best services

If you have an earwig but can't name the song, online music recognition services can help you. We present the best tools for your successful song search in this practical tip.

1. Midomi: The music recognition for "Summer"

The most common method of "Music Recognition" is the database search based on melody recognition algorithms. You can search for entered notes in MIDI format. A third possibility is the exchange with other music fans in a community.

Midomi rightly calls itself "the unmatched music search". Your online music recognition and mapping of humming rock and pop songs is very simple and works impressively well. The principle comes from the field of "Music Information Retrieval" and is called "Blind Melody Recognition".

1. Click on "Click and Sing or Hum".
2. Allow the flash player to access your microphone and webcam.
3. Sing or hum concise parts of your catchy tune. The melody should be between ten and 30 seconds long.
4. On a results page you will be presented with the songs that you most likely meant. If your microphone is noisy or too quiet, we will help you with a practical tip. You can also find out how to raise your microphone volume in the video below the section.
5. Very sympathetic: If a recording of another user helped to recognize your song, you will be shown their singing and profile picture.
6. Midomi seems to have a huge music database. Songs from Nirvana to Morcheeba to Wolfgang Petry were found without any problems in the test.
7. Nevertheless: Midomi only covers the top of the charts of the past 50 years. Midomi often does not recognize unknown entertainment music or "electronic music".
8. Attention: If you hum in groups in several voices, the Melody Recognition algorithm quickly overwhelms.

2. Musipedia: The classic music recognition service

Musipedia offers significantly more possibilities for music recognition. You have a good chance of finding something here, especially with classical music.

1. If you play keyboard or piano, you can import parts of works via MIDI keyboard. In another practical tip, we will explain how to connect a keyboard or electric piano to your PC via MIDI.
2. Alternatively, you can click unison melodies with the mouse on a flash keyboard.
3. If you prefer the piano roll view, as you know it from Cubase and other DAW software, enter the melody.
4. Click the keyboard grid with the mouse and move it slightly to create a note. You can then move them.
5. As with Midomi, you can sing the tune of your earwig into the microphone or hum at Musipedia.
6. Music recognition works surprisingly well based on the melody outline. If you enter sections of ten or more tones without errors, Musipedia actually recognizes many compositions.
7. The Musipedia forum is a bit confused. Nevertheless, you can describe songs here, link to YouTube videos or attach clippings.
8. The biggest weakness of Musipedia's music recognition is the small database: With around 11, 400 classical melodies and 2, 400 pop pieces, the search often fails.

3. WatZatSong ?: The music recognition community

The most obvious way to recognize music is to sing or sing the melody to others. The community of WatZatSong? is the last hope, especially for unknown pieces. However, communication is primarily in English.

1. Click on "Sign Up" on the right to create an account.
2. Now you can sing, hum or speak a melody on your webcam using "Post a Sample". Alternatively, you can also upload a section as MP3.
3. You can describe the music, language, style, or the place where you heard the piece.
4. Particularly helpful: You can enter a genre if you remember the rough music style as well as the melody.
5. If you tag your search with "Country", chances are higher that Country fans will help you further.
6. Unfortunately, the music recognition community is still relatively small. With more registrations and a more active community, this forum could become even more effective in the future.

4. Shazam: Music recognition on the go

Shazam is an Apple-acquired music recognition software for Macs, iOS devices and Android smartphones. The application has one of the largest music libraries and recognizes most songs.

• If you have an Apple device, you no longer need the app. Shazam has been integrated into Siri from the start. So all you need is "Hey Siri, what's the name of the song?" to say, the voice assistant listens briefly and then gives you the title and interpreter.
• If you still want to use the app or have an Android phone, download the app.
• Then open Shazam and click on the circle in the middle. Above it is "Type to Shazamen".
• Now you have to wait a few seconds while the software recognizes the song.
• When the song has been recognized, the app shows you all information about the song you are listening to, such as the title and artist, but also the cover of the album / single and on which streaming services the song is available.

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Music detection online: more tips

• Recognize a sample from a song you may find on WhoSampled the music that haunts your head.
• If you know another version of the song you are looking for by name, you are at the right place at Coverinfo.
• If nothing helps, you can still google for text passages. Simply put related phrases in quotation marks and write a "+" in front of fantasy terms. We'll tell you more tips on how to get better results with Google Search in another practical tip. So you may end up on one of the many lyrics pages or in a forum where someone already knows exactly this song.
• The best music forums are not specialized in music recognition, but music experts are romping around here and will be happy to help you.

We present the best music recognition apps for Android and automatic music recognition on Mac in our own practical tips. On the PC you can use Tunatic for music recognition free of charge. There is also the iOS app Soundhound and as Windows Phone App Shazam and Soundhound.

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