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Ugh, this has become my favorite music feature of all time. I've made amazing playlists in Spotify by using Shazam around town in cafes and clubs. It was too good to be true.

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I use sound hound, it has the same thing.

THANK YOU for the Sound Hound tip; I’d somehow been ignorant of its existence. Haven’t really put it through its paces yet but the UI and featureset look great. Never expected to say this but I might be done w/ Shazam!

Awesome, thanks for the tip.

Soundhound also recognizes songs by humming. (Shazam can't)

Wow, Thanks for point this out and I have never heard of Soundhound before. ( Talk about Discovery problems )

There are many times when a song suddenly pops up into your head, and you cant record the exact lyrics, the may likely be a few words that is wrong so Google doesn't help, and humming it in Shazam never worked. I had always thought my voice was sounded too bad.

Is it as good as Shazam at finding songs? I remember trying it early and not being impressed, but it was very brief so my sample size was too small.

I use both regularly. SoundHound is my go to by default but I use Shazam as a backup. Shazam is more successful normally but I like SoundHound more for whatever reason.

Switched to SoundHound a long time ago and have found it equally as good as Shazam. I have every song I "discover" automatically added to a Spotify playlist so I can check it out later.

I didn't find much difference in recognition capabilities between Shazam, SoundHound, and built-in recognition on Windows Phones.

I love this too — when it works. But I’ve had a long, recent and ongoing stretch of Shazam failing to identify songs.

It would be quite a joy if there were a way to curate/aggregate in-store music playlists and then serve them such that visitors could search by store.

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