How to identify a song on any Smartphone, PC or Tablet?

                        How to Identify a Song on Any Smartphone, PC, or Tablet?

Have you ever heard a good song and wanted to download it but couldn't identify it? Now you can identify songs through virtual assistants like Siri, Google Now and Cortana. This can also be done using any Web Browser on any virtual device.

Siri is the virtual assistant that comes with iOS devices.To get started, open Siri by long-pressing the Home button. Say  “What song is playing?” or “Name that tune.” Siri will listen to the song and identify it for you. SIri provides a “Buy” button that will let you buy the song in iTunes, but you can just note the artist and name of the song and find it on another service.

Google built this into the Google search app on Android. Arguably part of Google Now, this is one of the many “OK Google” voice commands you can use on Android. To use it, you can just say “OK Google, what is this song?” if you have the OK Google hotword enabled anywhere. Or, tap the microphone on the search bar at the top of your home screen and say “What is this song?” Google also offers an “Okay Google, Shazam this song” shortcut if you have the Shazam app installed — that will immediately open the Shazam app instead of using Google’s own song-identification feature.

Cortana has this built-in on Windows 10, too. Open Cortana (or say “Hey Cortana”) and say “What is this song?” or something similar to activate this feature. Cortana will listen for music using your device’s microphone and identify it for you.

This also works  for songs playing on your own PC.

This should work the same way on Windows Phone 8.1 phones and Windows 10 phones, which incorporate Cortana, too. It should also work with the Cortana app for Android and iOS.

                                                       Mac OS X

Apple hasn’t yet made Siri part of Mac OS X, so you can’t use Siri to do this on a Mac like you can use Cortana to do this on a Windows 10 PC. However, Shazam has made a free version of its song-identification app available for Mac users. You can download Shazam for Mac from the Mac App Store.

Interestingly, the app runs automatically in the background, listening to songs playing nearby and building up a list of songs you’ve heard playing nearby. You can wonder “what were those songs playing earlier?” and scroll through a list of them if your Mac was turned on at the time you were hearing them.

This also will pick up music playing on your Mac, assuming you’re playing it from your Mac’s speakers and its microphone can hear it.

                                                Using any Web Browser

Midomi.com is a web-based tool provided by a SoundHound. This tool instructs you to “sing or hum” a particular song, but you don’t have to do that. Play the actual song for your computer’s microphone to hear and it will identify the song.
SoundHound Inc. is an audio recognition and cognition company primarily known for sound recognition and search technologies. Read more here.