YouTube Music launches sound search on iPhone: Hum a melody to find a song
You can use sound search and generative AI in the YouTube Music app to find songs by humming their melodies and create radio stations from prompts.
Finding tunes by humming is helpful if you cannot remember the name of a song or its lyrics (to run a Google search), but the melody is stuck in your head.
This feature is available in the mobile YouTube Music app for iOS after an extensive testing that began last year. Android users have had hum to search available since May. Unfortunately, this feature is unavailable in the main YouTube app.
YouTube Music launches hum to search on iPhone
To use the new sound search option, hit the search button in the top-right corner of the mobile app and select the new waveform icon that should appear, then hum a song’s melody, sing a few words out loud or play its beat.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will identify the exact match across YouTube Music’s catalog of over 100 million official songs. The matched song appears with the option to play it or save it to your library. For more info, read the YouTube Music Help.
If you don’t have hum to search yet, check back later. Installing the latest YouTube Music update instead of waiting for iOS’ automatic updates to kick in might do the trick. Open the YouTube Music’s App Store page and hit the Update button. If you don’t see the button, your copy of the app is up to date.
YouTube Music is testing AI playlists
YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby has confirmed to The Verge that YouTube Music is testing a generative AI feature for automatic playlist creation. Describe what you’d like to hear, such as “catchy pop choruses” or “upbeat pop anthems”—or pick an auto-generated prompt—and the app will create an appropriate radio station.
The feature appears as an “Ask for music any way you like” card in the Home tab for select Premium subscribers in the United States. Other platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer are also testing generative AI fetures. Auto-generated playlists will be available in the Music app on the iPhone, iPad and Mac when iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia drop this fall.
Google offers Premium subscribers a chance to try experimental features, including AI experiments, via the Labs for YouTube page.
Why doesn’t Apple’s Shazam offer hum to search?
Apple devices offer built-in music identification features powered by the Shazam engine thanks to its Shazam acquisition in 2017. However, Shazam does not provide the ability to search for songs by singing or humming.
That’s quite a shame, given Shazam provides the most accurate music fingerprinting service, and Apple has had years to iterate on Shazam’s features. But all hope is not lost. With Apple Intelligence coming this fall, perhaps the company’s focus on AI will extend to music identification?
Apple hasn’t announced any new features for iOS 18’s Shazam-powered Music Recognition feature, available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices. iOS 18 and other Apple OS updates will be available to the public this fall.
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