Thread: Favorite Android Apps

16-months later and my choice is still EasyTether.

Just discovered a new app for my Thunderbolt that is really amazing. Its called Soundhound. I was looking for a way to find the name and artist for a song that I heard but didn't know the source.

What Soundhound can do is listen to you sing the tune or hum the tune but more accurate if you hold your phone up to a speaker where the phone can listen to the actual song. Then it goes into it's search engine and in a few seconds, it will find a bunch of songs that are similar. I had recorded 15 music selections, all instrumental, while video taping an outdoor event and wanted to identify them and SoundHound was able to accurately name each except for one that was obscured in the background noise, plus that one was a symphony performance so it isn't like it was a top tune. I got the artist, the album, and a way to listen to the original for verification. The best thing is its free!

I think they also make a PC version and an iphone version too. Do a search for SoundHound on your phone to see if it works for you.

I think they have Shazaam too or however it is spelled too, I used that one back in the WinMo days several years ago.

Yes, Shazam and SoundHound do the same thing. Verizon (and others, I'm sure) even has a similar app, VCast Music ID, for their older feature phones that does this.

SoundHound seems sloppier to me though as it will often "guess" wrong vs what Shazam does is simply say it can't find a match. For symphony type music, I think the catalog is simply too vast plus how does it really differentiate between Pachelbel's "Canon In D" by the Boston Pops Orchestra vs by the National Philharmonic Orchestra ?

Hall, I should look into others as you and digiblur suggested. I was pretty impressed with the speed and accuracy as it allowed me instant confirmation which is how I could compare two or more close contenders. Given a choice, I'd prefer the suggestions as opposed to a response that it can't find a match because the search engine is certain. In my brief experience, if the suggestions were too many to screen, I sampled a different section of the music and that narrowed the search nicely.