Remember that moment when you were walking down the street, riding the bus, or at a party and you heard a song that you wanted to add to your playlist. I just had to find out what kind of song it was.
Today, there are a number of apps and websites that can help you recognize a tune or song.
1.Shazam
Shazam is one of the most popular applications for music recognition. It identifies the song very accurately and quickly. Just click the big blue button and the application will start listening to music. No internet connection? No problem. Shazam will mark the song you've played so you can easily find it later when you're online. The application is available on Android and iOS. There is also a desktop version that you can try here.
2.Soundhound
Can't remember the lyrics to the song? Don't worry - if you remember the melody, then all is not lost. SoundHound can identify a song just by its melody - you can hum it or even whistle it. To get started, click on SoundHound's orange button and it will do its best to offer you suitable options, so you don’t have to worry if your vocal abilities leave much to be desired.
3.Ok Google, Siri & Cortana
This is the easiest way to find out the name of the song if you don't want to download third party applications. Just ask Ok Google, Siri or Cortana “What's the song?” and they will very quickly find the right option for you.
On your Android, turn on “Ok Google” or click the microphone button in Search. If you have an iPhone, ask Siri “What song?” and let her listen to the melody. Windows Phone? Click the search button to go to Cortana, click the music search icon and the program will start listening.
4.WatZatSong
If nothing works, then all hope lies only in other users. WatZatSong is an online community where you can upload an excerpt from a track that needs to be named. Write as many details as possible and other community members will help you find out the name of the song.
Let me know in the comments below if you have other ways to recognize songs.
The simplest situation. If you remember the words of the song (at least a couple), you can find its name through any search engine.
- Enter the phrase you remember into the search bar.
- Did not help? Enter the same line with the additional query “song lyrics” or “lyrics”.
- If the composition is in a foreign language, a request is made with the word lyrics.
- Are you unfamiliar with the language of composition? Try looking for transliteration: write down the words as you heard them. You might get lucky.
If you remember where you heard the song
You switch radio stations one after another and suddenly hear the last notes of that very beloved and desired song. Meanwhile, the DJ plays the next song, mercilessly forgetting to announce the name of the previous one. What to do in this situation?
- Remember the name of the radio station and exact time when the song you were looking for sounded.
- If a station is popular, it definitely has a website. And the site often duplicates the playlist that was played on air.
- In the playlist, find the name of the song that was playing in those hours and minutes that you remember. Ready!
- If there is no website (but you desperately need to find a song), act decisively: call the office and ask directly. We, of course, do not recommend cutting off the telephone numbers of local radio stations, but if the need is extreme...
If you remember the melody
When other methods don’t help, but the music in your head won’t stop, it’s time to take on the heavy artillery - programs for recognizing melodies.
How to find a song using a computer
- AudioTag.info. Recognizes a composition online by downloaded file or URL. It will help if you have a microphone or need to identify the nameless Track01.mp3. The interface is simple and clear: upload a music file, enter the captcha, and get the result.
It happens that some melody does not leave our heads all day, we hum fragments of it here and there, but cannot remember the whole thing. How to find a song by words, by a fragment of a composition, from a movie or heard on the radio?
How to find a song using the words from the song?
The easiest way is to contact the search engines Yandex, Google, Yahoo. They can quite cope with such a task. You just need to designate phrases and couplets. But it happens that we can’t cope, then we turn to special services:
Any user can use them. The principle of their operation is simple:
- Enter the lyrics of the song into the empty field;
- Click search;
- The program gives you possible options, where the following combination of words comes across: albums, individual tracks.
The list will probably surprise you; so many unexpected compositions will appear on it. And yours will definitely be there. You can find out the artist, all the lyrics and even download the melody to your device. Such services are extremely convenient and have long been popular.
How to find a song by a fragment of the melody?
It is also possible to find a song from a small fragment. And for this case everything has already been invented:
- Tunatic - connect a microphone, bring it to the music source or sing a melody yourself - that's all you need to do. True, you need to hit the notes exactly. Next, the program will offer you similar options.
- Midomi Mobile is a program for smartphones that can find a song if you sing it into your phone. After the melody is found, you will be able to listen to it performed by other users as well.
- Audio Tag. Info is another assistant service that recognizes audio material from a fragment of only 15 seconds. It just needs to be loaded into the program in any format and quality.
- MusicIP Mixer is a program that can also find music files based on downloaded fragments. The only negative is that the interface is possible on English language, if your version is like this, then it’s not difficult to deal with it, you need the settings - “Options”, “Fix Tags” and check the boxes for the required tags there, then insert a fragment of the composition and click “Fix Tags” and “OK”.
How to use the programs is usually described in detail on the websites themselves, so there shouldn’t be any difficulties. All of them are free, which is good news.
How to find a song if you don't know its name?
You can contact members of forums dedicated to music. If you know the genre, this will help narrow down the search; if not, go to any thematic sites, for example:
Here you can tell everything you know about the composition: words, melody, performer. And describe your problem. Members of forums and communities will definitely help you find the audio material you are looking for. It is possible that your help will be useful to someone on the forum.
How to find songs from a movie?
Some melodies are written exclusively for films, but sometimes you want to listen to them on your player while walking or at the gym. How to find such compositions? And for this case there are special services:
- https://mysoundtrack.ru/poisk/ . We insert the name of the picture into the empty field, choose where to look: a film or TV series, a musical or an anime. In general, we use all the possibilities offered by the filter to simplify the task as much as possible. Usually there are few errors in the results, but if this happens, try on another service.
- https://theost.ru/. This assistant also offers to download the found audio file.
- https://www.what-song.com/. We insert the names into the search bar and get a list of paintings.
And already on film forums and film fan communities we ask for help.
To find it and add it to your collection?
If there are words or a fragment of a song
If you understand at least a few words from the song or, even better, remember a piece of the text, enter the words in any search engine. Having found the name of the song, it will not be difficult to find out the artist; the same people on the Internet will help.
You can find an artist by song title on networks by clicking on the “My audio recordings” button and entering it in the search bar.
You can find the song playing on the radio by going to the radio station's website. As a rule, a rating of the most popular songs is published there. There is a high probability of finding the one you need if you know its name.
If the song is from a movie, enter its name in a search engine, adding the OST prefix. Once you have the songs used in the film, listen to them until you find the one you want. You can also find special services on the Internet, for example “my-hit.org”, where many films are collected, including new ones, with soundtracks, photographs, etc. useful information.
The service "midomi.com" allows you to sing a song if you have a microphone. And the “audiotag.info” service will help you find a song and artist if you have a fragment of the composition.
If none of the methods give the desired result, make a quiz using social media and knowledge of your friends. Add a snippet of the song to your page asking people to tell you who sings it.
If only the motive of the song is known
A song that was played on the radio will usually be repeated more than once during the day. You can turn this on in the background and wait for the desired song to play. On many official websites of radio stations there is a running line on which the artist and the name of the song currently playing are written.After hearing the song again, you can use the “Music Expert” service provided by mobile operators. For example, for Megafon subscribers you need to dial the number 0665, bring the phone to the speaker and hold it for 5-10 seconds. The response message will contain the title and artist of the song.
On the “musipedia.org” service you can play a melody or beat the rhythm of a composition you like. The program will process the sound and provide matching options.
If you remember a video clip, enter the main points of the plot into a search engine, adding the word “clip” at the end. For example, “Car, sunset, road clip.” You can look for special forums where participants help each other find out the name and artist of a song from its video.
Many of us are passionate audiophiles and music lovers. The variety of musical genres, performers, and songs gives us a huge opportunity to choose from a vast sea of musical preferences. We enjoy music at work and at home, on walks and when traveling; it makes our lives brighter, richer, more colorful. At the same time, it may happen that after listening to some melody and remembering just a couple of words from the lyrics, we catch ourselves thinking that we do not know either the name of the song or its artist. In this material I will tell you how to find a song if you only know a few words, what services and programs exist for this, and how to work with them.
In the question of how to find a song by words, first of all, various online services, specifically designed to search for songs by words. Almost all of them work in a similar way: you enter in a special search bar remember the words from the song, click on the search activation button, and the service looks for matches in its database of song lyrics. When similarities are found, it produces a result that includes the name of the song and its artist, the full lyrics of the song, and often it is possible to listen to the song itself and watch the corresponding clip (if available).
Below I will describe a list of the most popular services that allow you to search for a song by words online. If you have a recorded excerpt of a song that needs to be identified, check out the article ““.
Text-You service for song recognition
The first service that allows you to find a song using a few words is the Text-You service.
- To work with this service, just switch to it;
- Enter the remembered words of the song in a special line under the inscription “Enter words to search”;
- Specify where to look for a match (in the lyrics of the song or the name of the artist), decide on the approximate period of creation of the song, as well as the number of results displayed and the order in which they are sorted.
After setting the parameters, click on the “Start Search” button and review the list of results obtained.
The Textpesni service will help you find the track you like
The second service that allows you to find a song by excerpt online and has good search capabilities is Textpesni.
- To take advantage of its capabilities, go to the resource;
- Enter the name of the song in the search bar, and then click on the “Search site” button;
- You will receive a list of matches, by clicking on which you can view the full lyrics of the song itself.
Among the resources I indicated, this one showed the best search results.
Text.Mytracklist service searches for music by excerpt
The third service that allows you to search for a song you like by excerpt is Text.Mytracklist.
- The principle of its operation is similar to the previous service - you enter the words you remember from a music track in the search bar in an orange frame;
- Press “Enter” and get the desired result.
Google, Yandex and other search engines
When searching for song lyrics using a couple of words, you can use the functionality of conventional search engines (Google, Yandex, Mail.Ru, Yahoo, Bing and others). Just enter the remembered words from the song in the search bar, click on the search activation button and view the results. You can also try entering words from a song by adding the word “lyrics” (without quotes) or the phrase “lyrics of a song” (also without quotes), then the search query will look like this:
Lyrics from the song + lyrics
Lyrics from the song + lyrics
In some cases, if you remember the exact sequence of words and do not confuse the cases, it makes sense to enter a phrase from a song in quotation marks, then search system will search for a phrase exactly as it is written, excluding intermediate words.
If the lyrics of the song are in English, and you don’t know how to spell it, but you can reproduce it in transliteration (in Russian letters), and enter such a transliterated version into a search engine, perhaps you can get the answer you need.
Forums
If you trust a person more than a machine, then you should ask the corresponding question to music lovers forums, where they will help you find the track you like using the words you remember. In particular, you can ask a question in the comments to this article, I will try to help you.
Internet sites of radio stations
Many of the popular radio stations have their own Internet resource, where anyone can track the list of tracks being played. Therefore, if you heard a track you liked on the radio and remember which radio station, then look for the latter’s website on the Internet. Perhaps there you will find a detailed list of played melodies, and in particular the one that you especially liked.
Programs for searching songs by words
Among the programs for searching song lyrics, I would note the popular mobile applications Shazam, SoundHound and Lyrics Finder. In addition to searching for the lyrics of a song by its musical excerpt, they allow you to find a song by an excerpt from its lyrics by entering the latter in a special search line of the program window.
SoundHound program
Given mobile app allows you to find the lyrics and identification data of a song by its segment. Download and install this application SoundHound (for example, from here), launch it, tap on the search bar, enter the text of the segment of the song you remember, and then click on the “Search” button. The program will search for matches in its database and give you the result (which, moreover, you can listen to).
In most cases this program searches for English-language texts, searching for Russian-language ones is quite problematic.
Shazam program
The Shazam app is probably one of the best in its field. It easily allows you to find the desired track by its segment; it also includes a search function by song words. Launch the application (you can download it from here), click on the button with a magnifying glass, and enter the words you remember from the musical composition in the search bar. The application will search for a match and give you the result.
This music program for is designed to search for song lyrics (you can download it, for example, from here). Its interface is simple and intuitive - just enter the words from the song into the search bar, indicate the specifics of the request and get the result in the form full texts songs.
Conclusion
When it comes to the question of how to find a song if you only know a couple of words, the easiest way is to use online services that allow you to search for the lyrics of the song you like in the huge database of a specific resource. Usually, using any of the listed services (for example, Textpesni) will make it quite easy to find the lyrics of a song from a passage online, and if the listed online resources were not effective, then you should use the ones I indicated mobile programs, they also give pretty good results.
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