How to find a song by humming or singing on your iPhone or Android phone
This tutorial will show you how to identify a song by humming or singing a few notes for the next time you get an earworm.
Using Shazam is the go-to method for finding the name of a song playing around you or in an Instagram or TikTok video. However, this requires you to have the music playing so Shazam can match it from its database and name the tune. The second option to find a song is by searching for its lyrics on Apple Music, YouTube, or the web.
However, what if the song isn’t playing, and you don’t know many, or any, of its lyrics? Maybe you heard the song in a public place or it’s a retro track you can’t exactly remember the words to, but know its tone.
In these situations, you can address the earworm (a catchy song that runs through your mind or is stuck in your head) by humming it, and letting the Google, YouTube, and SoundHound apps on your smartphone tell you what you’re looking for. You don’t need to know the lyrics, the album, or artist name, or even how to hum in the perfect pitch! Just ensure that you’re in an area with less background noise.
Find the song name by just humming or singing it
We’ve outlined four easy ways to do this.
Use the Google App
The Search Song feature is built into the Google app and its Home Screen widget on both iPhone and Android phones. It works for songs in English and other languages.
1) Download the Google app on your iPhone from the Apple App Store or Android smartphone from Google Play Store.
2) Tap the microphone button in the search bar and allow the app to use your phone’s mic when prompted.
3) Hit the Search a song button.
4) Now, hum the song like “Aaaa aa aaaa, naa naaa na…” or sing its lyrics for about 10 to 15 seconds. Google’s machine learning algorithm should match what you hummed with tracks in its database and show you some song names. Hopefully, the song you hummed will appear in the audio search results.
Use Google Assistant
You can also ask Google Assistant on your Android phone to tell you the song name after you hum it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it to work in the Google Assistant app on my iPhone.
1) Open Google Assistant on your Android smartphone and say, “Search a song,” “What’s this song,” or something similar.
2) Now hum the song so Google Assistant can listen to it, and it should show you relevant results for matching songs.
Use YouTube or YouTube Music
Google owns YouTube and has added the same hum to find music recognition technology to YouTube and YouTube Music apps on Android and the YouTube Music app on iOS.
1) Open the YouTube or YouTube Music app on your Android phone or the YouTube Music app on your iPhone and hit the search button.
2) Tap the microphone button next to the search bar in the YouTube app and then go to the Song tab.
If you’re in the YouTube Music app, tap the Find Song icon directly next to the microphone icon.
3) Hum the song for 10-15 seconds, and YouTube or YouTube Music will display relevant results that match your humming. Hopefully, one of the songs is what you’re looking for.
Use SoundHound
SoundHound works similarly to Shazam, but unlike the latter, it lets you search for songs by humming.
1) Get the SoundHound Music Discovery app on your iPhone or Android phone and tap the SoundHound button in the Search tab.
2) Now hum the song, and once you finish tap the SoundHound button to have the app search for what you’re looking for.
3) Once you see the relevant results, tap it to open it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.
If you’re on a web browser, you can use Midomi (owned by SoundHound) to hum and find your song. Additionally, you can use the Musipedia website to find a song by whistling or singing, but the interface is old and may not work well on all computers.
Which method out of the four is your favorite? I particularly like the YouTube method, but since it’s not available on iPhone, I use the Google app instead.
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