Identify songs playing on radio through a microphone
Ever thought "what is this song?" Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist's name and the song's title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet access.
Tried it on 3 well-known songs - both new & classic.
Failed to recognise any of them.
Will stick to using apps on my iPhone like Soundhound / MusicID & Shazam. Though the developers of Shazam have deliberately broken the free version to get you to buy the paid version.
Allows you to figure the names of those unnamed songs.
captainringo
Pros
Finds the Song name and Artist of the Unknown Track. Allows you to download the song from Itunes if needed
Cons
Limited number of Artists in the Database, slow when finding names, could only get it to work through mic not the computer its self.
Summary
I find this program to be the best of it's kind due to the fact that I was unable to find another program to try out. All though it has a small database it's still a wounderful tool to have.
Cool... Fun!
paul160
Pros
Cons
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />After initial startup I didn't know there was a preference for selecting the input... apart from the System Preferences. And I was wondering why that dialog popped up... that it couldn't find my bluetooth headset.
After I found it and corrected it recognised "Beautiful - Christina Aguilera" in seconds.
Next (christmas) song.. no luck
"Circle of Life - Elton John" no luck
Another song.. no luck.
Some 20 seconds into "Senza una donna - Zucchero & Paul Young"... YES!
Played a song through iTunes.. bingo after some 5-10 seconds
Again to the radio. Mariah Carey's Miss you most. Bingo again.
I guess it all depends on the capacity of the database. The amount of songs in it. And the sound levels. And backgound noises - abcense of them.
I'm still wondering to do a check running part of my itunes library through it.
Just to see how many out of a load it will hit.
It seems that the sond levels do make a difference in easily recognising something. Very logical..
If only for the fun factor - or that it just finds that song you're hearing in some kind of commercial. Good enough.
I like it :-)