The best alternatives to Shazam

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Even if you are not a music lover, it is more than likely that while you are watching a movie or a series or while suffering from the happy commercial breaks, suddenly do you hear a song that you don't remember his name or because you simply liked him.

At that moment, quickly pick up the smartphone and click on Shazam. Shazam has become an app musthave, that almost everyone has installed on their device for this type of situation. But it is not the only one. Here we show you some of the best alternatives to Shazam, perfectly valid alternatives that allow us to perform the same functions and even more.

Google search engine

Google could not be left out of this market, and directly through the search engine of our smartphone, either through the Google bar on Android or through the application on iOS, we can perform the search without having to do anything at all. that we just have to click on the microphone in the search box and confirm that we want it to recognize the song.

For the record, I'm talking about the Google search engine, not from the assistant, since through Google Assistant we cannot recognize songs. When trying to do so, he replied that if we want to identify what is being heard, we should download the Shazam application. Presumably, over time this feature will be natively integrated into the wizard, as it makes no sense not to.

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Recognize songs on iPhone with Siri

The Apple search engine, integrated both in the operating system of mobile devices and in Apple TV, Apple Watch and macOS, also is able to recognize the songs that sound around us. But the process is process is not only cumbersome, but it is also slow and sometimes it does not recognize the song well.

To be able to search with Siri, we must invoke her and tell her to recognize the song that is heard, to which he will reply "Wait a minute, let me listen", a time that could have been used to recognize it, especially if it is an advertisement, whose duration is usually very short.

SoundHound

Recognize song names with SoundHound

SoundHound has always been Shazam's direct recital since birth. This service is available for all mobile platforms, although currently we can only talk about Android and iOS, both Windows Phone and BlackBerry OS have also had this application at their disposal for detect the name of the songs around us.

Unlike Shazam, SoundHound not only offers us all the details of the songs we listen to, but also it also shows us the lyrics, a link to the YouTube video and like all applications of this type, it offers us a link to listen to it on our favorite streaming music platform.

SoundHound - Music Search
SoundHound - Music Search

MusiXmatch

Identify the song that is playing with MusiXmatch

MusiXmatch, available for iOS and Android, is more focused on offering us the lyrics of the songsHowever, it also offers us the opportunity to recognize the music of the songs that surround us. Once it has recognized the song, it offers us a link to the streaming music services where that song is available, so that we can listen to it directly from the beginning without any type of cut, add it to our playlist, share it with our friends ...

In addition, MusiXmatch allows us to quickly access the videos of the songs in full screen and available on YouTube, in addition to listening to our favorite music obtained from YouTube, if we do not have a contracted music streaming service, create playlists that is stored on Spotify with the name MusiXmatch, so you can easily find all the songs you have identified and much more.

Musixmatch
Musixmatch
Developer: Musixmatch
Price: Free

Snapchat

Snapchat

Although it is hard to believe, some applications that have nothing to do with music, also offer us the possibility of being able to directly recognize songs such as the Snapchat application, an application that allows us to perform this function, tapping on the screen and holding it down. After a few seconds it will show us the name of the song along with the album and the cover of it.

Snapchat
Snapchat
Developer: Snap Inc.
Price: Free

MusicID

musicID allows us to identify songs

MusicID could say that the perfect clone of Shazam, since it does not offer us any additional advantage to that offered by an application that identifies music, such as the MusiXmatch or SoundHound services, in which we can quickly access the videos of the songs along with the lyrics. MusicID It shows us the name of the song, along with the album where we can find it and its image.

Unfortunately, it does not offer us any type of integration with the main streaming music services, so if we are users of this type of platform, this application it may not be the most suitableas sometimes the registration of the songs you have recognized is mysteriously "lost". MusicID is only available for Android, as the iOS app was removed from the App Store and has not returned.

MusicID
MusicID
Price: Free

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